• @[email protected]
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    672 months 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.

    • Elvith Ma'for
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      272 months ago

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

      Rules for thee, not for me!

    • 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

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months 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.

  • Nyticus
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    He doesn’t even know or care about how traditional tariffs are supposed to work. What makes him think he knows what the fuck is non-tariff? Old fucking moron.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months ago

    idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful

  • @[email protected]
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    362 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months 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”.

  • Rodneyck
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    262 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        China also subsidises a lot of things. The even subsidise things produced for export, which could be considered dumping.

      • @[email protected]
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        172 months ago

        Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.

        Also it’s not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          Controlled production is not the same thing as a subsidy. Canada controls supply. There is a quota system. No US dairy supplier ever uses their quota, so don’t get dinged with tariffs.

          It is literally nothing.

  • @[email protected]
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    462 months 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?

  • Avid Amoeba
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    62 months ago

    I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.

    • @[email protected]
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      One useful thing about the absolute stupid chaos is that there is hopefully too much absolute stupid chaos for anyone worth a damn to care too much about piracy.

      (Though I don’t think we should be resting on laurels either.)

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        The likes of RIAA and MPAA are probably still lobbying as always. Also don’t forget the Internet Archive is being sued by record labels over copyright.

        More than anything, people might be too distracted to defend IP related freedoms right now with all the other issues.

  • katy ✨
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    242 months ago

    screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

  • @[email protected]
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    522 months ago

    “You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕

  • @[email protected]
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    202 months ago

    I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 months ago

      I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

      I think that’s when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    452 months ago

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