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basilico:
And that no other user anywhere else will buy - because first it's expensive and secondly need 240V to 110V step down
..

Canada, along with parts of South America, Japan, Taiwan, and Saudi Arabia, primarily use a voltage range of 110V to 127V AC and would buy if cheap enough.

IjeBos:
You can see the spike in calls before his announcement and the market took off.

Yeah. I see the spike.

Trump ignites ‘insider trading’ accusations after global tariffs U-turn

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/donald-trump-ignites-insider-trading-accusations-after-global-tariffs-u-turn

GloriousGbola:
solar panels are 12v dc tho. just sayin'

They are? Didn't know that, but basilico who installs them would never touch them if they came from China, I bet, not.

There's no way Krushner didn't hear all this coming so he can position his $2 billion Saudi fund. No way at all.

Yeah, Chinese are that stupid. They can't make 240V appliances, and that's why they sell no electronics in UK, and Nigeria.

Even their solar panels are limited to 110V, which is why you only install them in America?

basilico:
Nice article. One point. China will take a massive hit .Americans use 110V while most of the world uses 240V . You'd need a transformer for every gadget , shaving machine, hair dryer, toaster, etc to use it in other countries Millions of gadgets they can't sell.
As for industrial 3-phase industrial scale it's quite expensive to use transformers or variable frequency drives . Probably they'll have to dismantle them and rebuild them afresh
China can't channel their commodities through Vietnam or Sri Lanka etc because the rest are at 10% I presume during negotiations, they will have to strictly agree not to transship Chinese made products to America.
I'm loving this giant Panda beatdown

descarado:
As if the stock market are the real market an average American rely on to live.

Don't you mind us. Like dump, we don't know how important the bond market is.

descarado:
Though the US imported far more from China ($440bn) than China imported from America ($145bn).

That left the US running a trade deficit with China - the difference between what it imports and exports - of $295bn in 2024. That's a considerable trade deficit, equivalent to around 1% of the US economy.

Love your reasoning.

You'd run up your credit card to pay for your consumption, then blame those you bought from and tariff them.

This might explain why EU has trade barriers (not tariffs) against some made in America.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2co0P685dDU?si=hb7M1Mpj24HKIlK4

basilico:
I'm also losing hope. Pam. Nondi6has been to fox and media interviews 75 times!!
Kash and Bongino I believe will are there because they came out strongly against deep state actors, I believe they will get a few people . Else they lose every goodwill. Hopefully they get some scalp.

They losing your goodwill already?

Where's the Epstein files?

raumdeuter:
Of course they will tell you the social programs make it worth it
Free healthcare like the Canadian lady who needs an MRI to check if she has brain cancer and her appointment is in 2026


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsQ_v-nWOq8
https://www.instagram.com/nigerians_in.canada/reel/DH4B0TQOvPt/

cococandy you are in Healthcare Imagine if your patients have to wait over a year to get an MRI, that is what 30% communism looks like, Now imagine 60 or 90%

Thank God for saving us from the communist agenda of the Democratic party. Thank God Kamala lost

I do think it's much better than having to go bankrupt buying healthcare. And I bet that 2026 is an exaggeration. Wait for a non-cancer MRI is less than 6 weeks here in socialist UK if your doctor refers you.

raumdeuter:
Look at any communist country and tell any of them that is prosperous starting from their father USSR to North Korea to the entire Eastern bloc

I notice you left China out of your list of communist countries. Glad you did, because its become capitalist since they abandoned Maoism.

