Misc Chat

[blazing depot]

The funny part is, it's apparently an AI "artist" who faked that letter with AI to farm attention

Here's hope he gets attention from Ghibli's actual legal team

[half heath]

I like seeing legal action but it should be against the people who are providing the tool shouldn't it?

or is that guy the one who created it?

Ahh okay that's good to know

[half heath]

my bad im half asleep and skimmed messages, answer is here

[trim flicker]

all cringe

[fossil basin]

Yep, it is not exactly the most stupid idea to invade Greenland, it is more a combination of outlandish and just horrible

Trump wants to be the Fallout president i guess

[hoary charm]

it is rather stupid considering it's under nato protection

and there's a US base already there

[blazing depot]

And, again, Dk and Greenland are not even against the US expanding that

Yet anyway

[fossil basin]

Yeah feel like if it was just about bases they'd let the US

It seems more about annexation

[fossil basin]

I mean for their position, for a global order not wanting to commit itself to armageddon, it is stupid

But if you are an order that wants to commit itself to the world's end, blatant annexation is more a reasonable decision

Kinda reminds me of Mormons and their "end times"

Especially with the ruby franke case, the parents almost were moving to Arizona to final step, kill their children for "their salvation" (the children are rescued, thankfully, no one is dead)

But it does remind me of a similar self-destruction

[eager parrot]

I've been watching a lot of "analysis" about the greenland nonsense both from the danish side and the american side

and it seems to be more focused about the maritime boundaries that "owning" greenland grants Denmark currently.

America wants that.

The land's resources are also a factor but secondary to the maritime borders.

Also letting people expand bases on your land doesn't seem like the best idea with the way US has been behaving

All the european nations currently allowing that probably will want to reconsider that if the US continues on this trajectory.

Look at how granting Russia a base in Crimea turned out for Ukraine.

[keen nest]

holy shit I was talking to someone about how these yeji resale tickets at LG were like 800k according to these chinese fans i was talking to. I'm thinking like "damn $680 that's crazy"

sike

won is in the fucking toilet right now my god

[hoary charm]

US expands their expansionism -> russia objects because muh spheres of influence -> russia uses this to justify their expansion

[dreamy ledge]

small note: all US bases overseas are owned by the host nation and are still their property. so if they wanted, a nation can kick us out. one of the main reasons why most nations (usually) don't mind us expanding is the jobs it brings to the surrounding areas.

been wondering if we start getting kicked out, which would be big news especially out of the bigger bases the US have been stationed for a long time

[charred fulcrum]

Is this the sign for me to start planning my next band trip?

[dreamy ledge]

go get them albums

[charred fulcrum]

I don't have a point of reference

What's 1000KRW in a 7E can get you?

Can it get me 3 onigiris?

[keen nest]

yep do it

[dreamy ledge]

dang

[blazing depot]

See, the issue there is, the album price is and has never been the issue, the shipping and customs is and it will not really get cheaper due to this

[dreamy ledge]

I meant as him getting his band there on a trip so he can get the albums personally. I know shipping+customs cost an arm and a leg.

[fossil basin]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-term-constitution-22nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578

[half heath]

Americans I wanna know how your health care really is. Like in your entire life how has the way healthcare is paid for affect you?

Idk if i bought into some propaganda or what cause I've always only heard bad things about it.

Someone told me healthcare is actually free for ppl who make less that 150,000 a year. They just need to get their bill and get it paid for by medicare. This is from someone whose father is a recent immigrant and had a 3 month stay at a hospital. He said it was all covered after applying.

The way it sounds doesn't seem so bad. The only real problem seems to be corruption from insurance companies maybe not always covering things. But my question is if a recent elderly immigrant is covered so fully, what does it take to be denied.

It's just an anecdote and I haven't done a lot of research but I wonder if I fell for some anti American propaganda ages ago or is it reality

[shadow elbow]

well I have healthcare through my work but I can tell you I probably wouldn't go to a hospital unless my limbs are falling off

[half heath]

Why is that? What's are your concerns?

or is it like a i just don't want to go

and without employer insurance what happens?

I've always heard about medical debt being a huge issue

[blazing depot]

You go into deep, deep debt. Copay is a bitch from what I've read. The system is from my understanding "You always pay X amount and the insurance only covers anything going past that amount" (and only really when they feel like it, Americans cheered the insurance CEO shooter on for a reason)

[shadow elbow]

yeah even with insurance you can never really rest assured that the specific type of care you need will be completely or partially covered

if I had like some specific issue maybe I'd be more familiar with what my insurance will cover but it's far easier for me to just not deal with it since I am in good health

[half heath]

Yea see ive heard all that and I've had the same ideas. But this person really made it seem like free healthcare with an extra step

[shadow elbow]

any for my job I need to stay in good health so I can't just go to the hospital and not explain why to my employer

[blazing depot]

It's... not. Especially not with the GOP back in charge who want to get rid of any medicare to begin with

[marsh oracle]

Medicare cutoffs should be fairly easy to look up

First major point being that medicare is for seniors

Like retirement age seniors

[half heath]

Okay see that's a great point, that's on me for not doing the research. I'm like fresh off a discussion from this person

[blazing depot]

Was that person an American btw

[half heath]

Also the person i was talking to wasn't a bad faith person so I didn't really believe they'd lie. I do think they get news from a completely different source than I do

[half heath]

They are Canadian but their family is entirely in America

they immigrated later than him and they're mostly living well. He's living even better but he has serious gripes with some of Canadas social programs cause he believes they are taxing the middle class too much

[blazing depot]

Cause I've ofen had the experience that talking about the BIG TOPICS like health care and gun laws can be very much enfuriating cause MURRICA can do no wrong

[marsh oracle]

Extrapolating one persons experience to the entire healthcare system just isnt gonna work no matter the experience

[half heath]

Yea that's true I just had a moment where I really wondered if everything I knew about the topic was misguided

[marsh oracle]

Like theres also medicaid for non seniors with low income but then some states passed an extension as part of the aca (aka based blue states) which expanded it to more people but others (red states) never did cause obamacare is evil

[half heath]

Yea his family lives in New Jersey

I guess he's not aware of something like that.

[marsh oracle]

Then you have the whole thing where you lose healthcare coverage when you lose your job so you become much more reliant on your employer

Just a lot of different aspects

[half heath]

he lwk thinks Trump is actually making good moves for USs economy and it was slightly convincing

[marsh oracle]

[half heath]

lol let me try to type out his argument

I was debating him for a while but he works in an executive position so he has a perspective that values corporate interests a lot more

[hoary charm]

nothing says good moves like crashing the economy

[marsh oracle]

Every country should be an autarky

[half heath]

Like according to him he believes the Tarrifs by Trump on Canada are actually retaliatory because of stuff like Carbon Tax and higher electricity costs that manufacturers have to pay in Canada. And that the Trump admin would rather have American businesses leave Canada and return to US if the costs aren't as profitable as before.

[marsh oracle]

Shouldnt he love those taxes because it would push american manufacturing out of canada and back into the us?

[half heath]

Instead of helping the Canadian economy cause so much of our economy is dependent on manufacturing at a lower cost and selling at a higher price to america. Tarrifs supposedly make the costs closer to each other and incentize Businesses to keep their manufacturing in the US. Similarly he is doing it to other key countries where they outsource a lot.

[marsh oracle]

Like if you have a plant in canada obviously youre gonna have to adhere to the rules there, if those rules make the country unattractive for businesses then that seems like thats that country's problem

[half heath]

Exactly that's his argument. It's kinda ignoring the historic partnership but if you only care about America it almost sounds reasonable. Except for the increased cost to consumers

[marsh oracle]

Theres some merits to using tariffs to keep production of some specific good in the country so you arent overly reliant on other countries (thats basically what the whole point of the Chips act was, get semiconductor manufacturing into the us because you cant keep relying on Taiwan)

The obvious problem here is that trump a) fundamentally still does not understand how a tariff works b) is applying tariffs on all goods instead of specific ones and c) constantly flip flops on his tariff positions so economic long term planning for companies becomes impossible

Also still ignores the fact that doing this will inevitavly drive prices up in the us

[hoary charm]

also the justification for it was predicated on canada letting in fent and the trade "deficit"

which basically wasnt true at all lol

[half heath]

He brought up the fent thing, that was the part I really facepalmed

[marsh oracle]

Like the "yes i will pay 100% extra for american goods" pivot from the crazy maga crowd is already in progress but thats also already 5 steps removed from his campaign promise of lowering prices

[half heath]

great point

[blazing depot]

He's also just openly saying he doesn't give a fuck if prices in the US go up

[marsh oracle]

The us can become an autarky if it really wants but then you also get all the shit jobs back that you outsourced to other countries

[blazing depot]

Or to use his actual quote, he "couldn't care less"

[marsh oracle]

The better solution is getting people impacted by outsourcing into other (probably better paying) jobs instead of chasing the dream of american manufacturing revival for another 30 years

[blazing depot]

Those are mostly evil radical socialist jobs though

[marsh oracle]

Theres a reason the gdp per capita in the us is so high and it isnt the coal mining and manufacturing jobs

[blazing depot]

better work in a tesla factory or on a field

[half heath]

Idk this person doesn't really seem to have the same priorities as an average person.

Like he really wants to vote Conservative in Canada cause he likes PPs idea of fracking our oil reserves and selling to US opposed to the Liberals idea of building a pipeline.

He is aware of the environmental risks but doesn't seem to care

[marsh oracle]

Have you considered that theyve simply drank the kool aid

[half heath]

A little bit yea

[marsh oracle]

Seems like standard conservative media diet stuff

And ive yet to discover how to get somebody out of that without an insane time investment and mental energy

Keeping up with all the bullshit is exhausting lol

[half heath]

they do see themselves as a more fiscal conservative type. They don't say it but the economy and their wallet is their biggest concern

[half heath]

Facts

[marsh oracle]

Yet to see a non cringe fiscal conservative

[half heath]

Tbh i slightly respect this person for their talents in other things so I almost started getting convinced on some points.

