Magoo: "I like Trump because he's anti-war. Demonrats would start WWIII."
Trump: "GIMME EVERYTHING YOU GOT WORLD! I'M TAKING IT BY FORCE IF I HAVE TO!"
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His platform was supposed to be grocery prices and immigration. What happened to those?
It's diversion tactics.
Crucially, the policies Trump wants are designed to make himself and his cronies richer. But they will not lower consumer prices -- it's quite the opposite in most cases.
Hence the need for the diversion. Shit is about to get a lot worse and he's hoping no one will notice.
Yup, get everyone distracted with Greenland and Canada while we fuck them over. And the media eats it up as usual.
Simple.
He'll raise grocery prices via tariffs, and exacerbate immigration via a refugee crisis caused by wars.
Where did you see that? His MO his entire life has been a policy of "do whatever makes me the most money"
That was his policy last term, and that's still his policy this term.
Can't have immigrants if all of the world is part of the US.
How to blame literally the world for your own internal problems like debt healthcare and wage slavery
Just keep breaking shit and pointing fingers instead of sucking it up and dealing with spending issues and printing cash
with experts warning of potential NATO conflicts and diplomatic fallout.
There's the point. Once again, Trump is charged with weakening NATO and Western alliances.
America
new preoccupation
Imperialism
doubt
Also, this is very certainly a strategy to distract from internal problems.
I've felt for a while now that there is more than one kind of nationalism. One is supremacist, colonialist, and imperialist. This, I think, is the nationalism people think of when they think of nationalism. This is the nationalism of Nazi Germany, for instance. It's the nationalism of people who believe strongly in hierarchies, especially ones that they believe are "natural." They believe that some individuals are inherently superior to other individuals, and they believe that some groups are inherently superior to other groups. They seek to establish hierarchies of power within their nation, but also between nations.
In the context of today's world, in which the US is the dominant global superpower, American "nationalists" believe that the US is inherently superior to all other nations, and, therefore, that the US global hegemony should not only be maintained, but expanded. They believe it is right and good and natural for the US to rule and dominate the globe, because, in their mind, we are just superior to all other nations.
I think there is another kind of nationalism, though, one of people who seek independence and autonomy for their group or nation, usually from an imperialist power. It's one in which people who value their distinct culture and history want to see to it maintained and preserved. They don't believe their culture is superior to all others, they just believe it should exist without interference from outside groups.
I understand and sympathize with the latter kind of nationalism, but I do not understand, and I in fact hate and despise, the former. I do not believe that any group of people is inherently superior to any other. I reject supremacism in its entirety. I believe that any nation has just as much right to exist peaceably as any other. I wholeheartedly reject colonialism, expansionism, imperialism, and supremacism, but I support the right of any nation to exist, on their piece of the Earth, with their distinct culture, independently and autonomously, so long as they can do so peacefully.
I think it's nationalism (superiority) Vs patriotism (love)
That is very succinctly accurate.
Unfortunately the USA has been fed a steady diet of nationalism branded as Patriot Juice with extra Freedom for a long time and too many people have been drinking at the trough.
Is there a general word for people who think that some groups are superior to others?
Watching racists bark about h1b's due to racism but somehow ignore annexing Mexico.
Edit derp keyboard and no proofreading.
Don't have to issue visas if Mexico becomes a US state.
Of course, if Mexico becomes a US state then theoretically the Mexicans become US citizens, with all the rights and protections that affords.
He probably thinks he can just Puerto Rico them and make them a territory without representation
I think he can.
He probably thinks he can just Puerto Rico them and deny them full states rights
How is imperialism not "my country first"
I think these go together well.