Donald Trump

[Renton 24202]

1 hour ago, wykikitoon said:

Thought this was interesting 

 

 

 

I know a lot don't like these but their analysis is spot on and very informative imo. 

One thing thats hardly been discussed, does the US government have the capability or capacity to enact these absurd tariffs? Whose going to be weighing the bananas and issuing the paperwork? 

[Rayvin 6147]

Fair, they've basically just done worldwide Brexit in about 2 months. No way they're ready for it. Most of them didn't even seem to believe it was going to happen until the words were dribbling out of his mouth.

[Kid Dynamite 7827]

Nintendo were due to start taking pre-orders for the Switch2 this week in the US. They've cancelled their plans as Trump has added on a 24% tariff to Japanese goods, which will end up just been added to the RRP in the US.

 

How is this supposed to be beneficial for Americans?

Edited 22 hours ago by Kid Dynamite

[Rayvin 6147]

33 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Nintendo were due to start taking pre-orders for the Switch2 this week in the US. They've cancelled their plans as Trump has added on a 24% tariff to Japanese goods, which will end up just been added to the RRP in the US.

 

How is this supposed to be beneficial for Americans?

 

My view, which is all theory, is that there are a few layers.

 

1 - This is an anti-globalist agenda seeking to do what Trump basically says and restore manufacturing back to the US. I think this comes probably informed by some scenario planning that US administrations had pre-Trump. America is diminishing as a power and will be overtaken by China. This represents significant strategic concern, especially since China retains so much manufacturing production itself. It could in theory outgun America in a weapons production arms race, over time. This is why the administration is so obsessed with natural resources - to make the US wholly self sufficient and separate to the whims of wider internationalism. Trump has referenced that foreign powers could hamstring US operations by withholding key aspects of their pipeline.

 

2 - Starting this trade war inevitably forces reciprocation from China. The administration wants this. China has banned/prevented natural mineral imports to the US as part of their response, something the US anticipated. This represents a demonstrable impact on American supply chains which undermines the security and gives a live example of the strategic risk noted in point 1. Trump can point to this and say 'look, see, we told you. We are vulnerable'.

 

3 - They invade Greenland, secure Ukraine, in order to ensure their own territorial control over these same minerals, thus meeting the goal of point 1.

 

That's my conspiracy theory take.

[Isegrim 10632]

 

[RobinRobin 12683]

[RobinRobin 12683]

[PaddockLad 19355]

I hope Trump ruins this cunt… obviously he’ll always be hugely wealthy in a personal sense but I hope Meta financially sinks without fuckin trace…

 

 

 

 

[wykikitoon 23350]

6 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

I hope Trump ruins this cunt… obviously he’ll always be hugely wealthy in a personal sense but I hope Meta financially sinks without fuckin trace…

 

 

 

 

Did you prefer MySpace? 

[PaddockLad 19355]

4 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Did you prefer MySpace? 

I preferred fuckin smoke signals compared with a platform that let malevolent cunts prey on the easily led…. 

[Rayvin 6147]

Social media was a mistake. I don't even fucking use most of it anymore unless discord and WhatsApp count. All the rest of it is to me is a radicalisation platform.

[Alex 37320]

I’ve got a mate who was a canny mellow, middle of the road type who has a nice house, nice family, good job and no financial worries who now regularly posts pro reform stuff on Facebook. It’s depressing as fuck. I do think removing yourself from the platform altogether is probably the best way forward like. Because none of Instagram / facebook / twitter has been a forum for genuine discussion for ages, if it ever really was. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Alex

[Rayvin 6147]

38 minutes ago, Alex said:

I’ve got a mate who was a canny mellow, middle of the road type who has a nice house, nice family, good job and no financial worries who now regularly posts pro reform stuff on Facebook. It’s depressing as fuck. I do think removing yourself from the platform altogether is probably the best way forward like. Because none of Instagram / facebook / twitter has been a forum for genuine discussion for ages, if it ever really was. 

 

I still waste maybe an hour of my day, every day, giving facts and evidence to people to counter this bullshit in servers I'm in on discord and so on. Some of them at least you can see that they struggle to push back when the echo chamber is shattered, and they end up conceding quite a bit. The only useful thing though that I've really learned from that is they need someone to hate either way - you can't turn them away from hating immigrants without giving them something else. I always use the rich, but in the end, I don't think that's particularly healthy either. So to some extent I think what social media does is just make people hateful first, and then harnesses that at targets second.

[Renton 24202]

14 hours ago, Rayvin said:

 

My view, which is all theory, is that there are a few layers.

 

1 - This is an anti-globalist agenda seeking to do what Trump basically says and restore manufacturing back to the US. I think this comes probably informed by some scenario planning that US administrations had pre-Trump. America is diminishing as a power and will be overtaken by China. This represents significant strategic concern, especially since China retains so much manufacturing production itself. It could in theory outgun America in a weapons production arms race, over time. This is why the administration is so obsessed with natural resources - to make the US wholly self sufficient and separate to the whims of wider internationalism. Trump has referenced that foreign powers could hamstring US operations by withholding key aspects of their pipeline.

