What a fucked up world where we are cheering on China. Fucking trump.
If they suck at each other, then that’s way less bad. Root for simultaneous knockout punches.
They both suck.
The workforce is unionizing even if their union is pretty terrible.
Definitely just a toss up of where this is going.
Which workforce? The Chinese? There’s only one union and it’s run by the government. Any non-government unions are illegal.
The US is gaining a new interest in unions, but we have our own anti-union laws to deal with. Not as bad China’s obviously.
such a socialist country where union protests lead you to being disappeared
Oh sorry, did I say socialist? China lines up better as a fascist economy.
Yeah in a global environment essentially China is the workforce/factory workers of the previous gilded age.
And it’s pretty much exactly my point that their union (the government) is finally pushing back against the management while being not exactly kind to their workers.
We are essentially reliving through a new worker rebellion but from the governments of the global south with their own layers of local nuance underneath that.
Weird times.Anti union in a socialist society…SMH sigh…
We need a vanguard party because the proles are too dumb to save themselves. We’ll prove it by banning unions that aren’t under our thumb.
Art of the deal
Shart of the deal
Fart of the Seal.
The Fart and The Squeal
You’re fucked when the other party has read it too.
I don’t think anyone needs to read his book up know he’s a fuck up. China doesn’t care how much we try and upset their apple cart, they aren’t going to play Trump’s game.
china is well-versed in a different text, the art of war.
I was making a joke.
Yup. Donald Trump is a joke.
You say “too” here, but it’s doubtful that Trump has actually read his book.
He famously had it ghost written, but fucked up the deal hard enough that his ghost writer got full writing credit on the cover.
All the more reason for MAGAs to hate China - they were MEAN to Daddy!
Big flex from China. I’m waiting for a country to call trump’s bluff by putting an export tax on their own goods sent to the USA.
Canada should have done this on everything. If the Americans can afford the tariff then there is room for us to charge more. Not really but yeah should do it.
If only… America holds 20% of global purchasing power so an export tax like that would result in needing to lower local interest rates to boost domestic productivity, which would decrease foreign investment, eventually weakening the local currency.
It would be hilarious if a country that exports very little to nothing to the US did it to make a point though. Totally on board with that.
China is already weakening their currency to keep their exports (worldwide) more attractive.
America
holdsheld 20% of global purchasing power…Truth be told, I think the only thing we really produced in the US was the US dollar. Sounds like it’s the number 1 export for the US, and trump just toppled demand for it.
Or, they just pay the tariff themselves. Could you imagine China going, “Cool bro, we’ll just absorb the cost ourselves. Now what?”
I mean, that’s what trump said they would do. That would make him look like a genius.
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That wouldn’t really do much for China. The reason the tariffs hurt us is that we sent all our manufacturing to them (along with a few other countries). So the tariffs only make our stuff cost more. Footing the bill like that would just weaken China’s position.
What would happen is the US dollar would be weaker, profits selling to the US weakened. It would still harm us primarily.
Dealing. Is an art.
Too much art, not many deals. 😔
The Art of the Deal
Bankruptcy never tasted so good?
Didn’t this happen last time? Less dramatically, but still.
He puts in a bunch of tariffs. China reciprocates. The market is thrown into chaos. He shouts and screams. China ignores him. He backtracks. China ends the tariffs but doesn’t do anything to try and appease him. He claims it’s a victory. His fluffers say the tariffs were just to bring China to the table, which justifies the hit to the market, despite the fact China didn’t come to the table and President Pigshit didn’t articulate what China could actually give him to end the tariffs.
Yes, but this time he also decided to tariff the whole world.
Fucking clown.🤡
‘hurrrr art of the deal’ Fucking. Clown.
Wish somebody told him he didn’t have the cards.
The cards are made in China
Held 7/2 off suit, hit nothing on the flop that he got to see for free, and then went all in.
He is one card short of a full deck.
No he only has the joker
Despite that, Fox News will continue stacking his invisible laurels. Doesn’t matter if his policy does anything. All that matters is that his followers are convinced that the policies are doing something.
