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[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 199 points 3 weeks ago
[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 weeks ago

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

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[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 115 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 48 points 3 weeks ago
[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 60 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago

Bigly if true

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 weeks ago

Some nonsense phrase they made up

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[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

It's senile idiot for "I'm a senile idiot."

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

Don't know but it's extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.

[-] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

It means any attempt to not suffer

[-] Pirata@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

I believe he's trying to say "here's other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs". Who knows.

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[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago

My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he's on about "cheating".

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 72 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] elvith@feddit.org 28 points 3 weeks ago

OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.

Rules for thee, not for me!

[-] FundMECFSResearch 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(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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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 50 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] SCmSTR 45 points 3 weeks ago

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

[-] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 28 points 3 weeks ago

I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.

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[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 43 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

Crewed by transgenic mice!

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Pirata@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 29 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 weeks ago

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".

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 26 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

Its ironic to be complaining (or rather bullshitting) about japan restricting vehicle imports while the US is restricting imports of kei trucks for reasons.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

Because kei trucks are obviously death traps

sideeyes motorcycles

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[-] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 26 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 24 points 3 weeks 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

[-] cupcakezealot 24 points 2 weeks ago

screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

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

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 20 points 3 weeks ago

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

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

I think that's when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 22 points 3 weeks ago

lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.

Diversity definition

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[-] zout@fedia.io 17 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

Only male or female shipping allowed.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

Whose writing this shit for him?

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

AI.

This is just a list of "but I'm not winning so it's not fairrrrrrrrrr" whining (whinging?)

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[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 weeks ago
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