[marsh oracle]

Just look at germanys conervative party

[blazing depot]

I'd rather not, thank you

[half heath]

Regardless i don't think any of our current options for election are great so there's really no middle ground between us

[blazing depot]

That clip of Merz at McDonalds haunts me

[half heath]

we did just agree that both kinda suck despite both of leaning the opposite sucky candidate

[marsh oracle]

Carney is obviously more competent but also seems like another round of the "liberal guy cant fix everything immediately so everybody gets more xenophobic" cycle of elections

[half heath]

exactly

it's a mess

[marsh oracle]

But hey we seem to have discovered how to reset that cycle at least a little

[half heath]

I just don't trust ppl like PP especially with Trump

[hoary charm]

at this point you're probably more at the whim of how much trump pisses off the average canadian

[marsh oracle]

One western country just has to elect the fascist and it shocks every other country back into reality for a bit

[blazing depot]

Like in the UK, where they had 2 decades of Tory rule running into the ground but Labour couldn't just magically make everything go away so if there were an election now it'd just be Tories again

[half heath]

haha that is actually something that ended up being bittersweet.

[toxic spoke]

it varies so much by your state, income, employer. regardless the insurance is gonna deny stuff and give you so many barriers to justify why you need care

[marsh oracle]

I knew pp was a dumbfuck when he talked about the fucking gold standard on that Podcast with jordan peterson, the lobster overlord

[half heath]

man its crazy cause I'm kinda experiencing a watered down version of when ppl started realizing some of their family and friends are MAGA

[marsh oracle]

Cant believe we went through the biggest supply shock inflation in decades with covid and you still have people doing gold standard memes

[half heath]

My brother always been kinda dumb and he's completely into all the conservative and right wing content. But now he voices it more cause he feels informed

[marsh oracle]

Yea its

My dads long long long time friend completely fell for all the bullshit here and i can tell it strains their relationship

[blazing depot]

Watching joe Rogan podcasts isn't beimngh informed, you should tell him that

[half heath]

like his argument against Carney was just when he talks he sounds like he doesn't know anything

[marsh oracle]

And i occasionally have to ward off some dumb shit hes been sent

[toxic spoke]

Oh so Carney is currently the guy but they called for an election?

[marsh oracle]

Ye

Carney replaced trudeau

[blazing depot]

They had to this year, ye

And rn with the Canadians being super mad was kinda a good moment

[marsh oracle]

Dude ran the bank of canada for a bit so kinda ideal for a trade war lol

[half heath]

Oh I've been there. I'm really at a point where I can only accept ppl are always gonna be more inclined towards some philosophy. I think honestly at the core it's ppl with more limited empathy vs ppl with more overreaching empathy.

[half heath]

Only thing is our economy hasn't been great so ppl use that against him

[marsh oracle]

Well this might be shocking news but no countries economy has been great

[hoary charm]

wrong, many are saying trump has the greatest economy, maybe ever

[blazing depot]

All these wars and pandemics and corresponding energy and oil/gas crises kinda make good economy impossible

[marsh oracle]

I think its mainly populism winning cause it really is impossible to stay informed on the current topic

Even if your media diet isnt mega poisoned by being on any social media platform, researching this shit takes time

[half heath]

It does feel impossible

like there is so much I can't speak on without more research

[marsh oracle]

Like i looked into how useful nuclear energy will really be in future energy grids and that shit is just infinitely complex. Theres a reason people go to unis for these things

[half heath]

while some ppl are good with accepting/parroting whatever they hear

[marsh oracle]

But then you expect people with no prior knowledge to have an opinion on that and base their vote on it

[half heath]

My brother watches asmongold all day these days

[hoary charm]

epic

[marsh oracle]

Ok well asmongold really is a case of zero empathy

[hoary charm]

does he also have gum/teeth bleeding and wipe it on his wall

[half heath]

idek i just kinda dissociate

[blazing depot]

It sorta gets worse because the legacy media™️ largely belongs to the people who sell you the conservative diet now, so even the "real media" is just head empty nonsense

[half heath]

like he used to be a rogan viewer too

but tbh sometimes there are some topics that feel overblown by even left biased sources

[marsh oracle]

Eh, i think german public broadcast stations are relatively good about thid

Dont get me wrong, seeing another markus lanz talk show will make me rip out my eye balls but the news at least are decent

[blazing depot]

asmon is... yeah. Like, bro actually has some decent insights into certain things, but completely lacks empathy and anything remotely political he does (including all the DEI/gender wars bs) is just

[marsh oracle]

Thats why things like ground news which supposedly give you a "balanced media diet" are just as bad

The solution isnt reading more bullshit from every side, the solution is engaging your brain wrinkles and thinking about what youre reading

[half heath]

yea i was gonna say I'm really struggling sometimes wondering what's actually a priority to be concerned about cause when you touch grass so much seems needlessly talked about

[blazing depot]

Well, for now anyway. Anything belonging to Axel Springer though...

Die Welt pretending they're a real newspaper is always fun

[marsh oracle]

I lowkey had a bit of hope for asmon when he got banned for the gaza comments and he himself said he kinda hated the person he was

But i guess it wasnt a core enough insight to change

[hoary charm]

was kinda funny seeing him defend playing AC shadows while his chat was egging him on to trash it

[half heath]

sponsor money hit i guess

[hoary charm]

no ubi would never sponsor him

[half heath]

but does he even need money

[marsh oracle]

I think some part of himself knows his audience is terrible and also having a terrible influence on him

But he cant get himself out

[half heath]

feels like he does it for the love of the game

[blazing depot]

Not really

And yes, Asmon's audience is actually far worse than he is

Never look at comments in his chat or on his yt vids

[half heath]

😮‍💨

[ocean vigil]

https://apnews.com/article/french-companies-dei-letter-us-trump-diversity-7ef9ad5839b0a3ded6fa454a8ea84d1d

🤦‍♂️

[blazing depot]

Yeah, France ain't happy

That's not the only France win though

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyq40yz70qo?at_bbc_team=editorial&at_format=link

She is effective from now on barred from being elected for any political position

And while BBC says "could", it's really more of a "will" miss the 2027 election cause that ban will remain in effect even if she appeals

[lime spire]

This world

Gotta get out

[blazing depot]

Hey now, this Le Pen news is a good thing

[fossil basin]

the take I agree with you the most (not that i had not agreed with you before that is, more common than you'd first think)

[lime spire]

I know

I just meant in general

[last eagle]

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1906718029569749482

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale Of ‘Coyote Vs Acme’ to Ketchup Entertainment for $50 million, theatrical release expected in 2026 https://t.co/hU8zwyftjN

X · Mar 31, 2025, 2:39 PM

aight this is actually a big w

[valid magnet]

now that one guy can be in peace

[blazing depot]

It's also April Fools, so there is about 0% chance this is real

[trim flicker]

nah this was posted yesterday

same studio also bought a different looney tunes movie that got released last year

or will be released this year?

[last eagle]

it's already out on theatres

The Day the Earth Blow Up

[eager parrot]

yeah looks real

[marsh oracle]

Oopsie daisy

[eager parrot]

"Trump lawyers" is quite the term for government attorneys

but yeah the error rate has been unreasonably high with the detainments and deportations

[marsh oracle]

I like all the maga idiots unironically posting shit like "only innocent people should get due process, why do we let criminals abuse the legal system"

Room temperature iq

[ruby helm]

The thing there is also Trump could send one message to the El Salvador administration building that prison for him and they would in fact send that guy back to america

so him saying "they have no ability to bring him back now" isnt true

[marsh oracle]

Well its not about trump being able to do it

Theyre saying the court doesnt have jurisdiction anymore

So if you just ship them all out fast enough, they cant do anything

[blazing depot]

Read: they don't actually care

[blazing depot]

Oh and btw, apparently they're making all their embassies send out these letters to every company in every country that are providing said embassies with services or are in any way working with them

[charred fulcrum]

Fahrenheit or Celcius?

[trim flicker]

Celsius would be the lower number

so that one

[marsh oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMxAwtE?si=pE6Y2SXe667fdPQt dudes been speaking for like 18 hours

Democrats should do a filibuster subathon

[blazing depot]

What is he filibustering

[marsh oracle]

Everything

[blazing depot]

Fair

[shadow elbow]

it's like a rescene livestream

[livid frigate]

lol very funny Supreme Court election result here

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-rcna198353

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/01/us/elections/results-wisconsin-supreme-court.html

57% to 42% is so funny

[near jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-too-easy-easy-lebron-lebron-james-izi-gif-26596051

never trust a Brad

[livid frigate]

should be giannis

[near jetty]

I wrote him in for one of the 1 person races

[last eagle]

https://youtu.be/5Df4ApM39Po

huh

the cheater won?

[hoary charm]

did you even watch the video

[last eagle]

i did watch

but yea it's oof

especially the Apollo Legends part

[blazing depot]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1907285584973816017

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

Val Kilmer has sadly passed away at the age of 65.

X · Apr 2, 2025, 4:14 AM

RIP

As per usual, fuck cancer.

[dreamy ledge]

damn,

[hoary charm]

everyone having fun counting down the hours until trump crashes the economy?

[marsh oracle]

Oh is today the big day?

[blazing depot]

LIBERATION DAY

It has a name, you know

[ocean vigil]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-weapons-locally-2025-04-02/

https://tenor.com/view/wow-gif-20411229

[blazing depot]

"We want you to spend more money on weapons!"
...
"NOT THOSE WEAPONS!"

[supple dragon]

[last eagle]

Abusing to take aim to Trump

[hoary charm]

you don't get it bro he's playing 12d chess

[marsh oracle]

Turns out when you disable military equipment you sold, others want to buy it a lot less

[marsh oracle]

https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-first-quarter-2025-production-deliveries-and-deployments tesla deliveries down 50k since last years first quarter

Growth company growing -15%

[ocean vigil]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lltfuf5pgk2y

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.

