• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    You’re ignoring the fact that the person who ordered the thing is in America, and are acting like this is a subsidy for China.

    Not everything is zero-sum.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, and the person who ordered the thing from China is getting their shipping cost subsidized by the American taxpayer, while someone who orders something domestically has to pay for 100% of their own shipping. It literally is a subsidy for China

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          6 hours ago

          You should try scrolling up and looking at what the context of the discussion is. Someone asked what was being subsidized, I answered, you swooped in with a bunch of self righteous off-topic remarks.

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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        8 hours ago

        for fucks sake this entire conversation is bullshit. the whining about pittance of tax dollars spent on packages from china is entirely designed to make you stop paying attention to the absolutely obscene mountains of tax moneys going directly to american billionaires in the form of tax cuts, bailouts, and yes–fucking subsidies
        honestly gtfo with this bitching about the USPS