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I've been saying this all along. Not just about this time, but he has pulled off a similar trade scare every month since he took office, with the same result - he announces tariffs, the market tanks, he rattles his sabre a bit, then pauses the tariffs, and the market rises again.
This has been the third, and biggest one, probably because he needed to make it a big one as he cried wolf for a third time. Which means the next time he does it, it will have to be even bigger.
Its clearly market manipulation, of a type that only president could do, but only if he were corrupt enough.
Unfortunately, if it were only the president who's corrupt, he would have already been impeached and removed. Even if there were a question about whether he does or does not want to become an authoritarian dictator, ignoring everything that is hinting at it, he is digging himself in the sort of hole that he can only survive in as long as he retains power and I'm sure he knows it.
We can still end this democratically, but the window is rapidly retreating.
Won in 2012
Won in 2018
Won in 2020
Won in 2022
And this is where it got us.
Point to me the trade wars and civil rights rollbacks that happened during those times. We just had to keep doing the thing and keep pushing the needle towards progressive ideas and socialist policies that help people. That's ALL we had to do together, it was working for a while.
But nope. Everyone lost their attention spans because social media and russian bots amplifying the worst of all sides of every issue until everyone said "fuck it, I don't care, I rather see drama than boring, slow, incremental progress."
edit: I am fully aware of how absolutely wicked Obama was, I don't care in this context, we were making PROGRESS, even if small amounts, your knee-jerk desire to educate me about how bad the system is on both sides just makes me think you're not reading and feel entitled to something and you will be blocked. You're a huge reason we're in this mess. I'm fully convinced that most of you don't actually want good outcomes and you just want to feel validated and recognized.
A lot of them are arguing in bad faith or have been brainwashed by the people that do. It is clear people can not only still protest, but protest far better with fewer worries and more effect under the lesser evil. These clowns would be complaining about the US winner-takes-all system of democratic governance if they truly cared, and there was only basically one option where protesting for that didn't make you a potential deportee to El Salvador prisons.
Boring, slow incremental progress is great. Not ideal, but great.
However, a two-party system where one party is ALWAYS a single lost election from the advent or fascism is a democracy too brittle to survive.
Point me to the better alternative and who's leading it. Otherwise we're stuck with the systems we have and nobody is going to be perfect, or even "good" in most regards. But I don't see a choice unless we find a way to destroy capitalism entirely.
We destroy capitalism or capitalism (finishes) destroying us. Appear to be the only two options available.
Yes but the manner in which both options may play out is a lot more complicated than most people tend to imagine. Whichever outcome we get, it won't happen fast, our world is too large for fast changes but most of our population is hung up on immediate rewards and immediate validation so we don't plant seeds for the future, we don't work towards a world we're passing down.
Most people right now are either cynical doomers who have shrugged and are not planning on surviving the next few decades, or mindless religious orcs who think they're going to be raptured or UFO's are going to whisk them away from the flat earth.
The ocean is being cooked by an unfathomable amount of heat energy, we are talking an incomprehensible amount of nuclear bombs worth of energy.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2
The thing is.. the doomers.. crazy religious christian fanatics, and accelerationists... centrists are just as if not more delusional than these people right now since they still assume things will work out and we will have a future.
We have about 10-15 years before global ocean food networks completely collapse and the quality of life of human beings on this planet plummets.
This isn't a longterm thing anymore, and this is clearly something centrists who never really gave a fuck never would actually believe, and so in these pentultimate stages of collapse it is actually centrists who are the most deluded about their future. Imagining some kind of religious reckoning where god comes down and smites a whole bunch of people... yeah.. that is a good metaphor for what is coming, it is a whole lot better of an expectation than all the liberals around me who still want to believe if we just recycle harder and be better people and really care about the environment that things will be ok!.
It is exhausting talking to centrists and liberals since it is like revealing to someone you have a terminal illness and then having them lecture you about how it mightttt not be terminal and that shame on you for already giving up!
Wake the fuck up centrists, the crazy people are right, we don't have a future. Find me a climate scientist who is still employed in the U.S. that can tell me with a straight face we have a future, we don't.
I know this is happening, I am aware and making my own personal plans, whatever good it will do.
The problem is, and why I'm not factoring ecological collapse into any of this is one simple reason: nobody cares. Our whole species is just fucking tuning it out. See no evil.
