• Bonje
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    713 months ago

    Amazing. The US joins Australia in the exclusive list of “countries that lost a war to birds”

  • @taiyang@lemmy.world
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    553 months ago

    My dad was poking fun at this because it’s an old “haha look how dumb Trump is” but like, it’s literally a tariff on everything on Earth. It’s such a small point compared to the huge mess this whole stupid idea is.

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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      443 months ago

      It’s not really a small point though. It’s a huge signal about how serious these people are.

      Like, if a scientific paper has the text “as an AI language model” in it, you can be sure that there’s no point in reading the paper deeply. Similarly, tariffs on uninhabited islands tells you that there’s no “5d chess” being played here, these people are absolute morons.

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        Oh for sure, a “apply to everyone” tarrif isn’t a well thought out approach just as firing all probationary hires isn’t a well thought out approach. Just hate that people are acting like he also put tarrifs on Atlantis or Wakanda or something because he thinks they exist. An apply all rule would include those places, too, but it’s stupid because of why you said, not because he’s actively choosing uninhabited islands by hand.

    • @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That they’re literally putting a Tariff on uninhabited islands show us that their process for deciding the Tariff rates is complete total crap.

      One doesn’t need to understand Finance, Economics and the Ins & Outs of Tariffs to see this as a seriously dumb error and hence a pretty big indicator of the incompetence of those doing it.

      Whilst based on the overall actions of this Administration it’s not hard to convince the well informed that those in this administration have no clue about what they’re doing, this specific mistake is so straightforwardly and obviously wrong that even the ill-informed and under-educated can spot it.

  • Tomtits
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    33 months ago

    He heard about Emperor Penguins and probably got confused and wanted to start a trade war with the supreme leader

  • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    13 months ago

    Why not higher!? Pathetic… Higher I say! Give them 69% or 420%. Antarctica needs to be taught a lesson and Americam citizens are willing to charge themselves for it. Do not be afraid of the seal teams my friends!