I mean.... did they though? Cuz from what I understood the depression was a time when we couldn't afford to buy anything, similar to now. Meaning either prices went up or wages went down.
Honestly, why would he NOT want to create another depression? It won't affect him or any of his friends. He wants the poor and old and weak to all die off, leaving a smaller, healthier workforce that has to work even longer and harder, leaving no time to fight against his regime.
Well I assume you mean the aholes who believe this shit. True believer libertarians are a mind boggling conversation. The Libertarian-christians are down right brain melting.
The rich did just fine in the depression, with cheaper servants and goods, it is undoubtedly their favorite times to be alive . They miss the reliable busts of the gold based dollar lmao
It appears that somebody has never read history in their whole damn life. And we aren't going to have a war to hurry recovery along. If the world attacks the fascist, it's going to be us.
As usual, people mock the severity of a destructive event they never lived through. Hypocrisy and ignorance are two horrible tastes that idiots love to taste together.
Along with cheaper prices will be lower pay. We don't need that. How many of us have loans that are already set. I'm sure the banks will understand a great reset. Right....?
Someone is citing the GREAT DEPRESSION as an example of prices going down, and to just wait.
Honey, unemployment was 30+%, and it only really ended once WW2 started. FDR wasn't actually managing to recover the economy.
Germany got out by using state funds and mandatory weapons manufacturing.
When these idiots invade Greenland and Panama, they’ll justify their need to manufacture arms and the economy will improve. All so Trump can feed his ego that he added more stars to the flag.
Just a minor correction Germany ‘got out’ by engaging in massive financial fraud and accumulating over 100% of their GDP in debt in just 6 years, all while standards of living declined every single year.
Do not fall for nazi mythmaking about Hitlers ‘economic miracle’
Corporations might not lower prices immediately after tariffs are removed, competition and market pressure often push prices down over time as companies vie for customers.
That only works when everything isn't owned by like 8 corporations who collaborate with each other. Theoretical market forces don't apply to an economy as rigged against us as the one in the United States.
Historically, price hikes don’t always stick when external costs like tariffs disappear look at how gas prices tend to drop after oil supply stabilizes.
Having been raised in cult religion, I know firsthand, they’ll believe anything they’re told as long as they don’t have to act. Historical “facts” are only real if it suits their narrative as well. They’ll die on this hill.
Disgraceful!
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Would argue 40 years, after Reagan Democrats went further right with neo liberal policies compared to progressive policies the party was built on before.
Actually, The Great Depression was a time of deflation, prices of commodities and goods went down over a period of about 27% over 4 years (especially things like wheat), problem is no one could afford anything anyway because of bank failures and job losses, so it didn't matter.
The difference this time is that US government has decided to create the job losses first. This is very important, because it means all those people we now not spend, and neither will anyone else as they fear for their own jobs, having a chilling effect on the private sector. Genius!
“Everything will be cheaper in the future” lmaooo….in all actuality what happened was the narcissist feeling’s were hurt by the elections, and he lashed out with the tariffs…the world is paying the price. There’s NO strategy to his madness
Hell yeah, when a much larger percentage of the population suddenly can't afford to buy things then prices will have to come down and I'll be able to buy everything I want. The value of the dollar will remain the same and I'll be magically untouched by everything because I'm a genius.
Trump thinks being a bully solves everything. And he thinks he has something everyone wants and needs. He doesn’t understand that when you break trust others will walk away. And they won’t come back. They can live without what he has. What he has is us (American consumers).
My mother babysat two children overnight, made dinner, put them to bed, made breakfast, was paid five cents. She got home. Gramma asked, did she pay you. Mum said yes. How much? Mum said. Gramma said, go and give it back and tell her if that's all she can afford she needs it more than you do.
Reading about it shows he invested 65k in it at one point before 2022. It's not quite the smoking gun it's being made out to be if you ask me. People are acting like he owns the company.
But the idea that he would ever give such a company a dime is vile. 65k is a serious investment for 99% of people. He mustn't be a member of that 99% 🤔...
I agree, but considering who funds my side of the aisle and what they invest in, it isn't that much worse in the scheme of things lol *cough cough Pelosi's stock portfolio.. cough*
I'm not saying it's good or ethical, just that it's being hyped up as a bigger conspiracy than I think it is.
