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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JDPON Don fulfilling his role as undercover CPC Cadré in destroying the US Empire from within costanza-maoist

[–] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

the bullet pierced his ear, but he can still hear the voice of the party

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 94 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lmao putting a tariff on Taiwan. Truly being an ally to America is deadly

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 65 points 1 day ago

trump has singlehandedly ensured a future reunification of China

[–] hexthismess@hexbear.net 86 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am not unconvinced that, at some point, Trump was the victim of an "Inception" heist that placed the idea of tariffs at the center of his mind-palace.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can you imagine? It's probably like the inside of Vincent D'Onofrio's mind in The Cell.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

lol
https://nitter.net/Karl_Was_Right/status/1907603432795681271

They calculated “tariffs charged to the USA” by literally just dividing the trade deficit with imports. And then slapped 10% on everyone we have a surplus with

We’re ngmi

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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can't wait until Trump dies choking on a fish filet and all the allied countries he alienated immediately come back into the fold as though nothing had ever happened.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They're not coming back to the fold, I hope trump lives a long life and I hope America fractures under him. If America fractures the entire planet would be a less violent place for most humanity rather than just white masters

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no shot the u.s. doesn't coat the globe in nuclear hellfire the instant it seems like shit is going to go sideways

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean they can, it won't save them, it would just destroy the world. By that logic so could Pakistan, so could china, UK, France, india and so on. But nukes require intelligence and some level of organisation to maintain and, America is losing allies, therefore bases to operate nukes, firing nuclear workers, gutting the government. America is the most powerful armies on the planet, but half of its power comes from its mass network of allies and military bases, without those you are just the most well defended and isolated nation on earth but invading? Good luck, you couldn't beat afganistan with nato.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it won't save them, it would just destroy the world

nothing you said is wrong and it's just a gut feeling but i personally believe the people in charge find that preferable to a world where the u.s. is no longer dominant.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are absolutely right. I just hope whoever is in direct control of the nuke realised the gravity of their actions and defy orders if need be. Im sure every individual who is even remotely close to such an action understands the gravity of it

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

we can hope.

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[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yeah this is not just about Trump. Trust in the American voting public has eroded. Even if Trump's successor reverses everything he has done, America's allies will never trust the US in the same way.

Most countries are pursuing strategies to reduce any and all dependencies on the US. While the US continues to hold 20% of the worlds purchasing power (much of it concentrated among the wealthiest Americans) the rest of the world is working to make its economies as robust as possible with the remaining 80%.

We're witnessing a change in the world order. The end of American exceptionalism, leaving a power vacuum that will likely favor China and Russia for the forseeable future.

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

CIA and bougie pricks in general have gotten really complacent

Man needlessly smashed up some of the US' ability to project soft power, he's still talking about slashing the military budget, and now this and they haven't whacked him yet

Soft

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A few months ago I thought there was no way he'd be stupid enough to dismantle the institutions that keep the US in power, because monied interests that depend on it would have him deleted, sent to prison for real, or at the very least impached. But holy shit the lack of opposition to his antics, other than some performative fingerwagging from liberals, is amazing.

I don't even know what to believe anymore.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The truth is the presidency is actually an enormously powerful position and there is no secret cabal of intelligent, strategic capitalists behind the scenes who can press a button to override it. Ruling classes have always been riven by factionalism, and the modern American ruling class is at the apex of this due to generations of imperial hegemony degrading their ability to analyze, understand, and respond to real material conditions.

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[–] an_engel_on_earth@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

this aint your pappys cia no more

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CIA during the Cold War: Hopped up alcoholic psychos smearing LSD onto the doorknobs of historically black churches and overthrowing Latam democracies.

CIA today: Some YOPO DC dork who posts furry porn to the DSA's twitter before hitting up Planet Fitness.

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Young professional

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

powering 500,000 homes in Virginia by hooking Allen Dulles' corpse up to a turbine

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[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 57 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Very interesting they're letting him actually do this. I would think the bourgeoisie would not like this kind of hit. He still has time to do "incredible deals" whereby these countries agree to buy $100 of US goods and he drops the tarrifs while tooting his horn but things do kind of look like the bourgeoisie (those near levers of power anyways) are serious about forcibly decoupling and reshoring pronto to be able to fully enact the plan of isolating, blockading, sanctioning, and trying to turn up the pressure on and destroy China or at least prevent their rise and displacement of US power.

I mean it's either fail children running the show which I still can't buy because they'd love their enemies to think them more foolish and incapable than they are and we don't have that luxury OR the whole plan for drawing back, child labor, small yard, high fence, using the sword of empire to attempt to force the world to buy more US stuff to displace competitors OR they're on some sort of dark enlightenment trip and think capitalism is over and the only way to avoid socialism is turning the barbarism machine way up and trying to create some sort of techno-feudalism or something else at home.

Why does it matter? Well if they're just incompetent then indeed the fall of the US is in order in the near future lea-w but options 2 and 3 spell very, very, very dire times for those in the imperial core as it's a very orderly managed decline that's liable to be able to potentially draw it out many more decades into the future and inflict incredible amounts of suffering on those of us stuck here in the mean-time (beyond just treats being more expensive).

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dont forget these people like Zeihan. Meaning they believe the world will collapse without america.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

have never heard of that person. I looked at the first page of results for Zeihan and just closed the window in disgust

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Valid reaction. Yeah he is one of the "analysts" of the empire.

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[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does it look like the weed menu in an Amsterdam coffee shop?

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Genuinely think the intent is to make conditions so unbearable within the empire so he can round up the coming storm to push forward the most violent shit possible.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 63 points 1 day ago (10 children)

manufacturing bad conditions to manipulate the backlash is certainly an idea, i'm not sure it works when you scream from the rooftops that it's your project and what ever happens will be your fault.

there's no fallguy, there's no possible fallguy, he's branded the tarriffs as his idea from here to kingdom come. how could even the historically unintellectual yankee people possibly misdirect their ire?

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Transgender" stole our "tariff wealth" is literally what he already said.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

~1% of the population, yet they're able to bring America to its knees. Hand the world to the Trans Illuminati, they've earned it.

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[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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