• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    What is it with Trump and always “being subsidized by us” and “take away from us” while the US has trillions of debt in other countries? 300 billions to my home country alone, which doesn’t even compare to other countries.

      • RaccoonBall@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        He trusts that his followers don’t, anyway. Based on some arguments I’ve seen online, he’s right about that.

        • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          I mean, he always calls trade deficit a “subsidy”, and has since 2016. I honestly don’t think he understand what that concept means, he’s not that subtle with manipulation.

    • AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      He is incapable of understanding mutual trade and cooperation. To him every human interaction must have a winner and a loser. So if Canada is benefiting from trade with the US in his mind it must be at America’s expense. It’s a disturbingly simple view of trade and cooperation, and one that makes actual good faith discourse with the US near impossible.

    • ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Because Trump is a troll. He doesn’t give a shit if what he says or does is correct. Trying to make sense of the schmuck gives me a headache.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      He keeps referring to the disproportionate US export income to import costs. Something like 2 trillion in exports to 3 trillion in imports. 1 trillion lost from the US every year, and ~30% to Canada that’s his math

            • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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              3 months ago

              Yeeaaaahhh, another one of those things that sounds nice on paper… No thanks, but thanks.

                • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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                  3 months ago

                  Oh of course it is.

                  My problem is that you apparently are one of those “if it isn’t my way it’s the wrong way” kinda guy on this topic.

                  Anarchism isn’t the only alternative, so to say, and very much not the best one as in reality it won’t scale Because human beings are a bit of a dick, in general. Same goes for communism, it requires you to kill a lot of people and basically become a dictatorship.

                  I’m very much for a highly limited form of capitalism (which at it’s core isn’t bad, it’s the freedom to freely trade) with loads of laws in place to limit the size of it (no company larger than 1000 employees, no company larger than networth of 50 million, no personal net worth larger than 10 million, that sort of stuff) and loads of taxes to apply those laws (no taxes for the poor, richest pay up to 100% income after certain level, etc, to always make sure nobody gets too rich, too powerful

    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Right, but then just doing it by including more countries in the schengen agreement or something similar.

  • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s like he’s campaigning for the liberals. Almost no one in Canada wants to hear this and I bet they will vote against whatever they see as aligned with this.

      • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Exactly. He’s normalizing the idea of the violent annexation of Canada to his supporters.

      • no banana@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        But honestly they seem to think it is fucking meaningless. They’re more forgiving about it, but they’re still out there calling it asinine.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Absolutely unhinged. Nobody would have believed this “tweet” even 1 year ago, and now this is the new normal

    • MissJinx@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I mean if he was unhinged but was making your lifes better I would understand but the guy doesn’t even care and it’s making your lifes worst. I’m I crazy to think that american are crazy to vote for him, or is he making your lifes better in any way?

      Not a critic, just really want to understand

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        He is making the lives of women and minorities worse; that’s what Republicans voted for

      • RobotZap10000@feddit.nlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        TRUMP is the GREATEST GODKING EVER because he will FINALLY GET RID OF the d*mn WOKEDEIDRAGILLEGALSQUEENIMMIGRANTS that sleepy joeBUSSED into our great country🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 GOD BLESS AMERICA AMEN

      • void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It’s a combination of very stupid/uninformed voters, and hardcore fascist voters who don’t care how bad their own lives get, as long as immigrants and trans people get gassed. A lot of people think the latter group is a minority, but I actually think it’s the other way around. I think most people who voted for Trump are just fascists and the uninformed are maybe 20% max.

    • db2@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’m still trying to figure out how everything in the last 15ish years isn’t. Why do we have to be in the dumbest timeline.

      • blargle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.

        There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.

        So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.

        As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    It’s like a truck carrying punctuation got into an accident with a train carrying words. This is so hard to read.