• @just_another_person
    31•3 months ago

    Trump thinks he’s playing Tropico and has no idea how the mechanics work.

    • @[email protected]
      5•3 months ago

      How dare you sully my memory of that gem of a game by associating it with Trump or suggesting a sequel was ever made.

      • @just_another_person
        2•3 months ago

        Well…I mean… Tropico 6 wasn’t great, but all the rest were really solid. Mobile version ain’t half bad either.

        • @[email protected]
          7•3 months ago

          I loathe the introduction of traffic into tropico - I believe only Tropico 1 avoided having road congestion mechanics and while (iirc) 6 minimized the effect of congestion unless things were drastically mismanaged I honestly miss the days when that wasn’t a factor. Managing road congestion makes it feel much more like any other city builder and some of them (3 iirc) have gone way fucking overboard with how problematic traffic gets.

          I loathe traffic and the necessity of cars in North America… I like building an economic utopia in Tropico and I’d like to minimize automobile usage outside commercial vehicles.

          None of the games have really felt as fun and thematic as the original and, imo, that’s due in a large part to forcing NA levels of car usage regardless of political alignment.

  • @Rapidcreek
    28•3 months ago

    Per the agreement he forced to be rewritten, USMCA, it expressly forbids this from happening. But, you know, his own signed treaties will never stop him.

  • TooManyFoods
    25•3 months ago

    Enact great depression policies, expect great depression.

  • EleventhHour
    17•3 months ago

    Lol, he can’t do that. We have trade agreements. It would take an act of congress, and… just no, lol

  • @Myxomatosis
    16•3 months ago

    What is with him and tariffs? Is this a part of his plan to bring us back to 1895 ?

    • @CitizenKong
      21•3 months ago

      He’s a bully and an idiot, so his only strategy are idiotic bully tactics.

      • @Whats_your_reasoning
        7•3 months ago

        He’s also increasingly stuck in the past. It takes some serious disconnect to ask a crowd in 2024, if they witnessed Charles Lindburgh in 1927.

    • @MirthfulAlembicEnglish
      9•3 months ago

      I think it’s a combination of tariffs being protectionist and that presidential authority to issue them without Congress has expanded with time (though arguably without the legislation to justify that). It plays very well with the American manufacturing renaissance pipe dream he sells.

  • @[email protected]
    0•3 months ago

    It was really BS that they made Mexico free of car tariffs, so all the US manufacturers would start assembling their vehicles down there. The US lost auto manufacturing jobs that would have been here, and the build quality of the assembly of the ones coming out of Mexico has mostly been worse. This was a direct result of allowing ford and gm to use cheap foreign labor, while still making all competition more expensive.

    Having no tariffs anywhere would be a terrible idea (The US auto paying their employees $30+ an hour shouldn’t have to compete against China paying $2.80/hour). But leaving Mexico out of an import tax so the US can move their plants down there and not have to pay an import tax is corrupt as hell.