• MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    It is my great honour to announce that I have made a trade deal with the round device on the wall. I bet the batteries, for free and it will correctly tell the time twice a day.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    “we will give you paying us taxes and in exchange we can ravage your economy”

    this is a caricature of a caricature of itself. its kind of funny that the literal president of the united states is saying shit like this. this just cannot be true.

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    15 hours ago

    So American will pay between 20 and 40% tax on goods coming from Vietnam but the Vietnamese can buy US goods with no tax?

    Cool.

    Do Americans know this?

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        10 hours ago

        It’s funny. 20 to 40 tax on Americans and none on the Vietnamese and he thinks that people who make an average of USD$8,000 per year are going to buy $100,000 US SUVs. He’s a delusional idiot.

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          10 hours ago

          I some times ask myself is it dementia or imbecility?

          Does that man understand the bullshit coming out of his holes, or is it the narcism that makes him talk and talk and talk, no matter how much lunacy is it the words leaving him…

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            If I had no idea who he was, I could give extreme benefit of the doubt and say it’s spin. Claiming a loss is really a win.

            But we do know who he is, so I’m going with imbecility.

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              1 hour ago

              I clicked on the link and There’s no german page for that… but there’s a page in Pfälzisch, the dialect people in the german region Palatinate (Pfalz) speak.

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    SUV=SubUrban Vehicle

    That’s what I thought the acronym stood for when I was younger, because I would usually see them in suburbs. Now that I’m older, I refuse to call them sport utility vehicles because suburban vehicle is a much better description of their intended use-case.

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      10 hours ago

      Considering there is nothing sport or utility about them, I think your name for them is fitting.

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      They’re great at driving onto sidewalks, or over the curb if the person in front is taking too long at the drive thru.

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    17 hours ago

    You know, it’s getting seriously difficult for me to discern Trump’s actual posts from parody accounts.

    The way he writes and says things… It just sounds like someone trolling.

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      I almost wonder if there’s a PR team making them, trying to impersonate Trump’s style.

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        Definitely. This one was not written by him. Too many accurate details about Vietnamese titles and too many long words in general. When he writes his own they are usually in all caps, doesn’t contain any large words, but frequently contains typos instead.

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      @Tattorack @Davriellelouna Trump himself is completely out to lunch. He doesn’t know what his own policies are, only that he’s been told that whatever he just signed will make him look powerful and manly. The handlers running his accounts are just having fun knowing they can make abundantly clear that the dictator has no idea what’s going on and civil society is (for now) powerless to do anything. That can only go on for so long…

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      As I keep saying: It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.

      https://lemmy.world/comment/17225002

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        My supposition is that he’s a complete moron following advice from someone working off a protectionism 101 primer from 1834 who had Randian bullshit physically replace his brain to the point where they don’t do the rest of the steps to make the protectionism work because that’s the government doing stuff and therefore communism

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    Lol, one visit to Vietnam can easily show you why an SUV is not going to be a hit there. It’s basically motorcycle country. Cars are pretty common too, but motorcycles are basically THE form of transportation there.

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      Unfortunately their governemnt is investing heavily into car only infrastructure which bikes aren’t allowed to use. It’s frustrating to see considering their cities are already at maximum traffic with motorbikes alone. Adding cars to the mix there just isn’t possible.

      Also there’s no way that US automakers will be able to outcompete Vinfast and Chinese EVs who are working with better subsidies and significantly cheaper labor.

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        That’s ok, there will be a statement at some point in the near future from some Vietnamese official denying that any of this post from Trump is true.

        This has been the pattern, I’ve no doubt it will continue to be.

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      I’m in Hanoi right now. Theres quite a few SUVs and crossovers. Maybe between 1:4 and 1:8 cars to bikes.

      Mostly Kias and Toyotas, I saw 1 Ford Explorer.

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        20 hours ago

        1:4 is a wild ratio. I can’t picture that in Saigon, but maybe Hanoi is a lot different

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          I was in Saigon in 2016 and there were quite a few SUVs, lots of larger Toyotas like Land Cruisers for Uber, etc.

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          It’s so bad for the flow of traffic.

          I can only pray the government does something to discourage cars and encourage electric bikes before it gets worse.

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      And their streets are narrow, especially in the French quarter of Hanoi and other older areas. The vehicles in use currently are often very small to make it easier to navigate the narrow roads (and street/laneway parking) and like you mention - the scooters, which are like 90% of vehicle traffic.