The standard of journalists in germany....
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So Trump thinks you can multiply numbers by values greater than one. What an idiot.
Wouldn't it be "greater than two", if you're adding over 100% tariffs?
No. That is only if you include the price of the item in the total. For the tariffs themselves, it is just a percentage.
What else would you even multiply, if not the price of the original item? That's how the price of the tariff itself is calculated. Multiplying by 1 is pointless, since it just returns the value of whatever other variable you multiply it with, to begin with.
But anyways, we're just arguing semantics. I am perfectly aware that we both know basic math. It was just your original phrasing that I found questionable.
Tariffs are added on. So you have a 25% tariff, you'd be paying +25% of the cost of the item. If you have a 150% tariff you'd be paying +1.5x the cost of the item.
Obviously. Which would be the original price of the item, times 2.5.
He was talking about multiplication, not addition. If it's solely multiplication, then it's x * 2.5. If it's addition, then it's x+x * 1.5.
You are multiplying by the price of the item to calculate the tariff, but aren't adding the price of the item as part of the tariff. A $10 item with a 110% tariff has a tariff value of $11, not $21. The answer is right there when converting from a percentage to a scalar:
110% = 110/100
110/100 = 1.1
1.1 < 2
You're wrong. See my reply to u/hiddenempire.
No, I'm not. You keep conflating the tariff with the price of the good. They aren't the same thing. We aren't talking about the final price after adding the tariff. We are only talking about the tariff. It isn't that complicated. There is nowhere in math where 110% > 2. That isn't how percentages work.
Then try to explain this to me: 110% of what? What value or amount are you assuming that this 100% to which you're adding 110% tariff even is?
These people have turned colleges into temples, holy places for education. And yet Trump who got a masters from an Ivy league school is a big dummy. Come on guys follow one of your own principles
They never mention his masters, and then say he dropped out.
Ah, he works for "Die Zeit". They only employ mentally-challenged, fart-huffing, leftist establishment propagandists. It's a prerequisite to work there.
"German."
https://xcancel.com/goddeketal/status/1910052605306286266#m
shocking, i know, but he apparently deleted the tweet.
Oh wow.
I wish people would post either archives or xcancel links because otherwise I would have never seen the rest of the thread, twatter will only show you the one specific tweet if you're not logged in.
same. I looked it up out of curiosity, thought i'd share it for the lulz.
I...uh...oh.
Like how he's going with a variant of "just a
prankshitpost, bro!" defense.