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accelerationism is a path of serenity

the sheep will scatter

the flute plays

The Danish C25 index opens with a drop of 7%. This comes on top of Friday's 6.2% drop.

Edit: The C25 index has stabilised a bit and is now only 5.2% lower. The index has been in the red for 11 out of the last 13 days and is now at the level it was in the summer of 2020.

I love reading delusional Australian-authored articles and papers because they think they know so much about Southeast Asia due to their proximity, but tend to have the most alien and westoid-brain conclusions.

US tariffs push Southeast Asia into China’s arms - The Australian (archive)

One likely reason for Donald Trump coming down so hard on Southeast Asian nations is they are seen to have aided and abetted Chinese efforts to circumvent US trade sanctions.

Tesla, Nvidia lead 'Magnificent 7' losses premarket as EU tariff retaliation looms

"Magnificent Seven" stocks are sliding premarket, led by declines in Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), and Apple (AAPL), after China announced retaliatory tariffs against the US and the European Union prepares its own set of countermeasures.
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"Roughly 50% of earnings in the Magnificent 7 come from abroad," Sløk wrote. "That is higher than for the S&P 500, where the share is 41%. With trade making up a bigger share of GDP in the rest of the world than in the US, the trade war will have a disproportionately more negative impact on the rest of the world."

"As a result," Sløk continued, "the Magnificent 7 will be hit harder on their global earnings than other S&P 500 companies. Their earnings could be even more negatively impacted if Europe retaliates in the form of a digital services tax."
Tesla dropped 6.7%.
Nvidia: Down 4.5%.
Apple: Down 4%.
Meta (META): Down 3.3%.
Amazon (AMZN): Down 3.2%.
Microsoft (MSFT): Down 2.4%.
Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL): Down 2.3%.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-futures-plummet-as-trump-tariff-rout-set-to-continue-220537495.html

(don't know how to link the specific section I quoted, sorry)

https://xcancel.com/incontextmedia/status/1906682710304649702

Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso’s President has reportedly increased salaries of civil servants by 50% and reduced salaries for MPs, Ministers and politicians by 30%.

I met my wife's zoomer cousins today for Eid and they're all watching YouTube streams of iShowSpeed touring China. I looked up some of the highlights of those streams and I genuinely believe that shit is more effective for the improvement of China's image amongst zoomer youth than a thousand articles by academic leftists titled "China's prosperity boom" or whatever. Zoomers are watching and being impressed by how clean the cities are, the fact that the stream doesn't lag in a high speed train in a tunnel, by how well-mannered Chinese youth are, and even trivial stuff like knowing about the Great Wall of China for the first time. 🇹🇼🇺🇦-bio creatures are seething in twitter replies about the evil SeeSeePee paying Speed to do these streams, while he's chilling in the Chinese mountains learning Shaolin kung fu by a nice Chinese dude named Master Liang. The world has truly changed, no amount of leaflets and protests has even a fraction of the effect of one stream of this Speed guy eating spicy noodles while doing backflips in the Forbidden City next to Mao's mausoleum.

The age/diversity gap between the "Hands Off" and pro-Palestine protestors in DC is really interesting.

I recommend looking up images of both and comparing them. You would expect there to be some difference, but the reality is jaw-dropping.

China, Japan, South Korea will jointly respond to US tariffs, Chinese state media says
hahaha holy shit. JPDON Don strikes again

17 teslas were lit on fire yesterday in a car dealership in Rome, didn't think this movement was international lol

Edit: link https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/europe/tesla-cars-fire-rome-intl/index.html

Right after Booker ended his "epic" filibuster, the GOP leadership brought up Trump nominee for NATO ambassador Whitaker. All Democrats and Republicans agree to advance this Trump nomination by unanimous consent. LMAO.

Lmao Degrowth Donald is taking control

March for Palestine in DC today

I'm on the bus and ready to represent Hexbear

Trump tariffs on Israel: 17%. Trump tariffs on Iran: 10%.

Rare Trump W.

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging

Lettin it rip baby

Israel previously claimed that the ambulances "approached suspiciously" with their headlights and emergency lights off. Video proves otherwise.

It still kind of stuns me every time I realize the camp the migrants are being taken to is within driving distance from me. I’ve been in that area many times. Even dated a woman who worked for Bukele when he was mayor of San Salvador. At the time she was convinced that he would solve the crime problem for good and had a personal investment in it after she experienced attempted SA from a gang member. She ended up giving my personal info to his fans years later and they’ve been threatening me since then lol

When it was being built I stopped by to see the site and said it wouldn’t be long before Guatemalans were sent there under the false premise of being related to gangs. Looks like that came true. I should really do a write-up on the Northern Triangle. It’s receiving a lot of attention now and some of the takes make me realize just how little about the region people know.

Red Crescent releases video showing Israeli [sic] murder of first responders | The Cradle

Mobile phone video shows Israeli [sic] troops killed 15 Palestinian rescuers despite flashing emergency lights and sirens marking their vehicles as ambulances

as @companero pointed out elsewhere

Israel [sic] previously claimed that the ambulances "approached suspiciously" with their headlights and emergency lights off. Video proves otherwise.

Incredible headline

in the realm of sus shit, on exact same day of palestine protest, dem rally will be held

So I think I will preemptively say this since some people have posted about Trumps whole trade war thing working.

So the big one.....

"What if he's right and industries will move to the US?"

