• socsa@piefed.social
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    25 days ago

    Can you imagine if Joe Biden said shit like “I’m going to make your pleb shit more expensive because I refuse to just admit a mistake and therefore will double down on my bad policy.”

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      Lol Biden is the type of person who would order a burger, then the retaurant brings him a salad and then he’s like 🤷‍♂️ well I guess I’m having a salad, I can’t confront people, norms and traditions

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        And it would be amazing to still have the senile cancerous old man over the demented lying sack of shit. But regardless pointing out the sycophantic double standards of his nasty idiotic supporters and theur never ending bad faith is a good reminder that western democracy has been deathly wounded by the corrupt elite and the intellectually lazy populace.

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    25 days ago

    All those hours spent on that tiny screw game is finally going to pay off!

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      4 more years of this comedy over there, im laughing too much already! xD

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        it effects the entire world pal, just cause its not visibly right outside your front door doesnt mean youre above it

        also, being smug is a shitty look

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        are you going to keep laughing when he extorts another world leader of a country Russia is invading? Or helps finish off palestine for good?

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          It is kinda funny watching the American Exceptionalism finally crumble before our eyes. Shame most Americans aren’t reflective enough to realise what’s happening.

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            American exceptionalism is the belief that word special, for good or bad. It’s just pouring on a different kind of Americans exceptionalists, the one who think our trajectory is something new.

            Also, we do. A lot of us do…

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            This 100%. You’re getting downvoted but I don’t think Americans realize how irritating their fellow countrymen can be on the internet and in person to non Americans. There’s also the defaultism as if everyone is American (or wants to be American) which gets REALLY tiring after a while

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          Its extremely funny seeing idiot Americans who voted (and those who didnt vote at all) for a 34 count rapist felon, seditionous traitor and then protest by holding little signs and wearing pink jackets.

          You guys only use your 2nd amendment rights in schools against children. America is a circus and Americans are the clowns.

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            The people who go out and protest are very likely people who voted, and not for him.

          • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
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            25 days ago

            What you are doing is lumping 65% of the population that isn’t like that with the 35% minority that is partially like that. Don’t be ignorant.

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              Adding up the people who didn’t vote to the people that voted for the orange one, it’s more like 65% of USAmericans are like that

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          i understand you and know how his actions affect the world and thats not good. still im not affected yet, so i can still laugh. xD (inbefore next month when the oil gets more expensive.)

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            Interestingly, I don’t think that’s going to happen. OPEC could decide to ramp up production if USA lowers theirs. Demand for oil isn’t rising the way it used to due to alternatives not only becoming viable but actually cheaper as well.

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      Trump has a lot that seems might be wrong with him, but schizophrenia never really seemed to be on the list. Narcissism, dementia, psycho-/socio-pathy, compulsive lying, and possibly more, but I’ve never gotten the feeling he displayed the hyperpatternicity I associate with schizophrenia.

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        Sigh…at least Apple is getting screwed over though. They’ve been impeding right to repair for a long time, perhaps their karmic debt is finally catching up to them.

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          nah they just need to survive the storm for a yeas and a half and start funding dems house races. far cheaper than allowing you to repair your device.

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        Honestly he sounds like just about every old man I’ve ever met, rambling on about whatever nonsense is running through his head at any given moment.

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          That’s unfortunate. Most octogenarians I’ve met are far more thoughtful and kind than Trump has ever been.

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        You’re right. There’s absolutely no evidence of Trump being not of sound mind.

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          This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.

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          Armchair Derangement Syndrome. It’ll be in the DRM-3000, the biggest and best book by the bestest doctors who have spent decades researching the woke mind virus. It’ll also cover things like “Fluoride Delusion Disorder” - the belief that fluoride in public water isn’t a government brainwashing program.

      • aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.social
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        It’s always disappointing to see how much people on here hate people with mental disabilities. Under no circumstances would anyone be OK with comparing Donald Trump to another minority. I think even insulting him by calling him fat is perceived as too gauche. But ableism? 100% OK by most of Lemmy.

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          They don’t hate people with disabilities, they just don’t want them to be President.

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            That’s ableist though. Implies disabled people are inherently inferior if you don’t want them to be president.

            Roosvelt was in a wheelchair much of his time and he did “fine”.

            (Technically I’m against the idea of politicians at all so don’t feel like glorifying them).

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              Airline pilots and train drivers must be passed as mentally fit before they’re allowed to control the destiny of a few thousand people.

              Perhaps at least that much care could be taken with the job that holds the ability to launch nuclear weapons.

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              Implies disabled people are inherently inferior if you don’t want them to be president.

              We’re not talking about “disabled people”, we’re talking about people with mental illness that impairs them.

              Roosvelt was in a wheelchair much of his time and he did “fine”.

              Physical disability is absolutely not be the same thing. Would you vote fuckin Ted Bundy for President?

