• LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
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    What leadership has anyone in congress or executive branches shown? Right now they are just parroting trump and trump is just doing what putin wants. Musk is just enriching himself. It’s sycophants all the way down.

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      14 hours ago

      same thing that happened when we had a democrat president too

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        13 hours ago

        Underwhelming, sure. I don’t think it’s the same thing as actively damaging the country on behalf of Russia.

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            Everything you buy with wood aluminum and gas will increase by 25%. No less. Domestic suppliers will hack their prices up because the price customers are willing to spend is a part of every business’s pricing model. It becomes the normal price and bam, the tariff is a sales tax in everything but name. Much fiscally responsible. Very moral. Wow.

            Americans being able to buy less is hurting them. Families need food to eat. This takes that food away.

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            The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.

            US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.

            Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.

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              And how has any of that damaged us? Give me some real world examples, not theory. What has changed? How are we damaged?

              My day isn’t any different. I’m doing and feeling awesome. What damage has Trump caused?

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                  9 hours ago

                  I think they are doing an awesome job. And so do the people who voted for him. Which so happens to be the majority of the voting public by the way. So seems a LOT of people disagree with you.

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                    You can think they are, doesn’t make it true. A lot of people are regretting their vote, less than half of voters wanted trump. I’m happy that fascists, and their supporters disagree with me.

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                It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.

                And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.

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                  It has damaged your reputation as a country

                  I don’t care about that. You all can fix your own shit. If you don’t like how we do something, then you all fucking do it. Everyone shit on us anyway. lololol

                  And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run

                  I don’t think so. We were carrying too much of the load and you all just bitched at us constantly. Now you can take care of your own shit.

                  Again, if your country doesn’t like how we did something, then do it yourself.

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                    I don’t care about that. You all can fix your own shit. If you don’t like how we do something, then you all fucking do it.

                    You know what, if that is how you feel, fair enough actually. I just don’t think that’s how your former and current governments, including Trump, really feel about it.

                    I don’t think so.

                    You don’t think losing the US dollar as the world reserve currency would hurt you economically? Because that’s where this is going.

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            Exactly by what Trump and Musk are doing. Are you not keeping track of all the shit your heroes are doing? Damaging regulations, education, research, environment, consumer protection, security, immigration, freedom of press, etc. Social security and Medicare are next…

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              I like what they are doing so far. And so are the people who vote them in. They were voted in to do this stuff. It’s great.

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                  They’re doing good work. What do you think they’ve done so far?

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                    I want you to name one thing that US has benefitted from so far in this administration. A tangible benefit. I can tell you what has NOT been touched:

                    • “DAY 1 I WILL SULVE INFLAYSHUN”
                    • “DAY 1 I WILL STOP RUSHYA”
                    • “DAY 1 I WILL STAHP CHYYNAH”
                    • “DAY 1 WE WILL KUT TWOO TRILLYUNN FRUM BUDDGYET”

                    Trump is still looking for his healthcare plan from 10 years ago, and he’s already forgotten the “concept of a plan” he lied about during the debates. Is infrastructure week still on its way as well?

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                    What exactly is “good” about weakening the US on the international stage, being overtly corrupt, not helping unfortunate people, getting rid of meetings for flu vaccines. Deporting Americans, weakening the economy, allowing unelected people access to secret information, weakening cyber security. The list goes on.