If you had included China, I could gave said, "look at China". But you didn't, and took the wind right out of my sails.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSr3SUG3rug?si=EgSAlM_0UR-D3DlL

raumdeuter:
When you target the rich and remove their tax benefit point to them as the devils, take political ads on them, making them lose their fortune this is what happens. And if this goes on for years is how you become USSR

That above is how you wreck your economy, when your wealthy people the tax paying base, the job creating base are demonized and leave

They are now taking their wealth, their yatch and the servicing that create jobs, their private jets that create jobs, their golf course that create jobs, their debauchery(numerous GFs, side chics, alcoholism, gambling etc) that create jobs to another country

I know the number of Naija friends with UK, Canadian citizenship who told me on private conversations how they will like to move to the US, anytime they visit US and especially Texas, they are blown away by how people with same skills as them live better lives

The dream of almost every Nigerian immigrants in Canada is to eventually enter Yankee and get US papers. Despite Trump, despite gun violence, despite no free healthcare. E get reason

Those millionaires they say we lost are mostly what is called non-doms.

Non-doms only pay UK tax on the money they earn in the UK. They do not have to pay tax to the UK government on money made elsewhere in the world (unless they pay that money into a UK bank account). And smarty, they don't earn or invest in UK, so create no jobs but benefit from our societal structure.

Basically tax dodgers. Good riddance.

GloriousGbola:
sorry buda

Thanks. I mailed the supers, lol.

IjeBos:
Nice setup. I know there are tradeoffs, but have you considered a MB with a usb-c port.
Not sure if you have a Microcenter in the UK, but that's one of my favorite stores and where I get a ton of my components.
Also, not sure about reliability now, but I got some components from Newegg as well.

Sounds fun for you and your nephew.
Was planning to do something similar with my niece with my older itx setup. But she says she wants a purple glitter case with purple lights.. There goes a Saturday, sanding a case and cleaning my spray gun. should have closed my mouth.

Purple lights, lol. My nephew wants lights too, so I've told him he has to pay the electric bill in the house and he agreed. Plan is to learn to build for my super rig in the future sometime, so we'd be selling this build. He convinced me lights are a selling point.

We struggled getting a motherboard. One with a usb-c port we ordered from Ebuyer could not be delivered, and we'd already got the other components, so we've gone with what is available quick. Will definitely take more time to get the components we want for our next build. It might be an AMD. As GloriousGbola said, 13 and 14 gen Intel is crappy.

raumdeuter:
As a consumer your first priority is to have an income to afford your lifestyle, If anything is too expensive you buy a cheaper alternative but if you cant get a job then what? An income of $0 can buy $0 items. Only those who make money care about if things are expensive. If you have $0 it makes no difference if it costs $10 or $1000 both are out of your reach

And that's why I answered the way I did, the assumption being, I have a job and can consume what I consume. If I don't have a job, then of course I'd rather what I consume be produced locally so I can have a job. And I'd want taxes too, on those who have a job so I can have a safety net provided by their tax.

Nigerian unemployment is what you get when you import everything.

raumdeuter:
As a legislature in America, its cheaper for you to just blame the rich instead of putting in policies that brings jobs and give your people have jobs which is what they have been doing since. A Democratic politician who made millions from politics will still blame the rich while doing nothing

It's definitely cheaper if the electorate is stupid and ignorant and easily gaslit, but I'm not buying it's democrats fault.

Read up on Reaganomics and Thatcherism perhaps. Thier ideology worked in the short term, but it resulted in the chase for cheaper labour elsewhere, and job loses to those places (China).

raumdeuter:
As a manufacturer, if your product is too expensive, you find a way to make it cheaper by cutting the cost of production, if its labor cost then offshore since govt will turn a blind eye

Yep. That's what US and UK manufacturers did. They offshored in search of cheaper labour, and we are where we are today.

One must mind though that unemployment in both countries is considerably low despite offshoring. When a nation increases its average education levels, certain jobs just don't get filled. It happened when societies moved from intensive farming to manufacturing. Farmers lost jobs while more skilled jobs were created, just as has happened as USA (and UK) moved from manufacturing to services. Over here we need to import low skilled people for the jobs our citizens are too educated to do. Same in America where fruit pickers are imported because the locals would rather fentanylise themselves into oblivion than pick fruit.

raumdeuter:
Yet when Trump or the republicans try to cut taxes like you stated up there, the same liberals will flare up

Is that not because dump says he'd cut taxes for the wealthy?

