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Trump Is Going To (((DESTROY)))...Checks List...BOARD GAMES?!?! :soysnooseethe: :soysnooseethe: :soysnooseethe:

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The board game industry relies upon Chinese factories. If he does what he says he will in regards to tariffs, say goodbye to that. And this isn't simply a 'print it somewhere else' situation. There just aren't factories sitting around ready to pick up the work. Let alone factories with the proper equipment and staff that are accustomed to the norms of board game production. I'd be very concerned about any kickstarters you have that are more than six months out. He's been talking about basically starting a trade war with China, and not just them either. So yeah, it was good while it lasted. Can't expect people to have more than four years of memory either I guess.

This is really some top notch TDS, I mean very niche.

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The board game industry relies upon Chinese factories

"You don't understand, I NEED SMALL CHINESE CHILDREN PUTTING TOGETHER MY ADULT BOARD GAMES AND TRUMP IS GOING TO TAKE IT AWAY!"

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Ah the ol "Obamas magic economy of gooderness didn't kick in until Trump was in office and Trump undid it. No, don't ask me to quote specific policies, BLUE JUST FIXES ECNOMIES AND RED BREAKS THEM OKAY??"

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I NEED MY CONSUMABLES REGARDLESS OF THE HUMAN COST. THAT'S A RISK I'M WILLING TO TAKE. :marseycracka: :marseychingchonggenocide:

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Every time my grillpilled coworkers talk about buying something on Temu, I remind them they are paying to subsidize the shipping AND they are paying to carry on with human slavery. It doesn't seem to work.

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unironically this. i don't give a shit about some chinese kid being the one to build my stuff at gun point. :smoke:

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Oh me neither, but you can't act morally superior if you hold that position. Which unfortunately goes for most redditors.

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wrong! as an american i'm morally superior by default. :alienfinger:

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the frick?

I don't believe manufacturing costs account for even 10% of the price of board games lmao. They're basically all cardboard and plastic.

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Oh, board games are the one product with a definite 10,000% markup. Especially the videogame adaptation slop that costs over $100 each.

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My Blood Bowl team is worth it's weight in gold

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board game prices are fricking ridiculous. it's time for trump to step in and put a cap on prices!!!! MAKE BOARD GAMES AFFORDABLE AGAIN!

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Yeah but soys might need to think twice before churning out their hobbyist garbage if they have to pay first-world labour costs.

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Plastic means dies which cost 10s of thousands of dollars to make and wear out as well as skilled maintenance.

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No you see everything is made in chYna and they can't make it anywhere else because

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There just aren't factories sitting around ready to pick up the work. Let alone factories with the proper equipment and staff that are accustomed to the norms of board game production.

That's a lot of words to say you're mad you can't use Chinese sweatshops to make cheap plastic indie slop anymore

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I guarantee I could find an old woodworking plant in Sumatra which could pick this work up and I'll bet Indonesians work for less than modern Chinese workers do.

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Please don't bring politics into this sub. This was one of the few subreddits that hadn't yet been tainted by it…

Considering what's coming, politics ain't going to leave anywhere untouched.

Yes. Trump is going after Gaymers. BOARD GAYMERS!!!

Yes, let's not focus on how this could:

Create more industry and thus jobs in our own country

Work to reduce basically slave labor in other countries

Reduce pollution via not needlessly shipping cheap garbage over the entire ocean

No, no. We may have to pay fractionally more money for our literal luxury goods and that's not acceptable.

Actual proper take. (-1)

"They" said this in 2016 also. Thing is, the tariffs on China have been in place since Trump left in 2020. In fact, not only did the Biden administration leave those tariffs in place, they just added to them.

How does that effect your current outlook?

:#platymicdrop:

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soys r*pe every hobby or group or relaxation activity they get their claws upon

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It really is shocking the crux of the issue for most libtards is that things would be too expensive, even though people said the same thing in regards to minimum wage increases? Why is it suddenly bad for Americans to get paid to work?

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anti-immigration + protectionism is literally leftist logic and they still frick it up. Their virtue-signalling and xenophilia is prioritised above ethical production and not depressing your wages.

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There are a lot of hobbies that will suffer not just bored games here is a list:

1.RC cars

2.Drone pilots

3.Bord Games

1.Plushie colleters

2.Simulator pilots/ Drivers

3.G*mers

all these things are manufactured or have components from China the tarifs that trump wants to put on forgen trade will destroy these hobbies And the surrounding industrys.

Not the plushie collectors! :marseyscream:

/u/doogerie you just described six versions of buying more plastic shit to put in landfills. If there's an afterlife, I hope you have to spend it locked in a room full of the restless spirits of uyghur orphans who lost limbs at the Squishmallow factory.

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And a dictionary. Or at least thinner thumbs. They managed to misspell 'board' in two different ways.

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What if the manufacturing jobs were back in the USA?

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Poors couldn't afford anything.

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But they're not back in the USA :marseyconfused:


:!marseybooba:

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God forbid you bootleg the fricking game, I have a 3d printer, I wonder how hard some of these games would be to completely rip with higher quality parts.

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Pretty sure there's already sites that do this.

At least for organization there is.

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This fricker doesnt understand how tariffs work. Shits not more expensive to produce, its more expensive to buy. Outside :marseygrass: of magic :marseywizard: warhammer :marseynurgle: and d&d must games :marseylegioncommander: shops dont actually :marseyakshually: fricking :marseytom: sell shit, its all sold online :marseyidio3: to hobbyists, usually by means of kickstarter in limited runs.

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