This country’ economy was born on land speculation: File for large tracts of land while Native Americas still lived there, convince the government to ethnically cleanse the land, sell the land to pioneers at a huge markup. And before industrialization it failed every few decades.
The best way to get rich today is to find a new grift and/or take over for an existing grifter.
Why spend so much time becoming a doctor or work for years to build a successful business when you can just whore yourself out to powerful sociopaths and be rich immediately?
It was about Trump deliberately using tariffs to crash the market so he and his billionaire friends could buy low and make a shit ton of money! Simple as that. It’s called market manipulation.
Currently run by a huckster and his ignorant band of miscreants with a supporting cast of know-nothing sycophants. But calling out the whole country like that -- we're not all-in with this crowd. Accidents of birth happen. Everyone can't live in Bhutan.
Ask any country what are your institutions, they'll say things like the government, schools and churches. As what is An American Institution, the answer is always companies
Cdns have known that for decades. Canada outranks the US annually on almost every GLOBAL Index including the Freedom, Democracy & Press Freedoms Indexes. Since 2016, the US in fact has been downgraded from a "full" to "flawed" democracy while Canada's classification remains a "full" democracy.
trump pulled back his own curtain to reveal he was the Wizard of Odd all along and that our government has be working with the oligarchy since Reagan!! This whole time we have been living in company housing and buying from the company store !!!
“America is a homeless person wearing a Gucci belt”
and now that person has removed the belt, their pants are around their ankles and they’re using the belt to beat anyone they can reach, including themselves.
If you look back at the founding fathers, they really were just oligarchic elites who wanted to pay as few taxes as possible. Enough to start a war with one European empire and destabilize another.
That's true of folks like Hancock and Sam Adams, but I really do believe that folks like Washington and Franklin believed in something better and injected the process with some sincerity, which is why it was a model that others emulated and did better.
One of the favorite riffs among my group of friends in freshman year of college was this kind of guy, with a voice you only hear on late night infomercials
"But wait! There's more! Order now and receive a FREE set of Ginsu knives!!!!"
I was just saying this this morning--all of the sudden I realized. From the beginning; a land grab, genocide, human trafficing and slavery, exploitation of the weak and poor and marginalized. Just enough freedom to put us all into a fever dream trance.
And we would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for Putin's useful shambolic personality-disordered chaos agent running this place into the ground and trying to take Western democracy writ large down with it.
Thank you! It’s so fkn obvious this whole thing was a con, just like the first time he played us, then pulled back. He used a bit of theatre and golf trip to make it look a bit different, but it was the same con. Who loses? People who can’t afford to buy low….Unlike his billionaire buddies.
it's exceptionally gratifying, and terrifying to have my suspicions confirmed after 24 years of reading about American history and wondering why the fuck everyone loved this country - all these people saying "no one will trust the American government now"; no one ever should have.
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From indentured service to sharecropping to monopolies to crypto. Americas greatest meritocracy is the scam artist meritocracy.
and were so blatant right before the 2008 crash
It was so scammy that capitalism almost killed itself
Why spend so much time becoming a doctor or work for years to build a successful business when you can just whore yourself out to powerful sociopaths and be rich immediately?
...never mind, we did get away with it.
If Trump REALLY WAS a sleeper agent of Russia's bent on utterly destroying the country, WHAT WOULD HE BE DOING DIFFERENT?
No, we don't know his motivations. But if that were the motivations of a mendacious president, how could they do any better than he has?
We are a shithole country
It was never about “liberation day” or tariffs.
It was about Trump deliberately using tariffs to crash the market so he and his billionaire friends could buy low and make a shit ton of money! Simple as that. It’s called market manipulation.
Exceptionally greedy
Exceptionally racist
Exceptionally stupid
A nation of deplorables
"here take these disease blankets, we'll help ourselves to the East coast. For now"
Hollywood is the best P.R. team ever
Literally Everything in america is fake
it's because you didn't want to
and now that person has removed the belt, their pants are around their ankles and they’re using the belt to beat anyone they can reach, including themselves.
Yes he did. Yes he did.
"But wait! There's more! Order now and receive a FREE set of Ginsu knives!!!!"
Minorities have had to fight tooth and nail to get even a fraction of the fairness that the white population has had.
Just trusting too much in tradition & integrity.
Elect integrity.
But write laws that guarantee it.
--USA (probably)
Every single EU nation has
Higher life expectancy
Higher literacy
Lower infant mortality
Lower maternal mortality
Lower income inequality