If he cut taxes for middle income earners, not many would complain if they still get the same services they were getting before the cuts, but if he cuts tax for the billionaires who don't even use the services which might be cut due to lower tax revenue, of course I'd flare up.

I'd rather have the taxes, and school meals for those who need it, than a tax cut for Musk. It's the Nigerian in me. I've seen what happens in a society where tax is low. You get substandard schools, expensive health care, dirt not cleaned off the roads, and no safety net for the needy in dire straits. And worse is the very poor and ill-educated become so desperate that I'd need to pay extra to build a wall for my security.

raumdeuter:
Then the iphone should cost whatever it takes. Which would you rather take cheaper goods or people having jobs

When you have cheaper goods and many are out of job, the few working will have to pay more to take care of them. There is nothing more disgraceful than having more and more of your working population depend on welfare

That depends.

As a consumer, I'd be more concerned with cost than whether others have jobs or not. If it's too expensive I'd look for cheaper alternatives.

As a manufacturer, cost too. If my product is too expensive, I'd sell less and make less profit, and neither would appeal to me nor to shareholders.

As a legislature, jobs. People with jobs are more likely to vote for me than those I make lose their jobs because I encourage offshoring.

Basically, different people would have different priorities.

raumdeuter:
With the trade deals of the past 40yrs the middle class have been eroding, I travel through middle America and see many abandoned factories that you knew were once bubbling places with jobs

That is why wages cannot catch up, when you have 1000 people apply for 40 manufacturing jobs then the employer will logically lowball them

The American workers bargaining chip has been taken away

And yet, employers still choose to manufacture abroad, because they can't seem to lowball enough to make in America profitable.

Its not just for labour cost. The iphone guy mentioned the speed with which a factory in China can be refashioned due to design changes. What took days in China would have taken weeks if not months in USA. And China has more engineers too, so finding staff is much easier. Guess they start educating them in the womb so they can be qualified as children.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9f5SQQKr5o

IjeBos:
What are you building?

I assume everything on aliexpress is fake.
But it is possible to get fooled even on Amazon as they sometimes cross inventory.
Buy from a place you trust or a place with a good return policy and thest the device.

Picked up the s25 ultra a few days ago, almost want to get a fake to see how good it is.
Crazy thing is some won't even care.

I'm building around an Intel® Core™ i5-12400F for my nephew. We ordered an ASUS PRIME H610M-A WIFI D4 Intel H610 LGA 1700 micro ATX from Ebuyer, but they messed us around so we went back to Amazon like we've done for everything else.

I'm sticking to Amazon from now on for their returns policy, and Ebay because of paypal protection.

GloriousGbola:
fortunately, you live in yankee. it is those of us who live in nigeria that are fked

UK actually, where consumer laws protect us against fakes. No need for Amazon Prime neither, as free delivery usually just takes a few days longer without it, and I hate unnecessary subscriptions.

Testing on receipt is crucial so to discover fake and return in the returns window.

IMAliyu2:
I wish more "Capitalists" would read Adam Smith.
They seem to not understand the incentive structures of their own economic ideology.

They should read Marx's Das Kapital too, but most don't because they think it would turn them into communists.

SpaceX:
And also a matter of national security, almost all semi-conductors, chips, airplane parts etc are all source from China and the Democrats see nothing wrong in it, all they care about is cheap labour and more money for billionaires to Keep funding their party. Absolute nonsense!!

You saying the nationals don't care about their own security?

I agree.

raumdeuter:
American wages will drop and fail to keep up when a substantial part of the population are losing their jobs
When we flood the market with cheaper Chinese imports, U.S. manufacturers struggle, factories close, and wages stagnate
While at the same time the Chinese middle class is rising from manufacturing for American market while Americas middle class is eroding
This is betting on American workers that these people too can get a job and make a living instead of depending on govt benefits

And if the bold is the reason dump is tanking the economy, then smart. And no, I don't expect him to announce that's his policy, and even expect him to lie if it were.