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Bluesky · Apr 2, 2025, 12:40 PM

[trim flicker]

that'll stop it

drug dealers had it too easy

[hoary charm]

making drugs legal just so he can tariff the shit out of it all

imagine

[unborn echo]

visionary

[dire canopy]

I think bigger problem is drugs from usa to canada than the other way around

[trim flicker]

canada should just tax those drugs

[marsh oracle]

This makes total sense considering he thinks canada would pay those tariffs

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/yungdessalines/status/1907235705664737655?t=sl3z8A2owrJHYlEGtQRdug&s=19

akil & saltfish (@yungdessalines)

Quoting Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig)
︀
Everybody really be out in the world talking shit about America like we really can’t do whatever we want. Macron wants the statue of liberty back but the US+UK should just invade Congo , Haiti and the DRC and throw them and China out , switch the currency to the USD, do big mineral deals there and send US prison labor to update and expand the infrastructure. . . This Cold War era bs with Russia is fucking tired. Who even cares what happens to Europe like really…
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︀︀ USA needs Africa to really win economically and there’s no point in keep pussy footing around .
︀︀
︀︀And to get Africa France just has to be destroyed totally and suddenly without warning

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FxTwitter · Apr 2, 2025, 12:56 AM

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/politico/status/1907455852123959760?t=3GwJpYBkjBLt-V87c9R2UA&s=19

Seems like Elon's 'political' role will be reduced (hopefully)

POLITICO (@politico)

EXCLUSIVE: Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will soon be stepping back from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.
︀︀
︀︀Read @rachaelmbade's full scoop: politi.co/3DT2LAm

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FxTwitter · Apr 2, 2025, 3:31 PM

[ocean vigil]

https://fixupx.com/factpostnews/status/1907478441282130283

FactPost (@factpostnews)

GOP Congressman: A direct quote from Joseph Goebbels, 'it is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion'
︀︀
︀︀Democratic Rep. Johnson: When you're quoting Joseph Goebbels, we have a big problem. That's alarming as hell to me

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FixupX · Apr 2, 2025, 5:01 PM

bruh

[blazing depot]

Subtle

[proud tulip]

what the FUCK

[marsh oracle]

I thought maybe he used that quote as a warning

Guess not

[ocean vigil]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/capitol-hill-hearing-biden-censorship-trump

looks like he was likening biden's administration to nazi germany

[marsh oracle]

Why are these people all equally stupid

[ocean vigil]

just another case of every accusation is a confession

[marsh oracle]

Im sure we can find quotes of him criticizing trump for deporting people to gitmo without a day in court tho

Honestly the travel warnings so far arent enough

Theres a non zero chance now you just get sent to some labor camp for no reason in the us

[ocean vigil]

there was fun warning from us embassy here to czech people thinking of traveling to usa

[marsh oracle]

Lol

[ocean vigil]

basically that there will be very thorough securite checks to ensure the security of us citizens

[marsh oracle]

The security check

[proud tulip]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1jornfn/nigel_farage_leaves_internet_baffled_after_jimmy/ jesus christ

Idk if you'll all know the tagline Jim'll fix it but I'm sure you've heard of Jimmy Saville 😬

[fossil basin]

never heard of him

[blazing depot]

Listen man, he's just going with BBC messaging

[toxic spoke]

i'm crying cambodia at 97%

[marsh oracle]

Haiyundae

LOL

World index btw

Doing this after market close in the us is so much less interesting

[hoary charm]

is that the full list?

[ocean vigil]

feeling left out?

[hoary charm]

lol yea was wondering if we'd avoided it

australia being on 10% makes me think we'll get that too

[ocean vigil]

he probably does not realize it's not the same country

[marsh oracle]

trump only uses maps without new zealand

[hoary charm]

real

[ocean vigil]

dude was rambling about groceries again

https://fixupx.com/Acyn/status/1907535385296769337

Acyn (@Acyn)

Trump: Likewise an old-fashioned term that we use groceries, it's an old-fashioned term, groceries.
︀︀A bag with different things in it

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FixupX · Apr 2, 2025, 8:47 PM

[hoary charm]

wait there's a baseline 10% on everything?

this list is just on top of that?

[fossil basin]

Yes

From every country

[hoary charm]

lol

lmao even

stable genius at work

[ocean vigil]

saved Easter
https://fixupx.com/atrupar/status/1907535337716318593

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

Trump: "They were saying that for Easter, 'Please don't use eggs. Could you use plastic eggs?' I say, we don't want to do that."

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FixupX · Apr 2, 2025, 8:47 PM

[fossil basin]

They have imported their economists from turkey i see, whom had just made foreign shopping practically illegal/impossible to more promp up their "importer companies/sites"

[marsh oracle]

would hate to be some boomer with all their money invested in a retirement account now

[hoary charm]

sama sucks up to trump for massive data center investment
trump puts 25% tariff on computer related imports
lol

[marsh oracle]

Didnt suck hard enough

oh and just in case anybody thinks "oh theyre only doing half of the tariffs each country is putting on the us", those numbers are just pulled straight from trumps ass

[fossil basin]

It just seems like Trump or Elon does not understand economics

[supple dragon]

Omo can I get the discount

[ocean vigil]

you didn't listen to him

everyone got a discount

[supple dragon]

Ahaaaa

[marsh oracle]

[fossil basin]

I know a Mr. economics tryhard when i see one (not a diss at you)

[toxic spoke]

https://fixupx.com/EamonJavers/status/1907540655871521264

Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers)

One big point amid all the headlines: I was texting with press secretary Karoline Leavitt during the event and she confirms that the 34 percent tariff on China is ON TOP of the previous 20 percent. So that means the rate on China will be *54* percent when these tariffs take effect.

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FixupX · Apr 2, 2025, 9:08 PM

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/964717117071048774.webp?size=48

[ocean vigil]

weren't the 20 also on top of something?

[marsh oracle]

probably on top of whatever tariffs they had on individual products

[hoary charm]

its times like this where i wish i had a trading account setup and the balls for puts

[blazing depot]

In other news
https://x.com/nytimes/status/1907467545575112860?t=VcY31Xn6CK1iadzKppr-TQ&s=19

The New York Times (@nytimes) on X

Breaking News: Amazon made a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok as the app approaches an April deadline to be sold by its Chinese owner or face a ban in the U.S., people familiar with the offer said. https://t.co/SzzKYVA1lq

X · Apr 2, 2025, 4:17 PM

With options like Elon and Bezos for TikTok ownership China suddenly doesn't seem as bad

[hoary charm]

6% is bad but ngl i did kind of expect more

[marsh oracle]

After market and it doesnt look like thats the lowest its going

[hoary charm]

true

[hoary charm]

can't make this shit up

[marsh oracle]

Israel not on the board, i am noticing

Just asking questions you know?

Oh nevermind its there he just skipped it in the speech

[hoary charm]

there's no russia or NK

[marsh oracle]

Apparently the number is actually the trade deficit with that country divided by the amount the us imports from there

Somehow even dumber

[hoary charm]

he's ending the de minimis exception too

fucking hell he's actually just gonna nose dive the economy

[marsh oracle]

Some of these smaller countries will be even more fucked by this though

[hoary charm]

vietnam is cooked

a lot of companies moved out of china to vietnam and they have huge exports to the US

[toxic spoke]

https://x.com/tysonbrody/status/1907537895973347447

tyson brody (@tysonbrody) on X

CNBC: "this is, fair to say, worse than the worst case scenario than many in the market expected."

X · Apr 2, 2025, 8:57 PM

[hoary charm]

kinda want to be up for market open but i need to up early tomorrow

[marsh oracle]

The stuff i left in my retirement account will just have to weather the storm

[hoary charm]

mines been slipping the last couple weeks

[marsh oracle]

See you in 40 years, money

[hoary charm]

probably should have swapped it to a conservative fund when trump got in

instead of staying in growth

oh well

[marsh oracle]

I always just put everything in a world Index so its gonna rebalance eventually anyway

But yea if youre close to retirement this is really not what you wanna see

[dreamy ledge]

#kpop-chat-2 message
I never knew instead of trying to avoid dystopia, there would be people who would accelerate it at light speed.

with the dumbest of brains

[fossil basin]

You should have known

Not blaming you or anything, more so telling that those people do exist

We have a saying in Turkish, it basically amounts to "bad days are behind us, now worse days are awaiting us"

[hoary charm]

https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1907583914614599856 huh

The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) on X

BREAKING: US Senate votes 51–48 to pass resolution blocking Trump’s tariffs on Canada from taking effect

X · Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 AM

[toxic spoke]

two of the states being alaska and maine

The four Republicans who voted with Democrats were: Sens. Rand Paul (Kentucky), who cosponsored the resolution, Susan Collins (Maine), Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska).

[hoary charm]

That explains why trump singled out those four in a tweet

[blazing depot]

Collins and Murkowski, the "Maybe some Republicans are reasonable, right? Riiiiiight? jk, lol" senators

[hoary charm]

https://fixupx.com/KushDesai47/status/1907618136444067901

Kush Desai (@KushDesai47)

No we literally calculated tariff and non tariff barriers.
︀︀
︀︀ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations

Quoting James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki)
︀
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
︀︀
︀︀So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

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FixupX · Apr 3, 2025, 2:16 AM

[ocean vigil]

https://fixupx.com/krishnanrohit/status/1907587352157106292

rohit (@krishnanrohit)

This might be the first large-scale application of AI technology to geopolitics.. 4o, o3 high, Gemini 2.5 pro, Claude 3.7, Grok all give the same answer to the question on how to impose tariffs easily.

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FixupX · Apr 3, 2025, 12:14 AM

[ocean vigil]

he really showed the penguins who's the boss

[trim flicker]

man lmfao

[last eagle]

that's dumb

[ocean vigil]

🍿 🪑

[proud tulip]

lmaooooooooo

[ocean vigil]

https://fixupx.com/Acyn/status/1907887543733149942

Acyn (@Acyn)

Kasie: All three U.S. Stock indexes hemorrhaging at the closing bell just moments ago. The Dow losing nearly 4% of its total value, down more than 1600 points. The NASDAQ down nearly 6%, the S&P plunging nearly 5%. Wall Street, responding to the unexpected scope and severity of Trump’s sweeping tariffs

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FixupX · Apr 3, 2025, 8:06 PM

so much winning

[proud tulip]

thanks obama

[half heath]

So what exactly is expected to happen? Every other time ive seen the stock market dip even a little all the financial news ppl raise alarms. Most likely a recession right? And if that is the case at what point do even the oligarchs and corporations start to go against the admins for messing up their money?

