I think Xi might have figured out Trump’s secret. He has no fucking clue what he’s doing. He scares people into reacting by being reckless, then claims a win for getting a reaction.
Ignoring trolls takes their power away.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
(“Quand l’ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l’interrompre” --Napoleon)
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-strongman
Basically, this strategy Trump and Putin and their ilk do never works outside of their little bubble. Their whole game is to tear everyone else in their sphere of influence down to their level, so that they can compete effectively and dominate, but there are always significant threats outside of the sphere. Against which we are now more or less powerless.
They’re not really ignoring him though. They’ve discontinued exports of rare earth and are dumping debt. It’s a calculated strategic response to capitalise on an epic mistake.
That’s business school from a guy who ran casinos into the ground. Nice work America.
It’s true. “Casinos,” plural. CASINOS PLURAL, EVERYBODY.
y’all are spelling ‘russian money laundering operations’ wrong.
Even worse. How does one bankrupt a Russian money laundering operation? You’d think they would do their best to keep that shit running.
I think they intentionally go out of business before the Feds have a chance to investigate it.
Everyone is somehow missing China cutting off rare earth metals the US relies on for technology and defense
It wasn’t just stopping exports to the US, they’ve stopped exporting rare earth elements worldwide starting yesterday. Plus, they are starting to unload billion of debt we owe them. It’s almost as if Trump is intentionally trying to destroy our country in the morning, and then later in the day he wants to be the bully negotiator without understanding his precarious position.
You remember r/shitamericanssay? Last time he won, there were a lot of people talking about stuff Europe has but America doesn’t, and, if you browse the posts there, a lot of Americans responding how Europe is backwards, in the stone age, and what they do have is paid for by America, out of benevolence.
Well, those folks are in charge now.
Our EU ‘leaders’ are US bootlickers.
They’re a bit upset now that master is angry.The master isn’t angry, the master croaked, and his idiot son with anger issues is in charge now. The only question is if the EU will have the foresight to see the writing on the wall and bail before they’re caught in the undertow.
What a fucked up world where we are cheering on China. Fucking trump.
Predictable dictator is better than batshit crazy dictator.
Xi is more than happy to have a scapegoat for his economic troubles so the people and the powerful don’t hang him. Trump sometimes wants to speed run into the hanging and then realizes he really can’t piss off his own power base if he wants to keep his neck.
They both suck.
And what, exactly, is wrong with cheering for China? They have never invaded a foreign sovereign nation in their entire 400 year history. They have been invaded by a lot of other countries, however.
What moral high ground you think you had before?
Do nothing, win!
As much as I don’t like the Chinese government for all the censorship and etc, they do really know what they’re doing in terms of managing the economy and the infrastructure it relies on, as far as I can tell. Including their education system, it’s fairly shocking how many of the top engineering and CS colleges are in China.
Censorship? Its rich talking censorship in China when America is one of the most propagandized nations in existence. If I was China I would also censor the fuck out of America.
How does the US being full of propaganda change the fact that China has a lot of censorship?
Both can be true at the same time, you know…
Censorship and propaganda are different
What a weird comment to make
America has both, so wtf you on about?
There is a total of 350 million Americans. Fuck every single one of them for not stopping fascism from taking their government.
I don’t care if you felt like you did your part, it wasn’t enough. It was on you, now it is on all of us. Fuck Americans.
I understand the sentiment to some degree, but wherever you live, I’d be very curious if there’s a growing far-right party in your country.
Our two biggest racist parties got 2,6% and 3,7% of the votes.
Just because your country is racist, doesnt mean everywhere is.
I can’t find this country after some searching. Where is it?
Denmark.
DF got 2,6% and NB got 3,7%
The problem is that no one is at the breaking point yet. You can still go to work, buy things, have a family day, and if you’re a US citizen, you feel safe.
Now, will that change? Yes, it will. Then maybe enough people will wake up, but until then… no one is going to risk death or getting their families killed. No mass organized resistance to join. Don’t act like it wouldn’t happen to your country either because it can.
It’s not easy to just saddle up against the greatest superpower to ever exist on Earth.
Yeah all these people are acting like there was a ‘Stop Fascism’ button we just decided not to press which is just ignorant. It’s easy to be Mr. TearTheSystemDown from behind a keyboard an ocean away. If it really affects them so much and is so easy why not just come over and do it yourself?
We sort of did have a ‘stop fascism’ button, but it was labelled Kamala Harris and a lot of people just weren’t really feeling like voting I guess.
Harris wouldn’t have stopped fascism any more than Joe Biden did.
If it would keep trump out of office for another four years it would make the odds of him ever regaining power vanishingly small; he’d be in his mid eighties in the next election, and all the lawsuits against him wouldn’t have been thrown out.
Say what you will about Biden, but he was pretty effective at pausing the slide into fascism. He strengthened ties with our allies and invested in infrastructure. If Harris had won we could have taken back the Supreme Court and actually started reversing course.
Say what you will about Biden, but he was pretty effective at pausing the slide into fascism
He literally welcomed the fascist fuck in with open arms. He didn’t do shit to slow facism and it will be his legacy
You think he should’ve refused to hand over the presidency? How exactly do you think that would’ve gone down?