Unfortunately, Americans wouldn't exactly appreciate the reduction in wages if assets don't drop in value too, and I can't see asset depreciation being good policy anywhere not to talk of in the USA.

feedthenation:
---Funny how MAGAdiots said they voted for Felon 47 to improve the economy and lower prices---now all of a sudden that doesn't matter---

The US is a service economy, not a manufacturing one like China, and when these tariffs are passed down to the consumer, they're going to cripple everyday Americans financially---

USA does after all produce more lawyers than engineers.

https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-is-fast-outpacing-u-s-stem-phd-growth/

GloriousGbola:
No you are missing it. As it is I will only buy Samsung, wd, crucial /sk hynix/ Intel/solidigm

The problem is that people will try to sell fakes or used as new.

If you don't know what to look out for you will get messed up. What happens if you get a fake drive from alibaba? What course do you have for resutution?

Its getting harder to detect fakes. I'm building a new pc and came across the below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1wzeCCWaY

Along with


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDC22srJb8A?si=iqQiLOTxmAJEcR8O

raumdeuter:
If these countries make buying from America hard, then America can make buying from them hard too
If these countries cannot purchase American made, then American consumers should be purchasing American goods or not make it so easy to ignore American made goods for foreign ones
What we consume in America can be produced in America even if at higher cost.

You are so flippant about the loss of jobs because it doesn't affect you, There are people whose jobs are being shipped out daily because it will always be cheaper abroad

But there is the issue of cost.

Just imagine what an iphone would cost if made in America. They'd need to automate to come close, which wouldn't create jobs, and what they save by automation would be lost to the cost of energy etc.

People need to understand Adam Smith. It would stop them thinking manufacturers give a damn about them, hence unions. But some are against workers fighting for fairer employment rights.

raumdeuter:
If there is a loophole to offshore, as a businessman you will be foolish not to do it or encourage it to increase your profit while As a politician and president you cannot watch as your workforce all become jobless, erode your tax paying base and depend on welfare

The solution is what descarado mentioned.

descarado:
America should cut the tax and amend some laws to promote and protect manufacturers.

To the above I'd add making education cheaper.

Unfortunately, many business people and big brands would rather maximise profit by seeking cheaper labour and inputs elsewhere, which is why they've ended up in China and park their profit in Ireland. And by golly is it expensive to manufacture in America with human labour. Not only must you pay high living wages and energy cists, you must also make enough profit to cover pensions too, which, the longer you've been in business the more pensioners you'd have, and that cost must be paid by your customers who are likely watching their hard earned cents.

I do laugh when basilico says China steals ip. I can just about see him working for a foreign company in Nigeria but refusing to steal (learn) their ways so we don't call him a thief.

basilico:
Those things happen. Daily .

Pussy grabbing, like rape, doesn't just happen. A pig somewhere has to do the grabbing and the raping!

Brand and Tate and basilico are spiritual kin: grifters claiming persecution while monetising male resentment and preaching from their digital pulpits. Both found God (different brands, same marketing strategy), both claim to be silenced, and both are loudly defended by men desperate to believe it.

https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-is-the-online-right-defending-russell-brand/

descarado:
I read some one comment about Obama and it got me thinking.
No ex president of America has involved himself in present administrations like Obama.

Really? That must be why we heard nothing from dump when he became an ex-president?

Think some more, I say.

basilico:
As usual you don't get the man talk. If you are rich , they can let you grab them by the pussy. He never said he grabs them He meant some women no matter their status can do anything for men just because he is rich and successful
Find out what acts Tiger Woods was doing to his girlfriends, if he wasn't rich they would have never given him a minute if their time.

What you call "man talk", I call pigs talking. And that's one reason I have no regard for you whatsoever. And I'm concerned what you might be teaching your boys.

It's not that the women let you. You just rape them!