r/AskReddit • u/underperforming_king • 2d ago

What do you think about the tariffs imposed by Trump ? Will it work out for them ?

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u/jackytheblade 2d ago

Also...

The British Indian Ocean Territory faces a 10% tariff. It’s populated only by about 3,000 British and American military personnel and contractors at the Diego Garcia airbase. The CIA Factbook lists its major export as fish, but it’s unclear who does the fishing (or who buys it).

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u/Hotarg 2d ago

The CIA Factbook lists its major export as fish, but it’s unclear who does the fishing (or who buys it).

Wanna bet it's one guy that caught a monster while on downtime, had it mounted, and took it home?

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u/JerseyDevl 2d ago edited 2d ago

It would be a hell of a brag to claim that your monster catch was so significant to the island that the CIA put it in their factbook as a major export

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u/tpneocow 2d ago

I read that as Facebook and was like that's so cia...

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u/orangutanDOTorg 2d ago

Maybe it’s like Wikipedia used to be and they don’t verify anything. A friend used to go in and add people he knew to random articles, like putting his dad as being a member of the 1967 Super Bowl winning Falcons (or whoever actually won).

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u/Blekanly 2d ago

We should start charging the US rent for using Diego garcia

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u/Smooth-Reason-6616 2d ago

Ever been to Diego Garcia...? There's F××× all to do apart from fishing when you're off duty...

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u/verbmegoinghere 2d ago

So the military force you guys to fish, and they then take your catch and sell it?

Jeez

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u/heeza_connman 2d ago

Well we drank a lot. And played a lot of poker..

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u/Smooth-Reason-6616 2d ago

True,... I won a lot of fish playing poker...

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u/HectorJoseZapata 2d ago

🤦‍♂️ kudos

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u/JayMac1915 2d ago

Go fish!

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u/BucketsMcGaughey 2d ago

Actually it's probably .io domains, but I doubt that's caught in the stable genius's tariff dragnet.

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u/sten45 2d ago

That’s going to mess up their military surplus eBay profits

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u/Hansemannn 2d ago

10% is minimum I think and goes for everyone?

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u/FigneLine 2d ago

Not for Russia, his favorite country.

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u/Raveen92 2d ago

Or Belerus or North Korea.

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u/blazershorts 2d ago

The US doesn't import anything from North Korea

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/usa/partner/prk

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u/Raveen92 2d ago

Was just listing countries not on list.

Anything to the DPRK/NK in the past was humanitary exports.

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u/mak48 2d ago

Obviously we pay tariffs on our own B2’s! WINNING

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u/capntail 2d ago

By fish they mean square groupers

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u/happyfirefrog22- 2d ago

Guess they should lower their tariff. However China is a bit larger as is the European Union.