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    Just off the top of my head:

    1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
    2. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
    3. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
    4. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

    Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

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      (2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.

      (3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.

      (6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

      (8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war

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        (6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

        Not the best example since they’re trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.

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      OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

      Rules for thee, not for me!

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    “You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕

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    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?

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    Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.

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        Precisely.

        He just shitposts. It’s not even high-quality shitposting. It’s not like becoming president improved anything about him. He doesn’t rise to the occasion; the occasion collapses as he rolls over it and makes a mess of it. Every single time.

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    When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?

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    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

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    I’m not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.

    That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.

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        Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.

        Also it’s not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.

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          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.

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        China also subsidises a lot of things. The even subsidise things produced for export, which could be considered dumping.

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    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.