K but you know what you're saying here, right? There's a subreddit called "selfawarewolves".
F them all. F their side, f "your" side. All of them are equally worthless. Trump is a symptom not an anomaly. The only thing that's surprising is how long it took.
Insinuating that Trump is deliberately trying to trigger a repeat of the time where most Americans were broke and suggesting it’s a good thing is a fucking WILD take. These people all have the RFK Jr brain worms
It's a "good thing" when you dump any assets and commodities before a known crash and then buy up more assets when they're dirt cheap, taking advantage of a crisis
Don't forget that it also happened at a time when the US economy was far more self sufficient and less interconnected to its neighbors. Trying to do this shit now is far worse in part because nobody just does things in a hermit kingdom anymore.
Reacting to authoritarianism overseas! People learning about true suffering and its causes sensible policy and promising NEVER AGAIN while their children, the most spoiled generation ever ruined a country within 45 years of being in power.
There was deflation when the banks broke the economy in 2008, so W printed a bunch of cash and gave it to those same bankers which "fixed" the economy and gave us this inflation which 47 will fix by breaking the economy
My family’s generational trauma stems directly from my Grandma being a kid during the Great Depression and the horrors she went through, real stoked to double-down on that shit for my 5 year old so eggs are affordable once again
Ah yeah the great depression, when stockholders jumped out of their windows because the situation was suuper great for a dive head first towards concrete. Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻🤣
Prices for a lot of things actually do have gone down, if you figure them in adjusted dollars. Digital devices are a good example, clothing and food too. But that happened because of globalization. Tariffs do the opposite.
Yes, yes it was. But now its the name for this BS because they are all mentally stunted and cant remember and keep their crackpot theories straight from one day to the next.
Yeah everything will be cheaper because we won't have a strong currency anymore and people won't have a job or money to buy the goods anymore anyway. The great reset is just another right wing conspiracy theory and why the support trump as he is supposed to lead them there. This is another arm of
the replacement theory. In the great reset the whites will control all pillars of society that the neo Nazis believe liberals and Jewish people now control in order to subjugate and eliminate white people. My neo Nazi brother came back from Germany with this theory after Vietnam. They insisted then
No worries I don't associate with him he's a die hard trumper and wants to kill me so yeah😅. I don't associate with half of my family because according to them I shouldn't have been born or killed at birth because my blood is impure
Sorry to hear that. You don’t get to choose your family but you do get to choose to allow them your time. Hope you have close friends that are more real family.
But the basis of its point kind of undermines it. Idiocracy frames its premise as the proliferation of stupidity due to stupid people outbreeding the intelligent and not simply the infrastructure to support intelligence being eroded.
A lot of MAGAs are accelerationists who believe that Trump/Musk destroying the economy and causing World War III and the Second American Civil War will create a “”””utopia”””” (aka a place where only conservative rich white cishet incels exist)
The moment liberals get OK with owning and using modern guns like ARs and Glocks at the scale that Republicans do, I'm thinking it's over for Republicans in any such scenario, in the long run anyhow.
State military will be weakened and stripped to be filled with as many yes men as is possible but, all it takes is an ambitious Colonel for that to fail. That's why drones and police are being so militarized, they and not the Nat.Guard, are the white blood cells.
Personally at this point I'm convinced there will be a Radio Rwanda-esque militia genocide. In my case I got a lot of guns. Pepper spray, too, POM is a good brand. Also learned first aid! Well maintained car, good shoes, and getting out of Dodge before checkpoints go up is wise too.
Doesn't sound paranoid at all, and I'm perfectly fine with guns. Guns are like cigarettes: the only reason I don't have em is cuz I refuse to spend my money on them. But yeah I run with army rangers and professional outdoorsmen types such as myself
This is the first explanation I've seen to answer the "why" is crashing the economy considered "necessary". That actually makes perfect sense (for them), for the rest of us absolutely terrifying
Except Manson expected "the black" to win the "inevitable race war" and he, as the clearly superior specimen of "white maleness" would rule over them...
