Not that equalising the trade deficit would actually make everyone’s lives better in any way because it’s a stupid metric to be concerned with.
It’s like being concerned at the supermarket never buys anything off you. If you voice that opinion in public people would think you were weird.
I feel that with many actors that come out with public issue statements. People probably feel the same about my idols.
What is one thing we should be concerned about?
Water!
mL, Ltr
Basic global goals ✨
I can’t keep watching people act surprised about this.
Trump’s administration is not trying to successfully accomplish anything. The sole and entire point is to hurt America at the behest of foreign interests. Making the world hate us is the point.
Well, that, and to enrich himself and his regime.
When you hire pirates to attack a ship, you expect a little looting.
And raping
How do you have a trade surplus in a consumer society? How do people not see how stupid the trade deficit excuse is? Are Americans that uneducated?
There has got to be a long German word for the feeling which is essentially incandescent fury but at the same time sorrow/pity.
Yeah, but now, Germany’s best trading partner is China, which replaced the USA… Well done… Self-sabotage…
Germanys current economy ain’t great, tho. Been in a recession the last few years. And exports to China are shrinking as well.
Is Germany’s economy based on exports to China? I feel like Germany’s problems, like other European countries, lie else where
Well, the US is going insane with tariffs, our gas delivering country is running amok in Ukraine and our biggest cars importer decided to build cars themselves. So… Yes… Things have changed.
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.
dont forget the aca enhanced subsidies ended, and people saw thier insurance double or tripled or more in premiums/deductibles.
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.
In all fairness, half the world hated you before. Now you just managed to convince the other half they were right.
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%.
If it helps any, we don’t hate Americans, by and large. We pity you. It’s your leaders we hate.
we never had anything but CENTER RIGHT parties, thats the biggest. and right wingers think there is an actual left in the USA.
The right are hard right and the left are fairly hard right.
The US doesn’t have anything even approaching centre right, let alone left.
The lack of a proper left is why most Americans can’t tell the difference between communism and socialism.
Is your country offering asylum to American refugees yet?
Although it would be extremely funny there’s very little reason for any other countries to actually do that. Although if you have a degree in a relevant science area you might be accepted.
Perhaps you could pretend to be in a relationship with someone from a host country, a reverse green card plot.
doubtful, unless you have a md/PHD or some kind of stem background, “academic refugees”
Making everyone hate USA for peanuts. Priceless
“There are some things money can’t buy; for everything else, there’s Mastercard”
(Mastercard is getting cut out in the EU)
Not yet, that will take some times, but I will be more than happy to use a sovereign solution.
*wero ;)
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
It also made some obscenely wealthy people even more wealthy! All hail the Demiurge!
At least in the short term. But the ghouls are happy to just make everybody poorer so they can still feel superior.
As a Canadian. I’m happy. We are less dependent on you. And getting stronger.
im british
Sorry about that.
You mean “Sorery aboot that, eh?”
You poor thing.
Thank you for your people’s music, movies, TV and cheese.
Edit: and BOOZE! How could I have forgotten the booze?!?
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It got Trump’s dick hard as well. Can’t forget that.
Oh yes I can
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.
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.
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.
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.
Idle hands are the tool of the devil. Surely you can put your talents to use against a system that’s destroying you.
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.
Genuine attempt at being helpful:
Can you sell the house and rent instead?
Got any cars you or the family rarely use?
Basically: Can you downsize and give yourself / your family more padding in savings, less ongoing costs?
With all due respect if I lose my house then life isn’t worth living anymore. I don’t own a car. I don’t have a family.
Could you rent out a room?
Classic “bootstraps” call lol
I’m about to eat my bootstraps.
Make sure you season them properly
Well said.
Edit: I wasn’t asking for sacrifices. Just suggesting ways you could help yourself if you found yourself with time on your hands.
We still got years more of this shit ahead of us too!
The rapists and their followers got richer though, and more authoritarian regimes are coming along nicely while cooperation and peace are suppressed
