That's giving him too much credit, AI at least gets some of the blame
BooBees 5 points a month ago
Basically 5 companies are holding the US economy above water right now, and if ai collapses, people will pull their investments from those companies to secure their earnings or mitigate the bleed and the full blown economic collapse will be official. That’s the type of thing that takes decades to recover from, and there’s no guarantee you will recover entirely from it. Even more fun fundamentals, that’s also when the same economists who got us in this situation can’t think of any other solution other than converting the US economy back into a war machine economy in order to “save” it. So everyone will do without every single thing that modern weapons systems rely on.
SaharaMaleikuhm 2 points a month ago
Yeah and where are all the big AI corpos located? The corpos that have all donated vast sums of money to Trump's campaign? Let's face it, grocery prices in Germany would be lower if Kamala won.
Z745812939054 34 points a month ago
i've been saying it for years, but it bears repeating: to maga, "true" is what trump says it is. he could go on tv tomorrow and declare the sky is green, and within minutes there would be calls for banning school textbooks endorsing the "woke" agenda of a blue sky.
you can't reason with these people. it's a fucking cult. what cult leader says, goes. no mountain of evidence to the contrary is going to change their mind that what he says is true, and what anyone else says is "fake news" or a "hoax," whatever bullshit buzzword he chose that day
UnderpantsWeevil 9 points a month ago
That's frustratingly undeniable.
But also, there's a Millenarianism to the MAGA movement that's costing them support over time. The pool of Trumpies is shrinking as the milquetoast Lindsey Graham neocons and the faux-libertarian Tucker Carlson fascists bail out of Trump's party. Same shit happened under Bush, at the tail end of '07/'08. You had a bunch of Radical Centrists and Professional Conservative Contrarians with their fingers to the wind, saying "Um akutly I like this Obama guy because he's popular and Shrub isn't".
The people who are still pro-Trump are crazier because the sane cyncial people who were just along for the ride during the "good" times are leaving. FFS, Karl Rove says he's voting Democrat this year. That's how thin the base is getting.
queerlilhayseed 4 points a month ago
Everyone thought leader in MAGA is trying to time the crash. As the train gets further from the rails, some members take their profits and leave, claiming to have had their eyes opened finally or whatever. This has a side effect of leaving the more reckless in charge of the MAGA faithful. Some of them think there is yet more juice to be squeezed from the globe, for those bold enough and strong enough to squeeze it. Some of them are in too deep and believe they can't leave, not now. They are the ones that would destroy the world before realizing a loss.
fratermus 5 points a month ago
“true” is what trump says it is.
Stephen Colbert's conceit of Truthiness was more accurate than we knew.
CosmicTurtle0 4 points a month ago
I can't remember where I heard this theory. MAGA effectively operates as a cult and these false beliefs are used as a way for members to identify each other in public. It's the idea of "did you hear the latest teaching from Trump" and if you didn't know, you were out of the loop and could be ostrisized.
Z745812939054 2 points a month ago
what? wtf? you're saying maga needs secret handshakes? how does this square with the scores of people who fly giant trump flags from their trucks and houses? why tf would they need codewords to identify other nazis when they all wear the nazi brand on their sleeve? what am i misunderstanding about your comment?
it's not a "secret society." it's the polar opposite of secret. they're trying to take the democracy we all grew up with and turn it into christotechnofascist oligarchy very VERY openly. and they've been succeeding
notabot 2 points a month ago
Theres "in" groups within "in" groups. They're fascists, they need the hierarchy, so the fools flying trump flags are maga, but they're not as maga as the ones flying trump flags and claiming the sky is green because trump says so. We saw the same stratification with the ones wearing bandages on their ears, or diapers.
Asafum 22 points a month ago
Narrator: They did not.
Just seeing my dad over the weekend "Biden inflation was worse! Trump had 1.2% (made up number) Biden had 6% (covid inflation then it dropped) and now Trump brought it down to 1.5%!(Another made up number)"
5 minutes later: "you can't go out to eat anywhere and not spend a million dollars lately!"
....
SaharaMaleikuhm 6 points a month ago
Your dad is dumb as shit. Tell him I said so.
Lushed_Lungfish 13 points a month ago
Okay, the high prices were caused by Biden.
Why haven't you lowered them?
NekoKoneko 14 points a month ago
Obviously Biden is simultaneously a buffoon incapable of governing and also a political mastermind who made it impossible to change anything he did.
Mulligrubs 7 points a month ago
In every President’s first year in office, they generally aren’t responsible for the financial situation, and they usually have very little to do with it… but at this point, Trump can’t blame Biden for the situation he is in. He made a lot of very expensive decisions (tariffs and Iran are just two examples).
I mean, sure, he can blame Biden. But anyone who’s not enamored with him knows that this is a very weak excuse from a desperate clown who can’t own up to his own failures.
Who’s making money off of these tariffs? Well, a lot of companies got tariff “rebates”, while only the consumers have paid the cost. Walmart wins again.
Walmart won when Biden was in office too, they spent a lot of money to keep that minimum wage at $7.25.
Either way, we lose.
(I vote every election, and you should too, but watch and learn. Walmart wins)
lath 6 points a month ago
And over yonder you'll find "republicans" disavowing maga, claim he was a democrat who switched over just to run for president. That he's a terrible president, but Kamala would've been worse and they'd vote for him a third time if it meant keeping democrats away.
Mulligrubs 8 points a month ago
It's not a "claim."
Trump was a registered Democrat. He endorsed Hillary Clinton for the senate.
AfterlifeAdventures 5 points a month ago path: 0 25846685, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
Fluffy_Ruffs 3 points a month ago
If this guy could ever show his work and answer "how so?" I'll be astounded
AfterlifeAdventures 3 points a month ago path: 0 25846664, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor 3 points a month ago
Eh... we know. We fucking told you this would happen. Not once, not twice. Thousands of times. We told you the first time when you elected it. We told you the second time when you tried to elect it, and we told you the third time when you elected it again after it tried to overthrow a democratically elected administration with an insurrection. And yet, here we are.
SeeMarkFly 2 points a month ago
THE BUCK STOPS...somewhere else.
theuniqueone 0 points a month ago
It's both your faults.
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