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Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280

If there's anything we should take from Japan, it's treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

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[–] 4 points 10 months ago

I think it's slightly more nefarious than just narcissism. A bunch of people trading, manipulating the market, trading again, then undoing it.

Tarrifs usually need to be planned a couple of years ahead, since it affects logistics, etc. Trump's administration irresponsibly announces mindbogglingly significant changes to tarrifs, with almost immediate effect, then undoes it over the weekend because "it was a misunderstanding", or some other flavor of incompetence.

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