Not that equalising the trade deficit would actually make everyone’s lives better in any way because it’s a stupid metric to be concerned with.
It’s like being concerned at the supermarket never buys anything off you. If you voice that opinion in public people would think you were weird.
I feel that with many actors that come out with public issue statements. People probably feel the same about my idols.
What is one thing we should be concerned about?
Water!
mL, Ltr
Basic global goals ✨
I can’t keep watching people act surprised about this.
Trump’s administration is not trying to successfully accomplish anything. The sole and entire point is to hurt America at the behest of foreign interests. Making the world hate us is the point.
Well, that, and to enrich himself and his regime.
When you hire pirates to attack a ship, you expect a little looting.
And raping
How do you have a trade surplus in a consumer society? How do people not see how stupid the trade deficit excuse is? Are Americans that uneducated?
There has got to be a long German word for the feeling which is essentially incandescent fury but at the same time sorrow/pity.
Yeah, but now, Germany’s best trading partner is China, which replaced the USA… Well done… Self-sabotage…
Germanys current economy ain’t great, tho. Been in a recession the last few years. And exports to China are shrinking as well.
Is Germany’s economy based on exports to China? I feel like Germany’s problems, like other European countries, lie else where
Making everyone hate USA for peanuts. Priceless
“There are some things money can’t buy; for everything else, there’s Mastercard”
(Mastercard is getting cut out in the EU)
Not yet, that will take some times, but I will be more than happy to use a sovereign solution.
*wero ;)
Untrue. We paid extra to fund tax breaks for billionaires while food prices tripled and 1,206,374 people were laid off in order to keep those record profits going.
dont forget the aca enhanced subsidies ended, and people saw thier insurance double or tripled or more in premiums/deductibles.
That’s right. We shouldn’t live. That’s too costly! We must sacrifice ourselves on the pyre of privatised healthcare so that the superyachts get built on time.
The thing is, in any somewhat sane and precedented administration, the argument could reasonably have been made that some economic struggles, even a year in, were largely due to polices of the previous administration.
The problem with this administration is, they literally did everything possible to fuck the economy up, pretty much from day one. Nearly every decision was a bad decision, which had specific and obvious ramifications on the economy. Chaos. Clown show. Chain saw. The current administration owns this shitty economy. They could have litterally sat around twiddling their thumbs doing absolutely nothing but eat hamburders and drink covfefe and the economy would be doing orders of magnitude better than it is now. Instead they decided tariffs and firings and tax cuts to the ultra rich were in order. So now this is all their fault. 100%.
I would assume that this is planned 100%.
Project 2025 will probably have some shit in it what else you could expect to happen next.
I don’t know how this helps the ultra rich when they destroy a country, but there must be sth. they gain from that.
Maybe they just make fun of you by showing their power to each other.
Like playing bullshit bingo but actually throwing money at the president to get a bingo.
I don’t know how this helps the ultra rich when they destroy a country, but there must be sth. they gain from that.
They’re looting it as it goes down. For example, Trump sued the federal government for the time his tax records were leaked; federal government - which he controls - settles with him for $$$$$.
Meanwhile, the ultra-rich are getting more tax breaks so they can get a bit richer. What do they care if the US fails? They probably have money stashed all over the world.
They have enough money that money doesn’t matter. Making people for whom money does matter have less gives them more power.
They don’t want to be rich in a developed capitalist country, they want to be lords in a feudal society. The average quality of life plummeting doesn’t matter as long as the highest remains the same and they get more power.
If it helps any, we don’t hate Americans, by and large. We pity you. It’s your leaders we hate.
we never had anything but CENTER RIGHT parties, thats the biggest. and right wingers think there is an actual left in the USA.
The right are hard right and the left are fairly hard right.
The US doesn’t have anything even approaching centre right, let alone left.
The lack of a proper left is why most Americans can’t tell the difference between communism and socialism.
Is your country offering asylum to American refugees yet?
Although it would be extremely funny there’s very little reason for any other countries to actually do that. Although if you have a degree in a relevant science area you might be accepted.
Perhaps you could pretend to be in a relationship with someone from a host country, a reverse green card plot.
doubtful, unless you have a md/PHD or some kind of stem background, “academic refugees”
In all fairness, half the world hated you before. Now you just managed to convince the other half they were right.
The other half being your friends and allies though.
So basically you’ve been a POS the entire time but had some nice aspects to your character that you showed exlusively around your friends and family, but that facade you’ve now also dropped which made even them hate you.
Let’s not pretend that the allies liked the US before either. The US has been side-eyed by all of the developed world since at least the W. Bush era. It’s been more of a “that dude is a bully, but smile and nod and he’ll hopefully steal someone else’s lunch money instead of ours, and maybe Russia will think we’re friends and not steal our lunch money either”. Now he’s teaming up with Russia and going after everyone’s lunch money.
