Donald Trump’s $300 Billion Temper Tantrum Over Canada
"Under Trump’s tariff fest, countries face very different tax rates. This provides an enormous incentive to mask the origins of goods imported into the United States. This may be done by actually changing the production process, for example shipping components from China to Vietnam where they will be assembled into a refrigerator or television set. Or it could just mean writing on the box “made in Vietnam.”
In fact, it would be reasonable to suspect that something like this is taking place. Our imports from China through October were down by 25.3%. At the same time, imports from Vietnam increased by 40.4%. You’re welcome to believe that Vietnam suddenly became a much more attractive source for U.S. importers, but it seems more likely Chinese companies have figured out how to circumvent Trump’s tariffs."
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Donald Trump’s $300 Billion Temper Tantrum Over Canada
Mark Carney made Trump look like a fool and Trump is going to make us payDean Baker
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myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •**be nice**
**teach don't yell**
**girl, you can't even get off of youTube, don't be so imperious**
... but please, why can't anyone spot the pattern?
AI6YR Ben
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •myrmepropagandist
in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •@ai6yr
"It's O.P.P. time, other people's, but you get it
There's no room for relationship, there's just room to hit it
How many brothers out there know just what I'm gettin' at?
Who thinks it's wrong 'cause I'm splittin' and co-hittin' that?
Well if you do, that's O.P.P and you're not down with it
But if you don't, here's your membership"
It's totally about platforms.
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Moss Wizard
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •jz.tusk
in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •@ai6yr
Of course it doesn't. As my friend from Toronto hipped me, "O.P.P." stands for "Ontario Provincial Police".
(He laughed every time that song came on.)
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Fluffy Kitty Cat
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Cowboy Who?
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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in reply to Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 • • •myrmepropagandist
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
"And whenever we try to tell them "hey, there is an alternative that won't screw you like that" they ignore us or even get mad at us."
To be fair. No one is hearing this. I've come to notice how there are big efforts made to migrate people to platforms. To recapture audiences in new spaces. This happens through media and influencers and I suspect some people spend a lot of money on it. Most people are simply not aware there is any other option.
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KimberlyN 🇨🇦
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •It’s sadly predictable. Many people are so focused on being wherever they perceive everyone else is, that they don’t do any deep thinking about what pitfalls may exist in that location. Follow the money, ownership, and political influence, people. Sheesh! 🤦♀️
(I’m looking at YOU, Government of Canada…why are you still primarily posting on X?)
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myrmepropagandist
in reply to KimberlyN 🇨🇦 • • •"Many people are so focused on being wherever they perceive everyone one else is"
To be fair ... this is part of the whole point of social media. To... be where the action is and all the people...?
I don't know how to break the cycle.
We've put some cracks in it though. That's something.
KimberlyN 🇨🇦
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Thing is, if someone has a large audience, and they tell their followers they’re going somewhere else…many will, um, follow them. I think there’s a lot of SM paralysis among people who could lead their audience to better environments.
Years ago, we decided to xeriscape (low water, native plant gardens) our front yard. We tore up our lawn and replaced with native plants. Tried to get next door neighbours do the same, but they were uncomfortable because “no one else is doing it.” 🤷♀️
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Jay Thoden van Velzen ☁️🛡️
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •myrmepropagandist
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
Think of it like someone who comes up to you and says:
"You just breathe air? You just ... drink water? You think a filter will matter? Listen. I make my air and water from raw elements at home. Keep it in this tank. I have total control of what I breathe and drink! This is why you keep getting allergies and keep finding out you need a new water filter."
It's logical but sounds like way to much work and a little crazy.
It's not though. Not once you get things running.
myrmepropagandist
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
It's an analogy about how it *sounds* to people who don't think of software as something they could change, or make, or demand that it be different.
myrmepropagandist
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
Sorry. Feel better. My metaphor is probably tortured in some way.
Miro Collas
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •mastodon.neometropolis.net/@ga…
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Gaza Notifications (Mastodon)myrmepropagandist
in reply to Miro Collas • • •@Miro_Collas
It has "investors"
Miro Collas
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Well, all businesses do. Some might be the "right" type of investors.
Anyway, just a thought
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Coach Spore Diesel
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I've been out of TikTok for a while. Where are they trampling to?
Out of curiosity. I don't plan to visit whatever corporate platform.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to Coach Spore Diesel • • •@springdiesel
"UpScrolled"
Which sounds like a better place than twitter, but it's not open, someone else could be in charge later... same old same old.
Coach Spore Diesel
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •myrmepropagandist
in reply to Coach Spore Diesel • • •@springdiesel
An upside of youTube is it can be embedded in other sites. While tiktok and most new platforms can't they want to lock the users in.
I do expect youTube to try to eliminate this someday, but because they are old their algorithm is much less influential.
2¢
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •DannekRose
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •From people I’ve talked to not on the Fediverse, the few who do try it out say it feels like a huge step backwards in terms of tech.
It’s like moving back to the era of Instant Messengers where you have to make effort to find the people you want to add to your friends list.
It’s like putting together an old-school paper-based address book for friends and family or other people you want to connect with.
