• Nanowith@lemmy.world
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    God I’m so tired of America, I wish Starmer would stop sucking up to Trump and I despise the fact Farage is so popular considering how transparently he wants to turn us into a subservient vassal.

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      Yet he doesn’t seem to be affected by the memes online about the Epstein Files. He is still acting like a dictator and getting praised for it.

      Not quite sure what the US needs to do to get out of his grip but I suspect they’ve lost already. They’re just here for the ride.

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        I think these things take years and years. All of the bad stuff we’re seeing online is happening in small pockets of a massive country and most people don’t care until it’s on their doorstep. When we learn about wars or coups or I surections etc it’s usually decades of struggles condensed.

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    Can I just check I haven’t misunderstood… Aren’t these tariffs charged to companies / individuals in the US for importing goods from other countries? ie. it’s an import tax?

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      Yes, Trump has no power to impose any other tariffs. But the way he speaks about it deliberately gives the impression that it’s the other countries who are paying.

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        Great, thank you! I thought I was losing my mind. It sounds so much like other countries are somehow paying

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      That’s correct. It’s one way in which governments can change the behaviour of it’s citizens. Do that enough and the people will find an alternative and countries exporting to the US will lose out.

      Whether that will happen with these tariffs who knows.

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    This stinks of someone who’d feeling super weak.

    I think making a fuss about it would be the wrong approach. We should just calmly station more troops in Greenland, quietly impose retaliatory tariffs, and then go about our business. That would pile up even more pressure on Trump without the noise he’s craving to distract people from all his other troubles.

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      Station more troops where? Its ruddy cold there at the moment, and most of the military infrastructure is American.

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      In theory, neither can islands with zero human population and zero trade, but that didn’t stop him tariffing those penguins last time, did it?

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        I’m pretty sure he also imposed a tariff on a small island off the coast of Australia, that in fact part of Australia. Which is rather like someone else imposing tariffs on the United States and also Manhattan.

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      He does a lot of things that can’t be done and says a lot more than that. I don’t think his reality is the same as the rest of ours.

  • HankPecker [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    It’s okay guys, my goat Kier just sent our strongest military officer (singular) to Greenland, the US empire now has no choice but to back off!

    (We’re so fucking cooked)