r/technology • u/DontFearTheCreaper • 20h ago

Social Media Tech CEOs who grinned behind Trump at inauguration lose billions in wake of tariffs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-bezos-musk-zuckerberg-b2727147.html
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u/pwinne 20h ago

We all get the president we deserve

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u/celtic1888 20h ago edited 20h ago

I tried to tell everyone he was an idiot who would destroy the economy but đŸ€·

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u/tadmau5 20h ago

buT HEs a buSineSs MAn

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u/GoldenDude 20h ago

Ayy yall voted for him be easy though

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

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u/celtic1888 20h ago

I sent you a text but you replied, ‘FUCK YOU! MAGA BABY !!!  đŸ’Ș

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u/evofender 20h ago

As a Canadian, it affects us also and we didn't ask for this sh*t !

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u/Spunkybrewster7777 16h ago

Many tens of millions of us in the US did a lot to try to prevent this.

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u/evofender 16h ago

You know we love you and we're not pointing fingers at you.

The rest of the bunch on the other hand...

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u/Spunkybrewster7777 15h ago

Understood.

We will continue to try to stop or mitigate this stuff however we can. There really are many tens of millions of us.

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u/tacticalcraptical 20h ago

I didn't. I've been encouraging people to vote against Trump for 10 years now.

I don't deserve this president.

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u/angry_lib 20h ago

NO ONE deserves this resident.

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u/Martel732 19h ago

Honestly at this point I have no sympathy for MAGA voters if this hurts them. We have spent years trying to convince them that Trump is an idiot and they just doubled down.

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u/Eric848448 19h ago

The people who voted for it deserve whatever they get.

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u/tacticalcraptical 20h ago

Absolutely. I am so tired or this "We deserve this" crap.

Barely half of people voted for Trump. Those that did vote for him are not all deserving of it either. Many are probably just uneducated or are maybe just a little misguided but it doesn't mean they deserve to have their lives destroyed because they got bait and switched by a lying maniac.

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u/BlondeBorednBaked 20h ago

They were willing to sacrifice marginalized people at the altar of a “good economy.” They 100% deserve this.

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u/Spunkybrewster7777 16h ago

They were willing to sacrifice marginalized people at the altar of a “good economy.”

What "good economy"?

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u/tacticalcraptical 20h ago

Some do for sure but 20 somethings who have been raised in Trump cult circumstances since they were a teen or before and don't know any better, no, they don't deserve this.

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u/BlondeBorednBaked 19h ago

Everyone who voted to fuck over marginalized people deserves this. Everyone who voted for people to be illegally deported deserves this. Everyone who voted for women to lose more reproductive rights deserves this. Everyone who voted for trans people to be arrested for using a bathroom deserves this. 20 somethings are grown enough to know better. Fuck all Trump supporters, period.

ETA: it’s funny how endless your empathy is for the people screwing over marginalized people and how empty your empathy is for marginalized people.

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u/tacticalcraptical 19h ago

What are you talking about? You don't know anything about me or my empathy for marginalized people and you are very far off the mark with your assumptions 

I am assuming you are lucky enough to have grown up in an environment where you didn't have to escape an oppressively conservative mindset.   Acting like people should just inherently know better when conservative BS is all they have ever known is an extremely ignorant viewpoint.

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u/BlondeBorednBaked 19h ago

You don’t have a lot of empathy for marginalized people if you’re preaching empathy for their oppressors. Good people don’t enable bad people.

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u/tacticalcraptical 19h ago

Empathy isn't some scale where understanding the bad circumstances of one person means you are ignorant of the bad situations of another.

I guess maybe it works that way for you, seem to grasp the nuance involved her but that's not how empathy works in general.

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u/Boygunasurf 8h ago

No. If you voted for this sack of sh*t, a) you deserve it b) any negative impact of trump in office is entirely on those who voted him in

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u/Tex_Watson 19h ago

The people who voted for him absolutely deserve this.

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u/xubax 20h ago

And directly lied to. "Tariffs won't raise prices. "

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u/the_el_dude_brother 19h ago

No we don’t lol wtf. What about everyone below 18? Do they deserve it too?

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u/pwinne 8h ago

The US needs to make voting mandatory and allow people 16 and above to vote. Because you do get the president you deserve as a result. So many Americans blind to and ignore their politics and suffer for it.

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u/selphiefairy 20h ago

Oh does that mean my president is Kamala Harris? Where do I go?

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u/Jedi_Master83 19h ago

Yes, the millions of people who voted for Trump and the millions of people who didn't vote at all because they couldn't vote in a woman is why we are in this mess. I hope all of them suffer, whine, and cry up a storm. Not voting at all was a vote for Trump, basically.

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u/iDontEvenOdd 18h ago

US deserves Trump. The rest of the world doesn't.

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u/Spunkybrewster7777 16h ago

Many tens of millions of us tried to prevent this...

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u/pwinne 8h ago

Hahaha so true. they will be alone soon enough the way they are going. Maybe they will have another civil war if keeps ignoring the law and constitution.

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u/_Barringtonsteezy 16h ago

What does this even mean lol

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u/pwinne 8h ago

It means the people got what they asked for