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If Trump wins it's not going to be because of foreign policy. The US economy is probably going to be the top issue by far.
Who controls the economy?
According to the average undecided voter? The President. Biden could very well lose the election simply because eggs are expensive.
Who really controls it?
No singular entity.
How about many singular entities working under the same umbrella, like say the IMF, or OPEC? So all right, about a handful of singular entities.
You'd honestly have to be real deep gassed to believe that there's a free market not controlled by specific global actors.
The federal reserve and a handful of oligarchs?
Ted
I do. Is that the answer you want?
Corporations
If Trump beats Biden things won't improve for Muslims anywhere.
Anyway... tankie accelerationists are a very small minority of the electorate and probably wouldn't vote even if Biden did everything they wanted.
Let's be clear, if Trump beat Biden, SCotUS will make a path allowing Trump to exile Muslims & strip their citizenship.
It can & will happen here.
Lmao you underestimate the religious people in this country. Sure we have Muslims but they are far outnumbered by Christians. Christianity is a bloodthirsty religion. Their whole religion involved taking from others outside of their group. Their rules applied only to others like themselves, it was totally fine to fuck over other people. The other people are people who equate anti Israel to antisemitism and dont want to be accused of such things.