I mean, in what other way would he do it, than the single dumbest way imaginable?

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[–] 99 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Everything trump does is done in the single dumbest way imaginable.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Not necessarily - he isn't bright enough to be that consistent. Sometimes he does something okay like a blind man playing darts will occasionally hit the dartboard.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    He hasn't name the Earth into Planet America. Yet...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Like I usually say: a dog would be a better president than the lout in chief: half of the decisions at random would be good and everyone would still think it is a good boy.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Trump shitting on the AI industry has a certain poetry about it

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Would be great if it was just the AI industry, but it's simply expanding what tech is subject to tariffs, so its the people that pay the price. Couldn't afford that RAM already, so I guess it doesn't matter right?

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  • [–] 57 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Has the AI industry tried bribing him more? That usually does the trick.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    While I'm sure the end result will be worse for us in a lot of other ways, one thing i found oddly positive is how his stupid decisions are going to fuck things up:

    Most absurdly, given the priorities of Trump’s AI Action Plan, that tariff approach would cost the US about $90 billion annually in GDP losses and cause about 20 percent of data center projects planned through 2030 to be delayed or canceled

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Trump is literally demented but the ghouls around him are not.

    The plan is plainly obvious.

    The big guys will bribe him and get exceptions which means their competition who can't pay are at a detriment.

    Trump gets bribes.

    They both juice the market knowing the above.

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  • [–] 144 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    AI industry says

    I don't care.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That would be the funniest outcome, the entire bubble pops because the idiots in charge still have not figured out how a supply chain works, or what the effects of tariffs are.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Trump accidentally does the right thing for the worst reasons possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    A broken clock is usually right twice a day... I'm just impressed because I thought this specific clock didn't have any hands left, so covered in shit that it didn't look like a clock anymore, as well as being on fire.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago*

    "Guys, stock market is not going up much anymore and we aren't making money."

    "OK fine, short the tech stocks and I will scare the markets with some random threat that may or may not happen some time in the future."

    Starts talking about tax on data centers. Market starts to go down.

    "Thanks, appreciate it"

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago*

    Hes seen a lot of money and he wants it.

    He must be lying awake at night furiously trying to figure out how to get a cut of anthropics $30T they definitely have.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    He simply cannot do anything but in the dumbest way.

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    Would ya look at the time, it's almost find out a-clock.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Epstein class when they're raking it in:

    "This is amazing".

    Epstein class when you try and take a small portion of their wealth away:

    "This is terrible and I hate it."

    (PS. I hate Trump but this is essentially what's happening here)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I'm not sure how higher tech prices for you and I are a good thing, but sure. Because that's what is going to happen here, it's simply expanding tariffs on more items.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Where did they suggest that they thought that it was a good thing? Mind the quotation marks

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    higher tech prices for you and I

    Not for me. You know some of us don't live in US, right?

    And I wasn't passing comment on whether or not it was a good thing. I merely pointed out that the reason the tech bros were upset was the fact they were being taxed.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure if you haven't noticed, but go try to by tech right now. Ask Apple how much they are raising prices regardless of where it's being sold at. Tariffs in the US absolutely will and do harm global prices, and you'd be completely out of touch to not think that. But thanks for the 'hurr hurr I am not from the US' excuse.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    But thanks for the 'hurr hurr I am not from the US' excuse

    Its not an excuse, I'm not American. I live nowhere near US, thankfully. I'm not even adjacent. Why would I be subject to tarrifs applied to goods imported to the US?

    And FYI the current (global) price of tech is because of the rapid expansion of datacenter compute. Fuck all to do with tarrifs.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Dementia Don strikes again!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Trump is finally waking up to the deep, bipartisan unpopularity of AI and AI datacentres. Aside: the "single dumbest way imaginable" is the GOP brand.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    He means potato chips.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Good, let them sleep in the bed they've made for once

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Donald might accidentally do something good. I don't think it will happen though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I mean he's destroying US influence abroad, including some of the most critical military bases. That's a net positive :)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Heartwarming: the worst industry possible has a correct take on something for once.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's image makes me shudder. What a stupid big pile of pedophilia shit. DMF DMF,D.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I read Die motherfucker die, but decided to search the web. DDG top site (ai) thinks: "5. Slang: In informal contexts, DMF can be an acronym for "Damn Girl, Yes," which is used to express enthusiastic approval or admiration." oof.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    It's not relevant, but you can calculate the area of ​​its face using the square formula.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Nothing that can't be solved with bribes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    AI industry is the enemy, they own (they have a priority rier on the joint leasins of our politicians,) and don't believe for a minute the prez isn't going to do everything they want before it's over.

    Prez is the LLM model companies' bitch.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    To be fair, he probably asked AI what to do, so yeah.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Fuck all of them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    He thinks this is a quick way to reduce the US's $40T debt. It won't.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    He doesn't give a shit about that.

    This is a way to squeeze the tech oligarchs for something. If they play ball, the tariff gets an exception for data centers, and they continue their plan to take technology away from the people of the United States and hoard it all and rent it back to us and monitor everything said and done on it

    If they don’t play ball he crushes America’s position in the AI race, for which he doesn’t care because his goal is the destruction of America as revenge for making him kill Epstein to keep the whole thing quiet

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    He doesn't give one shit about the US debt and neither do the Republicans backing him.

    If the Dems ever get back in they will start screaming about it sure but why would they care about some made up number.

    The Epstein class can just go hang out on their yacht they are not patriots.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    He doesn't give one shit about the US debt

    True., but he is an emotionally delicate diva and I think he realizes that his approval is at the lowest level ever. He wants people to think he's great. Why else would he constantly post on social media and post cringe videos on Tiktok unironically?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Why do you think he gives a fucking shit of a fuck about that? He doesn’t give a fuck. What action in the last 10 years makes you think he gives a single flying fuck about that? No don’t use his words. I can lie too. What action has he taken That makes you think for even a fucking iota of a fucking split second that he gives a fuck about that?

    Why is this 10 years in and we’re still having to tell people he lies? This is absurd at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Why do you think he gives a fucking shit of a fuck about that?

    Because he's a diva and WANTS to be liked. And he knows his approval ratings are at their lowest.

    I'm not saying this is absolutely what's happening. It's just my theory.

    And about the lying thing. I don't think he's lying most of the time, because I think he genuinely believes the things he says. TO BE CLEAR! I'm not saying he isn't a liar (he is), just that he truly believes the things he says.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Fucken do it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    He'll tax potato chips?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I look forward to my private sector job being pretty much directly eliminated by stupid executive policy.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That's right, single dumbest thing is taxing chips...... Not starting wars, sending people to die, killing people, breaking the average American, screwing over every person on the planet. No lets call it a list e at taxing chips.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The article doesn't say this is the dumbest thing he ever did. It just says this is the dumbest way he could have done this particular thing.

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