Like what is the most generous prediction for this? Is it just going to be reversed in a month or 2?

[marsh oracle]

This is where we find out if the deep state is real

If it is, trump is dead in 2 months. If its not (which seems the more likely outcome), everybody will have to hope that some republican senators and members of the house start doing their job again

If they also dont, inflation spikes very high in america, cost of living goes up, people can afford less and less

[half heath]

And what are the chances that manufacturing does return to US? Isn't that the ultimate goal of these tarrifs?

[ocean vigil]

depends on the type of goods

[marsh oracle]

Honestly hard to tell

Theres a chance businesses just sit this out and wait for the next democrat

Some of it probably will come back but that itself will also cause higher prices

[ocean vigil]

can you imagine american citizens lining up to replace the manufactiring of cheap clothes and shoes?

moving that to the US would cost a lot more than just eating the tarrifs

[marsh oracle]

And some of these jobs are just too shit for anybody to want to do them yea

Nobody goes "man i always wanted to be a coal miner, i love permanently fucking up my lungs"

[ocean vigil]

hell, even the people they are kicking out would not want to do most of that shit

[marsh oracle]

Another thing yea

US is already close to full employment

Where are they getting the people for this

Tldr its a fucking mess and we can really only hope the other countries figure out how to get through it the best way possible

[proud tulip]

I feel like this could play out very differently to his first term, where the trust will be broken long term with other nations and they start to just look how to carry on without the need for the US

the feeling of the first term was very much "meh 4 years and it'll be over" but now it's back, and idk if the world will want to risk having to do this again in 8 years time

I hope that's the way things start to move anyway, but of course its much more complicated

every day Russia and China are smiling more though

[marsh oracle]

Yea you can see it happening already

China/korea/Japan moving closer, canada and the eu as well

[half heath]

Yea that seems to be where people want things to go

Yea I agree though none of this makes sense

[blazing depot]

Just to give you a pointer, this whole fiasco is projected to have a roughly 20% impact ob average world trade income. The last time the US did a big tarrif push like this was in 1930, caused the great depression and ultimately heavily contributed to a political climate world wide that lead to WW2 (it's widely considered as one of the main factors behind it)

And that last time only had a 6% impact

Not 20

[half heath]

Oh yea I did hear about that

[blazing depot]

Not to be a doomer, but you know. Amazing stuff.

[half heath]

every 100 years or so someone who doesn't know history tries it and leads to depression

Really the only thing that makes it makes sense is Russia won the cold war and Trump is trying to lower Americas position

[hoary charm]

0, there’s no point when it’ll take years for anything to complete and by then a new president will be in

[half heath]

For sure which means the third term stuff is a serious concern

God remember that person i told you guys about the other day? He must feel really stupid right now. I'm curious how he'll spin it

[blazing depot]

I mean, that dude is just gonna go with the trump reasoning

[marsh oracle]

You need self awareness to feel stupid

[blazing depot]

https://fixupx.com/Acyn/status/1907869449144905929?t=JF2TJWbb8X_2CJFB4kjt5w&s=19

Acyn (@Acyn)

Reporter: The markets are way down…
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︀︀Trump: I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on and it’s a big thing. The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom.

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FixupX · Apr 3, 2025, 6:54 PM

[hoary charm]

really wish I had literally any conviction, vix was a free 45% up this week kms

[blazing depot]

For reference

[marsh oracle]

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1907908222025085241 but miracles do still happen

Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) on X

For those asking: yes, voting for Trump was a mistake.

I thought we'd get a repeat of the first administration, but we didn't. The signs were there, I just did not take my own ideas about the awfulness of Trump and MAGA seriously enough.

X · Apr 3, 2025, 9:29 PM

[half heath]

Idk he did say he'd vote Carney after his company got an email thst their carbon surcharge would be removed soon.

[ocean vigil]

he is the kind of person that would operate on someone with a dynamite

[half heath]

can't be sick if dead

[ocean vigil]

the penguins are gonna fold every minute now

[half heath]

genius

[blazing depot]

👊 🔥 🇺🇸

[half heath]

what are the chances that some of these tarrifs are accepted by some countries btw?

[toxic spoke]

for the record I don't think schmali should be worried about anything but one of the main headlines was about a korean-american student who ICE detained #loona-chat message

[ocean vigil]

you had vietnam and israel drop their tarrifs, look how it worked out for them

[blazing depot]

Sidenote

[hoary charm]

they’re going after protestors so I don’t think it’ll affect kpop

[toxic spoke]

yeah no need to worry

[marsh oracle]

Oh i dont think us tours would stop because idols are getting shipped to gitmo

[blazing depot]

Bro crashes the economy and then peaces out to a Saudi funded golf tournament

[marsh oracle]

But they do still need us visas and just a general crowd willing to spend money

[ocean vigil]

more winning mate

[blazing depot]

Right, the definitely legit tournament wins at his own golf course

[hoary charm]

yeah the economics are the problem for sure

more oce pls @kpopindustry

[toxic spoke]

kpop tours bled the US dry into recession

fact checked by american patriots

[blazing depot]

Luckily the big Kpop companies are working on reducing the Kpop trade deficit by producing in the US now

Just gotta stop with the DEI

[ruby helm]

If they start printing albums in the US, they cut out the huge chunk of money that big shipping get out of it

[blazing depot]

But big shipping are mostly US companies

[hoary charm]

a good amount of US versions are already printed in the US pretty sure

[hoary charm]

https://x.com/randlechris/status/1907811068635746365

chris randle (@randlechris) on X

DEI stood for Da Economy Intact

X · Apr 3, 2025, 3:02 PM

[blazing depot]

Sounds legit

[livid frigate]

Literally zero

Manufacturing overseas is way cheaper even with the tariffs

Industry will not return to the U.S.

[half heath]

right so does that mean some companies will keep producing and sell to other countries? Cause if they keep producing and sell to US it would mean their tarrif is working right?

[marsh oracle]

You mean keep producing outside of the us?

Problem there is that trump somehow claims to use tariffs to transform the us into an autarky but also at the same time tariffs will be the new funding source for the federal government

2 goals that work against each other so the tariffs kind of by definition cant work

[half heath]

right makes sense that it doesn't

[blazing depot]

https://www.youtube.com/live/GkpJtquicNE?si=nQ5yDR-zJR8QceTK

It's time

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-impeached-president-yoon-faces-court-ruling-decide-his-fate-2025-04-03/

Rare KR courts win

[last eagle]

https://fxtwitter.com/BluRoofPolitics/status/1907982338564227458

The Blue Roof (@BluRoofPolitics)

Court: Unanimous decision. Yoon is removed from office as of 11:22 a.m.

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FxTwitter · Apr 4, 2025, 2:23 AM

yep

Freedom as the empire is burnt to the ground

the new (hopefully brighter) era will begin

[blazing depot]

This isn't a Star Wars movie, bro

[trim flicker]

its korea I don't expect things to get much better

but goodbye yoon

[hoary charm]

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1907965593145528586 wtf is going on over there

unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) on X

BREAKING: Republicans are considering creating a new tax bracket for those earnings $1 million or more, with top rate of around 39% to 40%, to offset the costs of their tax bill.

Another option being considered is raising the top tax rate from 37% to 39.6% for incomes greater

X · Apr 4, 2025, 1:17 AM

[eager parrot]

I'm okay with the rich paying their fair share. This is still far less than most other countries.

[blazing depot]

lol... no shot that's gonna happen

[ruby helm]

Add some extra provisions in the bill such as that non citizens are no longer considered human, blame the democrats for voting down a bill to tax the rich

[keen nest]

lmao my friend was telling me about like avoiding the north side of seoul today and he's in america. Didn't even know why. Started telling me it's about the president

i'm like huh

was literally asking a friend here like didn't this dude get impeached because I saw him on the giant monitor next to mcountdown from YTN

didn't know this dude was going on trial here on april 4th. I guess several train stations if not all of them were shut down today because of it

didn't realize he was removed from office and was just afk in jail

or basically equivalent of

[blazing depot]

How.... you were literally there during the protests that lead to his removal

[keen nest]

he wasn't removed when I was here

I don't think he had power stripped from him while I was here idk I could be wrong about that

that being said

worth noting that I didn't know martial law was even going on until people in america were asking me if I was okay

but yeah iirc the protests were advocating for his removal at the time and then he was removed at a later date to which I started seeing those articles about how he was like turtling in his residence with military and lawyers lmao

my question is who has even been running the country since then because now i'm reading they're going to have a new election

yep never heard of this guy until just now

Oh he was.... also... impeached... and then reinstated

I asked one of my friends that lives here and he said he didn't even know this trial was going on today

think people outside of korea know more about the news going on here

[blazing depot]

Yeah, idk about that one, chief
https://fixupx.com/koryodynasty/status/1907990412096319521

Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty)

THE MOMENT THE VERDICT WAS DELIVERED AND YOON WAS REMOVED AS PRESIDENT

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FixupX · Apr 4, 2025, 2:55 AM

Seems more like your Kpop circle friends are preoccupied with that and a bad sample size

[keen nest]

all my kpoop friends are weebs now

[blazing depot]

What is the world is going on with his hair btw

[keen nest]

yep receding hairline

[trim flicker]

i love when people act like this affects the ultra wealthy in any way

[marsh oracle]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/04/04/nintendo-delaying-switch-2-us-pre-orders-due-to-tariffs-market-drop/ trump is doomed

[last eagle]

yep

If anything, blame those supporters

[blazing depot]

Nintendo fanbois gonna end Trump, just watch

[proud tulip]

[dire canopy]

^ scalper POV

[trim flicker]

goodbye forever us economy

34% retaliatory tariff from china too rip

[shadow elbow]

I'd like to see trump tariff these

[trim flicker]

these what

[shadow elbow]

https://imgur.com/1GcFCKh

[ocean vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/kpop-triples-yubin-hair-pigtails-gif-5371017549105733420

[trim flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/yeonhee-nuts-gif-25194295

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/HouseDemocrats/status/1908218153404117109 these people are allergic to winning

House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats)

For today's Democratic Daily Download: meet @RepDeluzio from Western PA.
︀︀
︀︀He explains how Trump's trade policy has been a chaotic mess, but that tariffs—if done right and paired with strong pro-worker and industrial policies—can help supercharge manufacturing.
︀︀
︀︀We're offering hardworking Americans real policies to strengthen their families and communities—not fake populism to distract from tax giveaways to robber barons and huge corporations.