I have no idea anymore how to raise people's concern on this, even so-called allies get hostile when you try to drive this point home that we need to DO something, so I'm just going to keep going forward and trying to work within people's capacity for handling and understanding our current moment. As bad as the future is, it could get worse, we can still work to mitigate some of the damage, we still can hope that it won't be as bad or as fast as some models predict. We can still pray some other super-power emerges with more global clout, or someone does some geoengineering project that will either save or destroy us finally.
So in the meantime, I am telling people that we need to change the system, that's starting point. Nobody is leading and actual revolutions, there is no core value that people would be marching for, the damage to our species is done, everyone just wants their own entitlements for the here and now, so we have to use existing systems and blanket-populism to try to push people into being engaged again. If Trump and his ilk represent the future, we get the WORST possible outcome. If we can re-steer this boat towards better outcomes, we have a small chance because people are easily swayed into new beliefs if you can change their feelings.
Whatever happens, it's no place for doomerism nor centrism. But we don't get anywhere with lofty delusions that we're going to all have a socialist revolution anytime soon. We can build coalitions and communities still, we can get involved in neighborhood organization and local county, state and city elections so the foundations for fascism no longer exist and the whole thing slowly crumbles. We've been led so far astray from our civic responsibilities that most people pay zero attention to the most important politics, their local communities, and the very worst people run unopposed and managed to wreck our whole world.
It is quite clear that people with your perspective take this as an axiom, and yes I hear the note of being positive, but let me explain a situation that is a good place for some realistic amount of doomerism, a situation where you have arrived at the ending of period of your existence in which you had a high quality of life, it happened much quicker than anybody quite expected and there is no escaping it for anybody including you.
If you got news that you had 10 years to live due to a terminal illness or a revised outlook on your future health prospects, and my response was to lecture you about being negative about it, that there is no use thinking you only have 10 years to live, you have to deceive yourself you have longer, that is the only way to live... how empty would you feel?
I see this type of thinking EVERYWHERE around me and it is honestly kind of terrifying.
I am making a conscious choice to try to keep working the mission, because what's your solution? What exactly do you want to see someone say to your prophecies? What will make you feel better? "Actually, everything will be fine because I have an army of 50 million people and we're marching on DC"?
It's not happening. It won't happen until it's too late. I can't repeat this enough: NOBODY IS COMING.
If we all die in 15 years, we die in 15 years. I'm doing what I can with the tools I have, what are YOU doing besides making your last years as unpleasant for yourself as possible?
US gained the rights to legally murder its own citizens without due process under Obama.
Also loads of giving corporations and capital rights, and rolling back protective anti-investment gambling under Democrat administrations, which ate up the rights of non-capital.
No part of this refutes anything I typed.
Oh, I figured they counted as a huge loss of civil liberties.
Well I don't fucking see anyone at all of any significant power even remotely considering OTHER means for progress, so I stand by what I said. We were making progress, now we're not.
This is the same arguing-with-bricks situation I felt when I was saying if our only choices are Trump or establishment democrats we need to pick democrats because those are our only fucking choices unless enough people get on-board with a new strategy, which isn't happening, hasn't happened, won't happen.
"Well Mister or Miss Democrat president isn't great so I can't vote" is why we're here, and I'm done arguing with fucking entitled tankies and delusional internet addicts who think someone is coming.
Nobody is fucking coming. I've been through this for decades. Nobody is saving us. We are not getting ideal outcomes.
Murdering our own citizens without due process is massive civil rights rollback.
Well I don't fucking see anyone at all of any significant power even remotely considering OTHER means for progress, so I stand by what I said. We were making progress, now we're not.
This is the same arguing-with-bricks situation I felt when I was saying if our only choices are Trump or establishment democrats we need to pick democrats because those are our only fucking choices unless enough people get on-board with a new strategy, which isn't happening, hasn't happened, won't happen.
"Well Mister or Miss Democrat president isn't great so I can't vote" is why we're here, and I'm done arguing with fucking entitled tankies and delusional internet addicts who think someone is coming.
Nobody is fucking coming. I've been through this for decades. Nobody is saving us. We are not getting ideal outcomes.
Whole lot of words to excuse murdering citizens without due process.
They're pumping and dumping like mad so when the major crash happens they can buy buy buy. You think corporations are consolidated now...just wait. The same that happened 100 years ago is happening now. Just people are too fucking stupid to see it.