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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 27 points 11 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 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 52 points 18 hours ago (1 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.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 18 points 16 hours ago

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

Rules for thee, not for me!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 144 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 31 points 19 hours ago

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Whose writing this shit for him?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

AI.

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

[–] LiPoly@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 6 hours ago

I feel like if AI would’ve written this, it would make more sense. This reads more like a fever dream.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 37 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 92 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

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

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

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 37 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 49 points 21 hours 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 14 hours ago

Bigly if true

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 6 points 15 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 7 hours ago

Oh, that makes sense.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Some nonsense phrase they made up

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 6 points 10 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.

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[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 19 hours 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 21 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 28 points 20 hours 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 7 points 5 hours ago

Does he think

No.

[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 28 points 20 hours 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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[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 21 hours 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 20 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 7 hours ago

Well, helllooo there sailor 💖

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 10 points 18 hours ago

Crewed by transgenic mice!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 26 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 43 points 20 hours 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 21 points 19 hours 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 4 points 15 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 5 points 14 hours ago

Because kei trucks are obviously death traps

sideeyes motorcycles

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 20 hours 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 19 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 19 hours ago

You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.

[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 19 hours ago

He doesn't even know or care about how traditional tariffs are supposed to work. What makes him think he knows what the fuck is non-tariff? Old fucking moron.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 18 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.

[–] barooboodoo@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

I would kill to see a journalist ask him about literally anything from this list.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

I think that's when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 17 points 20 hours ago

lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.

Diversity definition

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