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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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Only when you pirate over $1 trillion in a calendar year, so we're fine. Facebook, maybe not so much...

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 days ago

screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

Only male or female shipping allowed.

[–] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 7 points 5 days ago
[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 200 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

funniest thing I've read this week. But don't have any friends with whom I can share

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 116 points 1 week ago (12 children)

The fuck is "non-tariff cheating" supposed to mean?

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 15 points 6 days ago

As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.

It's senile idiot for "I'm a senile idiot."

My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he's on about "cheating".

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_twisty 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

Bigly if true

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[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just off the top of my head:

  1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar's value
  2. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
  3. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
  4. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.

Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

(2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.

(3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.

(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

(8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

Not the best example since they're trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So now he's angry that we've fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn't think our trash goods are food grade?

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[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago (5 children)

When Trump says piracy, I understand he's referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he's referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.

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