I feel like they’ll probably invent some plot by “Marxists” and start cracking down hard on anyone even slightly left of center in the name of combating terrorism. Like, even harder than they are already.

Oh I completely agree with you, the tariffs don’t make sense at all and some of the Annex II countries have even higher tariff rates than the Column 2 countries in the HTSUS. I’m just saying that it doesn’t make sense to say “Russia was left off the tariff list” in context. If you say “that list penalized random countries harsher than North Korea or Russia” that’s true, but “it’s not even on the list” is something that just gives conservatives fodder for their delusional narrative of liberals and leftists mindlessly freaking out. We’re freaking out with good reason, but “Russia isn’t on the list” isn’t exactly the good reason. The list making no fucking sense is the good reason.

Edited to correct a typo.

In some ways the tariffs seem Russia friendly (such as the astronomical tariff rate on Moldova for no good reason), but Russia isn’t included because it’s a “Column 2” country alongside Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and therefore all subject to the stiff tariffs we already impose on the worst of the worst. I just posted a similar comment in a similar post. Posts like this make us look bad, Russia wasn’t “spared” it was just already under column 2 tariffs. Please understand the tariffs before posting something like this, it makes us look bad to idiots on the right who already think we’re dumb.

My brother/sister, it’s 2025. We’re 45 years into American conservatives shrieking “bias” every time something less conservative than Goebbles says something. If you think anyone with any level of exposure to American conservative media (i.e., most of Lemmy) is going to react any way other than extremely negatively to you obstinately tossing around “biased” every third word and “just asking questions,” you’re gonna have a bad time.

Look at section 3(b) of the executive order linked here, at the portion discussing “column 2”:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits/

Guys I think there’s some evidence that this is, shall we say, Russia friendly (such as the astronomical tariff rate on Moldova of all places), but Russia isn’t included because it’s a “Column 2” country alongside Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and therefore all subject to the stiff tariffs we already impose on the worst of the worst. Please let’s not share things like this which just make us look gullable to the morons on the right supporting this buffoon. It’s not a good look.

Yeah I mean within romance languages you can’t be more wrong, but like, at least it’s the same family I guess lol

It’s Romanian lol, honestly you weren’t thaaaaaat far off I guess

Yeah in my experience it’s not rich white guys so much as white guys who live in rural areas, fetishize self-reliance, and not just live in rural areas, but the kind of areas where the government and regulation just kind of isn’t very present. But they tend to have an inability to imagine any other type of area than the one they live in.