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Experts question whether $499 gold Trump phone can be US-made (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not sure how US domestic cell phone carrier and phone reseller is world news.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because the president of the united states is scamming

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That’s US domestic politics, not world news.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel if it was something like "Swedish Prime Minister launches their own meme coin", it would be world news.
    Or maybe a country that pushes for their own produce to have Geographical Indication (like scotch or champagne) then churning out a bourbon.

    I get that it's local to the US.
    But the US is also currently pissing on global politics with their irrational/misguided/ignorant tariffs, with a strong flavour of "returning jobs to the US".
    And the president of the US is now saying they will launch a Made In US phone for $400.
    And Made In US has to actually be made in the US (by their own laws), not just assembled there.

    So maybe not actual world news, it does contribute to the global opinion/perception of the US government.

    Another example would be a country that criticises another country for abuse of its own citizens, then turning around and abusing its own citizens. At least as I see it.

    But I get your point. It's the US doing things to the US.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I get you too but you also mention the reason why I think this kind of news in a „world news” community is bad for it. Americans are currently deep into a very tribal kind of political debate and start treating every place on the internet that they can find like another battleground. Many websites that report things like tech news try to shoehorn Trump news and quality of that journalism is very low so it gets quite tiring. It’s very hard to find a corner of the internet that’s free from US politics these days, hence I’m trying to push back a bit. It’s not like there’s not enough world-news-worthy stories where Trump behaves like a moron if you need to do that.

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