As far as I can see, if Trump follows the rhetoric of "Anti-China" for security policy and "America First" trade policy, I believe they will continue with more enforcement.
>As the First Trump Administration demonstrated, America wins through innovation, competition and by sharing our technologies with the world — not by retreating behind a wall of government overreach.
It's nauseating, but much worse than that, the parade of newly minted corporate sycophants is only encouraging more authoritarian threats in the future, because they're demonstrating how well they work.
It's like the battered wife trying to please her wife beating husband to avoid a black eye.
yes, but even so it's a choice to essentially say "we need a president who doesn't want to build walls, like donald trump". But obviously even in a less literal reading this is on its face just not true based on his presidency, whether you think that's a good thing or not.
Trump's tariffs plan is all about wielding power over companies. Now companies need to suck up to him to avoid tariffs as much as possible. Suck up could mean public endorsements, pressure on other companies, campaign "donations" (bribes), "investments" (bribes) etc.
It is political power for money in a direct way and it is going to get a lot worse and less subtle.
As far as I can see, if Trump follows the rhetoric of "Anti-China" for security policy and "America First" trade policy, I believe they will continue with more enforcement.
>As the First Trump Administration demonstrated, America wins through innovation, competition and by sharing our technologies with the world — not by retreating behind a wall of government overreach.
that's kind of a strange thing to say
Not long ago like 90% of Hacker News commenters would have agreed with the sentiment that information wants to be free.
Many of you purchased merchandise with DeCSS code written on it.
that's not my point, my point is that that's not really what trumps policies have been
Maybe they are playing the card of "Trump is with us" and will undo it?
Yes, they appear to publicly attempting to manipulate him, out of a belief that he responds to flattery without regard for logical consistency.
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> that's kind of a strange thing to say
Not when your goal is to publicly fellate Donald Trump.
It's nauseating, but much worse than that, the parade of newly minted corporate sycophants is only encouraging more authoritarian threats in the future, because they're demonstrating how well they work.
It's like the battered wife trying to please her wife beating husband to avoid a black eye.
yes, but even so it's a choice to essentially say "we need a president who doesn't want to build walls, like donald trump". But obviously even in a less literal reading this is on its face just not true based on his presidency, whether you think that's a good thing or not.
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Trump's tariffs plan is all about wielding power over companies. Now companies need to suck up to him to avoid tariffs as much as possible. Suck up could mean public endorsements, pressure on other companies, campaign "donations" (bribes), "investments" (bribes) etc.
It is political power for money in a direct way and it is going to get a lot worse and less subtle.
Is this deepthroating because they are worried about his tariffs raising GPU prices in the US?