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shavenferret 1 day ago
Ryuu96 said:

China is going to be the biggest winner of these next 4 years, Trump may get his temporary PR wins from time to time but in the long-term it will have a horrible impact on America's soft power/global influence, which MAGA is too stupid to understand the importance of. Threatening allies 24/7 will only drive them to move away from you in the long term because you're a shit ally, a shitty trading partner, an abusive bully.

Threatening allies and trading partners across the world will push countries to seek allies elsewhere, both in terms of military support and increasing trade with others, Trump is now the biggest advertiser of BRICS and the dumbass thought Spain was apart of BRICS because of the S in the name. Even those who placate the baby in the short term will likely seek greener pastures in the long term.

European unity and independence from America will long-term be a net positive for us.

Right, there is no telling what will happen with respect to what nations he likes or dislikes and therefore favors.  However, China is expected to shrink in the coming decades so that by the time we are old men, China shouldn't as much of a worry anymore.  



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Ryuu96 1 day ago
shavenferret said:
Ryuu96 said:

There's 2 Scenarios.

1. Typical Trump bluster, he makes threats and big demands, so the country or company come to the table to talk to the baby, they give the baby a minor win but the baby sells it to his dumbass fanbase as a major win when in actual fact, not much has changed at all, his fanbase claps like seals and shout loudly about how much of a genius he is.

2. He's a bigger idiot than we all possibly imagined and is about to utterly destroy America's economy and make everything extremely expensive for everyone, it takes literally years, upon years, to build chip factories, none of which will be felt in his term but what will be felt is him destroying America's economy to the average person.

Lets hope it is #1. I still believe the Canada and Mexico tariffs might be, hence why he didn't issue them on day one but set a date of Feb 1st. I still believe there's a chance he will be like "Guys, I got an amazing deal with Canada and Mexico, the best deal you've ever seen, the issue is resolved" and his dumbass fanbase won't bother questioning or looking too deeply into it and believe him as per usual but in actual fact, nothing much has changed but Trump loves stroking his ego more than anything else so he loves this "create a fake issue, fix the fake issue" scenarios.

If it's #2 then God help America, Lol.

I'm in the middle on this between complete lunacy/idiocy on one hand, and a complete win for America.  The move just seems odd given Trump's repeated insistence that China is the new big and growing threat towards America.  I think that he is wanting America to start building more chips, but this is a poor way to accomplish that.  He should be giving generous subsidies and so forth, not fighting against a weak nation that may get destroyed by China in the future.  

There is nothing wrong with wanting to bring chips manufacturing to America but this solution is like someone shooting themselves in the chest so they can see a doctor about a broken finger, Lol. It's so dumb it's unreal, it takes years to build chip factories, to scale them up, and you need the expertise as well. Taiwan is the best in this regard by a distance and America isn't catching up in Trump's term.

Someone told Trump about tariffs and now tariffs is his solution to everything. Whoever that person was needs a slap, Lol.

Better hope the idea is plan #1 and it's typical Trump bullshit to stroke his ego.

Though I do have a fear that once enough chips manufacturing moves out of Taiwan, America will abandon Taiwan in an instant, I don't believe America will defend Taiwan against China if Taiwan didn't have the world by the balls in chips manufacturing and my fear is that once that vanishes, nobody will be coming to Taiwan's rescue.



shavenferret 1 day ago
Ryuu96 said:
shavenferret said:

I'm in the middle on this between complete lunacy/idiocy on one hand, and a complete win for America.  The move just seems odd given Trump's repeated insistence that China is the new big and growing threat towards America.  I think that he is wanting America to start building more chips, but this is a poor way to accomplish that.  He should be giving generous subsidies and so forth, not fighting against a weak nation that may get destroyed by China in the future.  

There is nothing wrong with wanting to bring chips manufacturing to America but this solution is like someone shooting themselves in the chest so they can see a doctor about a broken finger, Lol. It's so dumb it's unreal, it takes years to build chip factories, to scale them up, and you need the expertise as well. Taiwan is the best in this regard by a distance and America isn't catching up in Trump's term.

Someone told Trump about tariffs and now tariffs is his solution to everything. Whoever that person was needs a slap, Lol.

Better hope the idea is plan #1 and it's typical Trump bullshit to stroke his ego.

