rocket_dragon @ rocket_dragon @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Wellllll, we're heading into completely uncharted territory here. No Warren Buffet wisdom has any relevance, because no one has dismantled the US government like this before. And we're only a month in. Extrapolate one month of damage over a 4-year term... we've experienced 2% of a Trump/Musk term.

Yeah I would absolutely recommend selling everything now, it's going to go much, MUCH lower. If you really want to play that game, wait until it's all hit rock fucking bottom to buy again.

Becoming president and avoiding prison was not the result of any intelligence, it's purely an outcome of wealth, assets, and connections.

Give any average person the same privilege, they could get the same results.

Take away Trump's wealth, assets, and connections, what is he? Homeless on the streets, deranged yelling into dumpsters as he rummages through the garbage

No you cut the funding that goes to poor people, so when they start to revolt, you can use that savings to help fund your security to protect you from the angry poor people, and spend more on security then you would have spent just keeping the poor people happy.

This is what conservatives call, "fiscal responsibility".

He's definitely not part of any fascist organizations, the oligarch throwing Nazi salutes can vouch for him.

Because it's like spending lots of money paying for gas to drive your car, and you don't like that, so you take a steaming hot dump in your gas tank, you know, "as a change in perspective".

Surprise, you won't save anything on gas, and your car runs like shit now too.

Trump’s plan involves using tariffs to pressure foreign central banks to lower interest rates, thereby depreciating their currencies relative to the dollar. This would offset the price increases caused by tariffs on U.S. consumers.

Nothing about this string of connections makes any sense. Why would they lower interest rates, why would their currency depreciate?

Other countries are just going to form trade partnerships with each other and avoid the US. There will be a new strengthening global economy that skips the US entirely.

It's Brexit all over again, but instead of the UK suffering from leaving the EU, it's the US suffering from leaving the global economy. At some point the US will have to come crawling back just for deals worse than it had in the first place.

Varoufakis' reasoning is fully consistent with the Trump/Musk world of drug-induced delusion.

"Hey white people, look away from your economic distress, you can complain about black and Hispanic kids in schools and feel like the government is validating your feelings!"

I'm gonna take a wild guess that the "experts" have air-conditioned homes and workplaces.

Make them live without AC for the entire next summer and let's see if their "expert" opinion changes.

So, how is everyone enjoying this new age of peace and prosperity that only The Chosen One could bring us.

I mean, these are the same people saying, "Putin cares about his people" when he's actually just balding Hitler starting pointless wars to throw the young men of Russia into his meat grinder.

They don't care about child poverty, but they are getting pissed finding out that their Medicare and Social Security are getting the axe now too.

From there, they could extract concessions from Democrats in exchange for not running. Or run.

Ngl this is kind of a great idea. It's certainly better than what the green party is doing right now.

This does assume the green party will let someone beat Jill Stein. Also IMHO it's a mistake to always go right for the presidency when there should be a focus on local and municipal movements.

But it would be nice to see leftists finally get a win in something.

You're a bit weird, I'm still not talking about Democrats, I'm talking about leftists.

What can leftists do to get a win?

Voting gets so much attention not because it's super effective, but because it's super easy. It's the absolute most efficient change/effort available to us.

Everyone should vote, just as a first step. Even if you don't like DvR there are third parties, write-ins, plus there is municipal and local voting, and issues you can vote on directly on the ballot.

And then after you're done voting, get involved in your local community.

If you're a defeatist/"enlightened centrist", you are a part of the system of oppression.

No, he asked for a next step. Because leftists can't get a win.

It's always the same game, vehemently disavow the thing you're about to do, right up until the moment you do it.

MAGA disavowed Project 2025, right until the minute that Trump won, surprise! They were Project 2025 all along.

Putin disavowed an invasion of Ukraine, he was just running some training exercises, right up to the minute he started the invasion.

Nazis will disavow genocide even while they're building the concentration camps.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

Woken up? Are you talking about the woke mind virus, you dirty infected communist?

This is the way

Upvotes for shaming Nazis! <3 keep going as long as you like. Nazis are pathetic weirdo trash.

Nazis are pitiful losers who deserve to be shamed.

Join me in dogpiling on how Nazis are pathetic, worthless trash, and I don't care how you call me. The more we talk about humiliating Nazis, the less anyone wants to be a Nazi, the more I consider it a win.

Nazis are the worst embarrassment of humanity. Shame on Nazis.

No, lol. It's pretty easy to tell when someone isn't a Nazi, they are horrified at atrocities like massacres, rape, genocide, and don't play defense if you humiliate, berate, or mock Nazis.

Defending Netanyahu is a really big red flag to me. A black, white, and red flag even.