No, wait, you're right, it's basically the same thing with some of the roles shuffled around. NVM
Plus there’s the ultra religious wing that thinks Trump ensuring Israel’s existence will bring about the end times as foretold in The Bible, which for some reason they think is a good thing. A significant amount of MAGA is basically a suicide cult.
Are you trying to kill me?
The only time I like to think of that is when I'm imagining how bad it would be, 8B "business geniuses" yelling at everyone else to go do stuff, and nobody knowing how to do anything
Yeah a utopia for the wealthy not the regular citizen. Unfortunately even them being not able to afford anything anymore probably won’t impact their judgment on Trump
That's because there is no judgement of him for them, only relatability.
They want to connect to a lifetime loser who keeps getting lucky because they're all lifetime losers who've never gotten lucky.
I've ALWAYS said even he must be AMAZED at his own good fortune since even he knows he's worthless
I saw that. Pretty incredible.
Zoolander 2. "Someone said they were close to me?"
It was all he could do not to burst out laughing but his own shock saved him. Quite the thing to observe. He has no idea what to be tough about. He's just winging it which means he's usually wrong
My uncle sold his Stutz Bearcat automobile during the great depression for $25.
Of course, few even had $25 🤷🏻♂️ He needed to try and feed his family
My mom described having stale bread and jelly for dinner as a child.
THIS is the recipe for a great economy:
Fire the people who are the customers through earning their salaries, so they won't have an income any longer.
Then increase the prices.
Looking forward to ole accordion hands rambling on about the greatest depression and how it's the fault of woke dei libs or something despite his party's total control of the government.
Spent the whole pandemic hearing about how it was the great reset and that it was gonna install the new world order to the point some dude kept hanging posters abt it in my city and now i learn its actually a good thing that'll save the economy?
Obviously lots of problems here, but for me the biggest is that the reason Manny prices dropped was because FDR had the federal government literally doing price fixing to keep things affordable. What in this second Donald term would lead anyone to believe he's interested in that level of regulation?
I actually think this person might be serious. They are hoping for a Great Depression so prices come down. They just won’t let their brain process the other part of the equation I.e. they will most likely lose their job and not be able to find another one so will lose their home and possibly starve
lol is that your plan? Bankers don’t show up to homes anymore - heavily armed police will show up to evict folks. The large corps & wealthy like Musk can kill off average Americans and ruin millions of lives without penalty but if you do the same to them that warrants the death penalty. Be real.
Yes, all of German society ended up appeasing the Nazis with all the guns and yes the Nazis murdered everyone who did resist them. It took a world war with millions of deaths to stop them. What is your point?
‘Murdered every one who resisted them’ there were massive German and French resistance movements that allowed the Allies to even launch the invasion into mainland Europe to fight the Nazis… it was French civilians who fed allied intelligence of troop movements and numbers
So like, what, the people you want to rise up against the capital class are a bunch of cowards who won't do it? Or is it the capital class will fail because the american populace is heavily armed?
If you just want to bitch at the lack of action bluesky ain't going to scratch that itch too good.
I can't tell if you're advocating for organized community self defense or if you're advocating for the far less effective individual armed resistance to eviction.
The Taliban were successful in their resistance to the USA because they were both well armed and their communities supported them.
The U.S. could never because the country is brainwashed to always support the government even when it’s killing them. Fucking cowards who preach about revolution but hide at the first sign of conflict
The reason the Taliban were successful is because before the war THEY WERE THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT. They knew policy and how to govern. They had close ties to Iran and Pakistan.
On the war fighting part it’s because they were good insurgents
The average Afghan didn’t support the Taliban.. they supported whoever was winning at that moment and offered them the most. Rural afghans benefitted from the Taliban the most because of the drug trade and because they were paid $100 to dig a hole in a road or fill one in
Outting? I thought that was a given for your country. The UK put in someone who tried this type of shit and she got removed after 50 days by her own party. Who’s doing that in the US exactly?
My MAGA family members still thinks things are great. It’s hard to reason with this level of separation from reality. We are so screwed if we don’t fight back now. If this goes through another election cycle without change, I fear for the world.
I personally think the world will be fine, the US doesn’t have as much influence/control that people think it has, it’s only 4% of the worlds population, and it’s not the economic power house it once was. I fear for the people living in the US they are the ones who are going to suffer.
