Just a note that this appears to be an AI generated image. Note the dude up front with an arm coming out of his back. Unless thats a whole jamon iberico that he has stuffed under his jacket, in which case I’d stand corrected.
"I must isolate you, and save you from yourself " "Swinging to the rhythm on a new world order "
Can’t see the forest through the trees, can’t smell the shit when it’s on your knees.
The beautiful people, Marilyn Manson.
Ironic, since Manson is also a shit human.
Don’t look at those characters too long or you will enter a Lovecraftian AI-nightmare.
You don’t like how little Shub-shub in the front there looks?
I think he’s kinda cute.
Cute like Carpenter’s “The Thing”…
I think one of those guys has an arm growing out of his back
The better to bare arms with.
This has been Republican fantasy for decades, don’t just assign blame just to Trump.
purge
Why does Europe like tariffs so much if tariffs are so bad?
I’m assuming its Europeans themselves that are asking for the tariffs, and they have tariffs between countries in the EU as well, so what makes Europeans different from Americans. You’d assume they wouldnt have too different an outlook.
The problem isn’t that tariffs are being applied. There are many reasons to apply them, such as ensuring local production remains competitive with imports. The problem is that the tariffs are being just thrown up without careful calculation of what they are trying to achieve.
It’s not the tariffs, it’s the unhinged way in which the US is applying them right now.
No, we don’t have any tariffs between countries in the EU for the most part, it’s one of the reasons the EU is so great.
Oh really, I just saw articles like this popping up a lot, and I live in Canada where we have the same thing going on between provinces:
https://www.ft.com/content/13a830ce-071a-477f-864c-e499ce9e6065
If Trump had introduced a 10% national sales tax, would the perception be the same?
Tariffs are a patriotic sales tax with an exception for US companies. Of course MAGA likes that.
The bad thing is that it is a flat tax and not progressive. Why is that not the main issue of the debate?
I still have a hard time understanding how people come to support Trump. Like what led people to become like this? I can’t wrap my head around it. It’s like supporting someone who is bullying you.
I still have a hard time understanding how people come to support Trump. Like what led people to become like this?
It is never just one reason, it is a myriad of different reasons compounding and mixing with each other. Intentional dumbing down of population, genuine economic anxiety, wealth inequality, algorithm corralling people into their own information bubble leading to polarisation, etc. It is important to put yourself into one’s shoes and think why they think that way. You don’t have to agree with the viewpoint you disagree, you just have to understand. Understanding is the key to defeating extremism.
Don’t forget about the opposition party abandoning large swaths of the country because they’re too hard to win in.
If only one team shows up, then that’s the team you’re rooting for.
People don’t seem to vote for a candidate any more.
They vote against the other one…
And that does seem to be something both sides are guilty of. They don’t know what they want. They just know what they don’t want.
The fact that I even say “both sides” is a sign the political systems have failed.
They don’t know what they want. They just know what they don’t want.
So simple, but that explains a lot.
That’s the way it has always been.
sabotage of education systems, propaganda and tribalism
I take great pleasure in seeing Trump paraphernalia being removed from people’s homes and cars.
But I honestly can’t believe there are still people proudly showing it. Flapping their ignorance and foolishness around for everyone to see. Cover your shame!
Big part of it is his supporters are detached from reality. They have a faith-based belief system.
A lot of his supporters are born Republicans. Their parents voted Republican, and their grandparents. To them voting Republican isn’t a choice, it’s what’s expected of them. They don’t participate in the Republican party, they just consume it, like American’s consume everything else. Those people will never once question why they’re voting that way, it’s what their parents did, their community does, and it’s what their children will probably do too.
It’s A Cult.
Like, for realsies.
Nope. Just capitalism doing capitalism things. No need frame the issue as some sort of mass psychosis or cultural pathology when it’s clear that this devolution is a response to deteriorating material conditions. Calling fascism a cult is an ideological evasion. It’s the liberals’ convenient way of characterizing trump as an anomaly as opposed to a predictable symptoms of capitalist crisis. Liberals do this because it allows them to attempt to explain fascism without acknowledging that capitalism itself gives rise to such movements.
There is no Trump cult; there is only textbook, predictable fascism - which leftists have been warning liberals about for decades only to be laughed away. Reap what you sow.
Some are getting fucking tattoos!
100% a cult.
My family would bend over backwards to end abortion access, but when I send them buckets of articles showing how people are harmed by Trump… well, either its fine or there is nothing they can do about it.
It’s a cult. It just so happens that fascism is a kind of cult. Cults pop up in all sorts of circumstances, and capitalism is one of them.
It’s that too! But it’s also a cult. People who study cults for a living confirm the heck out of that.
I recommend this lady as a starting point if you’re curious. She’s former SpecOps.
It’s funny how they’ve created a buffer against reality.
“DoWnVoTeS mEaN yOuRe OvEr ThE tArGeT” … or maybe you’re making an idiotic point?
“AnY CoNsErVaTiVe WhO DiSaGrEeS WiTh TrUmP iS a FaKe ‘FeLLoW cOnSeRvAtiVe’”
Fiscally conservative now means losing unimaginably large amounts of money.
AI image.
Arguments I’m seeing online are; it’s his genius plan to devalue the US dollar so it remains the world currency. When it’s devalued enough he’s use dropping tariffs as a negotiation tactic to get world wide free trade agreements.
The problem? The US dollar is already the reserve currency and there’s no competition for that role. The Euro comes closest in terms of the amount of physical money they have out there in circulation (1.5 trillion) and the US is still a trillion physical notes ahead of them (not to mention accepted as currency in places far outside of Europe)…
World reserve currency is just not a role any other currency has the reach and volume of notes to do.
Meaning Trump is just devaluing the dollar for no good reason.
And the way he’s talking about annexing other countries and changes opinion and policy on a dime is not a good sign to step into whatever scheme he finally unveils.
People need to be more understanding of Trump supporters. It’s like they say, you can’t understand a man until you’ve walked a mile with a monster third arm growing out of your back. liberals will never understand the struggle.
Three arms!?
Like a gene stealer cultist!!
The only good bug, is a dead bug!
still a cringe use of gen AI
