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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 194 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 days ago

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 109 points 4 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 14 points 3 days ago

Bigly if true

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some nonsense phrase they made up

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days 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 15 points 3 days ago

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

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

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 12 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

It means any attempt to not suffer

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 days ago (2 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.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 25 points 3 days ago

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

Rules for thee, not for me!

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

(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 days 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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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

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

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 3 days ago (1 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?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Crewed by transgenic mice!

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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 25 points 3 days 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 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 3 days 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 days ago

screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 20 points 3 days ago

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

collapsed inline mediaDiversity definition

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

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

[–] zout@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 3 days 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.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

Only male or female shipping allowed.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Whose writing this shit for him?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

AI.

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

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[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days 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.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days 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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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 3 days 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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