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
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.
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.
When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.
Well, helllooo there sailor 💖
Crewed by transgenic mice!
Whose writing this shit for him?
AI.
This is just a list of “but I’m not winning so it’s not fairrrrrrrrrr” whining (whinging?)
who’s
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?
I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.
It is our strongest export for the global autistic community 💪🇺🇸
I mean. We could do all that if we want.
The fuck is “non-tariff cheating” supposed to mean?
As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.
Some nonsense phrase they made up
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.
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.
Oh, that makes sense.
I think he’s saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.
Thing is, the list doesn’t make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it’s called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What’s the problem?
Good question.
It’s senile idiot for “I’m a senile idiot.”
My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he’s on about “cheating”.
It means any attempt to not suffer
Govt subsidies? Really?
I’m guessing that one is toward the EU?
Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.
Also it’s not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.
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.
I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.
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 ?
lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.
I would kill to see a journalist ask him about literally anything from this list.
idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful
Hell, he might end up more coherent.
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.
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”.
When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?
He doesn’t think at all.
I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.
So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.
I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now
I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?
Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.
It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.
Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!
Bowling ball test?
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”.
Its ironic to be complaining (or rather bullshitting) about japan restricting vehicle imports while the US is restricting imports of kei trucks for reasons.
Because kei trucks are obviously death traps
sideeyes motorcycles
throws bowling ball at Cybertruck
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.
