Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’
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Brussels effects haters be like: "I really fucking hate USB type-C cables being on every device where it makes sense! I want to bo back to expensive and crappy proprietary cables only the original manufacturer is allowed to make!"
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So do you think the EU, Canada, Mexico and China all dont understand how economies work either? As they all immediately said they would respond to tariffs with tariffs on American goods.
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You will plug in ze usb c and you will be happy
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I'm in the EU and I very much I hope he does, beause the response will be spectacular (apparently there is an Act from 2023 that the EU can respond to this by suspending intellectual property rights of US companies).
Also it will definitelly finish off any lingering delusions of European politicians that the US is an "ally".
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The US was a white colonialist project that once it became strong enough wrestled independence from the colonialist power that started it.
IMHO, the people it was formed to screw over were the natives of the land the colonialists stole - so Indian tribes.
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Well, his definition of "screw over" is probably when the other side of a negotiation pools resources to be able to negotiate in a balanced way.
In that mindset, workers make Unions to "screw over" big companies.
Because that's essentially what the EU is: a polling of resources of many small and a few mid-sized countries to on Internation Trade matters negotiate as a block and hence in a balanced way with large countries like the US and China.
Given Trump's background of using his money to take advantage of contractors for his companies by using lawsuits with no hope of winning meant only to drain out the resources of others and make them quite, it makes perfectly sense that he would see those others pooling resources to be able to face him as "screwing him over".
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That, nukes, NATO... It may have been rank anglophobia, but man, did history prove him right...
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It's the same "I'll respect you if you respect me" dynamic in an imbalanced-power system.
I'm screwing you over if I personally feel bad for what I'm doing to you (never happens, therefore I'm always fair). You're screwing me over if you inconvenience me.
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First, "they all" didn't so it. Some of them did.
Second, you are the one claiming the motivation for that action. And you are wrong, their motivation isn't to "keep their business competitive despite the US tariffs"... unless of course they also don't know what they are doing. That's because the US tariffs doesn't change the competitiveness of products on their territory, and their tariffs don't change the competitiveness of products on the US territory...
What should be obvious, because the tariffs aren't applied there.
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Wake me when that pussy manages to even speak in his own cabinet meetings without elon interrupting.
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I mean USB is so so so bad and what a lie that USB-C is some universal thing (besides the physical connector)
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DO IT! COMON! DO IT! Make every european leader more alligned with the EU and push us more and more together and more indipendent again!
DO IT! SCARDY CAT
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The britains left and joined on their own will
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If you think Intel fucking with the USB naming scheme (just keep 3.0 and 3.1 for the lower speed devices instead of renaming everything 3.2 gen 892034856 for fuck's sake!) was bad, or you had trouble with keeping track of charger standards, then you forgot the time when most manufacturers had their own crappy proprietary connection standard, that didn't really done much more than could have been with pre-existing standards, except to force you to buy an expensive and crappy cable, and some (especially those by Apple) often broke by just looking at them in the wrong way and had those crappy and impossible to solder enamel-coated wires inside them.
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Please try to read usernames, I didnt say anything about motivations.
And all of them threatened retaliatory tariffs immediately after trump anounced his:
Obviously most of those havent been implemented yet as THe USA hasnt implemented it's tariffs. But the more general point about imposing retaliatory tariffs is sound, they make the other countries exports less attractive. If the US does that to other countries they are going to want to do it back to the US.
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And the bloc of 50 united states was formed to screw the bloc of european union ?
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please do. people should keep reminding this in social media platforms and everywhere else until he has no choice but to do it
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I know it’s a whine, but roughly a quarter of the country voted for Brexit.
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The EU was setup to help protect Europe and enable them to have better control over overly enthusiastic capitalist companies such as those found in the US.
But what do we expect from a low intelligence puppet of Russia?
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Oh come on, the full USB spec may be a cluster fuck, but even the basic functionality that is shared is enough of a step forward to how it was before with multiple fiscal sockets with slightly different plugs. Once I forgot my phone charged at home and lo and behold I just plugged my laptop USB charger and now I could charge my phone. It is great. And any cable and combination like usb-a to usb-c will give you basic charging and basic data transfer. That in itself is already a saving grace and helps diminish the clutter of cables. Sure it could be better and less confusing for things like rapid charging and other stuff now USB supports but that does not detract from the advancement. Other thing, with usb-c there is also less port clutter that we had with the previously misguided plentora of USB plugs, A, B, mini, micro, etc.
