Trump calls piracy "Non-Tariff Cheating"

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Only male or female shipping allowed.

- Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

Only when you pirate over $1 trillion in a calendar year, so we're fine. Facebook, maybe not so much...

The fuck is "non-tariff cheating" supposed to mean?
- My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he's on about "cheating".
- It means any attempt to not suffer
- It's senile idiot for "I'm a senile idiot."
- As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.
- Good question.
  
  Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.
- Some nonsense phrase they made up
  
  I mean wouldn't it just be "ways to cheat tarrifs"
  Like I guess they don't want to promote that but they could just say "ways to cheat tarrifs we will punish" to try to sound hard.
  But this phrase just makes no sense.
- Don't know but it's extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.
- I believe he's trying to say "here's other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs". Who knows.
  
  I think he's saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.
  Thing is, the list doesn't make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it's called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What's the problem?
  
  Oh, that makes sense.

Just off the top of my head:
Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar's value
Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.
Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.
- (2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.
  (3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.
  (6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.
  (8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war
  
  (6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.
  Not the best example since they're trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.
- OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.
  Rules for thee, not for me!

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

“You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕
- Did you reply to the wrong comment?
  
  The fuck are you on about?

So now he's angry that we've fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn't think our trash goods are food grade?
- I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.
  
  It is our strongest export for the global autistic community 💪🇺🇸

How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.
- I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it's comparatively hilarious that we still won't budge on US "food".

When Trump says piracy, I understand he's referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he's referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.
- When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.
  
  Considering that he thought asylum meant mental asylum, ...yeah, probably.
  
  Well, helllooo there sailor 💖
  
  Crewed by transgenic mice!

Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.
- Does he think
  No.
  
  Precisely.
  He just shitposts. It's not even high-quality shitposting. It's not like becoming president improved anything about him. He doesn't rise to the occasion; the occasion collapses as he rolls over it and makes a mess of it. Every single time.

When they say 'piracy' does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?
- He doesn't think at all.
  
  I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.

Bowling ball test?
- Trump has claimed a few times that, in order for cars to be approved for import in Japan, they must be able to withstand an impact from a bowling ball without denting. It's not a real thing. When the White House press secretary was asked why Trump made up such a weird lie, she said it was "obviously a joke".
  
  throws bowling ball at Cybertruck
  
  Reminds me of the mind-blowing video from Channel 5 news of them interviewing Trump supporters about him posting a pic of himself as king and they say "Oh it means he's the King of Presidents, like Elvis Presley is the King of rock and roll" and I just couldn't possibly facepalm any harder.
  
  Its ironic to be complaining (or rather bullshitting) about japan restricting vehicle imports while the US is restricting imports of kei trucks for reasons.

my concern over IP Theft goes from the ground up, can't help it. I'll worry about what corps think they're missing out on right after I've acknowledged each and every person who has ever written anything on the internet, or shared an original work in any way. the damage done by tech bros pillaging the collective imagination is way higher than $1T

Whose writing this shit for him?
- who's
- AI.
  This is just a list of "but I'm not winning so it's not fairrrrrrrrrr" whining (whinging?)
  
  I feel like if AI would’ve written this, it would make more sense. This reads more like a fever dream.

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.
- I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be
  I think that's when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?
  
  lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.
- I would kill to see a journalist ask him about literally anything from this list.

Govt subsidies? Really?
- I'm guessing that one is toward the EU?
  
  China also subsidises a lot of things. The even subsidise things produced for export, which could be considered dumping.
  
  Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.
  Also it's not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.

I'm not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.
That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.

He doesn't even know or care about how traditional tariffs are supposed to work. What makes him think he knows what the fuck is non-tariff? Old fucking moron.

You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.
I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now
- I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?
  
  Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.
  It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.
  Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful
- Hell, he might end up more coherent.
  
  Trouble is he would still be smarter than bumbling biden.

I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.
- One useful thing about the absolute stupid chaos is that there is hopefully too much absolute stupid chaos for anyone worth a damn to care too much about piracy.
  (Though I don't think we should be resting on laurels either.)
  
  The likes of RIAA and MPAA are probably still lobbying as always. Also don't forget the Internet Archive is being sued by record labels over copyright.
  More than anything, people might be too distracted to defend IP related freedoms right now with all the other issues.

I mean. We could do all that if we want.