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How about not having a sig at all?
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Meanwhile in China, manufacturing is moving to AI powered robotics… :roll:

Utterly clueless to think he’ll can make America great bu returning to the 1950’s
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RobYob wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 10:50 pm Perun on YouTube usually does defence economics based content but as this is now a trade war he's dived into Trump's tariff tantrum and boy did I not realise how deep the stupid went. The take down is savage and funny/tragic.

The penguin tax I knew about along with the chatgpt calculation formula and the base rate of 10% even if the US had a trade surplus.

What I didn't know was the tariff formula inputs were only goods exchange numbers, not services! Absolutely batshit insane.

It gets worse, and maybe I'm really behind the news here, the tariff rate of 60% on tiny Lesotho is entirely due to the economic support previously given by the US!

He closes with "how to win a trade war"
-Focus on a clear long term objective
-Talk before opening fire
-Keep your allies on-board

WTAF.
The Lesotho tariff is also due to trumps formula- there’s a large trade difference, with Lesotho exporting a lot more to the USA than they import back in.

Want more evidence of that stupidity then look no further than Lesotho

The reason for the difference? First of all the people are extremely poor so don’t have money to buy American, and as for the exports Lesotho has a diamond mine.
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I’ve seen a new stupid result of trumps rule- in Florida they’re struggling to fill low paid jobs now all the undocumented immigrants have been thrown out, so what’s the solution? Relax child labour laws- including looking at allowing kids as young as 14 year olds to work night shifts on school nights if they’re home schooled, but also eroding their working rights too, removing guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17 year olds
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Beany wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:14 pm Well, I mean most large influencers would say their granny fucked dogs on the street for twiglets, if OpenVPN paid them to say it.
You really are a twat sometimes Beany :roll:
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He's not wrong though Gav... :lol:

In other news, VW halting imports into the US...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos- ... 025-04-07/
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RobYob wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 10:50 pm Perun on YouTube usually does defence economics based content but as this is now a trade war he's dived into Trump's tariff tantrum and boy did I not realise how deep the stupid went.
I’d never heard of Perun, but thank you - watched a chunk of this over breakfast. Some great analysis and observations.

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dinny_g wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:14 am He's not wrong though Gav... :lol:

In other news, VW halting imports into the US...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos- ... 025-04-07/
He is massively wrong Dinny, and on so many levels it would take a long post to break down all the points. And so are you, because you're literally criticising my work - even though I'm not on the scale of the people mentioned - most content creators including myself do have standards and regularly turn down brand offers.
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Not even an Onion parody:

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I have a trade deficit with my local Chinese restaurant so next time I place an order I will make myself pay twice as much because that will encourage me to become a chef and build a takeaway in my shed.
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Gavster wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:36 am He is massively wrong Dinny, and on so many levels it would take a long post to break down all the points. And so are you, because you're literally criticising my work - even though I'm not on the scale of the people mentioned - most content creators including myself do have standards and regularly turn down brand offers.
he did say "most" and I'm taking that to NOT include you... :D
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Gavster wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 7:45 am
Beany wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:14 pm Well, I mean most large influencers would say their granny fucked dogs on the street for twiglets, if OpenVPN paid them to say it.
You really are a twat sometimes Beany :roll:
He probably got it mixed up with everything else he spends hours researching so he can rage wank 😂

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dinny_g wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:47 am
Gavster wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:36 am He is massively wrong Dinny, and on so many levels it would take a long post to break down all the points. And so are you, because you're literally criticising my work - even though I'm not on the scale of the people mentioned - most content creators including myself do have standards and regularly turn down brand offers.
he did say "most" and I'm taking that to NOT include you... :D
That's really no defence Dinny :lol: insulting most of my friends and colleagues still makes him (and now by extension, you) a twat.
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And another thing missing from this fantasy return to manufacturing - US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s owes quite a lot to having recently dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing.
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Gavster wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:09 am
dinny_g wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:47 am
Gavster wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:36 am He is massively wrong Dinny, and on so many levels it would take a long post to break down all the points. And so are you, because you're literally criticising my work - even though I'm not on the scale of the people mentioned - most content creators including myself do have standards and regularly turn down brand offers.
he did say "most" and I'm taking that to NOT include you... :D
That's really no defence Dinny :lol: insulting most of my friends and colleagues ….

…can i just stop to thank our sponsor, Surfshark which i use every day whilst i’m eating Y Food whilst grooming my balls with Manscape, anyway back to the sentence…

…still makes him (and now by extension, you) a twat.
EFA
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And not having a sense of humour makes you someone I don't really need to follow
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Nobody needs to follow me, that’s pretty obvious :lol:
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Rich B wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:57 am
Gavster wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:09 am
dinny_g wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:47 am

he did say "most" and I'm taking that to NOT include you... :D
That's really no defence Dinny :lol: insulting most of my friends and colleagues ….

…can i just stop to thank our sponsor, Surfshark which i use every day whilst i’m eating Y Food whilst grooming my balls with Manscape, anyway back to the sentence…

…still makes him (and now by extension, you) a twat.
EFA
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Come on now Gav, and be honest - if some shyster company offered you life-changing money to sponsor something you didn't entirely or morally agree with, but had no real impact on anyone that resulted in harm - you wouldn't pedal it on your channel?
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Matty wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 1:25 pm Come on now Gav, and be honest - if some shyster company offered you life-changing money to sponsor something you didn't entirely or morally agree with, but had no real impact on anyone that resulted in harm - you wouldn't pedal it on your channel?
You know what is life changing? Squarespace. You can set up a website with full analytics in as little as 2 hours and if you use my discunt code RICH4 you can get a full 4% discount for the first 11 days.
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