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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Trump laying down the law and threatening devastating tariffs:

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 20 hours ago

The green paper covered in slavers (ie. USD) has always been imposed through extreme violence.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You're on hexbear, you don't have to translate Maoist Standard English, we know what you mean when you say green SSlaver bills. It's always good to support mulitlinguals tho

[-] ComRed2@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 15 points 22 hours ago

The grand Chinese strategy for beating America. Do nothing, win.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What does "undermine dollar" means?

How can someone from outside US undermine dollar?

intent to trade in non-dollar currencies

Really?

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 20 hours ago

USA has spent decades at least violently enforcing the petrol-dollar. It's why they destroyed and continue to destroy iraq, libya, iran, etc. The USA can't maintain its extreme exploitation without it.

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago

ok comrades, this is our moment. people's lives are about to become massively inconvenient and/or they're about to be in peril, and this is the time where it's down to us or the out and out fascists. Lay the groundwork now, start saying shit like "our economy should be organized around getting working people the results of their labor." currently-comfortable people are going to start thinking about how the world works and it's our job to make sure they want to kill their bosses, not their less privileged neighbors.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago

Trump: "If I see you peeling the bandage off slowly, I'm gonna rip it off real fast!"

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Takes himself hostage “come any closer and I’ll shoot”

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Screaming "You're not using enough dollars!" at everyone outside the country while I demand my friends and family only pay me in bitcoins.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Any finance ghouls who can tell me what stocks I should be investing in?

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

i dunno.. last time i had a chance to get mega rich they fucked up all the rules (gamestop) to prevent it, so i have 0 faith that there is any winning move in the stock market unless you're one of the chosen

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 2 points 17 hours ago

They didn't really change any rules for gamestop. It skyrocketed in value, you were just one of the schmucks tricked into holding the bag by talks about it hitting 1200+
Dan Olson has a good video

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 4 points 23 hours ago

Kraneshares ETFs if you want to bet on China but I’d wait for the inevitable crash first.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago

China is crashing or the stock market is?

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago

China won’t crash of course but I’m guessing a lot of related stocks (in many places, not just China) will when the tariffs hit. China would be able to adjust in the longer term, of course. But honestly idk, I’m not a finance expert so really I’m just guessing.

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[-] Owl@hexbear.net 103 points 1 day ago

I bet you he doesn't know that tariffs can go over 100%.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

He probably thinks 100% means nothing gets in

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 day ago

If he knew he'd be saying "thousand" so he can emphasize the "th" and do his stupid hand motions

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

Someone float that idea to him quick

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago

...were the accelerationists correct? Was the Beijing evangelical dad correct??

Tremendous outcome

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

The accelerationists are always correct except for the fact that advocating for worse conditions is abhorrent and disconnects you from the people whose conditions you just helped make worse instead of better. They will always be correct but it will always be a strategy that should not be undertaken because it will only harm the movement.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I've been grappling with whether I'm an accelerationist or just a pessimist. Because I don't want bad things to happen, I just keep correctly predicting them and looking for silver linings.

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

advocating for worse conditions is abhorrent

What if you're not advocating for them in a material way, because you lack any real input into your socio-economic future? What if you're just trying to claim you can see a silver lining in the face of an incoming storm?

And what if the folks in government and media and business who denounce "accelerationism" are the ones prosecuting the policy, while blaming anyone who looks at the catastrophic results and says "Maybe this will turn out for the best in the end" are secret foreign influenced enemies of the state?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Silver lining is fine, doing things like advocating to vote for the worst possible option is not, or worse still are the accelerationists taking part in and actively pushing the far right further because they believe worsening the conditions is good.

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[-] kittin@hexbear.net 1 points 15 hours ago

Posadists get the last laugh

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 123 points 1 day ago

"Trump threatens to nuke US economy as other sensible nations grin and rub their hands together"

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago

Please tell me that Ireland is eligible to join BRICS, I just want one English-speaking country that doesn't have their heads up their own asses.

By all means, let the burgerlanders run their own country in the ground. Just makes leftist's jobs easier.

[-] flyingchaucer@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 day ago

S is for South Africa, which is a largely English-speaking country. Although we've still got quite a bit of headassery going on. India also has English as an official language. But we could use more Europeans -- come join us!

[-] xj9@hexbear.net 2 points 17 hours ago

South Africa could use more Europeans? Haven't you done enough?

[-] flyingchaucer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago

I meant BRICS could use more European member states

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Ireland's economy is heavily predicated on it's allies and neighbors using them to dodge taxes.

I don't think you come out ahead when the burgerlanders go broke and McDonald's no longer has any dollars/euros to stash in your banks.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 117 points 1 day ago

Trump: if you undermine the dollar, i will finish the job.

Real art of the deal shit right here trump-drenched

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

This is what I mean when I say Trump is better foreign-policy-wise

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 114 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Hermit Kingdom officially know as "The United States of America" further entrenches itself in isolation. Their supreme leader, a failed real estate "tycoon" attempts to lash out at global cooperation by increasing the cost of import goods, despite having no domestic production of their own.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 72 points 1 day ago

Trump really is going to be the Nero of the American Empire.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 69 points 1 day ago

He already did a Pizza Hut ad, he really wants to be American Gorbachev

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Calling Trump the American Gorbachev is brilliant and we all should be using it immediately. Mostly because people in the west think Gorbachev was “good” and this highlights how the actually just murdered the USSR.

[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 58 points 1 day ago

Based and multipolarity pilled

[-] miz@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago

you gonna bark all day, little Donnie, or are you gonna bite?

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

He's not even in office yet. Can't start breaking things until you get your thicc-trump into the China Shop.

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