https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/trump-trade-tariffs-china-software.html
He teased this announcement earlier in the day and the stock markets dropped by around 3%. Trump waited until the markets closed to make the full announcement. He also made the announcement on a Friday, the markets won’t reopen until Monday.
You don’t want to export to us? Oh yeah? Well then I won’t let you export to us!
oh noThis is incredible news. No leftist that has ever been born since the death of Marx has done more for leftism than Comrade Trump. With every breath he deals a fatal blow to the American and Western empire.
It is clear Western leftism has proven itself completely nonexistent, ineffective, and successfully disenfranchised. Comrade Trump is claiming eternal glory by destroying not only the United States of America, but the entire West in only 8 years. Long may he reign!
It is so pathetic the US president tweets policy on his on personal mastodon server.
His posts were a lot more funny with the Twitter character limit. Once you land on a Mastodon server with a tweaked character limit everything just turns into a wall of text. Nobody’s reading that shit.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
any and all critical software
Lol they couldn’t even come up with a physical export that would sound serious
he’s saving them from windows 11
One of the last big advantages the US has is Software to design (and prototype) integrated circuits (Think software to arrange parts on a chip, and optimally wire the components together for minimal area requirements and heat dissipation/ also known as floor planning). One key company: Xilinx.
China will have to invest heavily in such software, producing it domestically.
Also, software can just be copied lmao
Export restrictions on Madden NFL 26 and Microsoft Office should rein those dastardly celestials back in!
Imagine a child r*ping monster talking about morality lmao fuck this hell
He teased this announcement earlier in the day and the stock markets dropped by around 3%. Trump waited until the markets closed to make the full announcement. He also made the announcement on a Friday, the markets won’t reopen until Monday.
Every time. Congress and his friends must be making a fortune off the market chaos these weekend tariff bluffs cause.
Monday is a holiday too
Me when I me when I press the destroy economy button
Oh, good, he’s back on the “I’m gonna keep raising tarriffs until you pay attention to me” strategy. I see why, it’s very successful
子弹打穿了耳朵，但我还听到党的声音
What does that make it now, 400%? 500%?
I believe it was around 30% baselines with additional tariffs for some specific products. In May, China and US agreed to a mutual 10% tariff. The US imposed an addition 25% tariff on China for his conspiracy theory around China intentionally poisoning the US with fentanyl.
So I think the new tariff would be around 130%.
This is a post I made back in May. https://hexbear.net/post/4889792
it has just been learned
Am I unwell or is this just bad English?
It’s valid, and called “passive voice phrasing.” Most of the time, it’s not recommended, but in a few cases it works better, like when you want to abstract or obscure the subject of a sentence.
This is why they say “Shots were fired in an officer-involved incident.” Somebody shot a gun and they don’t want to say it’s the cops.
Often though, people just use it without thinking about it
posts were made
It’s valid, and called “passive voice phrasing.”
You’re conflating two separate things. The passive voice is just any “be verbed by actor” construct and is used to make the object of a sentence into the subject either to emphasize it above the actor or because the actor of the verb is abstract or unknown. It’s only bad if it’s used evasively, and is also a way that rhetoric can focus on and humanize victims in cases where there is often more focus and agency given to abusers/killers/enslavers/etc.
Passive phrasing/language is the evasive way journalists weasel away from ascribing agency to anyone, and ironically often doesn’t use the passive voice because “nooo don’t use the passive voice, center the actors, the actions, make it snappy!” is stuff they’re taught in school and you can often be even more evasive using active intransitive verbs, which leads to absurd active voice passive phrasings like “bullet from sheriff’s department armory caused death of bystander in shootout at CVS” (paraphrasing an actual headline from a real event from memory here) or “suspect dies following routine traffic stop, ‘he was armed and dangerous’ says police chief”.
Many people are saying this
it has been said by many people
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Aww, I thought ir was a good post
i wasn’t confident enough with my grammar knowledge to call out whether the ‘recommended’ participle use classifies it as passive voice
I think this is an example of textbook correct but totally unnatural
What is he supposed to write “some guy just told me”? That would entirely take the focus from the main topic, which is him.
I have just been informed?
that’s still passive voice though
Am I unwell or is this just bad English? I think this is an example of textbook correct but totally unnatural
Thread was talking about if it was correct/natural:
That would entirely take the focus from the main topic, which is him.
I have just been informed keeps the subject as him while being much more natural. I have been told would be more casual. I don’t think there’s anything inherently unnatural about passive voice.
We have ample evidence that Donald Trump is not a particularly eloquent writer or speaker. If you think he’s spewing gibberish, he probably is
Like @jack@hexbear.net said, it’s formally correct but very inappropriate and a weird phrasing (I’d still call that shit English even if it’s technically valid syntax). They’ve used a passive, third-person way of talking, instead of saying “I’ve just learned” or “We’ve just learned”, it’s stated like an objective scientific report: The fact has just been learned! In fact the whole tweet sounds like an attempt to be professional and serious, but with occasional out-of-place lapses into emotional language.
This shit makes my job so fucking complicated. I can’t wait to spend all weekend coming up with MORE tariff strategies. I need congress to reassert itself.
JDPON Don strikes another blow against US hegemony.
The funny thing about his initial post is that he says China is trying to control the world’s economy by sending them letters to impose trade restrictions, which is the exact thing that he did. Trump’s quote below
We’re going to start sending letters out to various countries starting tomorrow. We’ll probably have 10 or 12 go out tomorrow. And over the next few days, I think by the 9th, they’ll be fully covered. and they’ll range in value from maybe 60 or 70% tariffs to uh 10 and 20% tariffs. Uh but they’re going to be starting to go out sometime tomorrow. We’ve done the final form and it’s basically going to explain what the countries are going to be paying in tariffs and it’s uh very important. It’s a lot of money for the country, but we’re giving them a bargain because if I went by the true deficits or by other uh ways of measuring, it could be a lot more. We I we don’t want to I don’t want to stretch it too much. We want to keep it pretty reasonable and I think it’s actually I think it’s very reasonable.
We’re going to be sending to Well, you’re going to see tomorrow. I’d rather give it tomorrow, but we have probably 12, 10 to 12 tomorrow. And then after that, we’ll be sending 10 or 12 a day. And as we get along, as we get to the smaller countries, uh, we’re pretty much going to keep the tariffs the same.
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