• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    So American will pay between 20 and 40% tax on goods coming from Vietnam but the Vietnamese can buy US goods with no tax?

    Cool.

    Do Americans know this?

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        It’s funny. 20 to 40 tax on Americans and none on the Vietnamese and he thinks that people who make an average of USD$8,000 per year are going to buy $100,000 US SUVs. He’s a delusional idiot.

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          I some times ask myself is it dementia or imbecility?

          Does that man understand the bullshit coming out of his holes, or is it the narcism that makes him talk and talk and talk, no matter how much lunacy is it the words leaving him…

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            If I had no idea who he was, I could give extreme benefit of the doubt and say it’s spin. Claiming a loss is really a win.

            But we do know who he is, so I’m going with imbecility.

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              I clicked on the link and There’s no german page for that… but there’s a page in Pfälzisch, the dialect people in the german region Palatinate (Pfalz) speak.

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      As I keep saying: It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.

      https://lemmy.world/comment/17225002

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        My supposition is that he’s a complete moron following advice from someone working off a protectionism 101 primer from 1834 who had Randian bullshit physically replace his brain to the point where they don’t do the rest of the steps to make the protectionism work because that’s the government doing stuff and therefore communism

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    Is he aware that us car manufacturing has been decimated by china?

    Why would they buy us suv, when china is right there and they can buy straight from the factory?

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    I have never once heard anyone ever refer to an SUV as a ‘Large Engine Vehicle’. Am I just unaware, or is this trump being a complete idiot again?

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      He didn’t actually say this, someone with access to his TS/Twitter account did. They don’t know wtf SUV stands for and probably made it up.

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        So they also have to imitate his illiterate misuse of title case for Important Words, random quotation marks for “emphasis”, and littering of SHOUTY WORDS, not to mention his bizarre self-aggrandized tone and his ridiculous ways of ending messages that he thinks makes them look more important? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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      I’d say it is an obvious way to try to confuse BEV with LEV… To sell more ICE-cars…

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      The term large engine vehicle sounds like came from the same guy that coined big dick energy

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    Lol, one visit to Vietnam can easily show you why an SUV is not going to be a hit there. It’s basically motorcycle country. Cars are pretty common too, but motorcycles are basically THE form of transportation there.

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      Unfortunately their governemnt is investing heavily into car only infrastructure which bikes aren’t allowed to use. It’s frustrating to see considering their cities are already at maximum traffic with motorbikes alone. Adding cars to the mix there just isn’t possible.

      Also there’s no way that US automakers will be able to outcompete Vinfast and Chinese EVs who are working with better subsidies and significantly cheaper labor.

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        That’s ok, there will be a statement at some point in the near future from some Vietnamese official denying that any of this post from Trump is true.

        This has been the pattern, I’ve no doubt it will continue to be.

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      And their streets are narrow, especially in the French quarter of Hanoi and other older areas. The vehicles in use currently are often very small to make it easier to navigate the narrow roads (and street/laneway parking) and like you mention - the scooters, which are like 90% of vehicle traffic.

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      I’m in Hanoi right now. Theres quite a few SUVs and crossovers. Maybe between 1:4 and 1:8 cars to bikes.

      Mostly Kias and Toyotas, I saw 1 Ford Explorer.

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        1:4 is a wild ratio. I can’t picture that in Saigon, but maybe Hanoi is a lot different

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          It’s so bad for the flow of traffic.

          I can only pray the government does something to discourage cars and encourage electric bikes before it gets worse.

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          I was in Saigon in 2016 and there were quite a few SUVs, lots of larger Toyotas like Land Cruisers for Uber, etc.

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    SUV=SubUrban Vehicle

    That’s what I thought the acronym stood for when I was younger, because I would usually see them in suburbs. Now that I’m older, I refuse to call them sport utility vehicles because suburban vehicle is a much better description of their intended use-case.

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    “Thank you for your attention to this matter” is a phrase stolen from fifth-rate middle-management corporate power wannabes. We are not his employees and do not work for him. I’d believe him more if he ended his endless emails with “…and always remember. Fuck You”.