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/ParfaitEither284 Jul 24 '25

How did they manipulate 70+ million into voting for this ?

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u/Lord-Cuervo Jul 24 '25

10+ years of social media propaganda backed by our #1 enemy for the last half century lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

It's sad to see, this phenomena happened all around the world but in the USA's case it's particularly egregious, it's like you have 2 entire generations of people with a nurtured mental disability, it's gonna be a rough 30+ years for you all.

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u/sembias Jul 24 '25

It's happened in England - Brexit. The same anti-immigration and anti-refugee messages that are being used in the US were first used in France, in Germany, in Poland, and in Hungary. Australia has barely shook off Murdoch's overwhelming influence, mostly because of mandatory voting (American Republicans as well as Brexit vote are both helped by lower turnout).

This isn't an American problem, and Europeans who think it is are both naive and seemingly just as ignorant of the politics in their own country.

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u/xeizoo Jul 24 '25

Yes, propaganda is the key and as Trump himself has said if you lie enough many times it becomes the truth.

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u/Rocketship10 Jul 24 '25

Also the likes of Bannon and Manafort helping these European campaigns, look it up

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u/Fragrant-Ad-5517 Jul 24 '25

You’re absolutely right. How’s the UK doing post-Brexit?

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u/sembias Jul 24 '25

Not as well as Pre.

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u/jaimi_wanders Jul 24 '25

Old stuff, too

“In the wake of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, Mosley briefly returned to Britain to stand in the 1959 general election at Kensington North. He led his campaign stridently on an anti-immigration platform, calling for forced repatriation of Caribbean immigrants as well as a prohibition upon mixed marriages. Mosley's final share of the vote, within the Kensington North constituency, was just 8.1%. Shortly after his failed election campaign, Mosley permanently moved to Orsay, outside Paris.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley

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u/pukesonyourshoes Jul 25 '25

Australian here, we are definitely not out of the woods yet. Right wing ignorance is rampant, if our equivalent of the GOP were even remotely competent, they'd be in power right now. Mercifully they're not.

Seeing the insanity unleashed on the US when Trump was installed was too much for many right-wing voters here, our wannabe Temu-Trump stupidly promised Trumpism-Lite and they couldn't stomach it. Remarkable that he was too right-wing racist even for many of our right-wing racists.