r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/Trap_Masters 1d ago

Ah so the very corruption that Maga screams about everyday yet willingly turn a blind eye to trump blatantly doing it in front of them

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u/TempleSquare 1d ago

That's what we figured out in Trump 1.0. whatever he accused his opponent of, it was because he wanted to do it first. (And he's too dumb to realize that other people may have different plans)

"You are a puppet of Putin" -> I am a puppet of Putin

"They want to rig the election" -> I want to rig the election

"Lock her up" -> Don't lock me up!

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u/Shadowrak 1d ago

Projection is the one thing that when it clicked for me, it blew my mind how difficult it was to convince others of its predictive nature.

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u/mark3grp 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes the personality disorders seem to run on rails. It is hard to get people to understand . It’s like you can hardly believe it yourself… but you can’t ignore the facts!

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u/biebiep 1d ago

You can quite easily get the hang of it by intentionally trolling a few obvious assholes on reddit.

If you control the narrative with proper arguments, they will follow it but spew their issues out as if they were pointing out issues in your factual arguments. (Lol, no, 1+1=2)

Nope. You've just admitted you're a fucking fraudster that would offer me up to the gestapo first chance you got.

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u/ApplianceHealer 1d ago

Ironically, all you have to do is flip the pronouns around.

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u/iamjimmyz 1d ago

too bad they’ve been told to ignore all pronouns

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u/Jillstraw 1d ago

I think you’ve gotten to the real bottom of the pronoun controversy

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u/CliftonForce 1d ago

Lack of empathy. He can't contemplate that others are not doing what he would do in their place.

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u/Itsmyloc-nar 23h ago

This is an old Soviet intelligence trick. He must’ve learned this from Putin.

Accuse your enemy of whatever you’re doing

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u/TempleSquare 4h ago

Backfired. Now we know exactly what he's thinking.

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u/manimal28 1d ago

With conservatives literally every accusation is a confession.

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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago

Yeah, must be a day ending in -y.

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u/Silidistani 1d ago

If Republicans and the MAGA Reich didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards.

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u/Darkdragoon324 1d ago

Because it was never about stopping corruption, it was about making sure the right people are profiting off the corruption.

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u/coskibum002 1d ago

Every MAGA accusation is actually a confession.

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u/wongl888 1d ago

They said drain the swamp, but they didn’t say where they will drain the swamp into (MAGA).

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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 1d ago

Yep that's what we've been dealing with since 2016 and I'm exhausted

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u/kore_nametooshort 21h ago

The tariffs alone create a massive opportunity for corruption. Every ceo in America will be coming to Trump willing to do anything for an exemption for their supply chain. And Trump has the unilateral power to provide those exemptions.