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/TraditionalSpirit636 19h ago

It’s not sheer luck though.. it’s a fucking plan. And it’s been laid out and done before. 2008 happened. We’ve seen this.

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u/FaultElectrical4075 19h ago edited 19h ago

2008 was just opportunism. It looked like a plan in hindsight, these things often do.

People saw Trump’s desperation leading up to the 2024 election as an opportunity and they took it. Now they are reaping the rewards. But calling it a plan is giving them way more credit than they actually deserve. These people aren’t visionary geniuses, they’re sadistic, incompetent morons who were in the right place at the right time.

The most powerful people on earth prior to Trump’s election are losing out immensely from this. Do you know how much manufacturing Apple does in China, for example? These tariffs are a disaster for them. It turns out power just isn’t that stable a thing.

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u/_my_troll_account 18h ago

Speaking my language here. I'm so tired of people, both on the right and on the left, speculating on Trump's "plan" or "strategy." There is no plan. There is no strategy. He is just stupid. It isn't more complicated than that.

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u/TraditionalSpirit636 17h ago

This was literally written down as a plan though…

You guys are dumb to deny reality. But feel free to be dumb.

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u/_my_troll_account 15h ago

They wrote down that they were going to intentionally tank the economy in order to buy everything cheap? Where’d they write that?