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it's like you believe you can tariff them expecting they won't do the same. Why do you believe the rest of the world is not going to retaliate and why do you believe America can prosper without the rest of the world?

What's the point of having a military alliance with countries you puts tariffs on? That's unfriendly to say the least.

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[–] scarabic 3 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

I think they would say something like “our allies have been getting more from their alliances with us than we have been getting from those alliances, and we’re tired of being the donor in all these relationships.”

Of course, they are ignoring the fact that our alliances add up to American world domination, which has uniquely tremendous economic benefits for the US. They take that for granted though, feel entitled to it, don’t want to pay for it anymore because they don’t think it can ever change.

It’s just like their attitude on vaccines. They take herd immunity utterly for granted now and only see the minute risks of getting the shot themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

While I have no issue with Republicans being shunned for their unashamed fascism, it does mean threads like this are essentially pointless because almost none will actually participate and the ones who do will be downvoted into oblivion.

[–] MapleEngineer 15 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I was just watching a panel discussion about Trump and the tariffs and had a thought. He's started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? What if he put the tariffs on to generate tax dollars that he can use to give billions of dollars to the wealthy but what if he's double dipping and selling exemptions? Like, what if when he talked to the big three auto makers he said, "I'll make an exemption to the tariffs for the auto industry if you give me $100 million"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 hour ago

If you seriously think that this isn't market manipulation then I've some lovely bridges you may be interested in acquiring for a low price!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Everything Donald Trump has ever done or ever will do, is a grift.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Its simple, russian wants them to and they must do what putin says or else.

Its not really that complicated. It's simply trason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Lots of the Musk Administration stuff has zero constituency. It's just stuff him, Trump, and a few Heritage Foundation guys thought up. This is one of them. Nobody was asking for tariffs on the whole world or thought it'd be a good idea.

[–] Guns0rWeD13 23 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

this question could be rephrased to:

dear idiots, why are you so stupid?

OR

dear sociopaths, why are you so selfish?

the motivations don't matter. they can;t be reasoned with.

conclusion: guns.

[–] Yawweee877h444 2 points 43 minutes ago

This feels so much closer to the real truth than anything. It really can be this simple for the trump cult.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

You could replace all the above by "trumpist". There is no such thing as american conservatives anymore, the only thing remaining is trumpism, a soon to be modern form of nazism.

[–] Norgoroth 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Make liberals tears is the only reason in their hateful and stunted minds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

Red Hat = HatRed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Isolationism and tribalism.

Make your people believe the rest of the world are against them and they'll look to you for leadership. It's not just the US - Europe and the UK have also had a rise in jingoism, fuelled by inflated reports of immigrants.

[–] Delta_V 17 points 4 hours ago

Juche.

I wish I was kidding.

They're doing a North Korea. Building a completely isolated war economy.

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