As a Canadian, the US was like a brother; maybe a bit rough around the edges bit still a close family bond. Now, it’s like the brother has a meth addiction and stole a bunch of your stuff. There’s a deep sense of betrayal that will last decades, assuming he goes into rehab and attones and doesn’t completely ruin things forever.
I’m not saying the US can’t recover from this, Germany came back from worse after all, but it would take a long time. And I imagine the US turnaround would be more like Japan (pretend everything was very legal and very cool) than the full reckoning Germany had.
Although the US does love flip-flopping between extremes, so who knows? Just like they went from assaulting soldiers returning from Vietnam to compulsively thanking everyone for their service, maybe they’ll be all woke and friendly next? Too bad it takes so little for them to flip-flop back again, so you can’t really trust it.
My armchair prediction is that even if Democrats manage to gain back control of power in the US, many countries will now be skeptical of entering any arrangements with them for longer than 2-4 years. US voters have now shown a propensity for electing and re-electing a leader that is able to come in and comprehensively dismantle decades of intense diplomacy and geopolitical navigation in a short period of time. As such, wise leaders of other nations won’t be willing to enter long-term arrangements that last beyond a given administration anymore.
I made this exact argument on another forum 20 years ago. It was true then. Now I think you need to severely escalate your analogy.
Those nice aspects were fake performances that only existed to obfuscate any suspicions that we might have been the bad guy all along.
Now that everything is out in the light and our objectors have been proven right maybe we can be forced to change or be ostracized until we do. Our friends and allies are better off without us until then.
Those nice aspects were probably rose-tinted nostalgia of what we remeniscence the USA to be, the gallantrous saviour from Nazi-Germany. It took us 80 years to realize that that gallantry was only during WW2 and maybe not even then.
Rose-tinted nostalgia that was purposely manufactured through pervasive mass-media and institutionalized propaganda. The US population has been heavily indoctrinated ever since the 1950s and the second Red Scare/McCarthyism.
People are nostalgic for something that didn’t exist because they grew up on stories and teachings that were utter fabrications of events which overplayed the US’s role in WW2 and downplayed the atrocities we committed to our own people and those abroad in our Imperialist quest to cement capitalism as the global economy and stifle the growing wave of communist sentiment that was on the rise during the early-to-mid 1900s.
Not hate us. Hate the walldom of USA. Big difference.
I lost my job because of cuts in May. I haven’t been able to find full time employment since. I’m not sure I’m going to recover.
both my brothers are in tech, one got laid of in '23 and stillhavnt found a job, although he is having a “personal crisis”. and the other has been put on a bench “indefinitely” since they are using a recruiting company, they took him off projects with APPLE.
I was a developer. I’ve been getting project management certifications to career pivot. I would like to go back to tech, but I’m gaining skills to leave the industry. I can’t survive another year without a full time job that pays moderately.
Idle hands are the tool of the devil. Surely you can put your talents to use against a system that’s destroying you.
Everyone wants me to make sacrifices without ever lifting a finger to help me. I’m too busy upskilling, job hunting, and doing part time physical labor.
I’ll tell you what you send me help with bills, my mortgage, or food then we’ll talk about me doing something you want me to do.
Genuine attempt at being helpful:
Can you sell the house and rent instead?
Got any cars you or the family rarely use?
Basically: Can you downsize and give yourself / your family more padding in savings, less ongoing costs?
Classic “bootstraps” call lol
I’m about to eat my bootstraps.
Make sure you season them properly
Well said.
Edit: I wasn’t asking for sacrifices. Just suggesting ways you could help yourself if you found yourself with time on your hands.
The good news is all that money you paid Is going straight out of the governments coffers and back to corporations with no obligation to pay you back.
Oh, also, you have a new hundred billion dollar hole in your budget because that was to pay for the billionaires tax cuts.
it wasnt for nothing. it made stupid magats happy! and the world is now moving away from the usa as a trade partner.
sO mUcH WiNniNg
It also made some obscenely wealthy people even more wealthy! All hail the Demiurge!
At least in the short term. But the ghouls are happy to just make everybody poorer so they can still feel superior.
As a Canadian. I’m happy. We are less dependent on you. And getting stronger.
im british
Sorry about that.
You mean “Sorery aboot that, eh?”
You poor thing.
Thank you for your people’s music, movies, TV and cheese.
Edit: and BOOZE! How could I have forgotten the booze?!?
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It got Trump’s dick hard as well. Can’t forget that.
Oh yes I can
We still got years more of this shit ahead of us too!
