EU says it will retaliate immediately if Trump imposes new tariffs
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Hopefully, the rest of the world will just go "Who are you? We already have that we need from these countries, so thanks, but no thanks" and the US will finally see that they fucked up royally.
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He's doing the equivalent of robbing a bank while wearing a suicide bomb vest. The only difference is that he's threatening the world economy instead.
The fact that he hasn't thought through the consequence chain afterwards is just him being stupid. Akin to a robber trying to pay the stolen money into his bank account, at the branch he robbed a few days before.
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The only possible liberation is self liberation.
We need to cast off our chains, ourselves.
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You raise prices, and sell less. And let all customers know its the new Trump Tax they are paying.
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Cant wait for a worldwide boycott of anything coming from USA.
You are destroying something that will not be repaired and all of you cowards are letting it happens.
You are like russians, only you could stop this shit but you're just chilling online or whatever -
Nah, it's all about the money. It's literally just trolling with people lives to make money off of their inevitable fear
The only way to win, is if people who have invested money aren't afraid of losing it. Which of course almost nobody, because when gambling the house almost always wins. Which is to say an increasingly small minority get to win the lottery of a financially free life.
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Nah, for the rest of the World it will only be for things Made In America.
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Let's use Ukraine as an example... Ukraine should locate Putin every day and say hello with a few random drones. I'm sure they try, but hey if they get that sucker, the war is over. There are so many soldiers dead and people without homes including women, children and old people. Why can't wars be about removing the rich assholes that start wars? My cousin Alex didn't start nothing, why should he get to pay extra to eat?
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He wants to destroy economy worldwide to create the same circumstances there were before WWII
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There are 2 things they are trying to do here IMO:
- They are using tariffs to bully weaker countries into worse deals and to interfere in our politics. Here in Colombia the media (all right wing lapdogs) keep talking how president Petro needs to bend the knee and just acept whatever Trump wants to do because it would be so bad for Colombia if we get extra tariffs. And they keep spewing propaganda making it sound like Petro is the one being crazy to kill any remaining support he has (not that he needs any help jajajaja, he has been a really mediocre president on his own and the extreme right is going to get an easy win next election anyway). They are not wrong of course, a trade war between Colombia and USA would hurt Colombia so much more than the USA just because of the relative size of our economies. And Trump and the rest of the republican assholes are using this to bully us and the rest of latin american countries.
- They want to reshape the tax collection in USA to remove taxes from rich people and collect more from poor people. At the end of the day, blanket tariffs on all products is just another regressive sales tax that will fall mostly on poor people. They want to reduce wealth taxes and income taxes which are collected mostly on rich people and instead replace them with regressive taxes like tariffs instead. I mean, his recemt tax changes shifted a huge amount of the tax burden away from the rich and to the poor and middle classes. If you want to put a conspiracy hat, they also think this will create a population boom in the USA. Research shows that people under worse economic conditions have more children, so they want to make life harder to poor people to get more and cheaper workers. At the very least the Musk rat has spoken openly about this, so it's not crazy to think this is part of their stupid plan.
Long term, the USA is royally fucked because of this. They are killing any good will the USA has with the rest of the world and they are screwing the poor people that actully generate the wealth of their country. But short term rich people will make bank with all this and the rest of us will pay for it.
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At least for lemmy.ml they are.
