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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 226 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Delicious. Simply delicious. Trump didnt just pick up the gun, load the gun, aim the gun at his foot, fire the gun, claim it would make him run better and fall over. He then got back up and did it all again with the other foot still claiming it would make him run better.

It takes a truly special kind of stupid to be at Trumps level.

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 130 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Trump isn't stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he's shooting Uncle Sam's foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He's a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again, while pretending he's not doing it on purpose so he can keep doing it.

When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he's doing a good job. Until people realize this he'll keep sabotaging the US.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

He can be both: working for Putin and a complete moron.

You don’t threaten to sue the school you attended if your grades are released unless you know they are nothing to be proud of. Also, that professor or teacher that said Trump was the dumbest student he had to teach in all his years.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I think he might actually be that stupid tho

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

He's evidently working to destroy the USA and its alliances, which serves Russia's interests. But it's hard to know whether he's doing so deliberately or unwittingly.

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[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago

See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia's economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.

It would appear that he's just a brat who's never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It's all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he's right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Putin continues to finance trump and has bailed him out of bankruptcy in the past. None of this is foot shooting, its all trashing the US from top to bottom as Putin planned. Every day Putin wins and people scratch their heads wondering why trump would do such stupid things.

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

It is all building to him putting the gun to his head with the promise it will make him stronger than ever. He will retaliate to these retaliations because it is all he understands. All his life he has just ignored or run head first at problems planning to solve them in the moment with his superior mind and it has never worked, and he never learns. More than that he never sees it as failed, and that is what so much of the US voted for and the world saw it.

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[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 94 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

If China stops exporting these to the US that should influence the trade deficit in the way Trump is looking for, right? Isn’t that what this was supposed to do according to Trump? So he should be happy about this, right? Because it’ll bring the manufacturing of the minerals home? /s

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 47 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Haven't you heard? China are already on the phone with Trump saying they are going to move the production of terbium to the US. Basically they'll use these very big drills to mine Chinese minerals right from Wyoming.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cant take more than 2-3 months to move Terbium mining to Ohio.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

"Yep, that's how it works, I saw it in a cartoon once." - MAGA Scientific expert.

I mean Scientologist. That's the same thing, right?

[–] Comtief@lemm.ee 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean.. who knows what he wants, maybe he wants to crash the economy.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 67 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Bet the US is suddenly going to buy these minerals out of Russia. Bet one of Trump's children or in-laws indirectly owns a exporting company in Russia.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago

"But look at this picture of Hunter Biden's magnum dong. I mean, just look at it. Its so...magnum." - Margarine BattleToad Greene.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 165 points 5 days ago (4 children)

But didn't Trump tell them not to retaliate? I'm pretty sure Trump told them not to retaliate. I don't understand.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

He still has cards to play to make himself heard. He hasn't insulted anyone's attire yet.

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Did Xi jinping say thank you or xia-xia ni ??

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

I think he said "Oh bother."

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

Really. Maybe they were unclear. About the not retaliating.

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 145 points 5 days ago

I think we're in stage 2 now: find out

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 105 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Genuinely never thought I'd join the war on China on the side of China.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It still explains why this is happening. You can't rely on Cina to build your military systems if they are for a war on China.

It's increadible that the comments are about Trump's stupidity and not about the consequences of that war.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Nations that trade extensively with each other don't go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.

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[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All this instability has me direly worried about what will happen if China invades Taiwan. Like, if we think it's bad now, an invasion of Taiwan would grind our systems to a halt.

[–] Wayward@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Bro I'm just wondering if it will be a Kurdish style diplomatic capitulation or a Ukrainian style meatgrinder. The moral of the story is that if you're a US ally you get fucked. The question is simply how hard

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[–] WiseScorpio@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Also, China is going to give the finger to US companies and Trump and make even more counterfeit stuff.

Companies complaining about Chinese IP ain't seen nothing, yet.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't respecting US patents also one of the parts of the US-Canada agreement as well which they now technically don't have to do anymore, as not having tariffs was one of the requirements?

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[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 96 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

That’s not a problem I’ll just go ask one of my historical trade partnohnoholyfuckwhatdidijustdo.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Never fight a trade war ~~on two fronts~~ against every country simultaneously.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The MIC already worked a solution since last time China restricted exports; both Cali and Australia would pick up production.

The problem with rare earth isn't that it's rare, it's that they only exist in low concentrations, and the total lack of labor and environmental laws in China means that there is no room for external competitors to compete on price... Our modern neoliberal governments refuse to do anything that does not enrich or empower the oligarchy; not even for "national security".

Unfortunately, this means Australia might have just jumped to the top of the nazi parties annexation list.

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[–] towelie@lemm.ee 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Greenland, Ukraine, Canada: all of Trump's actions make sense if you consider that he wants to secure rare earth minerals for... someone

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Trump & Putin are committed to DESTROYING the hated EU between a pincer of Putin + butchered-Eastern-Europe & Trump + butchered Canada & Greenland.

THEN they get to be the only "kings" ruling the remains of the West, until they die.

They're narcissist-nihilists, as all "mass shooters" are: they're just committing their "mass shooting" through legislations, & hitting entire populations with what they're firing, legislatively.

Pay attention to the fact that the woke EU is competing against both of them for world-significance AND doing-so with anti-Putin/Trump values.

Canada & Greenland stand in the way, that is all, except for the wealth that Trump would gain, through claiming it as his new-possession of the US.

Destroying the EU, though, that'd be "priceless" to them..

No more competitor!!

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago

I can't believe I'm saying this, but thankyou, CCP.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 75 points 5 days ago

How badly do you need to fuck up so that China is the one we're rooting for? JFC.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

I despise the fucking CCP and PLA, but shoving this move up Krasnov's ass is a good one.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Good fuck everyone here

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

Well, clean tech isn’t in the US list anymore, so don’t count it in.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

You know who has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.

[–] mrmule@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you've been to Greenland it you'll realize how inaccessible these mineral deposits are. And with no roads connecting towns it becomes a logistical nightmare. Oh and the place is covered in thick ice and snow for 10 months of the year. There have been mining companies dying there for the last 50 years, 1. Because of legislation and 2 because it's virtually impossible to mine.

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[–] arafatknee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The era of Geoeconomics has begun.

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[–] hikuro93@lemmy.ca 38 points 5 days ago

Like Trump likes to say so much: FAFO.

Multiple can play that game.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Pikachu O face

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It will be interesting to see if Canada allies with China

Much like how Vietnam was allied with the US because of the giant military on their doorstep

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This will only encourage him to go after Greenland even harder. He thinks they are the solution to having "rare earth."

Without China as a supplier, and thinking Greenland is the solution, it will justify an armed attack on Greenland in his empty cranium.

The base we maintain in Greenland has about 150 people. My prediction is that he will start sending troops to the base to build up a force, and start intimidating Greenland/Denmark.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago (10 children)

This is bad for Canada. US might try to take ours - by force.

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