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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

Only male or female shipping allowed.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 hours ago

screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 33 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 162 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 63 points 23 hours 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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

(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

[–] elvith@feddit.org 21 points 21 hours ago

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

Rules for thee, not for me!

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 48 points 1 day 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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[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 103 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

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

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

It means any attempt to not suffer

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

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 9 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 52 points 1 day 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 9 points 20 hours ago

Bigly if true

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some nonsense phrase they made up

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours 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.

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago (1 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.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Oh, that makes sense.

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[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 day 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 22 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Whose writing this shit for him?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 19 hours ago

AI.

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

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 11 points 11 hours ago

Does he think

No.

[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day 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 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 5 points 12 hours ago

Well, helllooo there sailor 💖

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago (2 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 24 points 1 day 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 6 points 20 hours 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.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago

Because kei trucks are obviously death traps

sideeyes motorcycles

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 1 day 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

[–] zout@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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