Everyone turn on your ad blocker and go look at that website, it’s (2024-)incredible it’s legal to be so disingenuous
I made the mistake of visiting yesterday and I will never not be dumber because I read their first seven headlines plus at least a dozen comments
That’s right, those headlines are the dumbest things you’ve ever seen on the planet… but then you scroll to the bottom of an article
Pray for me
🙏 thanks for reporting your findings. Hope you recover soon.
There’s no way in hell I’m going to any conservative propaganda site.
tl;dr it’s worse than I thought
I’m not strong enough to admit that I hoped there would be one story where they weren’t jamming it down their throat and begging for more
You’re far braver than I am, my friend.
Technically crashing the entire fucking economy in like a month is doing something
One hundred percent spot on.
Everyone is somehow missing China cutting off rare earth metals the US relies on for technology and defense
It wasn’t just stopping exports to the US, they’ve stopped exporting rare earth elements worldwide starting yesterday. Plus, they are starting to unload billion of debt we owe them. It’s almost as if Trump is intentionally trying to destroy our country in the morning, and then later in the day he wants to be the bully negotiator without understanding his precarious position.
You remember r/shitamericanssay? Last time he won, there were a lot of people talking about stuff Europe has but America doesn’t, and, if you browse the posts there, a lot of Americans responding how Europe is backwards, in the stone age, and what they do have is paid for by America, out of benevolence.
Well, those folks are in charge now.
Our EU ‘leaders’ are US bootlickers.
They’re a bit upset now that master is angry.The master isn’t angry, the master croaked, and his idiot son with anger issues is in charge now. The only question is if the EU will have the foresight to see the writing on the wall and bail before they’re caught in the undertow.
Like I said, our EU leaders are puppets, they don’t have our interests in mind.
They were perfectly fine with the slow death of seeing the economy and people suffer after the Nordstream US terrorist act.
Not a peep from them.
And even now they’re doing exactly what Trump wanted, spending more on useless killing toys.
And it’s a whole lot more.
Every country’s going to spend billions of money they don’t have and you know where they’re going to get it from.
The already unhappy lowest layer of the population.
Probably the last drop to push the extreme right in power. We’re almost in the 30’s again.“And even now they’re doing exactly what Trump wanted, spending more on useless killing toys.”
Useless? Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin won’t stop there.
To be honest, it doesn’t look like that one’s gonna be his decision to make.
That’s the spirit, of to the eastern front!
At least they seem to be buying domestic this time around. I mean, I fully expect them to Hillary it, despite everything, but it’s not impossible to pull out of the tailspin yet.
I LOLed at buying F-35’s but produced in Italy.
There wouldn’t be much point merely stopping export to the US because some other country could just on-sell to the US.
He really doesn’t understand his precarious position and the harm he has done and is doing.
That’s gonna tank the dollar hard
Yeah USD is down 3% for the week. 8 for the year
Sounds good to me
I’m realizing the structure of our supply chains is not common knowledge at all. Basically everything has a part from China. That and plastic.
This is how the CoD storyline started.
I think the story here will go very differently now that the US army can’t ensure it’s exclusively pro-US.
Canada didn’t. It’d be a primary reason for the US to go stupid and try invading us, we’re a much closer source of rare earths.
Australia is the only other major exporter, apart from China, at 15% of global supply. I have never heard of Canada producing significant quantites?
the whole world actually, thanks Trump!
… Trump keeps begging for China deal while bragging about phone calls kissing his ass. No foreign meetings. No envoy sent to China.
China limits US studio film releases
Bessent says Tariffs are no joke. China must make a deal.
Chinese airlines refuse Boeing+parts deliveries (reported as “China orders”, but leopards were not going to make US aerospace affordable at 125% tariffs.
Do nothing, win!
As much as I don’t like the Chinese government for all the censorship and etc, they do really know what they’re doing in terms of managing the economy and the infrastructure it relies on, as far as I can tell. Including their education system, it’s fairly shocking how many of the top engineering and CS colleges are in China.
Censorship? Its rich talking censorship in China when America is one of the most propagandized nations in existence. If I was China I would also censor the fuck out of America.
Censorship and propaganda are different
What a weird comment to make
America has both, so wtf you on about?
Both are tools to control the narrative.
