You must log in or # to comment.
“Trump threatens to nuke US economy as other sensible nations grin and rub their hands together”
Please tell me that Ireland is eligible to join BRICS, I just want one English-speaking country that doesn’t have their heads up their own asses.
By all means, let the burgerlanders run their own country in the ground. Just makes leftist’s jobs easier.
S is for South Africa, which is a largely English-speaking country. Although we’ve still got quite a bit of headassery going on. India also has English as an official language. But we could use more Europeans – come join us!
South Africa could use more Europeans? Haven’t you done enough?
I meant BRICS could use more European member states
Ireland’s economy is heavily predicated on it’s allies and neighbors using them to dodge taxes.
I don’t think you come out ahead when the burgerlanders go broke and McDonald’s no longer has any dollars/euros to stash in your banks.
Trump: if you undermine the dollar, i will finish the job.
Real art of the deal shit right here
The Hermit Kingdom officially know as “The United States of America” further entrenches itself in isolation. Their supreme leader, a failed real estate “tycoon” attempts to lash out at global cooperation by increasing the cost of import goods, despite having no domestic production of their own.
I bet you he doesn’t know that tariffs can go over 100%.
If he knew he’d be saying “thousand” so he can emphasize the “th” and do his stupid hand motions
Someone float that idea to him quick
Trump is the pricemaster confirmed?
He probably thinks 100% means nothing gets in
Trump really is going to be the Nero of the American Empire.
He already did a Pizza Hut ad, he really wants to be American Gorbachev
Calling Trump the American Gorbachev is brilliant and we all should be using it immediately. Mostly because people in the west think Gorbachev was “good” and this highlights how the actually just murdered the USSR.
All the more reason to keep undermining the dollar.
The sooner it crashes, the sooner the world stops being constantly on fire.
Serious question - How serious do you think Trump is about all these batshit tariffs on Canada, Mexico, BRICs, etc?
In other words - if you use a 1 to 10 scale then ~2 is Trump doing minor tariffs while he lies that it “punishes” the bad countries. 10 is Trump seriously damaging the US economy in record time.
It seems like he’s already going back on them with Mexico and Canada. I think he’s using this to make a fake crisis and then he can have a meeting with global leaders and tell his followers that he fixed everything.
This actually sounds like the most likely thing to happen
And pretty par for the course with him.
Isn’t that what that Canadian advisor said? That he wants to make it seem like he’s making deals
idk because he talks so much shit and is so full of shit it’s hard to tell what he’ll actually do, outside of tax cuts for the rich, that’s an automatic.
He barely tried to do 1/4 of the shit he said he was gonna do his first term.
That he even knows about this dedollarisation narrative is concerning to me. I wouldn’t dismiss it so easily and all that needs to happen is someone even slightly smarter next to him suggests sanctions instead of “tariffs” and shit starts getting quite serious imo.
Russia showed that being sanctioned by amerika is ultimately a good thing in the long term. Its not like China isn’t just waiting with open arms to trade with all these countries.
In my opinion, if the biggest risk is the USA sanctioning a bunch of countries, then that’s a great situation for the world. Both tarrifs and sanctions would sink the US economy even further while creating the conditions for accelerated global cooperation. If these are the two choices, the empire is finished.
The tariffs will happen, but if you donated to him, or are a subsidiary of a donor, your goods will be exempt. The highest tariffs are going to be on electric cars, for obvious reasons. So it’ll fuck up things, the losers are consumers and corps that didn’t pay him or enough, and the winners are Musk and similar
Canadian politicians are already threatening tarriffs directly on Tesla. My best guess right now is that very little of this stuff is actually going to happen.
He’ll tariff the EU just watch
it’s gonna be the most boring option- a 4 out of 10. everything just gets gradually but steadily worse
As serious as he is with all of his policy: Fully committed to it until he talks to someone who he thinks is smarter than the last guy he talked to
Based and multipolarity pilled
…were the accelerationists correct? Was the Beijing evangelical dad correct??
Tremendous outcome
The accelerationists are always correct except for the fact that advocating for worse conditions is abhorrent and disconnects you from the people whose conditions you just helped make worse instead of better. They will always be correct but it will always be a strategy that should not be undertaken because it will only harm the movement.
advocating for worse conditions is abhorrent
What if you’re not advocating for them in a material way, because you lack any real input into your socio-economic future? What if you’re just trying to claim you can see a silver lining in the face of an incoming storm?
And what if the folks in government and media and business who denounce “accelerationism” are the ones prosecuting the policy, while blaming anyone who looks at the catastrophic results and says “Maybe this will turn out for the best in the end” are secret foreign influenced enemies of the state?
Silver lining is fine, doing things like advocating to vote for the worst possible option is not, or worse still are the accelerationists taking part in and actively pushing the far right further because they believe worsening the conditions is good.
I don’t think we have the numbers to meaningfully affect the vote whether we’re advocating for accelerationism or not. The world seems to have chosen to make the lives of people worse, and many of us are just coping and hoping that the worsening conditions - which were coming regardless - will lead to a better outcome in the end.
doing things like advocating to vote for the worst possible option is not
Unless you’re suggesting Joe Rogan or RFK Jr or Aaron Sorkin or Lin Manuel Miranda are accelerationists, I just don’t think we’re talking about a meaningful input into election results.
the accelerationists taking part in and actively pushing the far right further
I don’t think this kind of person exists in a meaningful way. Actual corporate fascists are pushing conservatives rightward.
I’ve been grappling with whether I’m an accelerationist or just a pessimist. Because I don’t want bad things to happen, I just keep correctly predicting them and looking for silver linings.
The problem with judging accelerationism in this way is that most people in the West are going to have to accept worse conditions or what they see as worse conditions. That’s just a realistic understanding of what it is going to take to rebuild a fairer, stronger and more robust economic system.
Most people in the West are not going to agree to that because they are used to imperial exception.
deleted by creator
Posadists get the last laugh
ok comrades, this is our moment. people’s lives are about to become massively inconvenient and/or they’re about to be in peril, and this is the time where it’s down to us or the out and out fascists. Lay the groundwork now, start saying shit like “our economy should be organized around getting working people the results of their labor.” currently-comfortable people are going to start thinking about how the world works and it’s our job to make sure they want to kill their bosses, not their less privileged neighbors.
Trump is the biggest fucking idiot dog, he legit has no understanding of the most elementary economic concepts
It wouldn’t be frustrating if millions of people didn’t believe that he wasn’t a billionaire genius 4d chess master
This guy is gonna commit economic suicide out of spite lmao
Trump: “If I see you peeling the bandage off slowly, I’m gonna rip it off real fast!”
Screaming “You’re not using enough dollars!” at everyone outside the country while I demand my friends and family only pay me in bitcoins.
Takes himself hostage “come any closer and I’ll shoot”
As long as BRICs nations take this threat seriously, this is great. It is a great incentive to develop a completely separate payment system.
[edit] And no need to have a BRICS currency! Just clear all payments in 50% of each side’s own currency.
