Does Trump want to fuck with the impenetrable banking fortress nation that is Switzerland?
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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And we have been doing exactly what President Trump wants for a long time.
And now you can see where it put you. Nowhere.
Welcome to the Trump's list of bad countries, lets trade with each other.
We're growing fast ...
If nothing else, at least Magats won't be able to hide their gold there anymore.
Lol.
As an American I would give my right nut to live there instead of here.
As Belgian I do think Switzerland is one of the best countries on the entire planet. There's a reason why they have 30% immigrants, and it's not because German is a fun language to learn 😁
German
you do not need to learn german, switzerland has german, french and italian speaking regions
LOL... well the clowns were elected to the presidency... why are we surprised at the never ending circus?!
Omg, we are absolute shit right now.
Trump is all about pretenses.
There are the "reasons" he's making those decisions, and then there are the "pretenses" he uses when the opportunity comes around to make them.
Swiss banks hold a lot of money from oligarchs and billionaires. Putin wants pressure put on them. But Trump has to find the "pretense" to do it so as to at least nominally not be seen as a russian asset. But what a coincidence, Lindt announces that they're going to supply Canada directly from Europe to avoid his tariffs. And BOOM. Pretense established.
Oh boy when you think you've done it all right with the oligarchs and stuff! NOT FAIR!
How many months is it going to take for the Magats to realize they fucked America over?
They won't, they're immensely supportiv"
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. .-- John Stuart Mille
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
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Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
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A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Even if they self aware enough to see that, they will never admit it.
they can be almost selfaware, r/selfawarewolves was a fun sub to visit.
Or they'll say they need to go through this difficult transition in order to return to their former glory.
Empirical evidence says at least 100.
Making quality products that people actually want to buy is a dishonest and abusive practice, I'm glad someone finally spoke up.
Can we get a digital badge that the citizens of any advanced liberal democracy that Magastan labels as "bad" can proudly display on their socials?
Don't sully the "-stan" countries like that, they don't deserve that association.
Doesn't "Stan" just mean land of (these people)?
Yeah, it does. But I think the intent of "Magastan" is to draw a comparison to "those countries". But this is stooping down to Trump's level imo
Hmm yeah it could certainly be interpreted that way. I get your point. I've said Canukistan before, but not to denigrate others, however it could certainly be interpreted in a negative manner.