But you can just talk about censorship in America
There different forms of censorship. Flooding the dominant platforms with the official message to obscure opposition opinions, shadowbanning posts, etc are softer forms of censorship but are still censorship. The rulership class is fine with people voicing their opinions if they feel it doesn’t threaten their power. They will crack down harder when that feeling changes.
How does the US being full of propaganda change the fact that China has a lot of censorship?
Both can be true at the same time, you know…
Its almost like hegemonies and individual freedoms can be at odds with each other no matter what country it is.
How does the US having propaganda mean they dont have censorship? America literally has a fuckton of both.
I was gonna post that one but “What is this business strategy called” gets me every time
I love how everyone just sort of glazes over how astoundingly unpopular Steam was when it was first introduced.
I was one of them. They proved my fears unfounded (so far). They’ve also managed to convert me to a fanboy at some point. I realised I was playing a co-op game brought off steam, on my steam deck, via a steam link to the TV, and the wife using a steam controller.
I think steam is my favorite monopoly.
^Not saying it’s perfect. Just my favorite. I understand this might change at any time^
Valve is Augustus Caesar: a benevolent dictator doing great things for their people. I’m afraid of what will happen when Gaben retires, how long will it take before we find gaming’s Nero?
At least it’s only a monopoly because everyone else is apparently idiots when it comes to long term planning. I’m dreading the day when they turn to the dark side. Long away may it be.
All powered by a nuclear reactor that produces steam
It was unpopular cause it was kinda ass tbh.
I remember getting so frustrated when the downloads would just stop for no reason.
It’s called not being an utter moron.
It turns out that maximizing for shareholder profit isn’t a sustainable way to run a business, and it actually burns your company to the ground after a few short years.
Also, not being an insufferable douche-nozzle.
I think Xi might have figured out Trump’s secret. He has no fucking clue what he’s doing. He scares people into reacting by being reckless, then claims a win for getting a reaction.
Ignoring trolls takes their power away.
China discovers the secret to life:
Don’t feed the trolls.
never interrupt your enemy while he is fumbling his shit. or something.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
(“Quand l’ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l’interrompre” --Napoleon)
They’re not really ignoring him though. They’ve discontinued exports of rare earth and are dumping debt. It’s a calculated strategic response to capitalise on an epic mistake.
This only works if you’re China. Most other countries would just be ignored
Not really, he backed down on tariffs last week thanks to Canada and Japan. The truth is, Trump has put the US into a very, very precarious position. They have a lot of debt to refinance soon, and if the rest of the world wanted to, they could dramatically increase the interest rates paid on that by coordinating a sell-off of US debt.
i would love to see that happen, but i don’t think they will
Putin has had trump’s number for years
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-strongman
Basically, this strategy Trump and Putin and their ilk do never works outside of their little bubble. Their whole game is to tear everyone else in their sphere of influence down to their level, so that they can compete effectively and dominate, but there are always significant threats outside of the sphere. Against which we are now more or less powerless.
“secret”
I hope other leaders learn from this.
That’s business school from a guy who ran casinos into the ground. Nice work America.
It’s true. “Casinos,” plural. CASINOS PLURAL, EVERYBODY.
y’all are spelling ‘russian money laundering operations’ wrong.
Even worse. How does one bankrupt a Russian money laundering operation? You’d think they would do their best to keep that shit running.
I think they intentionally go out of business before the Feds have a chance to investigate it.
They were actually fined for undeclared foreign transactions, but it was during their bankruptcy so it got mostly ignored by history
And you’d certainly want to keep your American fence on a tight leash for the foreseeable
Absolutely not. Bankruptcy proceedings get your financial records gone over with a fine tooth comb. You need to keep your cover business healthy within reason to fly under the radar. You didn’t see the mob casinos going bankrupt.
Nah, nah, nah, see “Russian money laundering operations” is the synonym for the hotels and university.
I thought the consensus was that was money laundering?
I found this https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-taj-mahal/index.html
So it’s at least alleged and they paid to settle. But wouldn’t you want to keep your laundry working? Idk
They probably figured out better ways to do it through Trump org and not have to subject themselves to casino regulator investigations.
