Global trade is entirely predicated on the idea that 2 people can make an exchange and both end up better off than if they never did it, an idea that Trump finds repulsive and a lie perpetrated by people who want to take advantage of you
Worse. If I have a deal with him, I must suffer some way, somehow.
There is no world in which an interaction with him can be normal in his eyes. /You/ are buying a good from him. /He/ is mugging you, raping you, leaving you for dead in some alley.
There is no different alley. Why want more of the same with a different hegemon? It can't be the EU, it can't be NATO excluding the USA. China is unsuitable for many reasons despite angling itself as the sane country right now.
On the face of it, clean up your alley. Get rid of Trump ASAP.
And I will not invoke the theory involving the footwear of equines becase that is facile and shallow and people hate it. But it IS kind of like a situation where two very different worldviews converge on a similar wrongheaded conclusion?
they only hate it because it is 100% correct about everything at all times
if you could get quantum mechanics and relativity to adopt opposing authoritarian philosophies, we would have a unified field theory by now, that's how powerful the horseshoe is
Are you truly so stupid, callous, or is it just selfishness to not understand the difference between "the system of exploiting poorer countries for resources is harmful to those poorer countries" and "I as a billionaire hate the concept of trade because I hate the idea of giving money to people"
Trade is the difference between the US economy, and the Russian economy. Russia has/had more natural resources and available trade routes than the US after ww2. The US opened trade, Russia put up an iron curtain. Guess how it turned out?
To all nations that formerly were our allies:
Please target your retaliatory tariffs and other responses towards Trump properties, Musk businesses, major Trump/MAGA/NRA/GOP donors and towards Red State industries. Buy from and visit Blue States like Hawaii.
Please repost.
The deficit is great! We give other countries paper and they give us cars and steel and computers…alll based on the fact the dollar is world reserve currency…and these morons may have just fucked that up for good…
I wonder if someone could steal Mar-a-Lago, like just put it on wheels and take it into the Everglades, and he could be convinced that it never actually existed.
You have to hand it to him; economics is a field that’s been studied for centuries, ideas debated into oblivion, every angle searched. Yet he manages to come up with an idea that’s both unique and immediately, mindbogglingly wrong.
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There is no world in which an interaction with him can be normal in his eyes. /You/ are buying a good from him. /He/ is mugging you, raping you, leaving you for dead in some alley.
the whole thing about tariffs is he thinks he's found an alley from which he can loot and rape the whole world
god help us here in the US, the world's just going to find a different alley
On the face of it, clean up your alley. Get rid of Trump ASAP.
if you could get quantum mechanics and relativity to adopt opposing authoritarian philosophies, we would have a unified field theory by now, that's how powerful the horseshoe is
And all I'm saying is that the idea that buying and selling are a zero sum game has...broad roots. Not even talking about trade policy in particular!
Was the second line.
Overly simplified, but basically covers it.
The ultra rich are just better than us.
Please target your retaliatory tariffs and other responses towards Trump properties, Musk businesses, major Trump/MAGA/NRA/GOP donors and towards Red State industries. Buy from and visit Blue States like Hawaii.
Please repost.
Simplicity is nice. Feels good.
Stupid people think things are simple. They like being given simple answers.