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[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago

Move the goal post every so often. While anyone with a brain calls it cheating, the cult thinks you've out-maneuvered everyone else.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm predicting that Democrats take the wrong message from this and continue to ramp up the anti-China messaging. They'll say that Trump is weak on China and that he's Xi's best friend. Democrats will campaign on doing "real tariffs on China" and libs will say "They have to campaign on this, it's what most people want".

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

step away from the lathe 🔫

[-] Fatdork2@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

So, everything is exempted then? Because everything's computer

[-] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Xi's great at cybering my wife

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 77 points 1 day ago

Entering a trade war against a country that makes laptops when most of your economy is people doing stuff on laptops. Art of the deal.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 53 points 1 day ago

Damn, I wanted yanks to pay 10k for new iphones

[-] StarkWolf@hexbear.net 8 points 23 hours ago

downbear

I'm probably overreacting to this, but as someone trapped in this country, living in poverty, already unable to afford anything, I just see this as "I wish things were worse for you". This isn't about a new iphone, I've never had an iPhone or been able to afford one. I don't want one. Comments like this have just been really bothering me. Any time someone bad is happening here, someone will jump in to say basically "oh, good thing I don't live there, haha, americans are so fucked". Like, I get it. America as a country is bad. Or government is evil. The average person here is incredibly stupid and practically frothing at the mouth. But people are so eager to express joy that the bad americans are suffering that they say shit that throws the struggles of those of us trapped here who do not want any of this under the bus

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 9 points 19 hours ago

downbear

Sorry, but the Global South has totally earned their right to laugh a bit at the US and USians suffering. No one here, as far as I know, is really expressing anything reactionarily anti-proletarian or ecofascist without being called out or having content removed. Most are just poking some fun. What people in the US are going through is what people in the Global South have been going through for decades, if we're not thinking centuries, and in much worse circumstances. And conditions in the US for working people have been better off many times because there were so many people in the Global South who were also stuck and had to deal with their harsh reality back home.

Yeah, there are a lot of working class people getting caught in the crossfire between US hegemony and the Global South. That doesn't mean people can't have some dark humor about the situation and laugh, or some schadenfreude at worst. This feels to me like when White people are upset about PoC saying KKKracKKKer because their family was poor.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 8 points 20 hours ago

But I wanted to say capitalism no iphone

[-] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Hey! Aren't EVs computers on wheels? melon-musk even said so.

That's it! China's EVs are exempt too!

Hehehe getting a framework might not be out of reach just yet

[-] muirc@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Ordered my treat

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those are so expensive , and they don't even ship everywhere

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've said this before, but framework laptops, while incredibly neat, are also not really that upgradable. A new mainboard is what? 800 more dollars on top of the $1100+ original buy-in? You could buy a whole laptop for $800.

They are very repairable though, that's a nice thing. And thin and light.

Yeah it’s cost makes it hard to justify even against a used laptop that can’t be upgraded but can still have a long enough life.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

If I had the money I'd get one, because idk, I like electronic treats

Yeah I’m still hoping to get a 12 soon which is why this is good news for me even if it’s a shit overall decision

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Nothing ever happens gang picks up yet another W

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah good thing we don’t trade anything else

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Let’s be honest, nearly everything is tech

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

I believe we have different definitions of nothing and everything

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 1 day ago

Art of the deal clearly. The deals are artistic. You say "no iphone" then u say "sike"

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago

Since communism is when no iPhone, the US came dangerously close to becoming communist until Trump stepped in to save America. so-true

[-] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Wow, next they’ll have to go after whoever suggested these tariffs and tried to make it so that no phone in the first place.

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago

If we tariff computer, then how can everything keep being computer?

[-] Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

His social media tweets aren’t actually policy. No one who is actually supposed to collect tariffs has any idea how much they are supposed to collect nor do they have a way to do so.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago

The idiocy is breathtaking.

"No need to do anything guys, he'll just flip next time he takes a shit. Let's just be cool and see what happens.

Trump has lost more money than any other person since the dawn of time. The biggest lover in the world.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

This shows why he wasn't able to make a casino profitable. Even in a "next quarter" focused business climate you've gotta be able to stick to a plan for at least one whole quarter.

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Your typo in the last phrase is exquisite, please don't correct it

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

A million percent tariff rate (excluding the stuff we need from them so much that we buy it)

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 day ago

It's a theoretical tariff with exemptions for anything you have a receipt for

[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

ABP - Always Be Pivoting

[-] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

jdpon don racks up another one

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Walkbacking Donny

Flip-flopping Don

Idk help me out here comrades

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

"flip flop don" sounds good to me, it's three punchy syllables .

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Flip Flop Don it is, unless we have better suggestions! 07

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Panican mannequin

[-] meliante@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Limp dick Don.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Double-back Donny? Mm, too vague, lacks venom

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

China officially wins the chip war

[-] Flamangoman@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago

Everything's computer, checkmate liberals

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