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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck yes! I want to stand united against fascism and imperialis!

A united European Army to defend against Russia, China and the US!

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

United European army Against imperialists

Pick one.

The fascism is already here, the member states are just as susceptible to it. Fight in your own country against the fascists, or the fascists take your United European army for imperialist means.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago

I'm certain this was agreed upon in the recent phone conversation between Trump and punting Putin

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Hey that's my monitor's model number

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

It's an older code, but it checks out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah you can tell by the way it is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago
[โ€“] prettybunnys 7 points 4 hours ago

My sentiments exactly

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

At last, the big unifying moment when we'll stop scrolling through memes and DO something. Yessir, I can feel it! Yep, any second now...

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Do what exactly? Seems to me like EU leaders are working overtime behind the curtains. Better than also introducing stupid tariffs. Don't fight stupid with stupid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

So? Did you do something? It's been over 6 hours.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

there probably is some stuff that the eu makes that the us doesn't.

If he tarriffs those, we should not replg by imposing tarriffs of our own (cutting our own balls off). We should just start increasing our prices for those products, therefore increasing their tarriffs

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

an export tariff to fight their import tariff? that's one way of saying we dgaf about your tariffs I suppose. And if they end up dropping the tariff because it's hurting them too much, well that'd be the ultimate humiliation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

no not an export tarriff. That would mean we pay it.

You usually pay $1 for this item and now you're forcing your citizens to pay 150%? ok, from now on my prices have increased by 100% so now your citizens must pay even more

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Isnt the company that makes the ultra precise lithography machines used by tnmc Dutch. Should sell them to Tue Chinese

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

give away our advantages?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

It is.

But why not just keep it and get the tech used at home? You don't sell a valuable asset to an economic rival just to spite another economic rival. What you do is you cling on to every technological advantage you have in the market place and capitalise on it as much as you can.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Who would sell them? No sane corpo would shoot themselves in the foot like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

And shoot ourselves in the foot while we're at it

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago

Donโ€™t worry everyone. Once he and his cronies line their pockets, itโ€™ll get reversed. Itโ€™s okay.

[โ€“] [email protected] 50 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Trump and his friends are making billions off manipulating the stock market by this mechanism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

How much should I bet this time that trump will bitch out

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He just literally doesn't give a shit if he is fucking everything up and he's too stupid to do the right thing.

The strategy: Put in some shorts, announce Tarrifs, rake in the cash. Buy an obscene amount of stock on margin, announce a reduction in tariffs, rake in the cash.

The next day: Have Charles Schwab on TV with you to announce how your illegal market manipulation and insider trading have earned the man billions in a day. Every dollar of which was stolen from the retirement of the working class.

I live in a sea of selfish, undereducated, self-sabotaging, brainwashed Americans who are dumb as fuck.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Market manipulation and even short trading (do you want to invest? Then invest for years or at least several months, not days or even less) is a tax for the wealthy, paid by everyone else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 71 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

Iโ€™m surprised Europe isnโ€™t already boycotting all American products, im Canadian and Iโ€™ve actually saved money avoiding their stuff and finding either a local alternative or just going without. Most of the stuff we get from the US is junk food or sugary crap so itโ€™s actually good to avoid them

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

The EU never really had much in terms of American products, ie food stuffs. The kind of American products the EU has is primarily internet services where there aren't always alternatives (or at least ones that are as polished as the big US ones). Then there's the fact that most people don't even consider a lot of things as American - WhatsApp isn't even recognised as owned by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook/Meta, for example, for many people in spite of it being overwhelmingly the most popular messaging app in many countries.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Pretty much this. When this hole thing started I swore I'd never buy an American product again, but I quickly realized I didn't buy much of it anyways... The only American food/drink that we have is junk food and soft drinks, i.e. stuff that's easy to avoid or replace

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[โ€“] [email protected] 135 points 20 hours ago (12 children)

Time to act like China and not bend to him.

[โ€“] [email protected] 79 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

China's strategy worked great, just counter any announced tarrif with an equal reciprocal tarrif and he'll back off eventually. I wonder if we have more or less to loose than China had.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 78 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (16 children)

He'll back down. He's always backing down.

Must be some sort of adrenaline rush or something, threating big players. Then it wears off and everyone tries to explain he's being an idiot and eventually he backs down.

Edit: Don't forget the tariffs are paid for by ~~us~~ US consumers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

Insider trading. It's about the money his buddies and him can make, when he declares a "pause" and the stocks go back up. It's frustratingly simple...

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