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[โ€“] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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[โ€“] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago
[โ€“] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 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€“] kcweller@feddit.nl 8 points 6 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€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 20 points 10 hours ago

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

[โ€“] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Great we can keep our good food and wines at lower prices.
It would be pearls before swines if they go to the US.

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Like a dog listening to classical music.

[โ€“] gabbath@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

OMG IT'S DIZZY!

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

Good food and wines before swines* /s

[โ€“] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (3 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€“] KumaSudosa 7 points 8 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€“] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

WYM do something?
If you're European or anywhere else watching this clown expediating the demise of the US you need to do absolutely nothing and let him carry on.
If you're in the US IDC. They all deserve what they get, they did nothing about that horrible country when it was trying to be the hegemon and harrassing the rest of the word since they profited and were fine with it.
Now they get a taste of their own medicine they complain but that's about it, they are weak and incapable of real resistance.

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[โ€“] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

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

[โ€“] TheMuffinMan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

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[โ€“] Retrograde@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Hey that's my monitor's model number

[โ€“] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah you can tell by the way it is.

[โ€“] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

That's pretty neat

[โ€“] atma@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago
[โ€“] raptore39@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago

My sentiments exactly

[โ€“] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

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

[โ€“] Vari@lemm.ee 22 points 16 hours ago

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

[โ€“] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 14 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€“] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 5 points 8 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€“] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 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€“] Frozentea725@feddit.uk 8 points 13 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€“] Rob1992@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

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

[โ€“] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 hours ago

give away our advantages?

[โ€“] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 3 points 8 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€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[โ€“] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 58 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 17 points 11 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€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 11 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€“] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 75 points 22 hours ago (14 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

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