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Originally Posted by gllgt

An emotional appeal relating to someone else you've formed a parasocial relationship with is actually not very convincing. Particularly because you say that my views are not welcome so there's no reason to care about a single thing you write after that. In fact, it only makes me want to dig my heels even further and be the lone voice in the apparent hugbox. If you care so much about this guy's business then go ahead and donate money to him instead of using him to try and win an internet argument. Bizarre behavior on your part.

others: man, it sucks that these tariffs are affecting small businesses so much, that even this guy who's been nothing but great with customers might have to close his store, losing his one source of income

you: lol emotional appeal, you people only care about how this affects you personally and not getting your dumb japanese toys, stop trying to win internet arguments, as i try to win this internet argument, which is somehow completely different from what you're doing

Gee, has it occurred maybe people are capable of caring about the tariffs and can still be empathetic and sympathetic to small business owners who could be affected by them?

Like there's a ton of small independent artists who sell stuff like acrylic keychains/stands of their art or buy fabrics for handmade plushies that were processed out of the country.

I made the silly boo comment because I was just trying to be a bit silly to lighten the mood so that it's not too dour, but I do take the tariff situation very seriously. Because this affects way more than just my ability to buy and ship toys without high costs.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

I'm just giving an example of the fact that small businesses and livelihoods are going to be hit hard by this. Less arguing and more trying to maybe see if i could get a decent response, but you're so set in being a contrarian, sad. Parasocial is also a funny word to use, too, since I hardly shop from or interact with him.

But hey, if you believe everything said on the internet is a battle that you need to win, even if it does come across as sad, then you do you. I've said what I need to say.

It doesn't just come across as sad, it is sad. I can't imagine being so unempathetic enough to a person that could potentially lose his livelihood to say that it's an "emotional appeal". Not only that, but admit that they'll just double down on it and accuse people worried about tariffs as just being personally worried about themselves and not the larger situation, just to win some internet argument that no one was making?

If the goal was just to be a jerk and refuse to acknowledge that people can and do care about the tariffs in other ways aside from it personally affecting them, then congrats, I guess they won?