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Why are we so eager to start a full on trade war with China anyway, our largest trading partner?, if we have to decouple, then do it gradually and slowly, I think burning everything down without any adjustment/transitionary period is actually a really, really bad idea for all of us.

I assume most of the people in here are in the working or middle class like me, so it's baffling to see all of you be so eager to march along with the billionaire (who will not be as badly affected btw) into more economic hardship because "fuck the other side".
 
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it's back up again, but not as much as this morning
Based Dilbert Merchant liked to say that Trump likes to "shake the box" to open up new negotiation tables and shock people out of the status quo.

What we're seeing here is Trump doing this to the entire US Economy.

Hold on to your butts, Mr. Bones' wild ride only gets bumpier from here on out.
 
I assume most of the people in here are in the working or middle class like me, so it's baffling to see all of you be so eager to march along with the billionaire (who will not be as badly affected btw) into more economic hardship because "fuck the other side".
People have written probably a collective 50 pages in this thread alone about why reshoring manufacturing is good. I haven't actually seen "fuck the other side" raised as one of the reasons.
 
Why are we so eager to start a full on trade war with China anyway, our largest trading partner?, if we have to decouple, then do it gradually and slowly, I think burning everything down without any adjustment/transitionary period is actually a really, really bad idea for all of us.

I assume most of the people in here are in the working or middle class like me, so it's baffling to see all of you be so eager to march along with the billionaire (who will not be as badly affected btw) into more economic hardship because "fuck the other side".
Because China is a nation that does not endure duress. China is a nation of face. When it comes to promising things they're very skilled; when it comes to doing them they fail miserably. This has been proven pretty consistently in every interaction anybody has had with them, from an embarrassing war with India to basic trade. A country that still relies upon literal slave labor is not going to be a worthy replacement for the United States. I won't even get into how flimsy the yuan is.
 
Why are we so eager to start a full on trade war with China anyway, our largest trading partner?, if we have to decouple, then do it gradually and slowly, I think burning everything down without any adjustment/transitionary period is actually a really, really bad idea for all of us.

I assume most of the people in here are in the working or middle class like me, so it's baffling to see all of you be so eager to march along with the billionaire (who will not be as badly affected btw) into more economic hardship because "fuck the other side".
China isn't our ally dude. They constantly steal our intellectual property, spy on us, menace our actual allies.
 
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This is fun, because Navarro went to jail for Trump and are longtime buddies. Musk is good in his lane but Navarro is a full on fuck them all to death on trade and immigration MAGA and that's cutting into Musk's H1-B and Tesla stuff. Trump is Tony, Navarro is Paulie, and Musk is probably season 3 Ralphie.
 
Because China is a nation that does not endure duress. China is a nation of face. When it comes to promising things they're very skilled; when it comes to doing them they fail miserably. This has been proven pretty consistently in every interaction anybody has had with them, from an embarrassing war with India to basic trade. A country that still relies upon literal slave labor is not going to be a worthy replacement for the United States. I won't even get into how flimsy the yuan is.

huh I never thought about this because this is definitely not my experience with actual chinese people

it's really sad how horrible their system is because actual chinese people are so decent
 
The imagine my shock guy made a funny video.

Remember this lady bragging about being an illegal immigrant at an anti-Trump rally?
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Turns out that she's the executive director of United We Dream, an open borders non-profit, where she pulls down $120,000 a year. Guess that's gone, lol.
how?!?!?! Legit, how?

This is fun, because Navarro went to jail for Trump and are longtime buddies. Musk is good in his lane but Navarro is a full on fuck them all to death on trade and immigration MAGA and that's cutting into Musk's H1-B and Tesla stuff. Trump is Tony, Navarro is Paulie, and Musk is probably season 3 Ralphie.
who's the shah of iran?
 
Why are we so eager to start a full on trade war with China anyway, our largest trading partner?, if we have to decouple, then do it gradually and slowly, I think burning everything down without any adjustment/transitionary period is actually a really, really bad idea for all of us.

I assume most of the people in here are in the working or middle class like me, so it's baffling to see all of you be so eager to march along with the billionaire (who will not be as badly affected btw) into more economic hardship because "fuck the other side".
Because

1: China is the most expansionist country on the earth, and constantly threaten everyone else in the Indo Pacific region, which involves a lot of alternative trading partners and US allies

2: Because if they don’t get put into their place, they’ll talk themselves into something stupid like invading Taiwan

3: Because we’re embarrassing them for acting like they’re cooler than us

4: Because 50% of the shitty jewelry your girlfriend got off Etsy was actually a chink drop shipping front, and contains toxic amounts of cadmium, which can cause you to die from renal necrosis. This is after they poisoned hundreds of thousands of American babies by putting melamine in baby formula to fake the protein content

5: Because real Americans have fighting communism in their DNA. We have the third president to declare war on communism and coincidentally the third president to do that and get shot. We’re going to win this time

6: Because anyone as thin skinned as the CCP deserves utter humiliation
 
I'd say probably 90% of modern day immigrants are economic migrants and will fuck off if the tap is turned off.
I'd say 95 percent. The other 5 percent are overstaying students who think their country is boring, young tourists who think America is the place to become a celebrity, and similar terminally online foreign trash.
 
Because

1: China is the most expansionist country on the earth, and constantly threaten everyone else in the Indo Pacific region, which involves a lot of alternative trading partners and US allies

2: Because if they don’t get put into their place, they’ll talk themselves into something stupid like invading Taiwan

3: Because we’re embarrassing them for acting like they’re cooler than us

4: Because 50% of the shitty jewelry your girlfriend got off Etsy was actually a chink drop shipping front, and contains toxic amounts of cadmium, which can cause you to die from renal necrosis. This is after they poisoned hundreds of thousands of American babies by putting melamine in baby formula to fake the protein content

5: Because real Americans have fighting communism in their DNA. We have the third president to declare war on communism and coincidentally the third president to do that and get shot. We’re going to win this time
Expansionist? How many wars was China started in the past 75 years? Now do the US.
 
Why are we so eager to start a full on trade war with China anyway
because they breath always stink and they have rotten teeth and do nothing but steal and cheat and don't forget authentic chinese food is disgusting. like most countries that aren't america their entire existence relies on making substandard versions of what we have and selling it back to us while undercutting american businesses

fuck them
 
I assume most of the people in here are in the working or middle class like me, so it's baffling to see all of you be so eager to march along with the billionaire (who will not be as badly affected btw) into more economic hardship because "fuck the other side".
I'll say it, fuck 'em. Fuck the people who sold out this country in a hand basket. I've been layed off a couple times over the past twenty years over global events. I can handle it, easy to get back on your feet if you're not a retard. If it means my parents don't have to fight a Haitian nurse in a nursing home. If it means future generations get a better shake then I did, I'll take the heat.

IF people stopped just being selfish animals like the chinese, it would solve a'lot of problems.
 
huh I never thought about this because this is definitely not my experience with actual chinese people

it's really sad how horrible their system is because actual chinese people are so decent
China is a diverse country whose potential is held down by a tight, cliquey and totally archaic form of government that enforces an equally as bad culture. I really want to say that if Chinese people weren't held down by those things they'd be exceptional, but something has to be wrong with an ethnicity to let all that happen in the first place.
 
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