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Donald Trump tells Canada to become a state to avoid his tariffs (www.huffpost.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24657192

Summary

In a virtual speech at the World Economic Forum, Trump suggested Canada could become a U.S. state to avoid his proposed tariffs on imports.

The remark elicited gasps from the audience.

Trump claimed the U.S. does not need Canadian lumber, energy, or vehicles, vastly overstating the trade deficit between the two nations.

He reiterated his intention to impose tariffs, potentially as high as 25%, on imports from Canada and Mexico starting February 1.

Economists warn such tariffs would raise prices for U.S. consumers.

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[–] 41 points 2 years ago* (21 children)

rip you guys are gonna get couped
imperialism is manifesting itself in the imperial core

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    imperialism is manifesting itself in the imperial core

    Sounds familiar

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Insert Césaire quote on fascism

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    “People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: "How strange! But never mind-it's Nazism, it will pass!" And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.”

    • Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Canada is one of the few countries that has actually defeated the USA. They even burned the white house.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Do you really think it's likely this will happen? I think hell just start throwing a tantrum and maybe symbolically apply some tariffs.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Yes it is likely. Canada can’t afford to resist. Canada is highly dependent on trade with the US.

    Just because I think it is likely doesn’t mean that I think it’s right. This is clearly wrong.

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