By crashing the US economy, he is teaching a better lesson about fascism than any history professor.
It’s also improving sales of used and handmade items from small businesses and craftspeople. My eBay sales are up 10% and I expect even more in the next few months.
Hopefully it will also alienate his big business cronies or accelerate the demise of their businesses I’m up for either.
Canada was watching, pulled a 180 and didn’t elect their own Trump Wannabee.
The Conservatives increased their share of the vote compared to the last election (+7.5%), in particular among younger voters. The Liberals only scraped together just enough for only a minority govt because the vote for other parties plummeted.
Didn’t elect their own Trump wannabe yet.
Fascism is on the rise globally, so we must all be vigilant. There are enough warning signs that Canada could be just around the corner.
This is what has me so depressed. This is a forever thing. They lost there for now, but they’re just going to get better at their manipulation as “they” have globally. Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control of all major media. It’s only a matter of time when fascism runs most major countries. :(
Were it not for actual Trump, wannabe Trump was on track to win. It won’t take long for that to come back
This has happened before. The Nazis were not the only fascists back in the 1930s, it was a global movement. The movement passed. This one will too. It’s just a matter of trying to keep the high tide mark down until then.
Exactly.
Authoritarians of all stripes love to lay claim to eternity.
We don’t have to believe them though.
I’m just concerned the media landscape is so different now that we don’t have enough people living in the “same reality” to really ensure that. Hope you’re right though. Unfortunately no matter what I think we’re going to have to go through the worst of it before anything can change. :/
Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control …
They have been consolidating all control of the news AND more importantly, social media to blame the misery on various scapegoats caused by their ever increasing wealth disparity. The poor ignorant masses are bombarded relentlessly day in and day out with hate propaganda.
Australia has a federal election this weekend. Fingers crossed that hopefully they can make the right choice.
I’d rather them make the left choice.
Ah, I get it. I really meant the “correct” choice.
Yea, we don’t want them to shift in the wrong direction.
Let’s hope Labor wins.
People worldwide see the true American heart.
I don’t think people are seeing the true American heart. I think Americans are seeing the truth in their neighbors’ hearts, though. We’ve been in denial about who we are and our responsibility to the world, because we trusted that our core values (freedom, equality, justice) would endure through scandals and fraudsters and would-be tyrants. Americans were lulled to sleep by casual prosperity and nominal world-leadership. We believed that the critics of America “hate freedom” or were jealous of our well-deserved success. Trump is the inexorable conclusion of that laziness, the funhouse mirror reflection of our own indifference to the world.
I believe most people, anywhere, are good people and want to be good people. The differences arise from defining what is “good” but largely we all want freedom, justice, and equality for ourselves. Extending that to others is a question of empathy, and empathy is created by exposure. America’s heart is our diversity, our multiculturalism, and we let that heart become overrun with bigots and tyrants.
That’s what the world is seeing, and has seen for 100 years. Bigots and tyrants, claiming moral superiority. It is the Americans who are just now seeing it for the first time.
because we trusted that our core values (freedom, equality, justice)
Are those really American’s core values? It sure hasn’t appeared that way from the outside, and that’s not a new thing.
That’s what we are led to believe as children, and it’s the principles we talk about when we want to foster civic pride.
But do we practice those values? Do we base all of our actions as a government, as a nation, as a community, on those principles? No, we don’t, but most of us Americans are just finding that out.
Intreaguing that Americans didn’t see this on 9/11. It was, among other things, a nod at American exceptionalism.
Other contries can use it a a fire against far right forces in their own countries. (That is, if the lwft is compenent zo use it properly).
The USA is losing it’s soft power on many countries making them more independed from the US.
We’re getting a heavy dose of “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”.
It’s become apparent that, despite being less than we want, a lot of our tax money actually does go toward things that help the citizens.
Other than that, I got nothing. These policies, decisions, and the people making them are all a disaster that are going to take decades to repair.
Yeah. It also seems, at least where I am, to be attracting the attention of the “voting doesn’t matter they’re all the same” crowd. Serious consequences are hard to ignore.
From my European perspective:
- Countries are finally starting to push for independence from the US when it comes to defence etc
- The UK and Canada moving closer to the EU, increasing political and economic cooperation
- Brain drain from the US leading to American academics moving to Europe, bolstering our economy and research
- Hopefully seeing how fucked up the US is will eventually lead some people to reconsider voting for the far-right in Europe
Europe has a handful of upsides. The growing independence is great to see, as well as an increase in domestic defense budgets.
The AfD nutters aren’t reconsidering. They just see the deportations and go “yay”.
