• Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    European Union, stand up to this bully, you’re the second second largest economy, act like one.

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      We kinda need all support we can get considering the blood-thirsty bear to the east. It would be very unwise at this point to go and poke the big hungry bear on the west. We can defend ourselves with a few sticks at best at this point. Or we have a bazooka, but politicians unwilling to use anything but a stick. One of those two.

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      The U.S. is the world’s largest consumer market by a factor of 3. So it’s more accurate to say “Give me what I want or I’ll take away a sizable chunk of your customers, potentially causing you financial ruin”

      You and I both know that the U.S. won’t just magically and instantly stand up its own production to replace your countries market, but in this case he just needs American companies to start importing from a different foreign country with lower tariffs. The effect this has on your country depends on how much your country’s GDP comes from exports to America, but it’s potentially very harmful.

      As an American this sucks because long term, long after this dude is gone, our trading partners will have already adjusted who they’re exporting to in order to absorb a loss like this, and I doubt that’d change for decades.

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      Well you see he’s a profoundly stupid man that sincerely believes tariffs are paid by the producer, not the importer and he’s so sure of himself that it’s literally impossible that he is wrong about anything, ever.

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      Brainwashing and propaganda to sell internally. He’s preping all americans to hate everything that is outside of them and to blame on those pesky other bad countries. He’s basically ensuring he has enough bodies to use for war.

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        I see these countries building their trade with counties other than the US as the only good part of Trump’s tarrif tantrums. Less reliance on the US is better for everyone, even the US. Because it will force us (I am American) to have to participate globally without the strong arming bullshit we have always relied upon. It will force us to actually work with others.

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    2 months ago

    Like three days after ‘normalizing trade with the EU’, it’s right back to antagonizing and tariff threats. Who could have seen this sudden reversal coming?

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    2 months ago

    The same US Tech that Donated MILLIONS of Dollars and Gold Statues to Trump? What a WEIRD but NOT CORRUPT Coincidence!

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    I’m still pissed that Canada dropped theirs. It’s not discriminatory, it’s for all online services. Trump just wants to make his tech billionaire friends happy.

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    It’s crazy how hard his little penis gets over tariffs, and he doesn’t understand how they work

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    This is not discrimination…

    This is also one note point on why we need to diversify from us tech.

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        I’ve got a new PC arriving tomorrow ready to be loaded with Linux, my phone runs Graphene, my cloud data is here in Canada or the EU…

        I’m getting there!

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    Again why are we taking the demented orange turd seriously in any capacity? This isn’t news this is the ramblings of a brain long turned to pudding