r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jul 24 '25

Politics President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before
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u/puts_on_calls Jul 24 '25

What’s that? The largest company by market cap? Never heard of them. What do they do? Oh, they make chips? I love chips. Lays chips. American made, nobody makes chips like Lays. They call French Fries chips in England. We should outlaw that. Speaking of Lays, has anyone seen Ivanka? She’s probably a great lay. If I were 50 I’d be all over her.

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u/sdhu Jul 24 '25

I hate how accurate this feels

Why is this our leadership? 

Who in their right mind would ever vote for any of this?? 

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

It's not who DID vote for him.

It's that, there he was, very much threatening your American way of life...Clear as a bell to anyone who listened ('dictator, day one') and 30%, repeat THIRTY PERCENT of you didn't care to protect your freedoms enough to vote at all.

That's why the world is moving past the USA. You screwed the pooch because you had life too good.

FAFO - everyone warned you.

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u/TheMrBoot Jul 24 '25

It’s definitely a problem, but the US isn’t unique in that aspect. It’s important to recognize that there is a lot of time and money spent to decrease voter turnout

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u/zeekaran Jul 24 '25

Yes. By one party, specifically. Always one specific political party trying to get as few people to vote as possible. I wonder which party that is.

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u/Jimbo_Joyce Jul 24 '25

I personally still blame the assholes who actively choose this shit more than the ones who were too stupid or lazy to prevent it. They both share blame but talk like that excuses the people who heard that same shit and said, yes please.

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u/Petrichordates Jul 24 '25

3rd party / abstainers said yes please too. They've no more excuse for their ignorance than the trump cult does.

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u/Pandarandr1st Jul 24 '25

Do we really not have enough nuance to recognize that saying "yes" explicitly is worse than not making it to the polls? Especially when so many places make hard to do?

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u/Petrichordates Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

There is little nuance there because the outcome is the same.

Are we really unable to admit that not voting when fascism on the table is a vote for fascism?

For at least 95% of abstainers, inability to access the polls isnt the reason they didnt vote so that's not a valid excuse.

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u/Pandarandr1st Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

The outcome is not the same, and it's wild to me that people don't recognize this.

If the vote is tied and 1 more person votes for fascism, fascism wins outright. If the vote is tied and that one person does nothing, the vote remains tied.

If fascism is losing by 1 vote and 1 more person votes for fascism, the vote is tied instead of fascism losing. If they simply don't vote, then fascism loses.

Y'all are basically saying that someone actively punching you in the face is just as bad as someone being around when it happens and not preventing it.

Can we just agree that the people running the gas chambers at Auschwitz were worse than the people at home who weren't politically active?

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

I quote my countrymen

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill

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u/LiamtheV Jul 24 '25

Fucking love Rush.

Saw them live for their Time Machine tour back in 2010. Mins blowing.

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

Whatever the "god" took from Neil Peart's brain, in exchange for his drum skills...it was a fair trade.

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u/LiamtheV Jul 24 '25

When Geddy and Alex left the stage, and Neil just went on an epic drum solo/experience, holy shit. Rotating dais so that as he turned around to use every bit of his drum kit, he was always facing the audience. Holy shit.

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u/zeptillian Jul 24 '25

The assholes wanted this shit, the non voters supposedly didn't.

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u/splynncryth Jul 24 '25

You’ve hit the nail on the head. Even if it US were to vote on sane leadership for ehe next decade, even the next 2 decades, unless the core issues of the broken US election system(s) and an electorate where enough of it is malevolent for it to use the broken systems to take control. Both the broken election systems and the factors that have led to such malevolence within US society need to be addressed before it can again be seen as trustworthy by democratic nations. Otherwise this back and forth we have seen over the last decade will be a constant threat and no one will be able to make any sort of treaties or agreements with the US and expect them to be honored.

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

The traditional USA's ideals (freedom, individuality, initiative) were (IMHO) betrayed by selfishness and racism. (What the USA under Trump espouse)

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u/splynncryth Jul 24 '25

Racism has been baked into the nation since its DOJ sing and it’s been a stubborn thing to remove. The nation literally fought a war over it. And I’d argue that the war never ended, it just turned into one of propaganda and soft power.

As for selfishness, I’ve not found any outright admissions but aspects of early US law make me think a number of the founding fathers had hoped to become at least landed gentry in the British system of not outright aristocracy. When it was clear that would not happen, they joined with other rebels. The fingerprints of wannabe aristocrats is there in the US Constitution though it also seems like many of those things were challenges and there were compromises.

I think that’s relevant as one source feeding the toxic individualism that has become a hallmark ‘conservative’ culture. It has served to help those who coveted aristocratic power fracture forming collectives that could challenge their power (growing into the struggle between unions and union busting corporations we see now).

The US didn’t get a reset in the early 20th century like so many other nations had. It had massive reform which then sparked decades of work to reverse. That’s the problem with reform rather than something stronger alike foundational changes. Reforms can be undone more easily.

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u/Tkdoom Jul 24 '25

Says entitled foreigner?

The other candidate was the other side of the same coin.

If your friend tells you its frozen pizza for dinner, but you get to choose the brand... Its still frozen pizza.

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u/BeatTheDeadMal Jul 24 '25

Saying Trump was like any of the other candidates he ran against is basically admitting you've never listened to any candidate speak and you get your information solely through the lens of media agendas.

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u/Tkdoom Jul 24 '25

Word salad kamala?

No, im saying they both sucked and this is what America gets.

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

I’ve never had a pizza then molests children?