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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.

This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.

Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.

This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

what is this new american trend of infantile statements?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's hardly new. The United States have always been like that one popular kid in an elementary school. If you act the way he wants, he can be nice to you and your on his team. Take one step in a different direction and they'll start badmouthing you, preferably behind your back.

They've been doing this to Russia and China for decades. As long as they have the stage, they can create any narrative they want and the audience will most likely adopt the opinion and start saying the same things.

The thing about propaganda is that, if it fits in your frame or reference, you'll be more likely to accept it. If it doesn't fit, like when it is about you, suddenly you'll realize that this is something they have been doing about others all along and that it doesn't break any patterns, apart from the recognition patterns of the receiver.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

It is not about the behaviour, it is about the language. Back then even though they were bullies, they did at least use adult diplomatic language. It is about the brainrot of Trumps sycophants copying his bizarre childish way of talking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly that kind of language apparently resonates with voters more than intelligent speech. It's happening all across Europe as well. As someone from the Netherlands, I had a bit of a laugh when the right wing populists found out that governing is not at all as simple as they make it out to be. It's the embodiment of 'fuck around and find out'.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It is simple sadly. An infant is running the country. They want to make sure he can understand what they're saying publicly without it having to go through a translator. Note the excessive use of the word beautiful for instance.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Every American thing I've tasted has been absolutely vile compared to even the cheapest things in Europe. I really feel bad for US citizens who have lived their whole lives with shit like that.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Remember "freedom fries?" Republicans are fucking idiots.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

America won't buy our corn and guns!

Why won't America buy our corn and guns?

Oh, because they make their own and they're fucking thousands of miles away.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

"...because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

My brother in christ, what the fluffer nutter cyberfuck are you talking about?!?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Food from the USA is not up to European standards. It's that simple.

Just look at how long it took to ban Red Dye #3. Banned almost completely in Europe in 1994, while in the US it's legal until 2027.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Just want to piggy back on the red dye thing. The dye was banned in January, and shortly after, in February, a canal in Argentina turned red, which people suspected was from a dye manufacturer dumping into the water way: https://vt.co/news/weird/concerns-raised-after-canal-water-mysteriously-turns-red-like-blood-overnight

I suspect the two events are related.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't forget high fructose corn syrup, which is still legal in the US, despite having a conspiracy theorist who hates it in charge of the Department of Health and who could get that ball rolling with a word.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Pffff haha Hahaha haha ha...

Oh wait, he's serious.

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA!!

America has the food standards of a third world country. That place literally allows cancer giving chemicals in their food simply because people aren't dying fast enough from them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The US is several third-world countries in a trenchcoat, supported by a few first-world countries within it so it doesn't collapse, cosplaying as a single first-world country.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"What do you mean this chicken is rotting??"

pours bleach everywhere

"What did I tell you, see? Zero bacteria!"

Please keep their foodstuffs away... 🤢

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Gee, it's almost like he's intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I like when they talk like toddlers, it's clear as day they are distracting the topic at hand, much like their IQ

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Definitely not because our beef is hormone filled

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And antibiotics surely play no role either

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Antibiotics are allowed and, unfortunately, used plenty in the EU. Growth hormones on the other hand are banned. As far as I know, those are standard in the US, so farmers can't simply export surplus production.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's normally absolutely not allowed in the EU, and has been forbidden Union-wide since january 22. They can only be used as a treatment when an animal has a specific disease.

Doubtless some people cheat, but that's another problem.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

You know, that's exactly what I've said, every single time I've eaten beef, anywhere in Europe..."What weak beef! I bet that cow couldn't have done more than 20 push-ups. I can actually taste that a 2-hour run would have taken that cow the better part of an hour."

🙄

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I kinda like that he is doing this because while this won't reach a large number of MAGAts, at least a few will pause and realize, "Wait, other countries have higher standards for their citizens than the food that myself and my family eat daily? Is that.. a good or a bad thing?"

And some small number will learn something they would've never been exposed to if the orange-moron didn't say it.

I don't imagine it will reach many of them, they wouldn't be MAGAts if they thought about things very deeply after all, but some of them will get it.

Thank you Mr. President for starting this awareness campaign (in the stupidest way possible).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Nope, that would require them to think/know we don't want their food because it's a lower standard. They will instead believe we don't want their food because we are jealous of them, or because we want to unjustly mess with them as competition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

That is an abstract thought. Something tells me a Trump voter really struggles with abstract thought.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Eww... We don't need chlorine infused chicken and chemical soaked eggs. No idea what crap they have in their mad cow beef and lobster. Ban it by law, put it into the constitution change all the national anthem to say EU citizens will be protected from US chemical infused meat and eggs. Write it into a huge stone facing US in multiple languages. Make T-shirts too and hats.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.

Which wave of feminism is this /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I try my best to buy as locally as possible.

It doesn't matter how beautiful that beef is, I won't let that sweet sexy attractive beef blind me from buying local when possible.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I worked at a slaughterhouse for about 6 months, in Canada so obviously different. But the only time I saw a cow not unconscious while being drained was when the Orthodox Jews or Muslims stopped by. I didn't watch those twice.

My father insisted I work at one, like he worked at one when he was young. He used a .22, I used a captive bolt gun. Done correctly, the cow should be unconscious. But that industry attracts a certain type of people, so without the government keeping a close eye on the industry I believe the events of that article will happen more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, kosher and halal are pretty f-ing inhumane.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

God damn it that's not how people are supposed to speak.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

European beef is very sophisticated.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

The cows go "Meaux"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Weak unchlorinated meat, unbelievable!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So this must mean that in America the local markets will be flooded with suddenly affordable meat?

didn't think so.

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