r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/bdone2012 1d ago

They put tariffs on the Heard and McDonald island. It’s near the South Pole and is just a bunch of penguins, no humans. I can’t believe I need to say this but putting tariffs on Russia makes more sense than putting them on a island full of penguins.

My guess is that the ChatGPT didn’t think about putting tariffs on Russia because of the sanctions and somehow it got confused with the Heard and McDonalds island.

There’s a strong theory that the whole thing was done using chatGPT because this is the exact plan you get when you ask how to implement tariffs from the us to other countries.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the

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u/againwiththisbs 1d ago

My guess is that the ChatGPT didn’t think about putting tariffs on Russia because of the sanctions and somehow it got confused with the Heard and McDonalds island.

Or more simply they just took out the allied countries when making the list.

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u/TiredEsq 1d ago

It makes me sick to hear Russia referred to as an allied country but I guess we really are there.

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u/Anxious_Technician41 1d ago

I'm old as fuck, well sort of. I remember drills in grammar school and ducking under desks. The USSR was the bad actor. I still get confused when I look on a map and I can't find Czechoslovakia.

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u/two4six0won 1d ago

My dad, too. I remember him explaining what McCarthyism was when I was in elementary. When Velveeta Voldemort won in '16, he said it was good because Russia would bomb us if Hillary won, and I remember thinking 'when the fuck did capitulating to Russia become a good thing????'

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u/rikkian 1d ago

Grammar school suggests UK, if so, you're now in good company with the USA, they have never been able to find anything on a map.

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u/Anxious_Technician41 1d ago

Nah, the USA, the Czechoslovakia comment refers to the fact it no longer exists as it did when I was a kid.

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u/Anxious_Technician41 22h ago

Jesus Christ, you and the guy below. Don't get it. I was referring to the fact that a country doesn't exist anymore just as a reference point. Obviously I can't find Czechoslovakia on a map anymore because it doesn't exist. I only use that country as a reference point because my father's side came from, well that country as it was.

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u/rikkian 11h ago

Your taking a flippant comment and really running with it aren’t you?

Milk it harder the molehill isn’t mountainous enough just yet.

Talk about the epitome of a yank missing the point and running with it.