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[–] 205 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 116 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    The fuck is "non-tariff cheating" supposed to mean?

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    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.

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    (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

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

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

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

    "old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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

    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.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.

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    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".

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    my concern over IP Theft goes from the ground up, can't help it. I'll worry about what corps think they're missing out on right after I've acknowledged each and every person who has ever written anything on the internet, or shared an original work in any way. the damage done by tech bros pillaging the collective imagination is way higher than $1T

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

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

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

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'm not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.

    That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Only male or female shipping allowed.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    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.

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

    Whose writing this shit for him?

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

    I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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