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But they use Skype?

If anyone in the Trump administration had a brain they would already realize that they have nothing to offer internationally. It's not exactly a secret.

Trump thinks that if he puts a tariff on imports from, say China, suddenly a bunch of factories will open up in America outputting the same cheap tat that China used to produce. But of course it doesn't work like that. Attempting to take resources by force won't help matters because America's problem is not actually a lack of resources. It's a lack of infrastructure and a talent pool so shallow that the ground is barely wet.

We've seen this with the chip factories that TSMC is trying to set up.

Really?

When Canadians were going on about boycotting American things there was a question on here, or Reddit I can't remember which, that was asking other people from other countries if they would do the same.

I remember thinking I can't think of a single American product that's even available for purchase for me to boycott. Other than quite possibly Jack Daniels but I already don't buy that anyway.

I cannot think of any food items, clothing, tech products, or materials that originate in the USA that I would normally buy even semi-regularly.

The US has a really serious problem on their hands which is that their trade war won't achieve anything. The US doesn't make anything, it famously doesn't make anything, the only reason that they trade with Canada is because Canada is close. Even then it's mostly just food stuffs which Canada can make themselves.

But they have virtually nothing to offer internationally hence the trade deficit, that trump is so upset about, in the first place

Its not like with Trump where his kids are actually problems themselves. I suspect that some of the younger ones will probably want to disown him too, especially the ones that he's called stupid names.

I don't think anyone was suggesting that you don't take a phone. Just not taking your everyday phone.

A protest only really works if it's covered by the media, you definitely don't want the people you're protesting about to decide if it is or isn't covered by the media so you record it yourself.