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FxTwitter · Apr 4, 2025, 6:00 PM

[ocean vigil]

i liked how they tried to say the tarrifs are working by quoting march numbers

[shadow elbow]

is this guy deluzio

[trim flicker]

exactly what the public wants rn

a moderate voice

[marsh oracle]

If theres one thing the last 8 years have taught is, its that making very easy topics more complicated is the winning strategy

[trim flicker]

its so fucked and out of touch like dude yeah we see the economy is collapsing we don't need some guy to be like "The way this is being done is an horrendous mess, but we CAN make it right, with the right policies"

no one cares no one will listen to this and feel motivated to vote for them

[blazing depot]

"We have to be the sane, normal ones, not cause any scenes, people will notice eventually :)"

[trim flicker]

no one really likes the dems and for good reason

[blazing depot]

They really need someone like Michelle Obama who actually knows how to move people and pointedly skewer these dipshits with callouts

Truly unfortunate she has no interest in it

https://fixupx.com/ABC/status/1908251116954865867

ABC News (@ABC)

ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 2,230 points, or 5.5%, while the S&P 500 plunged 6%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq declined 5.8%.
︀︀
︀︀Read more: abcnews.link/yDPD04D

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FixupX · Apr 4, 2025, 8:11 PM

Damn, so much winning

[half heath]

Ive been going through this in real life and it really makes me reconsider being a reasonable person. That only works when people are open to reason. When that's not the case it seems being reasonable is just being more concerned about not poking the bears and appeasing the loudest people it seems.

In a crazy world the sane person is the weirdest one

then again are we really sane or just not willing to do what's necessary

[half heath]

btw this seems impossible by the amount of lobbying corporations can do. And wouldn't it just increase costs making people not want to manufacture in US at all?

[marsh oracle]

just gotta throw enough money at the corporations i suppose

[hoary charm]

nintendo pausing preorders cause of vietnam tariffs is very funny

oil prices dropping, jpm predicting a recession

its ogre

[marsh oracle]

Oil prices dropping

[hoary charm]

rightoids: god emperor said he would lower petrol prices and he did!!!

[half heath]

ngl getting oil under 1.30 last night felt good even though it's not a good sign

[marsh oracle]

Sometimes germantwt has a banger https://fxtwitter.com/einfachnurjan/status/1908166060789940684/en

jan (@einfachnurjan)

📑 Translated from German

how the eu should announce its counter-tariffs

Original text
wie die eu ihre gegenzölle verkünden sollte

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FxTwitter · Apr 4, 2025, 2:33 PM

[half heath]

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/Matt_ecofin/status/1908249698655248439 thats a lot of room left to go down

Matt (@Matt_ecofin)

@LinkofSunshine From a Goldman Sachs investor survey I did today. This is 240 respondents, all clients. This IS a pretty good read on where Street is.

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FxTwitter · Apr 4, 2025, 8:05 PM

[hoary charm]

still another 3.5 years of this

epic

[eager parrot]

that's optimistic of you

even if he goes away, somebody worse than him who grew up on this maga stuff might take over

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-reason-advisers/
https://archive.is/NDUaS

[hoary charm]

probably depends on how the midterms go

[eager parrot]

what he's doing right now

at the pace that he and his people are doing it

will take decades to reverse if ever

he's setting an irreversible new equilibrium

the rest of the world really need to start considering that waiting the US out for the next administration is not feasible anymore

[hoary charm]

not enough time to accumulate generational wealth before trump crashes everything and agi takes our jobs

[eager parrot]

well then I hope the competency crisis takes over and everything collapses before AGI is achieved

[trim flicker]

chinese century 🇨🇳

[hoary charm]

i will simply outsource my life decisions to my good friend claude

[eager parrot]

only if they manage to reproduce enough before demographics collapse

[half heath]

what do you mean

[eager parrot]

China is only like 10 years behind South Korea when it comes to new offspring being produced

they have a lot of people, but all those people are not producing enough children, and the old people are living on for too long

[half heath]

oh really never considered that since they had to actually reduce birth rates in the past

[eager parrot]

it's funny isn't it

for half a century in the 20th century people kept going on about overpopulation, and now it's the other way around

only India and parts of Africa and select few smaller countries outside of those areas have replacement level of new children being born

[half heath]

you think they won't try to incentive it when it comes to it?

[eager parrot]

I think they will start killing off their old people

and severely limiting women's rights

when push comes to shove

and nobody will do anything about it because China

[half heath]

or is it like the other Asian countries where work life balance and rigorous education makes people not want to reproduce?

[eager parrot]

I am not sure what the factors for China's demographics or economics problems are

[half heath]

that's true, China can do that stuff

ngl that's one thing I've always had internal debates about. Like the stereotype of Asian parents and their children. They are abused but in the process they do achieve a lot. Sounds random but I mean like the Chinese government kinda treats its citizens similarly

[trim flicker]

dont worry it'll all be fixed once the hallyu ban gets fully reversed they just need more kpop

things will be fine fr

[ruby helm]

You just gotta hope that population collapse hits just at the same moment as enough AI takeover of jobs for the two to just cancel out and everything is fine.

[livid frigate]

I think you need to stop watching Fox News

[ruby helm]

A more light touch approach would be encouraging people to keep working into their 70s and 80s and say it keeps the mind and body fit and healthy.

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/HouseDemocrats/status/1908218153404117109?t=VACvbrI7Cv0SPg5viC2XFQ&s=19

Of course democrats find the losing message again

House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats)

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FxTwitter · Apr 4, 2025, 6:00 PM

[half heath]

this been posted btw

[fossil basin]

yeah just noticed

[fossil basin]

if democrats are the "adults" in this situation, the adults are fully drunk

[eager parrot]

I would never. Also not a retort to what I suggested about what the Chinese regime would do if their hands are forced due to demographics collapse.

[last eagle]

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1906760178101281249

Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) on X

NEW: China, Japan, and South Korea agree to “closely cooperate” in response to U.S. tariffs

Anyone with half a brain & a basic understanding of the world could see that Trump’s relentless attacks on our allies will only isolate America & strengthen China

X · Mar 31, 2025, 5:27 PM

[hoary charm]

japan and korea denied that

[fossil basin]

I mean a great notable example of such recent cooperation is Whiplash

[hoary charm]

chinese media was overplaying it

[fossil basin]

I was unable to find any sources on that matter

i just do not trust posts saying they sourced info from "chinese state media", because you kinda have to specify which source

"chinese state media" is not a huge monolith

reuters post which is the closest site i could find that might have been reliable, says it's source is "social media account affiliated with chinese state media", which is a very broad term

[hoary charm]

https://www.sankei.com/article/20250401-QXI23YLPHVJ3RD75AUTVE54H24/

[fossil basin]

More than likely it is not even chinese media itself overplaying it, but some social media accounts that are clickbaity

also Reuters do not site CCTV as the source, so this article got that wrong

I have checked multiple Reuters articles on the matter,neither cited CCTV as a source

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-japan-south-korea-will-jointly-respond-us-tariffs-chinese-state-media-says-2025-03-31/

PS: I am deleting my comments, I realized couple stuff I was not initially right about

so the post itself seems to be posted on Weibo, on an account Yuyuan Tantian

which, I guess if it is a post on a government-linked social media account, I would not be surprised at all if there was movement made to overplay the impact

though the non-exaggerated part that all 3 countries seemingly agree, is a speed-up of a China - Japan - South Korea free trade deal looming

atleast according to statement after meeting of the triad's joint statement

[proud tulip]

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/life/celebrities/chinese-star-wu-xuanyi-collapses-on-sisters-who-make-waves-rehearsal-stage-4870138.html I hope she's okay

this comment got me though

[hoary charm]

[near jetty]

mao zedong will break out of his mao-soleum and personally give the order to exterminate all the olds

[half heath]

I do wanna say that seemed extreme to me too. My only source of reference for stuff like that is stories of people being locked into their homes during covid by like welding doors to stop spreading.

That's the type of stuff I could never see being done in other top countries. Not that other countries don't have their own problems

I also heard that it was effective but idk. A lot of news is hard to tell if it's real or not. Some stuff is said by ccp some stuff is said by western media.

[near jetty]

if I was a betting man I would put some money on the Chinese government having a plan (that doesn't include the extermination of old people)

[clear tide]

oh didnt know the show that jessica was on kept going with more seasons

[fossil basin]

Also Fox/Now Turkey is vastly different from Fox America in political alignment

Which is interesting

[charred fulcrum]

what the fuck

[livid frigate]

It is an insane thing to say

[fossil basin]

yeah low chance something similar to that happened

I do not think China are likely to collapse, atleast compared to Russia or the US

[dire canopy]

I wonder if this Taylor Swift hoodie is banned in China

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStTD2C00h52K7E3j-XM9Ws4Bd93X7HeCeanA&s

[fossil basin]

apparently not

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/936438.shtml

It had been a debacle that the merch "could" have gotten banned, but there were no such action or influence on Chinese authorities to be found

there seems to have been some censorship involved in several merch-selling sites, and apparently there were some discussions within people associated with her clothing brand, to pull the merchandise off sale, but official announcement of Taylor's side was that they'll be selling 1989 merch everywhere, as it was the year she was born

Chinese authorities or state department either did not respond or refused to respond to the matter

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/exclusive-taylor-swift-in-china-will-she-shake-off-1989-from-her-clothing-b-idUSKCN0QB2HN/

there seemt to be issues arising especially from western outlets, but i could not find any sources in terms of the taylor merch being banned

weibo also had not tagged even the T.S. 1989 tag as sensitive

hell it was Taylor's first fashion line, and it was exclusive to China

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3169471/Taylor-Swift-launch-fashion-line-featuring-sweatshirts-dresses-tops-s-available-China.html
tabloid, but you get my point

[agile wave]

https://i.imgur.com/BwfYIZZ.jpg

[dire canopy]

oh so this was 10 years ago I'm a little late then

[vital needle]

China is evil and demonic so they ban everything that is good and holy like taylor swift and old people

A china expert told me that via youtube shorts

[dire canopy]

well I was asking because of tiananmen square thingy that happened in 1989 as well

[near jetty]

sources tell me china puts dopamine and serotonin blockers in the water so everyone is miserable

[charred fulcrum]

I am sorry what exactly happened in 1989 at Tianamen Square on June 4th?

