Trump/Musk have announced a plan similar to Argentina where they cut a bunch of public services and refuce the functions of government:
…part of the plan is to crash the economy and cause ‘hardship’… And they’re more than likely going to do a massive transfer of wealth in the process. hedge funds use this tactic all the time, get your money ready, collapse a stock, buy it at a lower price, be wealthier when it returns.
They’re going to do that with the whole economy. They want to own the whole pie.
I guess they really got upset that unions got some traction and workers got some hope that they are not completely helpless.
Do they not know that Americans choose their politicians based on egg prices? They will be fucked in the midterms if they go through with this assuming they don’t rig it too hard
First trillionaire when?
I said hey, you, feed the machine
Bring them all back down to their knees
Unexpected Poor Man’s Poison
Fuck, now I have to listen to that. Such a good song!
“How could democrats do this to us?”
-“Leftists” on lemmy
Look at profiles like davel@lemmy.ml
Dude actively engaged American politics, while being a pro-Russian Putler-dick loving troll. Claims to be American. But genuinely, just look at that profile. It’s profiles like that which influenced zoomers to stay home and not vote.
There’s was a massive propaganda push to ‘protest by not voting’ , and by golly did they fucking succeed.
"Our glorious leaders did everything perfectly like always! Let’s blame abstract concepts, vague and unsolvable societal problems, and the people who warned us that this could happen!" - Ridiculously obtuse Neoliberals on Lemmy
“What’s a strawman?”
L2read dipshit
“Ðı cᵫd hæv priventid ðiſ!” -Pipėl hu did ıvin leſ t privent ðiſ
spoiler
“They should have prevented this!” -People who did even less to prevent this
Don’t forget all the people of the world who sit back and laugh at the suffering of millions of people just because the leaders they can’t control do bad shit. Getting pleasure out of watching people suffer is wrong.
the suffering of millions of people just because the leaders they can’t control do bad shit.
My brother in Christ, what do you mean by that can’t control? Women, minorities, poors, olds voted for someone who’s going to take away their healthcare, deport them or their friends and families, and wreck the economy.
These people literally had option to deny him that power. I don’t think there’s going to be any such option in near future.
Pretty sure they mean non-Americans who can’t vote in our elections.
Correct. I mean anyone laughing at another country because it’s going to shit is a bad person. I don’t laugh at the Russian people. I laugh at the government. The average person is kept powerless for a reason.
Bold of you to presume that they will even accept your taxes at all, in order to keep those services solvent. Instead it looks very much rather like they will simply be removed from us, at any price point.
Interesting to see Jamie Harrison on the last panel.
Bunch of ragged trousered philanthropists
