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zyklon said:
This guy appears to be a conman shilling crypto to the dumb and lazy. No wonder Trump resonates with him.



Some of his posts can be somewhat entertaining.

However, they'd be more insightful if shared with more commentary and context.
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The problem is twitter is really becoming a shithole now where everyone is just trying to say the most retarded thing to get engagement. As I previously posted you are getting Indian crypto scammers pretending to be whites caring about whether the west is falling.

So posting shitty takes of literal who's and blatant baiters should be avoided where possible.
 
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US to demand EU pulls away from China in return for cutting tariffs​

The United States will seek to force the European Union to choose between the US and China on trade, according to briefings circulated to senior ministers and officials after Tánaiste Simon Harris’s meeting in Washington last week with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick.

The briefings, confirmed by multiple senior sources, go considerably further than before in identifying the ultimate US agenda for any future trade negotiations.

They suggest that the overall US strategy is to decouple from China, and that any country who wishes to have a trade deal with the US will also have to distance itself from Beijing.

At present US tariffs on China amount to 145 per cent – though some electronic products, including mobile phones and laptops – were given a temporary reprieve over the weekend.

The briefings suggest that the US is willing to consider a trade deal with the EU on these terms – but it would also want the EU to limit or discontinue non-tariff barriers to trade, potentially including stringent EU product standards, including some food standards.

At present neither US beef nor chicken can gain entry to the EU market because of strict EU rules – something which has repeatedly been complained of by the Trump administration.

But senior Irish and EU sources dismissed any chance that the EU would change its standards on, for example, hormone-treated beef and chlorine-washed chicken.

The briefing also suggests there is a strong likelihood of specific tariffs on pharmaceutical imports being imposed even during the 90-day pause – which saw the tariff on most EU goods reduced from 20 per cent to 10 per cent – announced by president Donald Trump last week.

The US may impose these additional tariffs even though it wants to see trade negotiations completed within this period. The tariffs on pharma could be introduced perhaps within a month, it is expected.

Yesterday Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris said that it would be “inappropriate” if the US were to impose further tariffs during negotiations.

“We’re either having good faith discussions or we’re not,” he told RTÉ. “And if we’re having good faith discussions, it means there should be a pause on any additional measures whilst those discussions take place.”

However, Mr Harris said it would be “foolish” to not prepare for a scenario where tariffs on trade announced by Mr Trump remained in place for the long term.

While he said the Government was “preparing for the worst”, it was also pushing for a EU-US deal that would see Mr Trump suspend tariffs he had raised since returning to office.

“When I was in [Washington] DC only a couple of days ago, I got the very clear impression that negotiation was something that the United States was now very interested in,” Mr Harris said.

But Mr Trump again indicated yesterday that his administration was preparing new tariffs on pharmaceutical imports “soon”, arguing that too many medicines are imported from Ireland and other countries and not produced in the US.

European trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, who has been leading the EU’s efforts to negotiate with the US administration, met commerce secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington DC on Monday, for further talks about trade tariffs.

In a brief statement after the meeting, Mr Šefčovič said there was a need to seize the opportunity of Mr Trump’s 90-day pause, where the US president scaled back higher tariff rates, after the policy caused turmoil in the financial markets.

“The EU remains constructive and ready for a deal,” Mr Šefčovič said. He repeated that could include both sides reducing pre-existing tariffs on imports of industrial goods to zero.
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They suggest that the overall US strategy is to decouple from China, and that any country who wishes to have a trade deal with the US will also have to distance itself from Beijing.
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Continental System 2.0 here we go. If you’re wondering why the Whitehouse MAGAtards are mad about Vietnam. There is your answer.
 
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Xi calls for deepening China-Malaysia friendship in signed article​

Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2025-04-15 21:42:00

KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that he looks forward to meeting with Malaysian friends to celebrate the friendship between China and Malaysia and plan for future cooperation.

He made the remarks in a signed article titled "May the Ship of China-Malaysia Friendship Sail Toward an Even Brighter Future" published in local media including the English-language newspaper The Star ahead of his arrival in Malaysia for a state visit.

The two countries must work together to give fresh momentum to their ship of friendship that has sailed through the long river of history, and ensure that it forges ahead steadily toward brighter horizons, he said.

He also expressed the hope that the two peoples will visit each other as often as family.

Xi urged China and Malaysia to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and strengthen cooperation on industrial and supply chains.

The two sides must uphold the multilateral trading system, keep global industrial and supply chains stable, and maintain an international environment of openness and cooperation, he said.