[dire canopy]

apparently absolutely nothing

[near jetty]

you just earned my updoot fellow redditor!

[shadow elbow]

thanks for the gold

[near jetty]

kind stranger

[fossil basin]

yeah that was nearer the time when 1989 was released (not the taylor's version)

[fossil basin]

we do have a proverb in turkish which basically translates to "it's not shameful to not know, it is shameful to not learn/ask"

basically i think it is more than reasonable to ask

so that people would not be led to think that a China-exclusive sweater/sweatshirt is banned in China

[livid frigate]

They do that here too but it’s called fluoride

[charred fulcrum]

Ain't those in toothpastes?

So you're saying if I ingest Colgate I am gonna be miserable?

[livid frigate]

Yes

[near jetty]

flouride starts with an f and so does female

have they been feminzing us?

[fossil basin]

fluoride conspiracies in big 2025

[marsh oracle]

Common misconception but thats handled by the chemtrails

[livid frigate]

Yes. Fluoride blocks testosterone production and since you’re a liberal you’re probably consuming soy which is pretty much straight estrogen so yeah

[near jetty]

that explains the strong urge of getting a strawberry banana smoothie i had today

[livid frigate]

A very feminine drink I might add

[near jetty]

its pink a very womanly color

[livid frigate]

Yep

[half heath]

wait hold up

I drink those smoothies too

Lol but satire aside, first time I'm hearing about those theories. It's kinda interesting

oddly enough the first study I've seen was based on Chinese farmers

[fossil basin]

from NYU's statements in 2025, the flouride studies mentioned were based upon 1.5mgs per liter water, which would be more than twice as much of 0.7mg/L standard in the US tap water

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/january/facts-and-fears-fluoride.html

"Here in the US, Juneau, Alaska discontinued fluoride in 2007 and research revealed that cavity-related dental procedures subsequently increased by nearly 50 percent in children and adolescents.

In Canada, Calgary removed fluoride in 2011 and researchers subsequently found that children had more tooth decay compared to Edmonton, which maintained fluoridation. Calgary is currently in the process of reintroducing fluoride in its water. In the Canadian city of Windsor, across the river from Detroit, fluoride was removed in 2013 but the city council also voted to reintroduce it in 2018 after seeing increased rates of emergency dental care in children. important for gum/teeth health"

[half heath]

yea the benefits do seem to outweigh the issues at higher dosages

[ocean vigil]

what about the ethical issues about dissolving floridians in a water

[marsh oracle]

Whats the issue?

[ocean vigil]

you're ruining the water

[fossil basin]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1908591830133858816?t=ItkpRxr47JUSLD9zFeHQBA&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

Jennifer Coolidge says Nitwit the Villager is her favorite romantic film partner ever

“Out of all the sex scenes & stuff [I’ve done], I have to say I think my scene with Nitwit, it’s the most attracted I’ve ever been to a character. Certainly turned on”

(Source: TheHook/TikTok)

X · Apr 5, 2025, 6:45 PM

[dreamy ledge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKR32ImWYzw

[valid magnet]

At least Jennifer Coolidge is always a blast

https://tenor.com/view/whitelotus-hbo-gif-22574605

[last eagle]

lol

[toxic spoke]

food channel i like getting cooked for doing a claude ai sponsored video

[hoary charm]

my junior intern friend claude is just trying to make a living man

[valid magnet]

Stop Claude, creativity is dying and the world is burning

[charred fulcrum]

Oh wow

[blazing depot]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GntUD9RXIAElGXU.png:orig

lmao

Truly fried brains

[ruby helm]

Gangs can move to smuggling nintendo switches to avoid the tariffs

[fossil basin]

I mean it often times had been a political thing, problem is that people for some reason equate political with "forbidden to discuss/taboo"

Even the most seemingly unrelated things like "picture of fat pikachu" is political in a way

Especially now with turkish protests kickstarting giant pikachu in rallies and tv stations for some reason villainifying the pokemon

[eager parrot]

everything can be political if you want it to be

and 'taking politics out of it' is also stupid when it comes to obviously politically-flavored subject matter

[blazing depot]

The context here is important. No, Nintendo didn't make it political by reacting to a 46% price hike put on them.

[eager parrot]

Japanese company whose business is directly impacted by Trump tariffs choosing not to export their new game device into the US is both good business and is also a political statement.

their new game pricing aside, Nintendo at least tries to price their devices at an accessible level, usually anyway.

[ruby helm]

I think they aren't even choosing not to export it, just delaying while they wait and see if there will be a 180 on the tariffs a few weeks later or not

[eager parrot]

most of the world is in that mode right now I suspect

but I think they really need to move on without the US now, otherwise this flipflopping mid-administration and at every administration change is going to cause them too much harm in the long run.

[ruby helm]

If the rich companies behind the republicians don't like it, trump can admit their will some "exemptions" to the tariffs, and it was "never" the plan that they would apply to all products

or say he has signed an incredible deal with countries that consists of nothing all because he threatened to tariff them

[eager parrot]

I mean...

I think he's just being peak boomer burn it all and take it down as he withers away mode right now

he is a first year boomer after all.

if it works it works, if not, he won't care for much longer.

every single one of us probably knows at least one boomer who is withholding all their wealth from their children, or watching some expensive collection rot away.

this is just on a much grander scale.

[blazing depot]

Thing is, while he will also ruin the economy elsewhere the ones suffering the most will still be Americans who slowly realize that only a complete imbecile with a single digit IQ can believe a country can be 100% self sufficient in the globalist economy we have today. This isn't the 1800s (and hell, even back then there was no such thing)

[hoary charm]

chill, you'll wake up the juche enjoyers

[eager parrot]

TW: AI-generated art:
https://x.com/paulskallas/status/1908196250282778840

LindyMan (@PaulSkallas) on X

**opens the hollowed out, rusted door of an old dilapidated factory that hasn't been used in 50 years**

It's time to make some socks

X · Apr 4, 2025, 4:33 PM

[blazing depot]

The tl;dr of the screenshot above is still not Nintendo making a political statement though, it's literally this shitty meme
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GntmNKoWUAEG0kn.jpg:orig

[eager parrot]

there's a rush of people purchasing big ticket stuff like cars, appliances, electronics, etc. before tariffs have their full impact

[hoary charm]

i've seen a couple generated pics of stereotypical maga voters in sweatshops now

[eager parrot]

it's the only way

[blazing depot]

They wouldn't even last a week

[eager parrot]

ironically I think Canada produces more clothes domestically than the US does now

at least scaled to the size of the population/economy

[hoary charm]

am kinda wondering if corporations will apply blanket price increases worldwide or just on US sales

[eager parrot]

what do you think?

greedy corporations will try to extract every cent they can

[hoary charm]

real

if they do then i might try getting work to get me a laptop sooner rather than later

[eager parrot]

in fact, what's going to happen is domestic producers will price their stuff JUST A HAIR below the tarrif-impacted imported product of the same type and category

because again, everybody thinks things will go back to normal in half a year or so...

might as well make a profit

I'm gonna try and score a german-made appliance or two before tarrifs hit

my dishwasher's control boards exploded a while back and I've been putting off replacing it for months

[hoary charm]

become an appliance trafficker

[fossil basin]

Maybe not recently, but that definitely is a poltical action, i think it is a justified reaction by nintendo but not because it is "non-political"

Making someone political does not equate to making something bad or unneeded

Often times being political is what is needed

[eager parrot]

maybe this is what trump meant by invigorating domestic businesses and markets

the black market will thrive

[ruby helm]

If you go on holiday to japan, can you bring back 5 nintendo switches for your family and not have to pay tariffs?

[eager parrot]

grey market electronics (legit purchases from europe and japan usually which carry no warranty in the US) for example were already doing pretty well

this will supercharge it

[eager parrot]

you might get away with one, maybe two if you get rid of the packaging

but only if you are an american-born caucasian

everybody else is getting increased scrutiny I hear

[ruby helm]

putting aside the getting away with it, if you take 5 switches on holiday with you to japan and then bring them back again there are no tariffs right, as they just your possesions you took with you and took back

[eager parrot]

in theory yeah, in practice they might ask you to provide receipts or proof that it is not an import of a new product

[charred fulcrum]

Hmm

I am gonna go frank here and say I am quite the empty can when in terms of global economy

And now the word "tariff" gets thrown around

Like I know what it is

I think I do

[hoary charm]

hello frank

[charred fulcrum]

Tariff :

American buy China parts, buy base price + 46% tariffs

So if part cost 100

Importer pays 146

Am I in the right track so far?

[hoary charm]

yeah

[charred fulcrum]

Okay so with that imposed tariff on the importer

Importer needs margin to resell to American market

Thus more expens

Is that correct?

[hoary charm]

yes

sometimes parts go back and forth which means tariff multiple times

iirc a lot of car parts do that between canada and mexico

[charred fulcrum]

Yeah how in the fuck tariffs will help American people?