              Technically I’m against the idea of politicians at all

              Okay so just complete anarchy then? Everyone for themselves?

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          I think most people on here are frustrated with the “sanewashing” by most media outlets.

          The drumbeat of “ableism” is more of a bell ringing to make sure that people understand that Krasnov is very unwell and seriously unfit for any decision making position.

          Wanting someone with disastrous mental health issues to not be capable of launching a nuclear strike isn’t ableism.

          Would you loan a gun to a friend who’s been really depressed lately? According to you, you should.

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    Tarriffs are an articulable cost that can be direclt passed on to the consumer. Income taxes would be something more manageable and the company would need to figure out what to pay. But, Republicans increasing taxes on their donors? Ha!

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    This is actually a real socialist or even communist policy. The State controlling the businesses.

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      How in god’s name is this promoting worker ownership of Apple’s phone production processes?

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        Last time I looked, the Soviet, Chinese and North Korean people didn’t own shit.

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          You just named 3 locations that aren’t socialist and of the three, one that no longer exists. Nice job.

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              Look up what a co-op is. You seem to have substantial misunderstanding that socialism is a replacement for democracy; it’s a replacement for capitalism.

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                  Vietnam… but why the hell do you need some rando on Lemmy to educate you?

                  Name one country that was either socialist or communist in the past that the USA didn’t proactively fuck with to try to harm at the time?

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      It is authoritarian. Communist system devolve to authoritarianism because it is a natural progression (easy to do). Socialists can, but a good democratic political structure makes it harder.

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        So, socialism doesn’t exist according to your definition since nowhere on this planet workers control shit.

        Ask former Soviet workers, Chinese workers, Cuban workers, North Korean workers and Vietnamese workers how much control on production they have.

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            Thanks, so the nearest thing to socialism is what Trump is doing, being elected by workers, trying to intervene into businesses using the government power to make them adopt his own views even if detrimental to the businesses themselves. Protectionism isn’t a right wing policy, it’s a left wing policy. Usually, the right wing is favorable to free markets and free trade and low level of government involvement into businesses.

            Frankly, the Republicans should be horrified by these policies and the direction this administration is heading to.

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          Sure thing Cap’n - first thing in the morning I’ll be going around knocking on doors to try to find Soviet, Chinese and Cuban workers to ask them about their opinions.

          Grow up, but read a book or two first.

          I’ve been to China. I’ve been to Cuba. Have you?

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      Isn’t he just saying that he will tariff them so they’re paying 25% more for manufacturing in a foreign country?

      This is far left policy.

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    Who is Tim Cook of Apple? Why does it sound like Trump is talking about Tim Apple?

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      Thats hilarious as usual when it comes to Trump. :)

      And the tone… I expect… The president for a few months, who has been in jail and is full of lies, expects someone, which he doesnt know by the right name, to comply with arbitrary rules…

      What a guy.

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    It would take MINIMUM 10 years to even come close to like 60% manufactured in US. And that’s assuming the US upends the entire global tech industry by coming even kind of close to TSMC’s chip manufacturing tech.

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        With more automation wouldn’t it possibly cost less than this? On Taiwan the balance between automation and human labor is due to their costs of labor and automation.

        In any case more expensive than on Taiwan, though.

        If US cost of labor drops sharply due to a few bubbles exploding, or a few nukes explode somewhere causing harm to world economy, then having such plants already in place might be retrospectively considered a wise decision.

        Consumer hardware is now being used in wars on scale, changing all balances. So I think everybody is going to do what Trump is doing. Keep complex processes inside if they have the knowledge and ability, and try to gain knowledge and ability if they don’t.

        I don’t think it’s bad. Socialists will finally see a situation which their ideology fits best. Industrial specialties, even worker-level ones, teach people to think in a way making idiotic websites in some modern framework doesn’t.

        All that, of course, is sometime after the hellish hell we’re going to see making us work to achieve it.

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          Volume matters for automation. Us made market would be only for us. 15 to 20% of cell market. Less by volume.

          India afaik only assembles. Its the components that are highly automated.

          25% tariffs on all phones in us because all are made outside of us, is just a sales tax on a modern necessity. Will still be hard to invest on us manufacturing or assembly

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            Well. Imagine we’re talking 1920s, Trotsky, plants and steamers and autarky.

            In this paradigm having plants able to assemble something is necessary. Even if on dotations.

            Because you need plants that can be repurposed to, I dunno, assemble lots of FPV drones or something.

            Also iPhones and such are too complex, but something useful they might be able to produce in the USA.

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    Tim Apple could just buy him a fucking plane and be done with it. And that would open up some interesting opportunities, nahmean?

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      It’s what I’d do if I were an ambitious, resource hoarding, ass pimple billionaire.

      It’s obvious the way to Trump’s heart is to tell him he’s pretty and give him something .