It is extremely unlikely because of a few things:

'You can only build a massive factory if you know those tariffs are here to stay.'

That means the USA will have to keep those tariffs for a long time. Building a large factory like one that can employ thousands of people takes several years, training those will again take years. We can look at the TSMC plants that were built in Japan took 3 years to build and get going. This means those tariffs that incentivize capitalists to move production have to do so because they know that those tariffs will be there for 10 years.

Even with a 50% tariff it will still be cheaper to import than to produce locally.

I feel like this one is self explanatory but like I'm sorry but the only way those factories come back is if the USA increases its prison population, aka its pool of slave labor, at least tenfold. Something which I doubt the USA can actually do, not because it lacks the capacity for cruelty but simply because it lacks the capacity with all the gutting of the government.

Once counter tariffs start the US' own industries will get hit hard.

The US currently imports iron to turn it into steel, Iron imports are already part of those tariffs so now the cost per iron has gone up by 50%, making it more expensive to produce which cuts into profit margins which are further cut into because other nations will just tariff US steel back, essentially this hurts any industry that needs to import to start producing much more than the people in government probably think.

I mean effectively shutting down trade means that the US economy will have less goods in the economy per worker.

That means US workers will be effectively poorer even with a job in the absolute best case scenario that is not going to happen. Which once it starts to crystallize will get the hogs out and yelling about stuff and unless Trump does do some fascist grab of power, he'll lose pathetically to some democrat called Chak Tham Greenly because Trump didn't deliver the treats. Which means those tariffs are on a 4 year timer.

So with there being a 4 year timer most companies and capitalists will see the writing on the wall if Trump continues. What I think is that a lot of capitalists are currently deep in denial but that torpor will only stick around for so long, and as much as it pains capital to leave the current hegemon it's not like capital always was centered around the USA at one point it was centered in London, capital will move and make it's new nest somewhere else.

Edit: I should also add that the TSMC plant was ONE plant and not a total reorganization of their economy and again about a thousand people, magnitudes smaller than what Trump is trying, and with construction goods readily available and not being you know also tariffed.

24 years ago, PLA pilot Wang Wei defended our air space against an intruding US Air Force aircraft. During the confrontation, the American aircraft veered into his J-8II fighter. Resulting his death. Every April 1st, Chinese citizens would go to his grave and place models and pictures to report on the progress of our Air Force. This year, his grave was adorned with images of our 6th gen fighters. Source

A little news from the Sahel for today.

Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop stated that, “For us, Ukraine is a terrorist state,” due to the Kiev regime’s funding and arming of terrorists in the Sahel: https://tass.com/world/1938401

Russia became the first country to recognize the Alliance of Sahel States: https://tass.com/world/1938437

Hundreds of thousands of protestors come out to the streets in Spain in the first nation-wide protest against housing and rent prices.

With more than 100k protestors in Madrid and similar figures in other big cities such as Barcelona, protestors have claimed the right to safe and affordable housing, with chants such as "un desalojo, una okupación" (for every eviction one squatting), "los terroristas sois los rentistas" (the landlords are the terrorists), or "nativa o extranjera, la misma clase obrera" (native or immigrant, same working class).

The more radical of the unions organizing the protest want to pave the way for a nationwide rent strike, i.e., tenants not paying rent until the state guarantees affordable housing through expropriation, price limits, and public housing projects.

News from gaza are fucking horrifying

While everyone's enthralled by Trump's performance, the entity bombed another school killing dozens including children

“ Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas Press Release:

The heinous massacre committed by the occupation army when it bombed the Dar al-Arqam School east of Gaza City, which sheltered thousands of displaced people. The attack resulted in dozens of martyrs and more than 100 wounded, the majority of whom were children and women. This constitutes a new brutal crime through which the fascist occupation government continues to target innocent civilians, as part of its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip.

These heinous crimes—committing brutal massacres, escalating forced evictions, imposing a policy of starvation, and closing the crossings to all necessities of life—are the elements of genocide defined under international law. They are being perpetrated by the war criminal Netanyahu and his fascist government, with criminal American political and military cover, making the US administration a direct accomplice in its perpetration.

The unjustified international failure to play the required role in stopping the genocide and holding Zionist war criminals accountable is a stark expression of the collapse of the system of values ​​and laws that the international community has long championed, in the face of the horrific crime committed in the Gaza Strip, in full view of the world.

What is required today from all international actors, and from our Arab and Islamic countries, is to break the silence and take immediate action to halt the horrific massacres against civilians and the humanitarian catastrophe being created by the fascist occupation in the Gaza Strip. They must work to hold Zionist war criminals accountable and prevent their impunity. Thursday: 05 Shawwal 1446 AH Corresponding to: 03 April 2025 AD”

Is it a mere coincidence that @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net goes dark just two weeks before the most interesting day in global trade in a years?

Most destructive administration in modern history and the Democrats just beat the record for talking.

Doing it without even having any actual bill to stop is like going to the basketball court on a day off and dancing around in front of the net when the other team isn't there, and then claiming you played great defence. And then losing to the other team when you actually play.

In case anyone is wondering, airstrikes in Yemen have been continuing for over 9 hours now, and I'm still providing updates here

I guess the US backed "left wing" Rojava have agreed to integrate into the genocidal terrorist regime controlling Syria. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/11/uone-m11.html

I'm embarrassed for ever thinking they were cool.