 

2 - Starting this trade war inevitably forces reciprocation from China. The administration wants this. China has banned/prevented natural mineral imports to the US as part of their response, something the US anticipated. This represents a demonstrable impact on American supply chains which undermines the security and gives a live example of the strategic risk noted in point 1. Trump can point to this and say 'look, see, we told you. We are vulnerable'.

 

3 - They invade Greenland, secure Ukraine, in order to ensure their own territorial control over these same minerals, thus meeting the goal of point 1.

 

That's my conspiracy theory take.

 

I think elements of that are true, but or directed by Trump. Trump can de facto use tariffs to exert his executive power and feel like the big man. When it comes to Trump, there is only one word that matters, Trump. The world is literally being fucked by his narcissism. Like I said many times before, the puzzle for me is how anybody can not be repulsed by his pathological narcissism, it's not normally deemed an attractive quality. 

[Gemmill 51279]

Trump is snatching people up off the street and deporting them. And when it's pointed out that they're deporting innocent people, they're shrugging their shoulders and saying it's tough. 

 

And he still has a good approval rating when it comes to how he's handling deportations. Eventually you just have to conclude that America is populated by quite a few very shitty people. 

[Dazzler 12208]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

I’ve got a mate who was a canny mellow, middle of the road type who has a nice house, nice family, good job and no financial worries who now regularly posts pro reform stuff on Facebook. It’s depressing as fuck. I do think removing yourself from the platform altogether is probably the best way forward like. Because none of Instagram / facebook / twitter has been a forum for genuine discussion for ages, if it ever really was. 

I’ve been on LinkedIn lately looking at jobs and apart from the recruiters with their tits hanging out it’s all just pro-Trump / Farage propaganda. LinkedIn is meant to be a place for educated professionals and it’s just an extension of all other social media now.

 

If it wasn’t the best place for job adverts I’d delete my account.

[RobinRobin 12683]

1 minute ago, Dazzler said:

I’ve been on LinkedIn lately looking at jobs and apart from the recruiters with their tits hanging out it’s all just pro-Trump / Farage propaganda. LinkedIn is meant to be a place for educated professionals and it’s just an extension of all other social media now.

 

If it wasn’t the best place for job adverts I’d delete my account.

Oh yeah. Best place for job adverts

[Renton 24202]

38 minutes ago, Dazzler said:

I’ve been on LinkedIn lately looking at jobs and apart from the recruiters with their tits hanging out it’s all just pro-Trump / Farage propaganda. LinkedIn is meant to be a place for educated professionals and it’s just an extension of all other social media now.

 

If it wasn’t the best place for job adverts I’d delete my account.

 

Depressing. I was thinking about updating my LinkedIn account as I've just left my job and thought it would be an opportunity to retain my colleague contacts. Still will probably do it for that purpose, it's seemingly practically mandatory in my field. Not on anything else apart from here. WhatsApp doesn't count either. 

[Howmanheyman 37184]

I went on linkedin when I was nearing the end of my job and redundancy. It's absolutely horrific to use and read, I gave it a few weeks of barely looking at it before deleting my account, it was as much use as a windscreen wiper on a submarine. (For me, anyway).

[wykikitoon 23350]

1 hour ago, Dazzler said:

I’ve been on LinkedIn lately looking at jobs and apart from the recruiters with their tits hanging out it’s all just pro-Trump / Farage propaganda. LinkedIn is meant to be a place for educated professionals and it’s just an extension of all other social media now.

 

If it wasn’t the best place for job adverts I’d delete my account.

LinkedIn has been a home of bullshit and dick waving for years. 

 

'on the way to work this morning my 2 year old said to me, daddy we are so fortunate to have you and I feel I should give my pocket money to homeless people' 

 

Aye fuck. Off. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 14830]

I signed up to LinkedIn to read my gaffers profile, screenshot all the stupidity so I could post it in the work group chat and deleted my account. 

[Gemmill 51279]

I never go on LinkedIn but the rare times I fire it up it's just people embarrassing themselves by being enthusiastic about their job or their employer. That is just as weird as fuck to me. 

[Dazzler 12208]

25 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

LinkedIn has been a home of bullshit and dick waving for years. 

 

'on the way to work this morning my 2 year old said to me, daddy we are so fortunate to have you and I feel I should give my pocket money to homeless people' 

 

Aye fuck. Off. 

“It’s really hard being a single mam with fake hair, tits and teeth and working full time as a ‘talent acquisition expert’. Anyway here is a picture of me in Dubai with my chebs out. Please note, my kid was with his grandparents and I was getting my back blown out by a sheik with a Porsche. Happy Monday guys!”

[Renton 24202]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

I never go on LinkedIn but the rare times I fire it up it's just people embarrassing themselves by being enthusiastic about their job or their employer. That is just as weird as fuck to me. 

 

I thought the sole point of it was to post your CV and advertise to recruiters or be able to contact a previous colleague? For professional reasons, nowt else. If that's not the case fuck that.