Post AwGBRji741duMwNYJs by eloquence@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #AwGBRji741duMwNYJs by eloquence@social.coop
       2025-01-31T07:05:50Z
       
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       All of Trump's "America First" nonsense, including galaxy brain shit like "tariffs on Taiwan", will accelerate China's rise. The dumb logic of nationalism -- the rejection of the very alliances that made America powerful, for good and for ill --  means "America Second", then "America Third", and so on.But when failing authoritarian governments run out of scapegoats, they often go to war.https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-taiwan-semiconductor-tariff-impact-china-tech-2022564
       
 (DIR) Post #AwGBRoLxnntclh3QzQ by firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net
       2025-02-01T13:09:16Z
       
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       @eloquence The headline is "Hammer blow to Taiwan"?  Really?Tariffs would give Taiwan and TSMC a powerful financial incentive to sell to other countries instead of the US.  That doesn't just hurt US innovation, it accelerates competing innovators.Trump is hell bent on speeding the collapse of the American empire.  I would be all for it, save that he plans to torture the LGBTQ community, non-whites, and women along the way.