• durably465@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 小时前

    Making everyone hate USA for peanuts. Priceless

    “There are some things money can’t buy; for everything else, there’s Mastercard”

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
    27·
    10 小时前

    Untrue. We paid extra to fund tax breaks for billionaires while food prices tripled and 1,206,374 people were laid off in order to keep those record profits going.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      6·
      5 小时前

      dont forget the aca enhanced subsidies ended, and people saw thier insurance double or tripled or more in premiums/deductibles.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
        1·
        4 分钟前

        That’s right. We shouldn’t live. That’s too costly! We must sacrifice ourselves on the pyre of privatised healthcare so that the superyachts get built on time.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
    18·
    11 小时前

    The thing is, in any somewhat sane and precedented administration, the argument could reasonably have been made that some economic struggles, even a year in, were largely due to polices of the previous administration.

    The problem with this administration is, they literally did everything possible to fuck the economy up, pretty much from day one. Nearly every decision was a bad decision, which had specific and obvious ramifications on the economy. Chaos. Clown show. Chain saw. The current administration owns this shitty economy. They could have litterally sat around twiddling their thumbs doing absolutely nothing but eat hamburders and drink covfefe and the economy would be doing orders of magnitude better than it is now. Instead they decided tariffs and firings and tax cuts to the ultra rich were in order. So now this is all their fault. 100%.

  • duncan_bayne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    12 小时前

    If it helps any, we don’t hate Americans, by and large. We pity you. It’s your leaders we hate.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
    1234·
    18 小时前

    In all fairness, half the world hated you before. Now you just managed to convince the other half they were right.

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    41·
    15 小时前

    I lost my job because of cuts in May. I haven’t been able to find full time employment since. I’m not sure I’m going to recover.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      2·
      5 小时前

      both my brothers are in tech, one got laid of in '23 and stillhavnt found a job, although he is having a “personal crisis”. and the other has been put on a bench “indefinitely” since they are using a recruiting company, they took him off projects with APPLE.

      • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 小时前

        I was a developer. I’ve been getting project management certifications to career pivot. I would like to go back to tech, but I’m gaining skills to leave the industry. I can’t survive another year without a full time job that pays moderately.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
      720·
      13 小时前

      Idle hands are the tool of the devil. Surely you can put your talents to use against a system that’s destroying you.

      • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
        21·
        13 小时前

        Everyone wants me to make sacrifices without ever lifting a finger to help me. I’m too busy upskilling, job hunting, and doing part time physical labor.

        I’ll tell you what you send me help with bills, my mortgage, or food then we’ll talk about me doing something you want me to do.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    51·
    16 小时前

    The good news is all that money you paid Is going straight out of the governments coffers and back to corporations with no obligation to pay you back.

    Oh, also, you have a new hundred billion dollar hole in your budget because that was to pay for the billionaires tax cuts.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    18 小时前

    it wasnt for nothing. it made stupid magats happy! and the world is now moving away from the usa as a trade partner.

    sO mUcH WiNniNg

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    30·
    18 小时前

    The rapists and their followers got richer though, and more authoritarian regimes are coming along nicely while cooperation and peace are suppressed

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    142·
    16 小时前

    And do understand:

    The world hates you

    Before most of the world hated you but the west sort of let your bullshit slide because the net avert outcome was great for them and fairly good for the rest of the world minus those countries being butt fucked by the US for reasons.

    Now? Everyone hates you, your now ex-allies included. This will not go back to normal again ever. The USA, as you’ve known it, is over. Resistance is futile, so to speak, as you’re now living in a fascist state that likely will nosedive into a fully blown dictatorship

    Whenever (between now and the next 100 or so years) the US recovers, nldo not expect the rest of the world to stand ready with their asses up so that you can go continue fucking everyone. Either the US completely rebuilds it’s political system from the ground up, jails those responsible for crimes committed in this past decade of trumpism, and switches to an actual democratic system, you can go fuck yourself and play with yourself because nobody will be playing with you ever again anytime soon

    And even if we will play with you, it will never again be the same. You had the world at your feet, people were pushing US economy just because, and you fucked it all up next you couldn’t keep your billionaires and racists in check.

    • speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      11 小时前

      Even a quick gloss over the history of relations between the USA and Latin/America/Middle East/South East Asia will inform anyone of what sort of horrors that country has been unleashing on the world for MANY decades.

      We hated you before Trump because you killed us, tortured us, and supported strongmen who did the same to us. What you are doing now is what you’ve always been doing, and what you will continue to do if given the chance. You will not stop until either the planet or all of us are dead.

      No, of course not all US citizens are to blame for Trump and his fascism, but the millions who were stomped under your boots all over the world and continue to suffer are innocent as well, and what was ever done for all those victims?

      Countless military dictatorships put in power with US support, peasants murdered to make way for gold mines and banana plantations, weddings cowardly drone bombed from above, torture carried out in Abu Gharaib. The terrorism has been relentless and never ending.

      Your corporations and your soldiers taught us all we ever wanted to know about your country. Do us all a favor and stay within your own borders. I hope you kill your internal fascism, I really do, but what I’m more concerned about is the external fascism the rest of the world has suffered at your hands.

      I have many good friends in the USA, but we all just can’t deal with that country, what it is now, and what it’s ALWAYS been. I’ve seen the destruction it has wrought with my own eyes. ICE is horrendous, but have you seen an entire town flattened by US munitions along with its civilians?

      As Derick Jensen wrote about the police, why do we hate the police? Because they hated us first.

      That sums up my thoughts about the relationship between the USA and the rest of the world.

    • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      13 小时前

      Let me start by saying that as a person unlucky enough to be born in the shithole United States, I completely agree with you.

      But, I do not believe that the 2024 election was legitimate. So we the actual people may or may not be responsible. Just keep that possibility in mind, and know that it is no excuse for why this bullshit continues. It’s just my personal belief that the fascist oligarchs purchased this past election wholesale.