• katy ✨
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    223 days ago

    screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

  • BlackEco
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    1154 days ago

    The fuck is “non-tariff cheating” supposed to mean?

      • @comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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        604 days ago

        Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.

    • @sqgl@beehaw.org
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      154 days ago

      As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.

      • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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        74 days ago

        I mean wouldn’t it just be “ways to cheat tarrifs”

        Like I guess they don’t want to promote that but they could just say “ways to cheat tarrifs we will punish” to try to sound hard.

        But this phrase just makes no sense.

    • Ulrich
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      124 days ago

      Don’t know but it’s extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.

    • Mike
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      84 days ago

      I believe he’s trying to say “here’s other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs”. Who knows.

      • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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        I think he’s saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.

        Thing is, the list doesn’t make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it’s called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What’s the problem?

        • Mike
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          12 days ago

          The problem is that he is a fascist and fascists always need an external enemy to blame.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    434 days ago

    Only when you pirate over $1 trillion in a calendar year, so we’re fine. Facebook, maybe not so much…

  • @klu9@lemmy.ca
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    724 days ago

    Just off the top of my head:

    1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
    2. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
    3. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
    4. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

    Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

    • FundMECFS
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      (2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.

      (3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.

      (6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

      (8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war

      • @Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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        12 days ago

        (6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

        Not the best example since they’re trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.

    • Elvith Ma'for
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      274 days ago

      OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

      Rules for thee, not for me!

  • @scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    454 days ago

    So now he’s angry that we’ve fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn’t think our trash goods are food grade?

  • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    364 days ago

    How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.

    • @fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      24 days ago

      I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

  • @Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    384 days ago

    When Trump says piracy, I understand he’s referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he’s referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.

      • @seaturtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        33 days ago

        Precisely.

        He just shitposts. It’s not even high-quality shitposting. It’s not like becoming president improved anything about him. He doesn’t rise to the occasion; the occasion collapses as he rolls over it and makes a mess of it. Every single time.

    • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      474 days ago

      Trump has claimed a few times that, in order for cars to be approved for import in Japan, they must be able to withstand an impact from a bowling ball without denting. It’s not a real thing. When the White House press secretary was asked why Trump made up such a weird lie, she said it was “obviously a joke”.

      • Ulrich
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        254 days ago

        Reminds me of the mind-blowing video from Channel 5 news of them interviewing Trump supporters about him posting a pic of himself as king and they say “Oh it means he’s the King of Presidents, like Elvis Presley is the King of rock and roll” and I just couldn’t possibly facepalm any harder.

      • @piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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        74 days ago

        Its ironic to be complaining (or rather bullshitting) about japan restricting vehicle imports while the US is restricting imports of kei trucks for reasons.

        • Lka1988
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          74 days ago

          Because kei trucks are obviously death traps

          sideeyes motorcycles

  • Rodneyck
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    264 days ago

    When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?

      • KingJalopy
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        44 days ago

        I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.