Yeah, but I don’t think the nutters make up the full quarter of the voting population currently willing to vote for them. Lots of them are protest voters who are just vaguely “against”. Besides, I don’t think it’d be the deportations making some people reconsider, but the sheer economic stupidity of the Trump government as well as their attitude towards Europe. I fully expect Americans to be far poorer and more miserable in 2-3 years and that might do wonders to dispel the myth that the far-right could “fix the economy”.
The removal of DEI related protections at large corporations show who really was LGBTQIA+ supportive and who was just riding the trends.
And honestly, the way DEI has been handled in some cases really was not very good. I support the basic principles behind the movement but IMO the proper way to ensure that underrepresented groups get their chance is to address the problem at its roots - improved education, improved political representation, improved access to utilities and financial support and so forth. Hiring quotas are counterproductive. So I’m hoping that after the rubble settle and a new progressive movement eventually rises from the ashes it’ll have the opportunity to take a better approach.
Oh, you means liberals did something instead of nothing, and then it wasn’t perfect, so conservatives absolutely lost their goddamn minds, only to realize hey maybe we should do something, now let’s address the things the liberals wanted to address in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE?
Is that what you mean?
Chill out dude
Let.me know which bit I got wrong such that I should enhance my chill.
In my opinion you and the person you replied to probably agree on 80-90% of the same thing on this particular topic but you’ve come in swinging accusing them of being in cahoots with bigots.
It’s a fine line - getting tired of having to meet people where they are when they’re standing in the shit.
Good on you for having the energy to keep it up.
Thanks! Have an awesome day my man
I used to experience a lot of negative emotions when I thought about the second ammendment
It has radicalized my previously centrist brother-in-law to the left and continues to do so.
He will reduce mindless consumerism of cheap garbage, so there is that.
“Instead of having 30 dolls, the kids will have 2 dolls… and they may cost a bit more” - donald (paraphrased a bit)
A tiny microplastic lining.
The Canadian people are united like they have never been before. Canadian dollar as been rising. Canada is getting more doctors and high level professionals as some flee the U.S. Canada has been expanding trade ties around the world (exception is U.S.). Traveling Canadians are welcomed around the world.
So apparently, from what i read, USAID, while it did some collateral good, was used for covert CIA foreign interventions meant to carry out incredibly damaging experiments for no reason other than CIA being CIA. A lot of these harmful missions were done under covert names like “sex changes in x country” or “lgbt support in y country”. Allegedly Trump saw this and killed the program, just out of bigotry, either before the CIA explained it to him or despite it.
Now i had doubts about this myself so i checked online from several sources and the consensus seemed that it checks out. Major news outlets wrote pieces on it. Even USAID defenders always say some variation of “even though USAID was involved in CIA operations destabilizing foreign governments, that was not its main purpose”.
So if this is true and as far as my research has lead me, i have no reason to believe it’s a fabrication, thank goodness USAID is dead. I thought the US CIA programs of destabilizing foreign governments for shits and giggles was a thing of the past, but i was unfortunately wrong and i now realize that not even aid should be accepted from the US and I’m glad Trump destroyed that program.
People in the leisure industry in the US are going to do well. With the low value of the dollar, more people are going to choose to vacation in the US, and it makes vacationing in the US more attractive to foreigners. If they choose to ignore their government’s travel advisories about the US, that is.
Given that Trump is in the leisure industry, this is no surprise. In down markets, staycations (or, vacationing within the country) always go up. It may be the one industry that sees an uptick in business.
Pass me some of what you’re smoking
The supply chain is about to get demolished and tens/hundreds of millions of people are going to lose their jobs without one to replace it. On top of that things are going to explode in price due to inflation and tariffs.
Yet you think people are going to ramp up their vacations. lol.
Maybe you should put your pink glasses aside?
Hey, the challenge was to find silver linings. It’s not like I think they were a good idea.
more people are going to choose to vacation in the US, and it makes vacationing in the US more attractive to foreigners
Come to the US and stay in one of our luxury ICE detention centers, and then get an all expenses paid vacation to Cuba or El Salvador!
Yeah, that’s whyfor the travel advisories.
Past recessions when the dollar’s dropped against the Euro, the domestic leisure industry has benefited. I honestly don’t know how much the whole hostile-to-foreign-nationals aspect of the current administration is going to affect that pattern. Probably at least some, but I suspect most white Europeans will ignore it. A weak dollar makes a US vacation cheaper, and that’s an emotional decision.
As evidence, I present the Nationalistic trends in EU countries, Brexit, and British vacationers. They’re not immune to believing what they want to believe.
It’s an accelerationist’s wet dream. Things are gonna get real bad here soon, and the best we can hope for is the when the backlash comes it will be swift and lasting.
My wife is no longer hostile to the idea of me owning guns.
I still don’t have any other than two collectors pieces that shouldn’t ever be fired except as a last resort, only one of which still has ammunition manufactured for it.