Though I do have a fear that once enough chips manufacturing moves out of Taiwan, America will abandon Taiwan in an instant, I don't believe America will defend Taiwan against China if Taiwan didn't have the world by the balls in chips manufacturing and my fear is that once that vanishes, nobody will be coming to Taiwan's rescue.

I don't know if it is necessarily #1, because Trump seems like his loyalty can be bought.  I distrust everything that he'll do, and we can never really know what Trump will do because we can't know Trump.  I've talked about this before but his only loyalty is looking good or perhaps making $$$$$ by any means if he can't look bad. 



Ryuu96 1 day ago
shavenferret said:
Ryuu96 said:

There is nothing wrong with wanting to bring chips manufacturing to America but this solution is like someone shooting themselves in the chest so they can see a doctor about a broken finger, Lol. It's so dumb it's unreal, it takes years to build chip factories, to scale them up, and you need the expertise as well. Taiwan is the best in this regard by a distance and America isn't catching up in Trump's term.

Someone told Trump about tariffs and now tariffs is his solution to everything. Whoever that person was needs a slap, Lol.

Better hope the idea is plan #1 and it's typical Trump bullshit to stroke his ego.

Though I do have a fear that once enough chips manufacturing moves out of Taiwan, America will abandon Taiwan in an instant, I don't believe America will defend Taiwan against China if Taiwan didn't have the world by the balls in chips manufacturing and my fear is that once that vanishes, nobody will be coming to Taiwan's rescue.

I don't know if it is necessarily #1, because Trump seems like his loyalty can be bought.  I distrust everything that he'll do, and we can never really know what Trump will do because we can't know Trump.  I've talked about this before but his only loyalty is looking good or perhaps making $$$$$ by any means if he can't look bad. 

I think we're saying the same thing, Lol.

I'm saying that this is probably a fake threat and he won't go through with it, the countries will talk to him, offer him a minor concession that won't change a thing, but he will sell it as a massive win because Trump cares most about his own ego and like you said, looking good. His fanbase will lap it up and call him a genius negotiator. I believe this is what he is doing with Canada and Mexico and in the last minute the tariffs will be stopped and he'll claim he made an amazing deal with them both but it will actually be a minor change or not a change at all. He loves stroking his ego and looking like a master negotiator when his only tactic is "TARIFFS!" and then people much smarter than him throwing him a baby rattle.

Or he has completely lost the plot, Lol. Would be curious to see how quickly America implodes if they tariff TSMC/Taiwan.

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Ryuu96 1 day ago

Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok

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— TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com) 28 January 2025 at 15:20

Bill Gates Calls Microsoft's Potential TikTok Deal 'a Poison Chalice'

Agreed with Bill. What is Microsoft thinking getting involved in this toxic mess. Better than Oracle or Musk owning it but that's not a high bar. From one company beholden to its countries government to another, Lol.

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the-pi-guy 1 day ago

Practically the entire foreign relations mindset by MAGA has been "We are really awesome, our allies owe us for what we've done for them, and they need to start paying us back or else." 

Even if we have benefitted immensely in some way or another, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if these changes are detrimental to us or our partners, they owe us. 

MAGA doesn't care about the big picture. They don't care about how this hurts people. They don't care about long term alliances. They are punching around for short term benefits. Either they get a small victory, or they have an easy target to complain about. 

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Ryuu96 1 day ago

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 28 January 2025 at 16:01

US Media is complicit in everything to come.

Trump critic Jim Acosta leaves CNN rather than accept move to midnight graveyard shift | The Independent



haxxiy 1 day ago
Ryuu96 said:

China is going to be the biggest winner of these next 4 years, Trump may get his temporary PR wins from time to time but in the long-term it will have a horrible impact on America's soft power/global influence, which MAGA is too stupid to understand the importance of. Threatening allies 24/7 will only drive them to move away from you in the long term because you're a shit ally, a shitty trading partner, an abusive bully.

Does nothing, wins

Not only on international relations but the sole long-term US advantage over China (a stable working-age population) is annulled with closed borders.



 

 

 

 

 

SanAndreasX 1 day ago

Google finally caved. Gulf of America it is. Guessing Pinchai got threatened with prison if Google didn’t comply. 



Ryuu96 1 day ago

So was Trump just stamping shit randomly and accidentally froze Medicaid for multiple states? Dumbass.