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[-] Nay@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think some of you guys are reading way too much into this.

Trump is having a dick measuring contest while Xi is letting him fuck himself.

We rely on China more than they rely on us. Think about how obsessed we are with low prices. Trade with China brings our average prices on goods way down. China also trades with the rest of the world, and they know they can weather a trade war with the US.

China is the next world leader unless the West can somehow right the ship. WW3 is going to be about who becomes the next Economy and de-facto world leader.

For anyone who needs to hear it: Authoritarian states do not think like people, they think like empires. If you were an empire, would you take advantage of the current climate?

Disclaimer: Both China and the US are authoritarian states, strictly speaking. But the State is not unified under Trump currently, so we're seeing a combination of thinking like a state and thinking like a person coming from the US, depending on the source.

[-] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's about pulling money from the market(s) to his pockets. If the turd was in debt before, now he's (getting) rich. He is also clearly immune to any and all crimes.

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[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

There must be a universe where Trump became a train conductor. I wonder what that ride would be like and would it have equal amount of casualties.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't you mean in a nursing home, his daughters son and Melania realize he's more than they can handle, when he had thoughts of running for presidency, they stuck him a. Nursing home before he could try.

He would be in amtrack

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If he weren't just doing this to profit off of market manipulation at all of our expenses I'd be adding this to the very short list of good things he did, including declassifying US endorsement of Syrian rebels and protecting rights to unionize (in Mexico...)

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[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

You know the first time I responded to the article, my brain rejected the title so I made a fun dumb meme.

Now my brain understands the title is real, and it doesn't understand that reality is bullshit

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Well, that puts them off until after the Switch 2 launch, so good for Americans who are able to get one at launch, I guess.

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