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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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I'm waiting for China's response to the new tarrifs. They already blew up the AI market and Tiktok continues to steal US data, I feel like China could really flex their economic muscles. Personally I'd love them to kill Tesla sales to see Adolf's response.
TBH, with all this chaos and undermining of institutions, I don't know why they don't just invade Taiwan right now.

Bonus for them is they can "re-domesticate" TSMC in the process and really screw over the US tech boys.
 

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icemaη

Rab's Husband - The Regista
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Aug 27, 2008
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TBH, with all this chaos and undermining of institutions, I don't know why they don't just invade Taiwan right now.

Bonus for them is they can "re-domesticate" TSMC in the process and really screw over the US tech boys.
Tariffs on foreign chips should do that even without any Chinese interference
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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Tariffs on foreign chips should do that even without any Chinese interference
But "reuniting" with Taiwan has always been a long-term objective of China. I can't think of a better opportunity.

Trump is doing more to destabilize American institutional coherence than any Chinese military campaign could achieve. And if the U.S. is going to rebuff their consumer market, and the return U.S. money firehose through Amazon and Walmart, may as well put that additional production to use in a military capacity.

De-dollarize BRICS, cause US Treasury returns to run sky high to service fewer buyers of US debt, and Little Marco gets his vision of a multi-polar world.
 

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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ii'm confuused why is he putting tariffs on chips from taiwan? does that benefit literally anyone at all?
a few days ago he said something like tsmc should move production BACK to murica to avoid tariffs. like it's a magic wand

(tsmc is originally a taiwanese company, hence the T in their name. of course their manufacturing is mainly located in taiwan. btw they already have a factory in arizona. i'm sure they are willing to expand that regardless of tariffs. and if raw materials are affected by the tariffs then the usa made chips will be more expensive too.)
 

AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
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What’s your definition of God?
I meant that I struggle to believe in God in the traditional religious sense due to the previous post, but for me I guess it would have to be whatever was the cause of the creation of the universe.

TBH, with all this chaos and undermining of institutions, I don't know why they don't just invade Taiwan right now.

Bonus for them is they can "re-domesticate" TSMC in the process and really screw over the US tech boys.
It's the absolute perfect time. Would probably bolster the Chinese economy as well as they'd need to ramp up manufacturing.

ii'm confuused why is he putting tariffs on chips from taiwan? does that benefit literally anyone at all?
Because he's retarded.
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
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won't that upset his tech bros?
They’ll just pass the additional cost to the consumer

They’ll have at least an extra 50 bill that used to go to USAID.

Now let’s see how much they can get by dismantling the department of education and the post office.
 

Enron

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a few days ago he said something like tsmc should move production BACK to murica to avoid tariffs. like it's a magic wand

(tsmc is originally a taiwanese company, hence the T in their name. of course their manufacturing is mainly located in taiwan. btw they already have a factory in arizona. i'm sure they are willing to expand that regardless of tariffs. and if raw materials are affected by the tariffs then the usa made chips will be more expensive too.)
he’ll remove the tariffs when they “put a factory in Arizona”.
 

Mohad

The Ocean Star
May 20, 2009
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Recently I'm feeling more and more this as well. You're telling me there's an all-knowing and powerful being and yet Israel is allowed to do what it does in Palestine and even get rewarded for it? Nah man, that's not something I want to believe in.
Just saw your post.

Evil in the world doesn’t mean God is absent.. it’s part of the test we go through as humans, challenging our will and ability to stand up against injustice. Freedom is a gift, but it’s also a responsibility. What you do with it matters, and believing in divine justice is what keeps people fighting against oppression instead of simply accepting it.
 
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Just saw your post.

Evil in the world doesn’t mean God is absent.. it’s part of the test we go through as humans, challenging our will and ability to stand up against injustice. Freedom is a gift, but it’s also a responsibility. What you do with it matters, and believing in divine justice is what keeps people fighting against oppression instead of simply accepting it.
I always find taking the concept of God to its core, away from the books and having a deep philosophical thought of what it truly means interesting. I’m sure most people aren’t able to formulate their feeling or even have a personal conclusive explanation for it. Is it transcendent, omnipotent/omnipresent, deistic, pantheistic, panentheistic, immanent or everything in between. The answer you’ll hear from someone will be de facto subjective.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
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Courts have issued a restraining order on the "Presidents" and their unelected minions ordering agencies to stop financial programs. Apparently, even though the pause was "ended", they're still withholding funding from the Murican people. Shameful.

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AFL_ITALIA

MAGISTERIAL
Jun 17, 2011
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Just saw your post.

Evil in the world doesn’t mean God is absent.. it’s part of the test we go through as humans, challenging our will and ability to stand up against injustice. Freedom is a gift, but it’s also a responsibility. What you do with it matters, and believing in divine justice is what keeps people fighting against oppression instead of simply accepting it.
If it doesn't mean absence then it means apathy, something wholely worse. But I won't say more on this, this isn't the place for it and there's no need to spam.
 

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