Maybe older folks would understand the paradigm shifts needed to move to decentralized social media, but for anyone not familiar with how that all worked, it’s way too much effort for minimal gain since none of their social circles are moving off en mass to decentralized platforms.
Online communications used to be an extension of real-world relationships where you could continue in-person conversations after going home. Now, the platforms are optimized to try to completely supplant any need for the in-person aspect of communication and community. Since the platform becomes critical to maintaining relationships with friends and acquaint
... Show more...From people I’ve talked to not on the Fediverse, the few who do try it out say it feels like a huge step backwards in terms of tech.
It’s like moving back to the era of Instant Messengers where you have to make effort to find the people you want to add to your friends list.
It’s like putting together an old-school paper-based address book for friends and family or other people you want to connect with.
Maybe older folks would understand the paradigm shifts needed to move to decentralized social media, but for anyone not familiar with how that all worked, it’s way too much effort for minimal gain since none of their social circles are moving off en mass to decentralized platforms.
Online communications used to be an extension of real-world relationships where you could continue in-person conversations after going home. Now, the platforms are optimized to try to completely supplant any need for the in-person aspect of communication and community. Since the platform becomes critical to maintaining relationships with friends and acquaintances, leaving those platforms feels like abandoning friends for little perceived benefit.
Just some opinions I’ve collected over the years from others.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to DannekRose • • •@dannekrose
Some folks are trying to work on that. The problem is that there has been a conflation between ‘you control what is in your feed’ and ‘you don’t see anything that you didn’t put in your feed’.
My primary objection to platforms like Facebook and Twitter is that they are psychological profiling tools that sell ads / propaganda and masquerade as communication tools. Federation kind-of helps that, but Google showed with GMail that it’s possible to capture a sufficiently large chunk of a communication graph that you can still build these things. The main benefit of the Fediverse in that respect is breaking the monopoly: it’s as easy for Google or Facebook to crawl the Fediverse and build profile information as it is for anyone else, but they can’t augment it with private message content.
The problem that Mastodon and friends try to address is the lack of agency of users. Twitter turned the web back into T
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Some folks are trying to work on that. The problem is that there has been a conflation between ‘you control what is in your feed’ and ‘you don’t see anything that you didn’t put in your feed’.
My primary objection to platforms like Facebook and Twitter is that they are psychological profiling tools that sell ads / propaganda and masquerade as communication tools. Federation kind-of helps that, but Google showed with GMail that it’s possible to capture a sufficiently large chunk of a communication graph that you can still build these things. The main benefit of the Fediverse in that respect is breaking the monopoly: it’s as easy for Google or Facebook to crawl the Fediverse and build profile information as it is for anyone else, but they can’t augment it with private message content.
The problem that Mastodon and friends try to address is the lack of agency of users. Twitter turned the web back into TV: you could change channels, but they still controlled the content that you saw. To address this, they started at the exact opposite end: you see posts from people and hashtags you follow, but absolutely nothing else. The choices are all digital: follow or block people / hashtags.
In reality, people want much more analogue controls. Show me more cats (but not every post about cats). Tune down the US Politics (but a few posts a day is okay). Show me a few random posts that are popular.
Completely removing a recommendation algorithm gave a nice clean slate to start from, but that’s all. Recommendation algorithms are useful. The problem with other platforms is not that they have recommendation algorithms, it’s that their algorithms are opaque and under someone else’s control. The goal for people working on such things here is that the recommendation algorithm must be completely under the user’s control and must be able to answer, for any post that they see, why they see it. Oh, and it must actually be useful. It’s coming, but building it is hard!
KimberlyN 🇨🇦
Unknown parent • • •@NilaJones
I hear you — I keep tabs on a number of accounts that are over on Bluesky too. Bsky is already showing some signs of enshittification IMO, and it’s early in its life cycle. At first it’s just the degradation that happens as the platform grows and attracts more unsavoury accounts. As far as I know they’re still coasting on venture capital funding, but eventually they’ll be selling ads and data…and then I suspect the wheels will start to get a little shaky.
@futurebird
Toni
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UnlikelyLass
Unknown parent • • •Slight tangent, but in the early 80s there was a sign as you crossed from south dakota into north dakota on I-29 that said "Welcome to North Dakota. Mountain Removal Project Successfully Completed" and I still remember it fondly.
Francis Cook
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •personally I’m finding hilarious that one of the reasons to force a sale was because of “Chinese ownership/censorship” and the outcome is a thousand times worse.
Btw- Rednote/小红书 is still going strong…
Kiki Buber
Unknown parent • • •Kevin Karhan
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Most folks don't make rational decisions, they just behave however others who are like them behave. So it's difficult for them to follow an argument if it suggests all those others are making bad decisions. Because that would mean they have to think for themselves, which is hard work.
Also, most of these folks who can only follow the crowd, haven't even heard of the fediverse! It simply hasn't attracted enough media attention to penetrate their information spaces.
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Firehorseart Lives!
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Knowing about a problem and doing something about it are two different things when people are anxious.
Someone pointed out that people often don't change their approach until the pain of doing nothing (or going back to something familiar) is greater than their fear of change.