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…and what happens if it fails? What will the lazy, apathetic public do then?
April 23, 2025 at 10:30
Haven’t we already been here? He’s even been judged guilty before. It’s close to being true what he said about shooting someone and getting away with ...
April 23, 2025 at 10:27
If people cared about this, they would now drag Trump out of the White House into the Hague court. As always, we can’t really blame the bad people doi...
April 23, 2025 at 08:57
Even those who were fans years ago aren’t anymore. The only fans left are delusional cryptobros and people unable to shake their cognitive bias.
April 23, 2025 at 08:48
He’s right in that the populist right is a result of failures of the left. I think the left has been wrapped in a “good guy” mantra, always positionin...
April 20, 2025 at 12:41
When should society worry? After it's been installed or before it is installed or before even the risk of it? I would argue that there shouldn't even ...
April 16, 2025 at 14:50
Yes, the deep state narrative is a conspiracy theory. Such disinformation should not be taken seriously in any discussion.
April 16, 2025 at 14:30
Yeah, I mentioned earlier that the real pain will come after the next quarter. Then people will feel it and the companies earnings will show it. Basic...
April 15, 2025 at 22:26
How? I'm seeing daily stuff everywhere on how he oversteps all over the place, but nothing is happening. How many months of this before the riots begi...
April 15, 2025 at 22:17
Are you ignoring that all nations are reshaping their trades right at this moment? And the fact that the economical consequences will not be seen or f...
April 15, 2025 at 11:03
Testing what? If Trump can follow normal practice of power under the constitution of the US, or if the guardrails of US democracy actually works? If T...
April 14, 2025 at 22:39
Neither does a real written paper, it's basically just carbon atoms in different constellations. So is the entire universe. What we perceive as releva...
April 13, 2025 at 19:54
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, in Stockholm today, draws parallels to Rodrigo Duterte and warns about how the slide into authoritarianism can h...
April 12, 2025 at 11:53
Which is probably why Trump uses "emergency laws" for stuff that's not in emergency. He essentially invents some emergency out of thin air and then do...
April 11, 2025 at 15:57
First, how can we know that Trump didn't work to oppose all of that behind the scenes? Second, it still shows the guardrails aren't working. If he con...
April 11, 2025 at 11:06
That returns to my questions... what should the public do about it. Or rather, how far will the US let Trump go before doing something? If he's aiming...
April 11, 2025 at 07:05
I know, but his inner circle are a bunch of conspiracy theorists and idiots like Kennedy. What normal people think about Miran's plan is not relevant ...
April 10, 2025 at 21:41
Has anyone considered that all of this is Stephen Miran's plan to devalue the dollar? His Mar-a-Lago accord spells out both increased tariffs and thre...
April 10, 2025 at 18:19
Even if the tariffs won't increase more after the 90 days, I'm beginning to wonder what would happen if the EU goes in the other direction and lowers ...
April 10, 2025 at 10:14
Did the thread spiral down into the lounge again?
April 10, 2025 at 09:44
Definitely, he's no better than any other believer who ignores actual research and knowledge. It's the main reason I am opposed all religions (though ...
April 09, 2025 at 22:38
As long as his followers suffer economically, but the economy doesn't crash, that's all good. The only way to get rid of him in a normal democracy is ...
April 09, 2025 at 19:04
The surge was because of the 90-day pause in tariffs. I think he realized he fucked up, and that his advisor is even more stupid than he is. Maybe som...
April 09, 2025 at 18:45
They still believe he will back down. However, Trump isn't operating on logic or for the nation, he only cares about himself. He is like Putin in this...
April 09, 2025 at 10:33
Trump has also dusted off the coal burning industry by using emergency laws... If a president uses emergency laws while there's no active emergency, i...
April 09, 2025 at 08:00
It doesn't have to be the main trading partner to have a significant impact on products and goods sold in the US. The amount of "less" is too much. Mo...
April 09, 2025 at 07:39
Are you counting the entire production loop of how modern products are made? Is that just products themselves going into the nation to be sold to cust...
April 08, 2025 at 23:05
I wouldn't be surprised if all of this escalate to the point protests form riots. When people start to actually feel the pain, companies go out of bus...
April 08, 2025 at 22:17
Trumpsters can be stupid at the same time as Democrats failing to give a better alternative. What I see a failure of in most people discussing this su...
April 08, 2025 at 16:05
I don't see how the left is punished here. If anything it seems like they're winning by Trump failing his own followers. They are the ones who would b...
April 08, 2025 at 09:02
They had the Lincoln project. There's options for Republicans who want a 12-step program away from asslicking stupidity. They don't have to go Democra...
April 07, 2025 at 22:13
1,04 What's the prize? On the other hand, it can also be telling of how many times I've been baited to respond. I've of late been better at just leavi...
April 07, 2025 at 21:35
But it's not this clear cut. There's too much fiction going on on both the side of pro-US and those against US. Either the US is the enemy or the savi...
April 07, 2025 at 17:56
I've been advocating for improving society and politics past democracy for years now. What we see here is the perfect example of why I think represent...
April 07, 2025 at 13:32
It doesn't sound like Trump understands how tariffs work.... He's saying that inflation is gone and that these tariffs will get nations who treated th...
April 07, 2025 at 12:37
Turmp is so fucking stupid and his followers even more so. That an entire world will suffer like this because the US "democracy" didn't think about ha...
April 07, 2025 at 12:32
Because he breaks it, innocents have been sent there. What the MAGA zealots think or not is irrelevant. Neonazis also like when laws are broken for so...
April 07, 2025 at 06:40
Yes, but I'm wondering what the people are willing to do if he starts to control the departments of government to the extent that he gains essentially...
April 06, 2025 at 13:13
What I mean is, why aren’t anyone doing something when he breaks constitutional laws and regulations? Why aren’t anyone opposing and rallying the rema...
April 05, 2025 at 14:17
If so, then why don't people do anything about it? Why is everyone just accepting that all of this is going on? That Trump does what he does is nothin...
April 04, 2025 at 13:47
A) I don't think the world economy tanks other than in the short term. But if the world retaliate tariffs against the US, then it doesn't look good fo...
April 04, 2025 at 08:18
I think that's a good encouragement Benkei. I've been drawn away from the forum due to a rise in low quality and occasionally being baited into engagi...
April 04, 2025 at 07:57
The tariffs against China are warranted though. They basically hide slave labor and has the government involved in all companies, making security in o...
April 03, 2025 at 16:04
The best thing for EU would be to actually not retaliate with tariffs and instead build new free trade routes. Like, towards Canada and like has been ...
April 03, 2025 at 08:27
It's popcorn time for anyone who likes to witness Trump supporters looking confused about their standards of living not becoming what they fantasized ...
April 02, 2025 at 21:47
Trump is entertaining the idea of seriously sitting a third term. While unrealistic to happen, if no one opposes his abuse of power, it could. If he t...
April 01, 2025 at 12:04
We had a rise in neo-nazis in the 80s and 90s as well. Right now it's being catalyzed by social media, which is a catalyst for everything. I usually l...
March 31, 2025 at 19:21
So now Trump is demanding that anything "woke" should be removed from The Smithsonian museums. And historians are pointing out that the specifics of i...
March 31, 2025 at 19:07
If you think I'm going to engage in a discussion with you, then you wasted a lot of digital ink and time.
March 31, 2025 at 19:02
The reason is that I don't find the questions being asked on the level of rational discourse that is apt for this time in history, or morally overall....
March 31, 2025 at 15:37