Cause I don't see it

And I am probably the most Malaysian around here aka not caring about the US

[hoary charm]

tariffs are usually used to protect domestic production by making overseas production artificially more expensive

trump seems to think that corporations will suddenly rush to bring production back to the US

[charred fulcrum]

Ok but as we all know

Like.....we all know

There isn't mass produce factories in America

[hoary charm]

as well as paying down the national debt via tariff income

[charred fulcrum]

Or there is, just not the important and mundane ones

[hoary charm]

ironically probably one of the only high value/tech mass manufacturing the US has is starlink terminals

[charred fulcrum]

Yeah lmao AMD is in Malaysia

Qualcomm is jumping ship to Malaysia

NVIDIA also I heard, jumping ship to Malaysia

But guess what we also buy raw materials from China

[hoary charm]

a lot of companies moved from china to vietnam to avoid china tariffs, just for vietnam to get tariffed more than china

[hoary charm]

yeah thats another big issue that theyve ignored. the supply chain all the way down is mostly china based

[charred fulcrum]

So what I am seeing here is iPhones gonna priced more in America

[hoary charm]

considering there's a 10% base on every country, everything will get more expensive

which is just inflationary

[charred fulcrum]

And then they felt "hey I think I might not be able to sustain this let's go back to Android"

but naw wait even budget midrange phones will be priced higher cause chipsets

Am I to understand that America is imploding slowly as we speak?

[hoary charm]

more or less

[charred fulcrum]

Okay huh

That wasn't that hard to understand

So why is them discussing and debating like it's deeper than it is?

[hoary charm]

who

[charred fulcrum]

"No it's not that straightforward, you just don't fully grasp the tariff concept"

[charred fulcrum]

Uh massive amounts of internet comments of which I will not mention where they are from

For it will be obvious as to why

[hoary charm]

republicans are fuckin stupid

thats why

[charred fulcrum]

Right

So I don't need to be an American to understand American tariffs

[hoary charm]

tldr is that trying to understand trump is a waste of time

[charred fulcrum]

And they insinuating I need to be American to get the benefits of this....tariffs

[dreamy ledge]

we benefit by getting higher prices on everything... wait

🥁

wait wrong sound

[vital needle]

Everyone on the internet likes to invoke the national identity card when you criticize a country because it is way easier than actually thinking about anything

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/atrupar/status/1908895557973598536 finally i can pursue my dream of becoming a screw screwer

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."

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FxTwitter · Apr 6, 2025, 2:52 PM

[blazing depot]

Except in the US they'll skip the anti suicide nets on the factory roof

[blazing depot]

https://fixupx.com/atrupar/status/1908882401742159958

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

TAPPER: The European Union don't take as much as American pork because they have issues with hormones used in pork. It's not an issue about tariffs
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︀︀BROOKE ROLLINS: No no no. This is really important. Here's the bottom line. They are using fake science and unsubstantiated claims to not take our products

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FixupX · Apr 6, 2025, 2:00 PM

That gosh darned fake science

[trim flicker]

lmao

[hoary charm]

crypto tumbling down now, gonna be brutal on monday market open

[livid frigate]

Awesome

[half heath]

Man i can't believe i only learned about all those protests last night. I've seen 0 proper coverage of them except a few pics and clips on reddit

Scary how far the censorship is going these days

even here i don't think anybody mentioned it

[half heath]

https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1908537463318208581?t=xK9RVAVqvUhhIYDV6u4OXg&s=19

Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) on X

"One of the highest tariff rates, 50 percent, was imposed on the African nation of Lesotho, whose average citizen earns less than $5 a day.

Because Lesotho’s citizens are too poor to afford most U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237 million in diamonds and other goods from

X · Apr 5, 2025, 3:09 PM

[last eagle]

https://fxtwitter.com/yashar/status/1908353005310927266

Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar)

Mariah Carey popped into her 13-year-old son’s bedroom and ended up in his Twitch stream for a second.
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︀︀He got embarrassed and asked her to leave his room.
︀︀
︀︀Also, “Mrs. Carey.” 😂

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FxTwitter · Apr 5, 2025, 2:56 AM

[eager parrot]

https://publish.finviz.com/040725/sec_all_w4_023263120.png

Not low enough.

[proud tulip]

I'm tired of winning now please make it stop

[eager parrot]

How many worldwide crashes is that now within one millennial generation?

I know they called it millennials, but they didn't mean once in a millennium happenings should be a regular occurrence for us >_>

Still, I don't mind this. Needed a correction, needs to keep going lower. Time for a repeat of 1920's >:)

[hoary charm]

euro indexes shitting the bed

[marsh oracle]

Chat is it bad if my trading app cant even load the data?

[eager parrot]

bloodbath in about six hours

[hoary charm]

premarket in 30 min

[marsh oracle]

Makes for a funny looking graph at least

[valid magnet]

We go doooowwwwnnn

[proud tulip]

time to buy! (if you can afford it)

just gonna keep putting my monthly amount in

always bounces back

[ocean vigil]

orange monday hype

[marsh oracle]

Yea im not gonna put more cash in other than that until trump is gone again lmao

[proud tulip]

yeah

im nervous to even keep doing it but

historically its been a good decision so can only go with that

[eager parrot]

nah it has a lot more room to go down, only gonna put money in if there are signs of a bounce, but otherwise fuck this market rn

[icy pine]

Sorry for my ignorance, but may I know what this channel about and what would be the appropriate demeanor in this channel?

[proud tulip]

there's no set rule but a run down of this compared to the other main chat channels is something like:

#orbit-chat - first main chat, general talk/short conversations/welcomes/yapping
#kpop-chat-2 - slightly longer conversations, usually about kpop scandals and other things like that but not limited to only that
#1042073107554381864 - longer drawn conversations, usually in the realm of politics/economics/news related stuff

none of those are set rules but its just how the channels have developed over time

[icy pine]

Ah so various topics can be discussed in this channel

[proud tulip]

yeah! this is part of the forum so if you want to go in depth on a specific topic you can open a post about it, you'll see the kinda stuff that has had posts already

but this used to be just one channel that followed a similar point of conversation, so kept the same kinda vibe once we converted to a forum

[icy pine]

Aha thanks for your guidance, I’ll consider opening new forums

[proud tulip]

It'll be worth searching in the forum to see if there's a post already on the topic, and feel free to revive it if there is, but if not yeah please create whatever you're looking to talk about

[icy pine]

Okay. Thanks, but by the way, it looks like i don’t have authority to create new posts yet. 😐

[proud tulip]

Ohh sorry I didn't see you didn't have the Orbit role yet. It comes after chatting in current places, you're gaining xp for each message you sent. Keep an eye on your roles when the Orbit one appears (I think it's the second one with a Galaxy emoji) you will be able to do it

[hoary charm]

oil below $60

its so over

[dire canopy]

I honestly have no idea how investing in stocks works or how it is worth because I'm completely financially illiterate

but I assume this isn't good for my bank account either

[proud tulip]

your direct bank account wont take a hit if youre not investing, but if we go into a recession things will cost more and your pay wont go up

also on a scarier note a lot of companies make cuts in a recession so a lot of people lose their jobs

[proud tulip]

@hoary charm

[icy pine]

Thank you for your guidance!!

[valid magnet]

Rowling went from a raging transphobe to a raging acephobe, what is the mold telling her

[fossil basin]

it just was a natural progression, but also more so an unfocused revelation rather

surely at some point it will become clear to people that JK is a promoter of patriachy herself

it should have been evident even from the writing style and character handling within the HP series

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/SASForPres/status/1909254659195167125?t=qEWovOYnITZWKVQN7RERAg&s=19

Stephen A. 2028 Fans (@SASForPres)

he deleted the fake tweet which caused the rise, lock him up.

Quoting *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone)
︀
WHITE HOUSE SAYS 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS IS 'FAKE NEWS' -CNBC

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FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2025, 2:39 PM

[keen nest]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1001554365787668534/1358553137555964107/image0.jpg?ex=67f4eb74&is=67f399f4&hm=98e0c2da6e3d925f62d0ebdec2c411a7641c88b5e22359abd8ab5c69b81b0108&

[marsh oracle]

The market is so high on copium they apparently believe everything right now lmfao

[charred fulcrum]

My god brother you sound like Claude for a second there

Seems like you craft your sentences too well

[keen nest]

Stocks on sale rn yep #notfinancialadvice

[keen nest]

[trim flicker]

sound business decisions all throughout

[vital needle]

If you really crunch the numbers, the Vatican has an overall pope concentration of 5,2 popes per square mile

Think about it

[dire canopy]

Apparently Vatican wasnt hit by the tariffs

Italy could probably do something funny now

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/ChineseEmbinUS/status/1909243694336581747?t=o5Rg9WaqTN8Z-tV3grOThw&s=19
never thought day would come to see China post Reagan free trade speech

Chinese Embassy in US (@ChineseEmbinUS)

Ronald Reagan vs. #tariffs : 1987 speech finds new relevance in 2025

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FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2025, 1:55 PM

[blazing depot]

I saw my favorite meme template used and that's all I need

[blazing depot]

https://fixupx.com/atrupar/status/1909034677727272997

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

Trump calls for Europe to pay reparations to the US: "We put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table. They want to talk, but there's no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis number one for present but also for past."

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FixupX · Apr 7, 2025, 12:05 AM

[shadow elbow]

lol

[blazing depot]

If anyone has to pay it's England, it's their bastard child after all

All of this is amazing to watch

The people who are trying to reason "this isn't that bad, trust" are coming up with the dumbest shit

[nova holly]

only market in the green is silksong news

[fossil basin]

https://FxTWitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1909040510607704339?t=lPkp3KiayOVaP032iQWXeQ&s=19for
of course the 25 hour non-filibuster "filibuster" Cory Booker signs the appointment

Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts)

The following 16 Democratic Senators voted to confirm Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary:
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︀︀Blunt Rochester
︀︀Booker
︀︀Cantwell
︀︀Coons
︀︀Fetterman
︀︀Gallego
︀︀Gillibrand
︀︀Hassan
︀︀Hickenlooper
︀︀Kaine
︀︀Kelly
︀︀King
︀︀Peters
︀︀Shaheen
︀︀Slotkin
︀︀Warner

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FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2025, 12:28 AM

[marsh oracle]

You know whos really getting fucked by these tariffs? https://www.psacard.com/articles/articleview/15158/2025-tariff-regulations-canada-mexico-china

Can only service us customers now

[vital needle]

https://youtu.be/Rm6IfCMI2XA?si=BBRsarfudEgG7F16

Guys, bolsonaro sent you a message

Popcorn AN
Ice cream
Sinners
Setenta dias
For cook
The tha
In brasil

Hope you got that

[blazing depot]

Que

[vital needle]

He does it at 0:20

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/stephenasmith/status/1909351624491122709?t=cwmnEohfRC1fUAEOUiSDPg&s=19

Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith)

Time to stop messing around. Life is great. Especially at ESPN/Disney. Hate the thought of being a politician. But sick of this mess.
︀︀
︀︀So I’m officially leaving all doors open barrettmedia.com/2025/04/07/stephen-a-smith-no-longer-ruling-out-possibility-of-running-for-president-in-2028/

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FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2025, 9:04 PM

not after when he spreads hate on current gen of players

[marsh oracle]

Luckily for everybody the democrats can just bernie the guy out of the race

[blazing depot]

https://fixupx.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/1908974742444335358

Bricktop_NAFO (@Bricktop_NAFO)

This is just bonkers. Wtaf.

