Y’know his dad was almost definitely in the KKK, believe it or not

Yes but many is required to put up a fight. Illustrative of the failed dem strategy that rhetorically expedient is practically ineffective, and ultimately cedes power to the fascist right.

In other words, “I’m not owned! I’m not owned!” I continually insist as I cash in political points for fundraising emails and my constituency is quickly loaded onto busses bound for concentration camps

Go ahead and blame him, fuck this guy. I want to see him Moussolini’d. But getting rid of him won’t fix the problems. Most of his regressive reforms will stay in place, and continue to worsen, if only at a slower pace.

Maybe try not to assume the dumbest possible interpretation of what someone is saying? Or whatever, idrc

I also have an inkling in that direction too, and I’m just not an economist. But when he says deporting immigrants will raise inflation, he is saying it will raise wages based on these same mechanics

Their market cap is 20B, I wonder if it will even sting

It’s so funny, because it means it will raise wages. I will never understand why these people wont just be honest. Economists will go to whatever lengths necessary to avoid making a class analysis.

increased wages leads to inflation, according to the rules of capitalist profit accumulation. Its what happened during covid, when so many people died the “surplus population” that keeps wage growth stagnant was depleted by a meaningful degree. Wages went up, then inflation followed. And we saw that most of that inflation was just companies raising prices so they could make more money.

Obviously the mass deportation of workers is an act of class war, and should be fought against. But it will increase profits for his buddies in the short term, and buy him some political clout among his base in the shorter term. The problem is, who will do those agri jobs which rely on hyper exploited labor, and why? It is going to cause mayhem for masses of workers.

But also, that is the point. He wants to crash our economy on purpose. The endgame is to force an asset bubble onto China and the EU, through a long painful global recession.

So the problem isn’t Trump, he is a symptom, an accelerant. As always, the problem is capitalism which dominates every part of our lives.

Look up “reserve army of labor”, called “surplus population” by mainstream economists, and the stupidly named “Mara-Lago accords.”

Joining the war on Mexico, on the side of Mexico https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4jT05670l-U

Time to learn Spanish

Are…are women bourgeois?

Based on your username, it brought you no joy to find the answer

Ope you’re right I can’t history

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Trump thinks Putin is Breznev

Study reveals thing working as intended

If podcast started, insane, return to step 1

But don’t kys the best people out here are crazy AF. You gotta be imbalanced to keep imagination, hope, feistiness, the will to do something drastically different then the awful path laid out before us.

Mess around with gender instead. Be hot, and gay. Its these normies that I really worry about

Sean Charles Dunn, join DSA

As long as he is alive he can be propped against a podium to say racist, upsetting shit, then Stephen Miller and more clandestine moneyed interests like David Koch and Peter Theil pull the strings of the party and movement. Its probably better for operators heavily invested in Trump if he’s less intellectually competent.

He is not going to leave willingly.

Its such a trope in movies and TV shows though. I call it the Khan trope. The narrative makes a huge deal about how unfathomably intelligent a villain is, and then when the villain is finally revealed they’re like comically evil with the most superficial and pathetic philosophy. I think its just hard for dumb TV writers (no offense) to write intelligent villains.

To me a much better villain is someone who cares a great deal about something real, and is actually very intelligent and determined, but is just deeply confused about something. People like Tulsi Gabbard or Amy Coney Barret are good examples, they were raised in these weird cults and now they have no understanding of anything outside their narrow view, and have been conditioned to reject anything that contradicts their social beliefs. A lot of people think they are doing good, the people whom they love tell them all the time how proud they are, etc. But because of their intelligence and determination they just are all twisted up in knots inside a house of mirrors that they were forced into before they had the chance to question any of it.

And yeah these people may not be super intelligent, just opportunistic and smart/determined enough and groomed to take power. But it resembles actual intelligence more than “only the strong deserve to survive heh heh heh twirls moustache villainously” that we usually get from this slop.

Abusers try to stigmatize sympathy and empathy, because as long as it is a stigma then people won’t talk to each other about their own abuse, then the abuser gets away with it. But no matter how strong and powerful an abuser is, even a fairly small number of dedicated, close-knit victims and their supporters can make the abusers lives extremely difficult, if not tip over their power completely.