No? We just gonna sit around and let Nazi Germany 2.0 happen? Maybe waggle your finger a bit at them? Cool. Yeah. Okay. I love our leaders, they’re so commited to the freedom and wellbeing of their people.

God I wish the Red Army was here to save our asses like last time.

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    66·
    16 天前

    Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake. Anyone who could do such a thing will rather watch the US eat itself and only use whatever resources they have to prepare for a post US world and defend their people during this global transition.

    • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      56·
      16 天前

      yeah I feel like the #1 obvious strategy for any country seeking the weakening or destruction of the US right now is just sit-back-and-enjoy. They’re shooting themselves in the foot again and again, why interrupt that when they’re going to be far worse off in 20 years?

      • NoSuchAgency@reddthat.comBanned from communityEnglish
        19·
        15 天前

        You just keep believing that…Trump is doing what the other politicians didn’t have the courage to do because they knew the US would take hit in the short-term, but in the end, the US will be in a much better position. The way they’ve been doing things over the past 30 years just isn’t sustainable. Something had to be done about it so I’m willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt

        • sodium_nitride [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          48·
          15 天前

          Trump is not reviving economic planning or industrial policy with his tariffs. Just because the US needed to re-industrialise, and just because protectionism would have been part of any re-industrialisation policy does not mean that Trump’s policy is not phenomenally short sighted.

          The simple fact is that without imposition of

          1. Maximum import quotas (differentiated by good)
          2. Capital export controls
          3. A strong welfare program
          4. An expansionary fiscal budget
          5. Nationalisation of key industries

          It is practically impossible for the US to re-industrialise. And each of these policies is critical because

          1. Import quotas can directly limit the quantity of goods coming in unlike tariffs which have huge distortions effects and have a difficult to predict outcome
          2. Preventing the outflow of dollars prevents people from cheating Import quotas or tariffs. Preventing the outflow of machinery allows that to be invested in your country.
          3. This is needed to create a workforce that is actually healthy and smart enough to fix the economy.
          4. This is needed to run your economy to its physical limits rather than artificially created financial ones.
          5. This is needed because re-industrialisation requires the bourgeois class yo give up on a lot of profits, so you need to take control of industries away from them.
        • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          44·
          15 天前

          “He didn’t shit in my mouth for no reason, there has to be a reason for this poop to be in my mouth so I’m going to eat it without question. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt”

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          39·
          15 天前

          yes, pushing as much of the workforce into unemployment as possible and slapping huge taxes on everything people need to survive is totally the recipe for building bright future. don’t forget to fire all the scientists, because their research doesn’t jive with your ossified religious structures. feudal economics ass brain.

          fuckin’ maga losers can’t even keep their story straight.

        • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]@hexbear.netMEnglish
          27·
          15 天前

          Trump is doing what the other politicians didn’t have the courage to do

          Do what, exactly?

          the way they’ve been doing things the past 30 years is unsustainable

          I mean yeah capitalism is unsustainable

          Oh and also pigpoop

        • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          23·
          15 天前

          This is the kind of person who thinks it’s us who “DoEsN’t uNdErStAnD bAsIc EcOnOmIcS!”

          You’re right that what’s been going on the last 30 years is unsustainable. But what you’ve gotten the last years has been full-on, uncut pure capitalism and Trump is just trying to solve that with even MORE capitalism. Yeah sure that should work…

        • Dengalicious@lemmygrad.mlBanned from communityEnglish
          11·
          15 天前

          Ah yes, a collapsed economy and destruction of the work force and access to trade definitely is going to help the US. Definitely, I believe this because I’m delusional