• BlackEco
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    1163 months ago

    The fuck is “non-tariff cheating” supposed to mean?

      • @comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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        603 months 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.

      • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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        73 months ago

        I mean wouldn’t it just be “ways to cheat tarrifs”

        Like I guess they don’t want to promote that but they could just say “ways to cheat tarrifs we will punish” to try to sound hard.

        But this phrase just makes no sense.

    • @sqgl@beehaw.org
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      153 months ago

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

    • Ulrich
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      123 months 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.

  • @klu9@lemmy.ca
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    733 months 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 Ma'for
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      283 months ago

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

      Rules for thee, not for me!

    • FundMECFS
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      (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

      • @Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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        13 months ago

        (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.

        Not the best example since they’re trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.

  • @scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    463 months 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?

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    453 months 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
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    383 months 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.

  • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    373 months 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.

    • @fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      23 months ago

      I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

    • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      483 months 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
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        263 months 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
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        93 months 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
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          93 months ago

          Because kei trucks are obviously death traps

          sideeyes motorcycles

  • Rodneyck
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    263 months ago

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

      • KingJalopy
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        43 months ago

        I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.

  • ElcaineVolta
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    243 months 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

  • katy ✨
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    233 months ago

    screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

  • @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    I’m not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.

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