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by inverted_flag 1y ago
The Trump team doesn’t seem to understand the severity of what they’ve done to the economy. Shipping volume is cratering and warehouses are being depleted. People are going to notice the upcoming price hikes and shortages no matter how the
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> The ranking of the top 10 largest sources of DDoS attacks in 2025 Q1 also shifted notably. Hong Kong soared to the number one position, climbing three spots from the previous quarter. China being China.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
The answer to "Is China Pulling Ahead in X?" is going to be "yes" for the foreseeable future.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Wait until the shortages begin.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Trump called Bezos and Bezos bent the knee https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-news... > President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this morning to complain about reports that h
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> Imagine it's people on the right wing saying that about a Democrat, regarding guns or abortion, etc. I don’t have to imagine that because I was alive during the Obama administration. Look up United States v Bagdasarian to see how
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
All flagged to death of course.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> “He was usually watching videos about Palestine and was so angry at America,” one acquaintance told iStories. “He started thinking about going to Russia. He wanted to war with the USA. But I think he was very influenced by the conspira
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
https://archive.is/QyVpW
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Except neither the essay nor title make explicit death threats against the president. https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-we-kill-them
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George Mason University calls cops on student for article criticizing Trump(thefire.org)
20 points by inverted_flag 1y ago|15 comments
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> Will younger generations actually plunk down $20,000 or more to own a Slate vehicle that won't go into production until the fourth quarter of 2026 Not worth devoting any brain cycles to this thing if it’s that far out still given
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
He's going to get people killed eventually.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
He's German if you're wondering. The article doesn't mention it.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Still stuns me that this was all self inflicted. Imagine how better off the US would be if Trump had done nothing but golf the entire month.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> Learn from mistakes and move on We’ll see if he’s even capable of that. https://lite.cnn.com/2025/04/23/business/new-tariffs-trump-w...
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
It's because the election ended and the astroturfing fulfilled it's purpose.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Yes, because he's one of a handful of examples that get trotted out every time this topic comes up. The scale of China's theft is simply incomparable.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
I think he genuinely thought China would immediately cave and he could score an easy deal off of them.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
I'm pretty sure it's already lost. If a nearly perfect sequence of events happened, yes, we could pivot our auto industry to EVs and gain on China, but we're sprinting in the opposite direction for the foreseeable future.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
I wish people would stop posting links to SCMP, it’s a blatant propaganda rag. This article spends five sentences talking about the actual problem solved, and the rest is about the Chinese background of the authors, the Chinese social media
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
https://archive.is/RZ8Rb
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
https://archive.is/RZ8Rb
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Also a fun fact: The Dow has dropped 1000 points in a day 11 times in it's history. 4 have occurred in the past month.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
https://archive.is/g9ICh
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
They want the US to become a net exporter of goods, but they're too stupid to make that transition happen or to realize that that would make the US a much poorer country, so they're just going to spin their wheels while stocks, bo
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
> The story shows how export controls can backfire. By pushing Nvidia out, Washington may have accidentally helped China build its own AI chip industry faster than anyone expected. The US keeps doing this and failing to learn from it.
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Even if Powell isn't fired, his term is up in a year anyway and Trump appoints his successor. It's just delaying the inevitable.
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Risk of Dementia in People with ER Visits or Hospitalizations Due to Cannabis(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
5 points by inverted_flag 1y ago|3 comments
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by inverted_flag 1y ago
Turns out Reddit circa 2017 was completely right about Trump.

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