Good news. The American empire is falling. Bad news. I’m an American
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Even if you don't own stock, you're affected.
and yes, I'm sorry people are suffering (I've suffered tremendously in the past) but the investment game is rigged and fkd. Capitalism is ruinous.
BUT
one cannot ride the coattails of capitalists and simultaneously take the moral high ground
There are other ways, but the promise of "growth" lures many a sucker...And yes, supporting capitalists is capitalism for dummies
Capitalism loves free markets. This is tyranny.
Some markets can't be free due to inelastic supply or demand that prevents free negotiations. Those markets need lots of regulation and government controls. (E.g. healthcare)
they don't love the free market, they pretend it is a free market
it is not, it is rigged in their favour
As opposed to, say, mercantilism, which wants markets regulated in a way that mostly benefits merchants.
The bad? We have even less influence than any American
all the people doompoasting about the stock market don't realize number doesn't always have to go up.
They can still do all of that
Just minus the parasite part.
Also, now I think other countries don't want them there as much either, so their fortunes are tied to US too.
the time of golf is fuckin over
I hope you choke on the fact that it was primarily due to sanctions by the US and its allies.
My point was, capitalists always point toward capital growth as the reason they are superior and more productive -- but the last weekend has shown they can't even do that right, more or less to say, Capitalism Bad
Countless people have been murdered by imperial intervention, policies, sanctions, support, or inaction within the last couple decades
Can we stop that violence peacefully?
Take the harm being done in a place like Iraq, and multiply it by a dozen or more countries who might be plunged into civil upheaval. That’s what I’m talking about.
—Trump, June 2024
His people backpedaled claiming he was joking — he shows us each and every day that he was NOT joking.
Let the playing victim for a living economy live forever in canada
You want it to fall apart, but you know it's gonna hurt like hell.
MAGA, ironically, really is the only political group that gained traction to say we aren't great but of course blamed it on all the wrong reasons.
Doing my John Houseman impression: "We've earrrrned it."
Please note there is an English language profanity test upon entering the country
Good to know.
I should medal in the senior division!
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-musk-and-the-broligarchy-are
I was stunned at the time.
But I've watched it ever since.
Last time I went back to Lima Peru where I was raised, it was all TGIFridays and BellSouth (long dead here).
"Living the Dream"
And what a dream it is
This was trumps plan all along
My heart is breaking right now for our future.
Too bad the rest of the world allowed the US so much control.
There are millions standing in line waiting to take your place and be grateful for it
https://youtu.be/dFX5g7kyX9g
30 year old me, now: Oh God! Not like this!
🔥🇺🇸🔥
Donald Trump did what the 9/11 terrorists couldn't do ... he destroyed the USA.
If not for the church people
with their anti abortion & anti gay, etc.,
in support of their dead-letter-literal-interpretation of the Bible,
to reassure themselves of their blind-faith,
with which to force upon all America,
there would never have been
a president David Koresh Trump.
*
(Take your pick of whichever one.)
If you had the kind of government capable of gracefully weening itself off of imperialism, you never would have been imperialists in the first place.
Ball ignites.
in exchange you get an 80s business mommy and finally someone to write software for your projects
8,191,988,453 billion
Fences going up around the white house likely wont help trump and 2025 spineless republicans due to the approx ...
8,191 988 billion
brand NEW, very pissed off ENEMIES.
It needs to hurt a lot for idiots with short memories and minimal education to understand and not do it again in 4 Years!
Ad news, I live on earth and this is gonna fuck everyone on every corner of the globe.
I thought we were making America GREAT. Perhaps they meant the Great Depression.
Oh wait. I live here. *laughs in trauma*
https://bsky.app/profile/chardoncs.dev/post/3lma3gkon2k2j
If only any fiction had preDicked this and anyone payed attention…
The empire currently is the international banking system
I bet a lot of 1% are salivating at the mouth !
The rest of us can eat cake.
You don't matter to them
senseless what is happening.
This is something to trade, not buy and hold.
You’ll be aight
Winning! 👊🇺🇸🔥
Decline of the shithole country was inevitable 😬
Bad news: 1 dollar is still 38 Turkish liras... And im turkish.
And by extension, for anyone paying attention at home who might've not figured this out yet, he DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU
Better news; The Germans already invented a word for this feeling. Schattenfreude.
They're very efficient aren't they.
So i hope everyone's ready, i hope everyone is reading up on subsistence living and learning a few skills.
They are deliberately antagonizing other countries.
They are deliberately dismantling government and making it inoperable.
They are deliberately deporting and incarcerating innocent people.
It is
ALL. DELIBERATE.
Trump: hold my beer (even though I don’t drink beer and I don’t like dogs and I’m a f’n a-hole)
Damn him, his offspring & all those that choose him over Country. MAGA Tools, you have condemned your Family names to perdition.