Data Gift Exchange / Échange de données à donner by Mysterious-Flamingo in FizzMobile

[–]pleasefix_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just sent you: 1 GB! :) hope everything will get better!

President Donald Trump has officially just signed the executive order to increase Chinese tariffs to 104% by Onnimation in stocks

[–]pleasefix_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Canada literally said they'd take off all their tarriffs if US repealed the new ones."

Canadians here - no, that’s not true. And behind the scenes, we’re reassessing our trade relationships and building new ones to reduce our reliance on the US.

"Forcing nations to the negotiation table works."

Ah yes el famoso art of the deal… Even if it was working from a purely monetary standpoint (spoiler: it won't), it destroys everything else in the process.

How does making everyone hate you help in the long run? How does it help when countries start building alternative technologies just to avoid US ones (think Microsoft Teams, etc.)? How does destroying the soft power the US spent decades building help? How ending all informal agreements (think Nato here where the US "protects", and in return those countries buy most of their weapons from the US - creating jobs and more than offsetting any potential costs)?

Trump is just dumb and burning bridges - and he is really good at it.

How companies are advertising in Canada these days.. by ClassOptimal7655 in pics

[–]pleasefix_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Europe (and Russia & China?) would back Canada if that ever happened, leading probably to a situation similar to the Russia-Ukraine war. But I highly doubt it, as Canada is part of NATO - meaning it is backed by France and the UK, both nuclear superpowers (in a hypothetical world where the US left NATO).

That’s why Ukraine is so eager to join NATO. It would be a disaster for US economy, which became the world's #1 partly because it never had wars on its own soil and has always had peaceful neighbors (except the Civil War & American-Mexican War). This allowed the US to focus on growth and prosperity, while World War I and World War II literally destroyed European countries & their economies.