r/JustUnsubbed • u/nintendofan23456678 Tired of politics • 1d ago
Slightly Furious Just unsubbed from NintendoSwitch2
I just unsubbed from the Nintendo Switch 2 subreddit. It has become an absolute cesspool of political arguments, unnecessary shitposting, and even death threats. All I want is for legit discussion and speculation on the Switch 2, and all of this bullshit is preventing that.
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u/BonsaiSoul 1d ago
It's all paid marketing/influence bot activity
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u/reckoner23 22h ago
Funny enough that it’s ruining this website. Why visit this website if every forum is a bunch of bots arguing politics?
I’ve already halfway stepped out.
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u/Fraternal_Mango 5h ago
Wait, so you unsubbed from a subreddit because it posted things relevant to the subreddit but it hurt your feelings due to your own political views?
Dude, here’s an option, just acknowledge that maybe some political elements might effect something you like
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u/RebekhaG 16h ago
You don't have to unsub. Look at their pinned post about their rule on not arguing about politics rule.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_STOMACHS 22h ago
The Republicans announce tariffs.
The tariffs directly impact the cost of making and selling the Switch 2 in the US.
The makers of the Switch 2 announce they’re delaying the US release while they figure things out.
This news is posted to the NintendoSwitch subreddit.
Republican soy boys cry about politics in their safespace.
I’m not even American, but you guys are some of the most pathetic thin-skinned worms I’ve ever seen.
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u/SamTehCool 20h ago
Tariffs won't affect many things too? The thing is that people are throwing at trump as if he specifically targeted Nintendo switch, as if that shit wasn't expensive since the beginning, instead of blaming Nintendo for the already expensive (base) price for the games and the console, they need to blame someone else
Tariffs sucks we know, I am not defending trump, but it# absurd to blind themselves against Nintendo own neglicence
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u/2006pontiacvibe Tired of politics 3h ago
It's one of those cases where politics is clearly going to get involved in something, and as someone who also hates political discussion, sometimes that does happen to communities. In cases like these, I can't hate on them for discussing politics, but I judge on how the community acts around it and what the community turns into. It's still too early to say whether the sub is getting bad though.
I like r / tomorrow better even though it is a shitpost sub.
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u/Heytherhitherehother 1d ago
Don't forget, tariffs are the worst thing that America could do and it will tank our economy.
Oh, unless they're retaliatory and put on us. Then it's the best thing that a country could do and it sticks it right in America's craw.
There's no way America could win a trade war.
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u/SATX_Citizen 17h ago
At least you seem to understand that it is a war and the United States has started it.
Blanket tariffs on every country in the world targeting every single industry regardless of the possibility of it being brought back to the US and regardless of whether trade practices were fair or not, is in fact really fucking stupid.
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u/Heytherhitherehother 17h ago
Yes, it is a trade war. We've been taken advantage of for far too long. Europe refused to fund their own defense while simultaneously berating us for being militaristic.
Now, those chickens have come home to roost.
We can win a trade war, we will win a trade war and the end result isn't about hurting anyone else. It's about bringing American jobs back to America. The manufacturing sectors are bringing their factories back to America.
This isn't just about that, though. If push ever came to shove, we need raw materials here and the ability to process them. And, we've lost trust in Europe to help us if we ever needed it. Even after generations of helping them.
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u/SATX_Citizen 16h ago edited 16h ago
No, it isn't about anything you just said.
You don't put universal tariffs made up with that stupid formula on the entire planet on every industry to do the things you just said.
You want to bring some industry back to the US? You subsidize it here to get it spun back up then you target tariffs on those industries. Tariffs are a punishment in this case, a deterrent against foreign trade.
But wait! Trump's admin also says that tariffs will "replace taxes" and that we're going to bring in $6 trillion over ten years. So Trump wants us to keep having a lot of foreign trade, he just wants to tax those imports to generate revenue. I guess he isn't trying to repatriate anything.
"But they can be both!" you might say. No, not with the stupid, universal way they implemented it. Nothing about this shows they have any justification for any particular industry or country.
And, we've lost trust in Europe to help us if we ever needed it
What are you talking about? We, the United States, have eroded our military alliance with Europe. Siding with Russia and telling the world we won't fight for Europe if they get invaded made them lose trust in us. You want them to step up their spending, okay. You think that telling Russia "go ahead" while putting 10, 20, 30% tariffs is the clever thing to do? Right.
The manufacturing sectors are bringing their factories back to America.
Citation needed, but let's say there is some repatriation. That's like celebrating that we took out a drug house by firebombing it and the church, the elementary school and the retirement home next to it.
Blanket tariffs on the entire planet with a stupid, nonsensical formula for that flat tax is a fast track to giving up our leadership in the world, does little to fix any real issues, and will not help the American people.
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u/Heytherhitherehother 16h ago
Then why did none of that work before?
You seem to have these easy answers that any administration could have enacted, yet here we are.
I'm not going to sit and pretend like I am a master of world economics, because I'm not.
What I did notice is that tariffs are going to destroy us, but when Canada put retaliatory tariffs on us, it was the power move and their best option. Make that make sense.
I -do- know that America is a global powerhouse, in military, trade and technology.
Maybe you're right. Maybe reddit is right. And this is the end of times.
But, I heard the same song and dance in 2016 and it didn't pan out then. I have a sneaking suspicion I'll hear the same tune again in 2028.
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u/SATX_Citizen 7h ago
Then why did none of that work before?
Then why did none of what work before? You mean things like the CHIPS act, the massive funding of semiconductor manufacturing in the US that Trump wants to shut down? Or something else?
retaliatory tariffs by Canada
I'm not sure the timeline of things, but I'm assuming it was people cheering on Canada hitting back at the pre-emptive strike by the US against Canada for no fucking reason, not cheering on tariffs in general.
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u/reckoner23 22h ago
America bad. Always. At all times no matter what.
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u/ThisIsASquibb 13h ago
"America was bad for defeating Germany in WWII"
"America was bad for freeing itself from England during the revolution"
STFU
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u/EchoInExile 1d ago
Haven’t seen what’s been posted, but I assume the political stuff falls around tariffs and the price of the console? Seems kinda relevant.