Xi said that China will work with Malaysia and other ASEAN countries to combat the undercurrents of geopolitical and camp-based confrontation, as well as the countercurrents of unilateralism and protectionism.

Noting that China-ASEAN cooperation is the most results-oriented and most productive in the region, Xi said that China firmly supports ASEAN unity and community-building, and supports ASEAN centrality in the regional architecture.

He also said that China fully supports Malaysia in its role as ASEAN chair for 2025.

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based on this aren't we in 1933, since the Liberation Day tariffs are just getting started and we have yet to see the consequences? I would say that the deportation so far are more like the opening of Dacau in 1933, a test case of extra judicial power.

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Nuremberg Laws are coming up soon then.
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What's surprising about this takeover is how lazy it is. The Nazis had to pass an Enabling act, dissolve the opposition parties, replace state governments with Nazi governors, rework the civil service before they could think about passing Nuremberg laws. The only thing on the List that Trump government is seriously doing is purging the civil service.

What Trump is doing is ignoring the opposition. The courts have passed multiple injections telling Trump to do X and Trump simply refuses to do it. It's a lazy takeover because the establishment is so used to following the rules that when Trump breaks them, they have no idea how to resist. In contrast, the Nazis had to fight social democrats, communists and even the President who threatened to sack Hitler and institute martial law.

Tbh one has to wonder if this is how US democracy ends, with all the checks and balances simply ignored as the enforcement agencies are subordinated to the ruling party.
 
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zyklon said:
Reducing, if not averting due process is definitely a part of the formula, especially as it cuts red tape, which in turn reduces all sorts of administrative and operational expenditures.

However, what's even more impactful is that incarcerating prisoners in a third world country is not only cheaper, but it's also terrifying to all sorts of domestic audiences.

What better way to subtly intimidate domestic critics than to threaten them with incarceration in a prison in the exotic and malaria infested jungles or remote and inhospitable mountains of Latin America?! :cool:



America isn't actively pursuing genocide in this instance. That would require clearer intent and more effort.

America, especially the Trump block, wants to deport unlawful foreign migrants quickly, easily and mercilessly, even if it means some (or a not so insignificant number of) lawful immigrants and/or otherwise innocent parties are harmed in the process.

It's really an act of frustration.
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Deportation is typically to country of origin. Sending 3rd country foreigners or US citizens to an unrelated country is not deportation.
 
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Continental System 2.0 here we go. If you’re wondering why the Whitehouse MAGAtards are mad about Vietnam. There is your answer.
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This is absolutely idiotic, the US is basically offering nothing but less punishment that was just suddenly imposed. To add insult to injury, the US will continue imposing more punishment as they negotiate to lower the initial punishment. The EU is entering this negotiation as masochists, the “whip me some more Master Trump” type. I think the political landscape of the EU will change very soon for better or for worst.

If the EU actually takes whatever deal the US has in mind then the EU will have no way out and likely have their industries gutted, they wouldn’t even need tariffs at that point because there will be nothing they produce to trade. They will be nothing but an agrarian society in 100 years.
 
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Continental System 2.0 here we go. If you’re wondering why the Whitehouse MAGAtards are mad about Vietnam. There is your answer.
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They suggest that the overall US strategy is to decouple from China, and that any country who wishes to have a trade deal with the US will also have to distance itself from Beijing.
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China is the biggest trade partner of most country no the US.

These stooges can't even define what a "Trade Deal" even means. The Europeans offered a zero tariff deal, basically an Obama era trade deal, but Trump and Navarro don't want that.

What else they want, they want Europe to get rid of the VAT Tax that they need to for their fiscal policy. They want Europe the get rid of their quality standards so Europeans get sick with salmonella rid US meat.

And also while Trump is president is almost impossible to know what he is going to do a year, a month or even a week from now, you may get a "deal" now and a month later you are getting 25% tariffs in all your products.
 
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The RCEP took 6 years of negotiations.
NAFTA took 6 years of negotiations
TPP superseded deal CPTPP took 9 years.

These IDIOTS want a trade deal that include: changes in tax policies in favor of the US, changes in quality standards in favor of the US, changes in the currency favoring the US, force these countries to buy more US debt, force poorer countries the consumption of expensive US products, geo-economical loyalty to the US in detrimental of their own economies AND much more. All of that meanwhile at the same time they want an obligatory fast reduction of the US trade deficit.

IN THREE MONTHS.

Or either this people in the White house are idiots OR they are manipulating the stock market. Because without the pressure of China and the stock market crash they would have gone with the "liberation day" reciprocal tariffs no matter what.

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