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    So American will pay between 20 and 40% tax on goods coming from Vietnam but the Vietnamese can buy US goods with no tax?

    Cool.

    Do Americans know this?

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        It’s funny. 20 to 40 tax on Americans and none on the Vietnamese and he thinks that people who make an average of USD$8,000 per year are going to buy $100,000 US SUVs. He’s a delusional idiot.

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          I some times ask myself is it dementia or imbecility?

          Does that man understand the bullshit coming out of his holes, or is it the narcism that makes him talk and talk and talk, no matter how much lunacy is it the words leaving him…

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    SUV=SubUrban Vehicle

    That’s what I thought the acronym stood for when I was younger, because I would usually see them in suburbs. Now that I’m older, I refuse to call them sport utility vehicles because suburban vehicle is a much better description of their intended use-case.

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      Considering there is nothing sport or utility about them, I think your name for them is fitting.

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      They’re great at driving onto sidewalks, or over the curb if the person in front is taking too long at the drive thru.

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    You know, it’s getting seriously difficult for me to discern Trump’s actual posts from parody accounts.

    The way he writes and says things… It just sounds like someone trolling.

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      @Tattorack @Davriellelouna Trump himself is completely out to lunch. He doesn’t know what his own policies are, only that he’s been told that whatever he just signed will make him look powerful and manly. The handlers running his accounts are just having fun knowing they can make abundantly clear that the dictator has no idea what’s going on and civil society is (for now) powerless to do anything. That can only go on for so long…

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      As I keep saying: It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.

      https://lemmy.world/comment/17225002

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        My supposition is that he’s a complete moron following advice from someone working off a protectionism 101 primer from 1834 who had Randian bullshit physically replace his brain to the point where they don’t do the rest of the steps to make the protectionism work because that’s the government doing stuff and therefore communism

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    Lol, one visit to Vietnam can easily show you why an SUV is not going to be a hit there. It’s basically motorcycle country. Cars are pretty common too, but motorcycles are basically THE form of transportation there.

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      Unfortunately their governemnt is investing heavily into car only infrastructure which bikes aren’t allowed to use. It’s frustrating to see considering their cities are already at maximum traffic with motorbikes alone. Adding cars to the mix there just isn’t possible.

      Also there’s no way that US automakers will be able to outcompete Vinfast and Chinese EVs who are working with better subsidies and significantly cheaper labor.

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        That’s ok, there will be a statement at some point in the near future from some Vietnamese official denying that any of this post from Trump is true.

        This has been the pattern, I’ve no doubt it will continue to be.

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      I’m in Hanoi right now. Theres quite a few SUVs and crossovers. Maybe between 1:4 and 1:8 cars to bikes.

      Mostly Kias and Toyotas, I saw 1 Ford Explorer.

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        1:4 is a wild ratio. I can’t picture that in Saigon, but maybe Hanoi is a lot different

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          It’s so bad for the flow of traffic.

          I can only pray the government does something to discourage cars and encourage electric bikes before it gets worse.

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      And their streets are narrow, especially in the French quarter of Hanoi and other older areas. The vehicles in use currently are often very small to make it easier to navigate the narrow roads (and street/laneway parking) and like you mention - the scooters, which are like 90% of vehicle traffic.

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    Yes, the country known for driving scooters instead of cars will start buying SUVs that don’t even fit the streets in many cities

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      Of course… Ford Explorers and Lincoln Escalade are already being prepared for sal… wait… never being shipped to Vietnam.

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            *banh mi

            But yes, so very delicious. So fresh too.

            SUVs won’t work in Vietnam, not when you have Grab and scooters everywhere. It might become a rich person thing to drive around in those awful yank tanks but that’s hardly a market.

            This just sounds like the VN government is just making a nothing deal sound good for Trump. Americans paying tariffs for incoming VN products versus Vietnamese paying nothing for incoming American SUVs? A product that most Vietnamese won’t find useful at all?

            Ugh.

            I want some bread now…

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              Oops, wrong spelling!

              But uh, yeah, I agree, Trump got played, SUVs will take off in Vietnam as well as McDonalds did.

              Trump is an actual idiot.

              Not like, ad hom insult idiot.

              He is just actually an idiot.

              He still doesn’t understand what a trade balance even is, or that services/digital goods we export aren’t part of that number.

              He’s a spoiled brat that’s gotten as far as he has by being an abusive narcissist who csn just buy his way out of everything with daddy’s money.

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              Literally banh mis and other Vietnamese basically street food, pho, stuff like that, is why McDonalds didn’t take off.

              Vietnam has some truly tasty and cost effective cuisine, and McDonalds was largely only eaten by corpo types just as a flex of how much money they have.

              Its less nutritious, less tasty, and more expensive than what the Vietnamese have been eating for 100s, 1000s of years.

