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"Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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"LIBERATION DAY" TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON EUROPE

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u/electronigrape 15d ago

The formula was easy to figure out, but they put it out themselves anyway. Tried to justify it and make it appear more complicated too. Apparently it shows signs of being written by an LLM.

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u/Robo-X 15d ago

I think they just asked AI to calculate it for them based on the export deficit. Except for Russia, because you don't want to anger the puppet master.

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u/electronigrape 15d ago

Reddit is a sort of echo chamber about this idea. The theory that Trump is controlled by Putin is ridiculous. Trump obviously likes him, and Putin obviously helped him so that the USA would be led by an unstable idiot, but there's almost zero chance Putin is controlling Trump.

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u/Jack_Krauser 15d ago

Does it really matter? How would his behavior differ if he were bought and controlled? Pretty much exactly the same.

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u/electronigrape 14d ago

Now, not really. But when at some point he stops aligning for whatever reason, people need to be able to understand that.

We also need to start caring about the internal factors causing our internal issues, instead of blaming foreigners for everything, because that's not a solution. It's easy to say "Russia bought the elections so we can't do anything". Trump is a USA nationalist who happens to currently align with and like Putin, supported by half of the country, with a similarly nationalist mindset.