Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign

• Batman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Everything you buy with wood aluminum and gas will increase by 25%. No less. Domestic suppliers will hack their prices up because the price customers are willing to spend is a part of every business’s pricing model. It becomes the normal price and bam, the tariff is a sales tax in everything but name. Much fiscally responsible. Very moral. Wow.

  Americans being able to buy less is hurting them. Families need food to eat. This takes that food away.

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  • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’ll be fine. You act like this is a major hardship.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Again missing the point that many of your fellow countrymen will suffer.

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      • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Who will suffer and how will they be suffering?

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      • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That would require empathy, of which he has none.

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• Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.

  US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.

  Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.

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  • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And how has any of that damaged us? Give me some real world examples, not theory. What has changed? How are we damaged?

    My day isn’t any different.

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    • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Canadian boycott of US goods and travel.

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    • Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.

      And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.

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      • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It has damaged your reputation as a country

        I don’t care about that. You all can fix your own shit. If you don’t like how we do something, then you all fucking do it. Everyone shit on us anyway. lololol

        And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run

        I don’t think so. We were carrying too much of the load and you all just bitched at us constantly. Now you can take care of your own shit.

        Again, if your country doesn’t like how we did something, then do it yourself.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Classic conservative thought, i am not affected therefore nothing is wrong.

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      • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think they are doing an awesome job. And so do the people who voted for him. Which so happens to be the majority of the voting public by the way. So seems a LOT of people disagree with you.

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• LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly by what Trump and Musk are doing. Are you not keeping track of all the shit your heroes are doing? Damaging regulations, education, research, environment, consumer protection, security, immigration, freedom of press, etc. Social security and Medicare are next…

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  • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like what they are doing so far. And so are the people who vote them in. They were voted in to do this stuff. It’s great.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What have they done so far?

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      • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re doing good work. What do you think they’ve done so far?

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      • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Strip the other branches of all their power?

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