And it doesn’t really add up, if enough bankers got shot then it would have filtered through to today and bankers would behave better, but surprise, surprise they don’t. So less got shot than you are trying to make out.
Taking you house is kind of taking your house, I don’t think it matters whether it was 100 years ago or now. You seem desperate to portray your fellow Americans as bastions of courage and fortitude, sorry but I’m not seeing it.
Why make personal something that is FACT? Who said a damn thing about me collecting anything? Is it really that tough to accept the reality of how debt works or something?
Fact thousands of people get shot for less annually when there’s no depression. fact is Americans are the single largest owner of firearms, explosives and stockpiled ammunition. fact most rural communities don’t have the funding or resources to even have a police force large enough to do traffic
They honestly think this is a good thing? What great reset are they talking about. We can’t pretend we don’t live in a global economy just because he doesn’t like it.
I really, really hope this puts a bullet in the head of "Dems need to reach out to understand these people to get their votes".
Every Dem needs to say that Trump and Republicans lied about everything they promised. Lower grocery prices, no tips on taxes, and an economic golden age.
Is the brainwashed MAGA, Another guy told me that this is great because the poor people will not be able to buy stock, Like if poor people don't need the money to buy groceries and pay rent
What an unbelievably sawed-off take this person decided to share…the Great Depression was fucking ass. My wife’s grandparents (when they were alive) were just like “yeah, it sucked. We had escarole and beans for like…every meal.”
I thought they had one already called the USA. The smart/compassionate ones emigrate. At least, the American immigrants that I meet seem to understand basic concepts that we're stronger together.
There are plenty of smart/compassionate Americans who are stuck here. I've personally looked into leaving the States but am hindered by costs, other countries' immigration rules, the inability to uproot elderly family, etc. It's not easy to uproot, and I'm one of the more privileged ones.
sorry, no, the USA is MY home. My ancestors’ home. Please do not resign it to the idiots living on it now. They do need their own country. Because they’re destroying every sacred place we’ve ever known. Our rivers and mountains are screaming in pain and we hear her. Our mother is dying.
Turtle Island is a big place with many countries. From the start, the US decided indigenous people do not count, and black people only count 60%. Ignorance has been encouraged to keep the population pliable and exploitable. I've hoped for an enlightened USA, but then they elect the Bushes and Trump.
This truth will never stop my hope or my will to fight for the people who need it and our home. They know not what they do. I will forgive them. I will always forgive them. They need this. I need this. We need this, or we are doomed to repeat the cycle in full. There is still time to stop this.
It might be too late to stop this cycle, but it's never too late to mitigate the damage; never too early to build new support networks of mutual aid. Those who should stay and fight on. Those most targeted and downtrodden should know that there is always another option to thrive, not just survive.
This is the the unfortunate balance we see in these moments of history. Those on the outside want you to save yourself so badly, but cannot resist using a moment to remind you that it is your fault you got to the place of needing saving. Even if this reminder halts your progress.
Exactly. And I mean, I bring up the medical debt thing for a very specific purpose:
I don't know if saddling generations of us with medical debt was an element of a grand, multi-decade plan on the part of the proto-fascists to weaken our ability to resist...but IT CERTAINLY WORKS OUT THAT WAY.
That sounds like you're talking from a place of privilege. I didn't mention packing. I've been homeless for nearly two months now, but I live in a country where the majority of bankruptcies aren't from medical debt. Some people don't have anything to pack except what they can carry on their back.
lol how tf as I going to emigrate? I'm not rich. My job isn't in high need in other countries. My ancestors have mostly been here since pre 1750. I'm stuck, man. Suggesting I'm not intelligent or compassionate because I can't leave is cruel
I'm sorry. You're stuck in the gears of the system, and it wasn't meant to be a commentary on you, but that the former Americans that choose to start over, even a new career, even doing minimum wage jobs (C$17.20/hr here), are mostly more of that character. You deserve better.
Thank you. Sorry if I was a bit harsh. I do wish I could, esp as someone who is nonbinary and has zero family support. I admire people who put in the real effort when they move, knowing it'll be hard.
I keep saying that. They want to be kings and lords, why don't they just go away and make their own little bleached blonde island and inbreed all they want?
