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just trying to make sense of why we find it so hard to collectively make good political decisions
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If you collaborated with a friend to build a big sandcastle, you'd probably be pretty pleased. If that friend then decided to demonstrate his power by stomping all over the castle devaluing it - how would you feel? Is it a surprise that he has this ability? No. Collaborate again? Probably not.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of the most chilling things I have seen for a long time. This is what Trump is about. He's not a statesman. He's acting more like a bullying gangster, tormenting hostages.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is an actual government communication channel. The US govt has been hijacked and everyone seems to be carrying on as if all is normal.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and co can't keep this concealed forever - it's going to start affecting people.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Says it all - how far the #USA has fallen, thanks to ONE man 😫

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

If Trump hates humiliation so much and really wants respect - as he has so often expressed - why does he choose to do things that everyone knows will make him a laughing stock?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Countries around the world should be changing future plans, changing the way they trade, changing their relationship with - and any reliance on - the USA. The consequence is that the USA will be left out of things in future. They will be sidelined and become a marginalised country. (Permanently?)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Let's stop talking about Trump policies as if he's just mad and random, and try to understand what he wants to do. Trump has talked about loving tariffs since the 1980s. Edward Fishman discusses the reasons: [1/3]

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is really good. Well worth a watch. What's Trump doing with Macron handshake? What was happening when Zelensky went to Whitehouse? etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=imSd...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

All the economic turmoil around the world's stock exchanges is part of the plan. It's not some kind of failure. This is a demonstration of POWER: Trump saying "Look what I can do!"

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Not just make it look "more scientific" (because they suddenly do approve of scientific experts after all?) but more importantly to obscure it and discourage people from talking about it.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Is a trade deficit the same as "unfair trade practices"? (as expressed by Whitehouse spokesperson) Is trade deficit/surplus a bad thing for a country and we should always ensure Balance Of Trade? Can any economists explain this?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is right. These ARE sanctions. And it's not revitalization or you'd promote it differently: long-term planning, support for people financing and building new factories. It takes time and can't just burst to life instantly when you put prices up. People will suffer; governments should mitigate.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

In what world does this look like a "complicated formula", as the BBC tried to present it??

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 12 days ago • 962 comments

‘Weak beef’ deserves more pick-up.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

No joke. On Tuesday, Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of purging millions of Americans from voter rolls as suspected “non-citizens.” open.substack.com/pub/gregpala...

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Hard to imagine in the past. But at this point I can see NATO throwing out USA as a member. And maybe this would be better than waiting for USA to walk out...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments