Comments by "Cyberfunk" (@cyberfunk3793) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1.  @rskb1957  Yep, and I suspect the trainwreck will get even more interesting if Scotlannd actually becomes independent and joins the EU. I hope I and people like Farage etc. live to see it, it's going to be epic.
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  2. UK outside of EU is even more screwed than before.
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  3.  @paulomarinho1963  Export tariffs so that Canada can go bust even faster? You don't understand the scale of crisis they are about to have, countless people there are going to lose their jobs. Having export tariffs isn't going to help them.
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  4. @Richie Simons I'm guessing with time the rest in UK will figure out Brexit wasn't such a hot idea, if Scotland actually becomes independent and joins EU by itself, that might be a really rude awakening for some folks, but I'm not sure how realistic the Scottish inpdence actually is. If UK wants to come back to EU I as EU citizen have no issue with it, as long as they get the same type of deal other countries had so no special perks anymore and I would like to see strong polls like over 75% pro EU in the country for extended periods because it's not worth the hassle to negotiate your return if you leave again after 5 years. And perhaps require that if UK returns they adopt the Euro and ditch the british pound the same moment they legally return. I would suspect that would be hard pill to swallow for many of the more nationalist minded English people, so could be a kind of litmus test on our side, UK would show it's serious about joining this time if they would be even willing to change their currency and adopt the one that is suppoed to be used in the union.
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  5.  @DavidMoxham957  Many of the billionaires in UK were probably from Russia and nobody that is trying to avoid taxes is probably choosing either of those places for tax reasons alone, but would rather go somewhere like Switzerland, Monaco, Dubai or the like if they actually need to avoid taxes.
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  6.  @Noel-ji8nm  You don't need to have an abortion if you don't like to.
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  7. Top richest 10% paid something like 60% of ALL taxes in the UK. You would not care if none of the services in your country can be funded even if your taxes are doubled?
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  8. The pause is to give domestic industry more time to prepare, and perhaps exclude car industry as a sector. It was obviously never about migrants or drugs with Canada, that is the excuse given for legal reasons. He simply wants to balance the trade and if he could bankrupt Canada and force it to join US, even better. That was clear from the start, and he confirmed it with his talk about threshold. He means what is the threshold for pain US is willing to take, in order to bankrupt Canada and prove it's not viable as an independent state without US subsidising it.
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  9. I remember when the Brexit wars were waging on Twitter and people (brexiteers) kept telling me how UK would be able to dictate the terms to EU because otherwise German car manufacturers would suffer because they could not export their cars to UK anymore. I asked why would eastern European countries like Poland care about German cars and grant UK any good term for any reason (because all need to agree in EU for any deal). The denial was fairly epic among brexiteers. Perhaps the situation is starting to sink in gradually now. As EU citizen I have no objection to UK coming back or even having a good trade deal with us in the future, but I would appraciate some acknowledgment of the failure before that happens. Like at least 75% of British people need to agree leaving was not a great idea before rejoining in for example 10 years from now. If it's just something like 51%, not worth the hassle for EU.
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  10. How does local production not increase energy security at all? If UK is cut of from outside sources because of a war for example, do you think it's better to have 0 gas or have the domestic gas supply?
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  11. What about the queens and kings and their costume parties on public expense? I think that is one thing that should have ended a few centuries ago also.
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  12.  @MarcoNierop  Most people clearly care or the EU sales would not have tanked like they did. UK is the anomaly, so you could perhaps say most people in the UK don't care and in that case you might be closer to the truth.
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  13. How are tariffs not reducing the trade imbalance? Tariffs obviously reduce imports to US and if all trade stops between the nations, trade imbalance is 0.
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  14. I don't think the average person that voted for that Trump analysed Kamala's policies and found them lacking.
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  15.  @Noel-ji8nm  What do you call it then if not freedom of movement?
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  16.  @anonnemo2504  What fiasco? Seemed to be going ok from our point of view, you mean that it took too long to approve the AZ or somethng? Seems any concerns over it were justified, with the blod clot issue that lead to many countries ditching the vaccine completely.
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  17.  @katrinabryce  Billionaires negotiate directly with the cantons and get special deals so they aren't paying the official rates.
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  18.  @davemoore5222  It's not about refineries, it's about the fact that the northern states of US are closer to Canada than TX. US can easily replace the few % Canadian oil represents of US consumption. Canada will obviously lose any trade war with the US so if they retaliate they are only making it easier for Trump.
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  19. Tariffs on Tesla's aren't going to have any other effect than perhaps piss Musk off more and increase the Tariffs Canada is facing. The motivation for the tariffs are that Trump wants to coerce / bankrupt Canada to joining US so don't see the tariffs coming off so easily (except perhaps in the auto industry etc). Canada is screwed and probably the only choice they have is looking for other trade partners which is going to take a long time.
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  20. Oil from Canada is something like 5% of what US consumes and US is the largest oil producer on the planet that exports a lot of it's oil, yet you believe American can't afford gas if Canadians put on some export tariffs? 😂
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  21.  @philipprudhomme6967  The amount of oil US gets from Canada is insignificant, US exports more oil itself than it imports from Canada so what you are talking about is silly.
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  22.  @MattWhite-vh6xh  Where did he say that?
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  23. @ Just read the exact opposite, that you have nowhere near the required capacity to move the oil to the coast and then to other countries. If you had the infrastructure, why would you be selling it to US with discounted prices?
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  24.  @katrinabryce  Yes, his standard of living would not improve by him willingly eliminating his trade surplus. So he is Canada in the example.
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  25. He is correct. The imports form Canada are only a few percent of their total oil consumption and they are the worlds largest oil producer that exports a lot of oil. Only reason they import some from Canada is that their northern states are closer to Canada than to places like TX.
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  26.  @tihomirrasperic  No the EU says that every importer country needs to be on the list of allowed countries and the imports need to follow certain sanitary and other regulations. If those regulations are not followed the stuff isn't coming to EU. Some tariffs depend on quote though, so below the quota tariffs might be smaller.
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  27. I wish we did have an EU army, it would be a good idea.
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  28.  @paulwood5413  Yeah I'm not so convinced it's that simple. When you start tightening, rich people and companies aren't just silently going to accept in many cases. People can leave and companies can move their headquarters to other countries. Many of the companies might have accounted for those current tax levels and will simply leave if there is a drastic hike.
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  29. Plot twist next week: Boris back on the job.
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  30. Trump didn't postpone the Canadian tariffs because of the Canadian response, that had very little to do with anything and they have almost no leverage. The issue was that he gave Mexico 30 days so why not give Canada the same and more importantly domestic pressures from US auto industry that would be hurt by the US tariffs (not so much the Canadian response). Probably if the tariffs come back on, they will need to have some exclusion for the American auto industry where they will have a longer transition period, giving suppliers in Canada time to move or American businesses find other parts supliers.
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  31. ​ @TheEuronaut  I lived in Europe almost all my life and also in Germany for a few months. I think the party that won is the one most closely matching with republicans, Scholz's social democrats would probably be the one matching with the democrats, at least with some of the democrats. Obviously they don't match that perfectly but the basic principle of religion being more emphasised or not seems to fit.
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  32. What are you talking about? US obviously doesn't sell more to the EU. When services are taken into account also the deficit is something like 150 billion. I saw one source say it was 50 billion net deficit, but it certainly isn't a surplus.
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  33. If I was Starmer, I would quit like Trudeau did in Canada. It's going to be a bumpy ride with Trump and Trudeau did the smartest thing and bailed out 😂
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  34. Guess what, many are leaving and obviously millionaires don't keep their money in German bank accounts. Even less are coming to the country after they hear about such policies so no wonder the country is going downhill very fast.
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  35.  @ffotograffydd  Americans need Canadian oil about as much as fish needs a bicycle.
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  36.  @tihomirrasperic  Canada is totally dependent on trade with US and to US the trade with Canada is largely irrelevant and stopping it completely would be a bump in the road.
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  37. @ The economy of the exporting country pays the tariffs in the long run. "if it was cheaper, or even available inside the USA then why are they not doing that already?" Because it's not cheaper without the tariffs obviously, which is the whole point of them.
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  38.  @ffotograffydd  Canadian oil imports are something like 1/20 of US total consumption. It's a very small share, mainly due to logistical issues etc. US can fairly easily either pump more themselves, adjust their refineries to deal with their own oil more or import from another country. So for US it's not a big deal, but for Canada it might be much harder to find ways to export that oil abroad if they don't have the logistics in place to do that and have simply relied on the US trade to continue.
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  39.  @moon_knight8578  He sent his people pointlessly back on that airplane, when they could have been home out of their handcuffs much sooner without the bravado.
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  40.  @DoubleDragon539  Nothing to do with safety?? And if one of the prisoners decided to attack another one, or tries to open the cargo door while there is much fewer guards compared to prisoners? Do you have any common sense? Obviously such prisoners are unpredictable and need to restrained when there are only limited number of guards controlling them.
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  41. ​ @marknicholson2281  They were criminals, either illegally in the country or deported for other crimes. That is how prisoners are transported: restrained for their own and the guards safety. I see nothing indicating they wouldn't be shackled or handcuffed on future military flights also.
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  42.  @kersebleptes1317  They were all obviously Columbians, that is why they were going to Colombia. There are large amounts of them detained for many countries so dont know what you mean with original group. Responsible head of state doesn't make empty threats they can't follow through with.
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  43. @ Still waiting for source of that claim.
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  44.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  "Canada’s crude oil exports to the United States amounted to 24% of U.S. refinery throughput in 2023, an increase from 17% in 2013" So the 60% is nonsense, it's the share of imports, not refinery capacity. US can reduce its own exports to replace most of the Canadian or import some more from other countries. So a nothing burger.
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  45.  @agnesholloway8831  My gas price will have probably 0 effect from Canadian and American disputes. American gas prices went down even the day the tariffs were still about to start. Canadian oil accounts for about 5% of American consumption, the effect from its price rising are close to nothing.
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  46. Did even the soviets use this tactic in 1985 when their shelves were empty? Should not laugh at other people's misfortune, but I just can't help it 😂
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  47.  @jenniferhamilton7123  "Colombia has walked back from the brink of a damaging trade war with the United States, reaching an agreement on accepting deported migrants being returned on military planes, after a flurry of threats from President Donald Trump that included steep tariffs."
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  48.  @fitzstv8506  The trade is roughly balanced in absolute terms so US exports to about as much as it imports from Colombia. But because US is so much bigger losing exports to Colombia would mean very little to them, while for Colombia US exports at least before were as much as 1/3 of their total exports so very important from that perspective. Could Colombia easily find alternative buyers for their products, I don't know but probably for commodities like coffee it would not be very hard.
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  49.  @Onequietvoice  If I buy 20 units from you and you buy 10 units from me and after tariffs that reduces by 30% each side, has the trade imbalance reduced?
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  50. @ I asked why would tariffs not reduce the trade imbalance, and you implied the reason would be that they act on both sides (likely because you believe there will be retaliatory tariffs). I gave you the elementary school math that obviously debunks that thinking so don't change the topic now.
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