This is relatively small potatoes all things considered, but I keep wondering: how are we ever going to host the 2028 Olympics in an environment like this?
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Justin Wolfers
There's a lotta concern about the short run (ie recession or not) implications of Trump's agenda. Dani is right to point to the long run as far far more consequential.
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Which kind of fits because when I look around it looks an awful lot like Berlin 1932 around here.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to renovate my attic and learn to operate a ham radio.
It’s going to take a long time to dig out of this. There’s no way in hell I’d visit this shit hole country since he took over. If I could leave, I would.
I would be none shocked to see both of those events boycotted by numerous nations.
To the point they may not actually happen.
Gold Cup is all Central & South America + guests Saudi Arabia.
I can't see people from those places feeling safe coming to the US.
Just saying… ✌️
[insert new name here] Games?
you mean trump take olympics?
not even non-maga republicans believe that
What about the World Cup, hosting together with our BFF's Canada and Mexico?
🤔🤯🤯🤯😱
Not a chance
There will of course be moral/ethical/geopolitical arguments ready that the US shouldn’t host either event, but screwing up the world’s biggest event would be the thing to do it
they're all highly likely to get grabbed, gulaged, and disappeared under the current setup...
Everywhere
All at once is going wrong
We should not be fighting over dumb shit.
It's not happening.
And if it does, it will be the most humiliating event in human history. Not like this.
The US and Germany will go down in history as fascist Olympics hosts.
Congratulations.
(PS—Just for the record I wasn’t there. Not even my parents were there. But they wanted to be🥰)
All I can do is remember: People plant trees knowing they will not live to see them bear fruit.
Unless you're a lot closer to death than I assume, "not in my lifetime" is needlessly pessimistic.
Lots of important Nazis were killed - we're going to still have MAGA for the rest of our lifetimes and beyond.
We need to really focus on somehow converting large sections of MAGA out of the cult. I'm not sure how to do it, but I think it's the only real way out of this.
Maybe only possible once Trump dies of old age.
So before things can "recover" we need MAGAism to be dead *and* be dead long enough that others can reasonably it really is dead.
Gonna be way more than 20 years.
I think we need to look at dismantling the right wing alternative reality/media ecosystem. That might provide a pathway to bring people back into sanity from the cult of Trump/MAGA.
No idea how to do that though.
Which country would come in to resuscitate this evil empire after we’ve collapsed? Who would want to?
I’m 60.
Math ain’t good.
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So I don't think >20 years is pessimistic at all.
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I think Recovery in 50 years is probably optimistic.
were also hosting the world cup too!