• @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6411 days ago

    It’s so weird hoping that China tears America a new ass hole.

    Fuck him up Xi.

    It feels a bit like the fat bully in the playground picking a fight with the weird asian kid who is actually a kung fu black belt.

    It might shock Trump to learn that most of the shit American’s like to buy comes from other countries, and no one really likes to buy American stuff. Wild.

    • @protist@mander.xyz
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      611 days ago

      This whole situation is just embarrassing and scary, as is the entire Trump presidency, but I’d like to point out that the US exports a fuckton of goods and services around the world. At least, the US used to export a fuckton of goods and services around the world.

      • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        511 days ago

        Yeah. I’m hard pressed to think of any physical goods of American origin that I would have in my home. I have noticed grapes and mandarines from the US at the supermarket but definitely no household items.

        You’re right about services, like digital products and software. In my own personal case there isn’t much but I don’t think I’m indicative of Australians generally.

        I think this is why the Australian government chose not to implement tariffs. We buy American things like airplanes and microsoft windows. There’s no substitute for them locally so what would be the point of a tariff ?

        • ODuffer
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          211 days ago

          I was thinking about buying a Schiit headphone amplifier (no joke on the name!), now the USA can get focked.

    • Lit
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      10 days ago

      China will squeeze the Tariff-wokism out of Trump.