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FixupX · Apr 6, 2025, 8:07 PM

bruh

[hoary charm]

https://x.com/ChineseEmbinUS/status/1909350269009219937

Chinese Embassy in US (@ChineseEmbinUS) on X

@realDonaldTrump

X · Apr 7, 2025, 8:59 PM

twitter warfare

[marsh oracle]

Honestly you cant even be mad at this

https://fxtwitter.com/colossal/status/1909289252711739855 great we got irl dire wolves before winds of winter 🙄

Colossal Biosciences® (@colossal)

Meet Romulus and Remus—the first animals ever resurrected from extinction. The dire wolf, lost to history over 10,000 years ago, has returned. Reborn on October 1, 2024, these remarkable pups were brought back to life using ancient DNA extracted from fossilized remains.
︀︀
︀︀Watch the pups grow up and catch exclusive videos on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@itiscolossal

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FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2025, 4:56 PM

[last eagle]

https://fxtwitter.com/Dexerto/status/1909333820912079278

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

Johnny Somali is facing more jail time for sexual harassment
︀︀
︀︀He faces up to 10 years in jail with labor, or a fine of up to $34,000

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FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2025, 7:53 PM

and there's still more to come

[eager parrot]

here's a nice made up graph to show how indices going up doesn't mean much over a long period of time...

dot com bubble got real damn close though

[marsh oracle]

Its like when people talk about how the government is taking in record amounts of taxes (although that might be more a quirk of german politics)

You already know you can tune out cause theyre gonna spout some bullshit

[trim flicker]

graphs

[half heath]

Man Carney is really growing on me

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1909041664573792744

Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) on X

KFC Releases ’Fried Chicken’ Flavored toothpaste

X · Apr 7, 2025, 12:32 AM

[pale knot]

https://x.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1909277911875526872?t=x3YYRMnDmEZ8BdKszTNtYg&s=19 stumbled upon this

Globe Eye News (@GlobeEyeNews) on X

BREAKING:

China restricts exports of seven rare earth metals to all countries.

X · Apr 7, 2025, 4:11 PM

How greatly will this affect the tech industry

[charred fulcrum]

oh what

[icy pine]

Lol, Thanks though. I actually used llm for english speaking, it seems it helps

[charred fulcrum]

Oh so you're not native

Where are you from?

I mean I figured that

[icy pine]

Yep I’m not native english speaker
I am in S Korea

[dreamy ledge]

don't know who cleantechnica is so I don't know how accurate their info is but saw it on reddit a few days ago.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/

[charred fulcrum]

oh US

So Malaysia can still thrive

[hoary charm]

to all countries.

[dreamy ledge]

the twt says global so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[icy pine]

it seems like the image was created by ai, but i am not sure

[pale knot]

It says global and I believe in Twitter ||/s||

[icy pine]

Do you mind if i know where you are from?

[charred fulcrum]

Malaysia

[icy pine]

Ohh

[dreamy ledge]

we got reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-hits-back-us-tariffs-with-rare-earth-export-controls-2025-04-04/

[charred fulcrum]

..

This smells bad

[pale knot]

Oh I see

[charred fulcrum]

Like really bad

[hoary charm]

trade wars are usually pretty bad yeah

[icy pine]

DJI and S&P 500

I mean DJIA seems decreasing in recent times

[ocean vigil]

https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3lmax7eirxc22

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 (@josephpolitano.bsky.social)

I’m losing my mind here. USTR made a list of “Unfair trade practices” they’re retaliating against, complaint number 5 is that the EU cares too much about stopping illegal deforestation, complaint number 7 is that the South Americans are doing too much illegal deforestation

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Bluesky · Apr 7, 2025, 9:55 PM

[hoary charm]

ill support them shitting on the EU if it means they get rid of cookie banners

[blazing depot]

Well... can't wait to pay double for phones and everything containing computer chips because of all this

[valid magnet]

Great i will never get a gaming pc

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/IndoPopBase/status/1909549267251003887

Indonesian Pop Base (@IndoPopBase) on X

Rp100,000 is now less than $6.

X · Apr 8, 2025, 10:09 AM

thanks, trump

now everything gets expensive again

[charred fulcrum]

Will this mean I can finally attend concerts in Jakarta?

[last eagle]

for a cheap price on your localization, yes

but for us?

[fossil basin]

you are not alone, highest turkish banknote is also less than 6 dollars of value

hell the 100000 rph are more valuable than the highest turkish banknote of 200 tls currently

albeit there are speculations country could release a 500tl banknote soon, idk if it holds any value though

[marsh oracle]

Slightly concerning that the news of previously announced tariffs actually happening makes the markets nose dive again

Investing in copium production

[fossil basin]

https://x.com/ap/status/1909666439729922277?s=46&t=FQQ80tlYpPKcuiyg1ibuUA

The Associated Press (@AP) on X

BREAKING: At least 44 dead and 160 injured in a roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic https://t.co/uRnNkZdt4f

X · Apr 8, 2025, 5:55 PM

[blazing depot]

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5236112-trump-plans-june-14-military-parade/

Classic

[trim flicker]

markets are fake

[toxic spoke]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-media-court-white-house-events-access-f346a0efe87c1dec4d6f90e6041abd09

[marsh oracle]

Backstabbed by his own appointee

Maga marching orders going out right now, we got a new amy coney barrett

[blazing depot]

Bro just gonna defy another judge's order, no big deal

[hoary charm]

3ish hours until 104% tariff on china

[hoary charm]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-will-soon-announce-tariffs-pharmaceutical-imports-2025-04-09/

[trim flicker]

does the current state of the market affect the value of my A319 Nakyoung from the World Cup

[blazing depot]

https://fixupx.com/CalltoActivism/status/1909665581869285507?t=BaObhdzZ3Nl4JQ-tJyrL0A&s=19

CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism)

BREAKING NEWS: In a shocking statement, Karoline Leavitt confirms the Trump Administration is taking steps on a pathway to deport AMERICAN CITIZENS to El Salvador. This is absolutely insane.

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FixupX · Apr 8, 2025, 5:52 PM

Truly amazing

And in trade war news

https://fixupx.com/typesfast/status/1909362292367802840?t=-gKEu3MDO0IljekPJNJapQ&s=19

Ryan Petersen (@typesfast)

On April 17th the U.S. Trade Representative's office is expected to impose fees of up to $1.5M per port call for ships made in China and for $500k to $1M if the ocean carrier owns a single ship made in China or even has one on order from a Chinese shipyard. 🧵 1/

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FixupX · Apr 7, 2025, 9:46 PM

Good thing that there are... checks notes... exactly 0 mega container ships built in the US to compensate this

[hoary charm]

i dont know shit about bonds but the 30 year just hit 5%

which is apparently really bad

[last eagle]

trump ruining america, not surprised

[half heath]

iirc government bonds are supposed to be one of the safest investments. It dropping low should be really bad

[charred fulcrum]

China has to pay or US has to pay? I am quite hazy on this part

Well US won't pay

Importers will?

[hoary charm]

importers

[charred fulcrum]

US importers

So you're telling me Xiaomi/Huawei/Honor phones will be priced triple the MSRP?

Like there's gonna be US MSRP, and rest of the world MSRP

[eager parrot]

You can as a country put tariffs on exports too.

but most of this trade war seems focused on import tariffs/taxes

[charred fulcrum]

104% seems like suicidal

Suddenly mundane house hardware will gonna be priced double

Cause like 70% of what we use is most probably Made In China

And definitely not in a thousand years China will even lay a hand on that imposed tariff

They can just do business somewhere else

[eager parrot]

70% nominally sounds about right, but when you start looking at specific categories, it's nearly 100%.

[charred fulcrum]

Well yeah

Suppose a toaster

Might be assembled in the US

But the thermostat is deffo Chinese

Heating element

Circuit

[eager parrot]

there are simply too many things we no longer produce domestically

and a significant portion of that has to do with electrical and electronic parts

that's not to say there isn't a path towards that domestic production within a decade or so, but this is really an extreme way to go about it

[charred fulcrum]

I dunno even a decade seems super optimistic

[eager parrot]

and to alienate EVERY nation is really just idiotic. You'd want to keep some on your side while you move production stateside.

[eager parrot]

well it depends

the LABOR is the main issue, who is gonna be doing the work, but moving the production capabilities stateside isn't going to be that challenging if there is a will.

[charred fulcrum]

US has to reverse their decision of labeling every immigrant legal or not as "aliens" and that has to happen now

[charred fulcrum]

LMAO yeah like

[eager parrot]

I don't know. there aren't THAT many illegal immigrants in the US to be fair. Just stop giving all the citizens rights and liberty, and we can be just like China in a decade 🙂

[charred fulcrum]

These ....so called immigrants have been doing them bottom of the barrel labours that is but a crucial thing to keep a factory running

"Wait...you're making me do this? Clearing the sump?"

[eager parrot]

to be fair, what you're describing is really state dependent

it's not all illegal immigrants doing the work

[charred fulcrum]

"uhuh yeah because this Murjeet guy we've been asking him to do got deported so yeah you're the one's gonna do it after him"

[eager parrot]

That sounds like Canada, given they are the ones using Indian students as manual labor.

[charred fulcrum]

oh kek

[eager parrot]

which is really sad when you read about it, they are all high and mighty about how much they are better than the US

but they are also importing essentially a lower near slave class of laborers through various visa scams