This isn’t quite the same thing, but one of my favorite conversations ever on here was talking about the economy and homelessness rates and someone saying they don’t fear another Great Depression because they were not depressed.
He’s all but admitted that he’s working for the enemies of America. He was already compromised, and when the majority didn’t bow down and worship him, he vowed retribution. If not stopped, he’ll make sure we never recover. The Great Depression will seem like a picnic.
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It has the word great in it!"
(This dipshit probably)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-27/trump-tariffs-on-canada-lumber-risk-pinching-toilet-paper-supply
me: kewl
Zoo rules will apply, however.
So remember,
dont feed the animals.
Amazing how social media captures the essence of collective idiots
Honey, unemployment was 30+%, and it only really ended once WW2 started. FDR wasn't actually managing to recover the economy.
Germany got out by using state funds and mandatory weapons manufacturing.
How about..Go the other way and tax the rich 90% above $10m, lock prices down and set up universal basic income and remove welfare for the unemployed?
Do not fall for nazi mythmaking about Hitlers ‘economic miracle’
Great way to hide another price hike
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Probably bc the establishment is so old they lived through Reagan
Did you know Shady Vance VP has a company that buys up cheap US land ?
Google it AcreTrader
I'm not saying it's good or ethical, just that it's being hyped up as a bigger conspiracy than I think it is.
F them all. F their side, f "your" side. All of them are equally worthless. Trump is a symptom not an anomaly. The only thing that's surprising is how long it took.
America
Depressed
Again
They're so SO close, to putting one and one together
There's two dots on the drawing board:
'Tariffs' and 'Recession / Depression'
Now just connect the two, come on, I know you guys can do it.
It’s unfortunate, but when you’ve broken with reality to this extent some people are never coming back. It’s a cult.
The Face-Eating-Leopards will feast soon.
Unless we the people do something about it.
UUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*screams so loud it can be heard through space*
The great reset is a good thing now?
Go back a few years and it was a terrible conspiracy in trumpy circles.
See the GOP. And Turdov's cabinet.
They can't even keep their own conspiracy theories straight...
Republican in office, things get vastly worse: It’s the Great Reset (laudatory)!
Yup, a whole bowl of courage. Toughen up buttercup..shits gonna get real.
Elon said so
😗👌
No, wait, you're right, it's basically the same thing with some of the roles shuffled around. NVM
The only time I like to think of that is when I'm imagining how bad it would be, 8B "business geniuses" yelling at everyone else to go do stuff, and nobody knowing how to do anything
They want to connect to a lifetime loser who keeps getting lucky because they're all lifetime losers who've never gotten lucky.
I've ALWAYS said even he must be AMAZED at his own good fortune since even he knows he's worthless
Zoolander 2. "Someone said they were close to me?"
It was all he could do not to burst out laughing but his own shock saved him. Quite the thing to observe. He has no idea what to be tough about. He's just winging it which means he's usually wrong
Of course, few even had $25 🤷🏻♂️ He needed to try and feed his family
My mom described having stale bread and jelly for dinner as a child.
Fire the people who are the customers through earning their salaries, so they won't have an income any longer.
Then increase the prices.
It's not fucking funny.
People talked a lot of shit about the Taliban being dumb farmers but look who’s really the dumb farmers
If you just want to bitch at the lack of action bluesky ain't going to scratch that itch too good.
The Taliban were successful in their resistance to the USA because they were both well armed and their communities supported them.
On the war fighting part it’s because they were good insurgents
Every Dem needs to say that Trump and Republicans lied about everything they promised. Lower grocery prices, no tips on taxes, and an economic golden age.
Comfy Euro-people who have never had medical debt will lean down from their ivory towers and say to us:
"Hey, lil' buddy. We're gonna need you to resist fascism."
*pregnant pause*
"But, ya know, you're also a worthless fatty-fat, dumb 'Murican, who probably doesn't use the Metric system."
I don't know if saddling generations of us with medical debt was an element of a grand, multi-decade plan on the part of the proto-fascists to weaken our ability to resist...but IT CERTAINLY WORKS OUT THAT WAY.
If platforms were countries their chief export would be dumb shit I laugh at on Bluesky.
For the first question I'd recommend bidets...