• godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    80·
    3 months ago

    all these other countries: im sick of dealing with america and using their bullshit and being subservient to them. lets do our own thing. we don’t even need them anymore

    america: NOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT!!! IF YOU STOP PLAYING WITH ME YOU CANT COME OVER TO MY HOUSE ANYMORE!!!

    meanwhile china has n64 AND ps1 while america just has an NES with one sticky ass controller and the only game they have is tiny toons and half the time it freezes at the start screen

  • Cimbazarov [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    60·
    3 months ago

    US dollar hegemony is the only thing propping up America and Trump knows it. However I don’t think he’s capable of thinking unlike a “businessman” and that’s why his only weapon is tariffs

    • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      He doesn’t need to solve it. The people that need to solve it are people that have been studying and analyzing this possibility since Breton Woods. Our best hope is that the gerontocracy failed to train up an effective next generation of leaders and there’s no one steering this ship. Our worst fear is that Trump is the distraction and the cover for the current leadership while they destroy the resistance to empire and plunge us into another few centuries of darkness.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Our worst fear is that Trump is the distraction and the cover for the current leadership while they destroy the resistance to empire and plunge us into another few centuries of darkness.

        China’s rise indicates they don’t got the juice for this

        • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          I don’t think that’s true. China’s rise indicates that the resistance has a great strategy. But we don’t really know the state of USA counter-intelligence. The situation with Isn’treal and Syria indicate that US counter-intelligence might still have some areas of effectiveness. We’re currently waiting to see what happens in Yemen as another indication of US counter-intelligence.

          I’m particularly worried about the Sahel states in AES and Iran. If the US successfully disrupts any of them through a significant deployment of force or through color revolution or other internal mayhem, that’s going to be a really bad sign in my book. My sense is that if the USA is going to activate the Taiwan conflict in the next 3 years, we should expect to see a conflict with Iran/AES/(something I’m not seeing) activated a year or so prior.

  • BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    3 months ago

    He’s doing the 100% tariffs as the worst possible thing bit again, he legit thinks tariffs are a direct tax like income tax or capital gains gaddafi-happy

    Edit: omg this also explains his “External Revenue Service” idea, and how he doesn’t understand the impact on US prices for consumers - his only mental model is direct taxation so he’s naturally assuming that the US is sending a W-2 to Mr. Chyna

  • SoJB@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    Yes yes acceleration is an illogical crutch to true praxis and all that

    …but goddamn if I don’t die in the many wars to come and something good actually is born, I’ll eat a pair of Jordan Space Jams

    • TerkErJerbs@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Right after Elmosh bought twicher he invited Drumph back reinstated his acct but the latter said nah, I don’t need him or his platform. It was funny at the time.

        • TerkErJerbs@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          It’s weird that they haven’t blown apart yet but I think Drumph thinks he needs Elmonsh’s “tech prowess” or something to get it done. This whole taking over .gov systems thing and mass firing wave. Who better.