No? We just gonna sit around and let Nazi Germany 2.0 happen? Maybe waggle your finger a bit at them? Cool. Yeah. Okay. I love our leaders, they’re so commited to the freedom and wellbeing of their people.

God I wish the Red Army was here to save our asses like last time.

  • NoSuchAgency@reddthat.comEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    You just keep believing that…Trump is doing what the other politicians didn’t have the courage to do because they knew the US would take hit in the short-term, but in the end, the US will be in a much better position. The way they’ve been doing things over the past 30 years just isn’t sustainable. Something had to be done about it so I’m willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt

    • sodium_nitride [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      Trump is not reviving economic planning or industrial policy with his tariffs. Just because the US needed to re-industrialise, and just because protectionism would have been part of any re-industrialisation policy does not mean that Trump’s policy is not phenomenally short sighted.

      The simple fact is that without imposition of

      1. Maximum import quotas (differentiated by good)
      2. Capital export controls
      3. A strong welfare program
      4. An expansionary fiscal budget
      5. Nationalisation of key industries

      It is practically impossible for the US to re-industrialise. And each of these policies is critical because

      1. Import quotas can directly limit the quantity of goods coming in unlike tariffs which have huge distortions effects and have a difficult to predict outcome
      2. Preventing the outflow of dollars prevents people from cheating Import quotas or tariffs. Preventing the outflow of machinery allows that to be invested in your country.
      3. This is needed to create a workforce that is actually healthy and smart enough to fix the economy.
      4. This is needed to run your economy to its physical limits rather than artificially created financial ones.
      5. This is needed because re-industrialisation requires the bourgeois class yo give up on a lot of profits, so you need to take control of industries away from them.
    • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      “He didn’t shit in my mouth for no reason, there has to be a reason for this poop to be in my mouth so I’m going to eat it without question. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt”

    • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      This is the kind of person who thinks it’s us who “DoEsN’t uNdErStAnD bAsIc EcOnOmIcS!”

      You’re right that what’s been going on the last 30 years is unsustainable. But what you’ve gotten the last years has been full-on, uncut pure capitalism and Trump is just trying to solve that with even MORE capitalism. Yeah sure that should work…

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Trump is doing what the other politicians didn’t have the courage to do

      Do what, exactly?

      the way they’ve been doing things the past 30 years is unsustainable

      I mean yeah capitalism is unsustainable

      Oh and also pigpoop

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      yes, pushing as much of the workforce into unemployment as possible and slapping huge taxes on everything people need to survive is totally the recipe for building bright future. don’t forget to fire all the scientists, because their research doesn’t jive with your ossified religious structures. feudal economics ass brain.

      fuckin’ maga losers can’t even keep their story straight.

    • Dengalicious@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Ah yes, a collapsed economy and destruction of the work force and access to trade definitely is going to help the US. Definitely, I believe this because I’m delusional