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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.

This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.

Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.

This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Remember "freedom fries?" Republicans are fucking idiots.

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[–] violetdelights818@lemm.ee 22 points 4 days ago

Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.

[–] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 197 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Food from the USA is not up to European standards. It's that simple.

Just look at how long it took to ban Red Dye #3. Banned almost completely in Europe in 1994, while in the US it's legal until 2027.

[–] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 57 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Just want to piggy back on the red dye thing. The dye was banned in January, and shortly after, in February, a canal in Argentina turned red, which people suspected was from a dye manufacturer dumping into the water way: https://vt.co/news/weird/concerns-raised-after-canal-water-mysteriously-turns-red-like-blood-overnight

I suspect the two events are related.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Don't forget high fructose corn syrup, which is still legal in the US, despite having a conspiracy theorist who hates it in charge of the Department of Health and who could get that ball rolling with a word.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Every American thing I've tasted has been absolutely vile compared to even the cheapest things in Europe. I really feel bad for US citizens who have lived their whole lives with shit like that.

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[–] Tundra@lemmy.ml 226 points 6 days ago (6 children)

what is this new american trend of infantile statements?

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 66 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's hardly new. The United States have always been like that one popular kid in an elementary school. If you act the way he wants, he can be nice to you and your on his team. Take one step in a different direction and they'll start badmouthing you, preferably behind your back.

They've been doing this to Russia and China for decades. As long as they have the stage, they can create any narrative they want and the audience will most likely adopt the opinion and start saying the same things.

The thing about propaganda is that, if it fits in your frame or reference, you'll be more likely to accept it. If it doesn't fit, like when it is about you, suddenly you'll realize that this is something they have been doing about others all along and that it doesn't break any patterns, apart from the recognition patterns of the receiver.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 83 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

It is not about the behaviour, it is about the language. Back then even though they were bullies, they did at least use adult diplomatic language. It is about the brainrot of Trumps sycophants copying his bizarre childish way of talking.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago

Sadly that kind of language apparently resonates with voters more than intelligent speech. It's happening all across Europe as well. As someone from the Netherlands, I had a bit of a laugh when the right wing populists found out that governing is not at all as simple as they make it out to be. It's the embodiment of 'fuck around and find out'.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

It is simple sadly. An infant is running the country. They want to make sure he can understand what they're saying publicly without it having to go through a translator. Note the excessive use of the word beautiful for instance.

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

"...because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

My brother in christ, what the fluffer nutter cyberfuck are you talking about?!?

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 5 days ago (5 children)

America won't buy our corn and guns!

Why won't America buy our corn and guns?

Oh, because they make their own and they're fucking thousands of miles away.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

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[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 88 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Eww... We don't need chlorine infused chicken and chemical soaked eggs. No idea what crap they have in their mad cow beef and lobster. Ban it by law, put it into the constitution change all the national anthem to say EU citizens will be protected from US chemical infused meat and eggs. Write it into a huge stone facing US in multiple languages. Make T-shirts too and hats.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Don't american eggs need to be refrigerated and cannot be eaten raw or something ridiculous

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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I like when they talk like toddlers, it's clear as day they are distracting the topic at hand, much like their IQ

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Gee, it's almost like he's intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Pffff haha Hahaha haha ha...

Oh wait, he's serious.

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA!!

America has the food standards of a third world country. That place literally allows cancer giving chemicals in their food simply because people aren't dying fast enough from them.

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

The US is several third-world countries in a trenchcoat, supported by a few first-world countries within it so it doesn't collapse, cosplaying as a single first-world country.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"What do you mean this chicken is rotting??"

pours bleach everywhere

"What did I tell you, see? Zero bacteria!"

Please keep their foodstuffs away... 🤢

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 74 points 6 days ago

Weak unchlorinated meat, unbelievable!

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago

They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.

Which wave of feminism is this /s

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 days ago (7 children)

As an African with access to reasonable traditional cattle farming, I can say that American beef tastes like crap. Looks amazing, but tastes like crap.

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[–] MetalMachine 20 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Definitely not because our beef is hormone filled

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[–] smokingpistol@lemm.ee 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

As an American that has traveled to many places, why would Europe want any type of American food. I felt like most countries I’ve traveled to especially in central and South America and places like Italy the food is more farm to table and by far way more healthier. Have you ever seen Fanta from Europe compared to USA?

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[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So this must mean that in America the local markets will be flooded with suddenly affordable meat?

didn't think so.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 49 points 6 days ago

God damn it that's not how people are supposed to speak.

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 12 points 4 days ago

You know, that's exactly what I've said, every single time I've eaten beef, anywhere in Europe..."What weak beef! I bet that cow couldn't have done more than 20 push-ups. I can actually taste that a 2-hour run would have taken that cow the better part of an hour."

🙄

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

EU: "I don't want your beef. I hate your beef."
American Beef: sob
Lutnick: "Don't listen to them Beef! You're beautiful no matter what anybody says! You know what EU? I think your beef sucks! Your beef is WEAK!"

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[–] Aliktren@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Your beef is corn fed and cows cant digest it, get fucked. Grass fed ftw.

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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I kinda like that he is doing this because while this won't reach a large number of MAGAts, at least a few will pause and realize, "Wait, other countries have higher standards for their citizens than the food that myself and my family eat daily? Is that.. a good or a bad thing?"

And some small number will learn something they would've never been exposed to if the orange-moron didn't say it.

I don't imagine it will reach many of them, they wouldn't be MAGAts if they thought about things very deeply after all, but some of them will get it.

Thank you Mr. President for starting this awareness campaign (in the stupidest way possible).

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Or maybe because they have standards and we don't

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 40 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Lutnick’s description of American beef as superior is a common perception and has some evidentiary basis.

“EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality, meaning that the customers cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing,” says a 2022 academic article in Animal: The International Journal of Animal Biosciences.

So according to the NY Post, the apparent absence of complaints in the US is an argument why US beef is better?

[–] Tartufo@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago (4 children)

EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality

In other words: They have no clue and are just guessing. That (parts of) the EU may be following an entirely different trend is completely unimaginable.

My personal anecdotal evidence: Basically everyone I know who eats less beef does so because of pricing, wanting to adopt a healthier/different diet or because they don't want to shut their eyes as much to what "meat production" means for a cow anymore. Then there's the group who just goes along with that because they either don't prepare meals themselves or so they're not the only one not eating at least vegetarian. Not a single one of them does it because they "cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing".

Ofc my anecdotal evidence isn't saying anything about the entire EU either. I merely wanted to showcase how easy it would be to frame the entire thing completely differently.

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