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                From what I understand, it’s all pretty cheap too. So the profit margins for McDs were probably thinner.

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                  Last time I read a breakdown report on it, yeah, it was something in the range of…

                  A typical street vendor banh mi has more actual like weight of food in a sandwich than a McD borgor, and the McD borgor is also between 2x to 4x as expensive, depending on exactly where you are in Vietnam.

                  Also, lol, the vastly most profitable part of a McD meal is the soda, and then fries.

                  Like a drink that costs you $3.00 at McDonalds costs them fractions of a penny.

                  And… HFCS soda just has not worked too well in any Asian markets, basically.

                  Thats how you end up with like, Diet Cucumber Coca Cola in Japan, lol, a lot of Asia already also has a lot of great drinks, such as boba tea… and just actual tea, etc.

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        …what? Being good off-road, or on bad roads, is [supposed to be] the entire point of SUVs.


        Edit: Okay, okay, I get it. Language changes and “SUV” doesn’t mean what I want it to mean. I’m well aware that I’m No True Scotsman-ing, but that doesn’t make me any less mad about it! 😠

        A representative sample chosen from among the replies wrote:

        A truck maybe. Most SUVs are just big chunky road cars.

        SUVs are supposed to be trucks with seats in the cargo area!

        first-generation Toyota 4Runner, a real SUV, shown with the top removed so that it looks like a pickup truck with a seat in the cargo bed

        All the car-based junk they build these days aren’t real SUVs, and shouldn’t exist because they’re objectively inferior to station wagons and minivans.

        Every SUV ought to be an acutally-off-road-capable one, and the only people who should buy them are ones who actually take them off-road.

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          @grue yep, I’m mad about SUVs too! I think everyone should be. They’re also way more dangerous for the people around them as well as being bad at the purposes they’re advertised for.
          I often say that if I decide it’s okay to be a terrible person and I want to harm the people around me and punish and increase costs to my government I’ll buy an SUV.

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            I mean, I own an old SUV myself (a real one, that I got specifically for off-roading and backcountry camping). I’m just not so anti-social as to daily-drive it in the city.

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          Those car-based junk things are actually called “crossover SUVs”, but the manufacturers are now just calling them SUVs, at least where I’m from.

          I refuse to call anything without a proper transfer case an SUV personally. Hell, even the German luxury SUV barges at least have transfer cases with electronic locking of some sort. But plenty of crossovers have open center diffs with only traction control to facilitate “locking” it.

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          With their weight and the lower profile tires that come stock, and how they’re kinda just like regular cars but bigger in every way except where it counts, they really aren’t. Their single big advantage is the ground clearance but many actually have bodies that come surprisingly low. One the OG Ford Rangers would be great, but only if it had 4x4 because all those RWD only trucks, especially when they have nothing in the back, are essentially worthless due to the total lack of traction. They’re also super long, which makes maneuvering difficult in tight spaces so obstacles you could have gone around are now barriers you have go through. Besides, my BRZ doesn’t explode when it hits a pothole or touches a gravel road and in fact does quite well, even when it was lowered by an inch. Hilariously, unlike many vehicles the BRZ comes with a metal skid plate by default to protect the oil pan from the road.

          Trucks and SUVs are terrible. Body on Frame vans and smaller unibody work vans are incredible but most people are too stupid and/or insecure and vain to buy them instead.

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          Its true that around the origin of SUVs, yes, this was the point, and many could… not offroad as well as a specifically off road geared vehicle, but could offroad a lot better than a sedan.

          But, now its been 20ish years, and broadly, manufacturing standards / quality control are shit ass fuck tier bad, everything is desiged to break just after your warranty expires, and are also intentionally engineered to be nightmares to try to self repair, or just literally impossible to do this due to ‘everything’s computer!’ (unless you also want to hack your car)…

          … so those offroad capabilities are functionally no longer present, beyond I guess all wheel drive as a mode.

          Really, these days, an SUV is just a minivan that seats less people, doesn’t have a sliding door, costs a fuckton more, has better ground clearance, and ‘looks cooler’.

          Pretty similar MPG.

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          Supposed to be, according to markering. Isn’t. I think only half of SUVs sold in the US even have 4 wheel drive. This is fine because in the US most pickups and SUVs are just massive pavement princesses anyway.

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          They’re just a classification meant to evade certain regulations to sell worse cars based on a few metrics regarding things like clearance. Given the point is to avoid having to make a decent car…

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          @grue yeah, so the commercials say. The ones I’ve driven haven’t been particularly better than sedans except higher clearance… making them more likely to rollover or break axles instead of scrape oil pans.

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      don’t be surprised when the capitalists see this obvious issue as an “opportunity” for development of bigger streets etc. ie: profit.