• klu9@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    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.

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      (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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      19 hours ago

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

      Rules for thee, not for me!

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    22 hours ago

    “You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕

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    22 hours ago

    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?

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    23 hours ago

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

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

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    24 hours ago

    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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      I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

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    1 day ago

    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.

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      24 hours ago

      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”.

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        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.

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        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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        22 hours ago

        Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.

        Also it’s not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.

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          Controlled production is not the same thing as a subsidy. Canada controls supply. There is a quota system. No US dairy supplier ever uses their quota, so don’t get dinged with tariffs.

          It is literally nothing.