Trump laying down the law and threatening devastating tariffs:
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The green paper covered in slavers (ie. USD) has always been imposed through extreme violence.
You're on hexbear, you don't have to translate Maoist Standard English, we know what you mean when you say green SSlaver bills. It's always good to support mulitlinguals tho
The grand Chinese strategy for beating America. Do nothing, win.
What does "undermine dollar" means?
How can someone from outside US undermine dollar?
intent to trade in non-dollar currencies
Really?
USA has spent decades at least violently enforcing the petrol-dollar. It's why they destroyed and continue to destroy iraq, libya, iran, etc. The USA can't maintain its extreme exploitation without it.
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: "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.
...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.
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.
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.
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 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.
If he knew he'd be saying "thousand" so he can emphasize the "th" and do his stupid hand motions
Any finance ghouls who can tell me what stocks I should be investing in?
i dunno.. last time i had a chance to get mega rich they fucked up all the rules (gamestop) to prevent it, so i have 0 faith that there is any winning move in the stock market unless you're one of the chosen
They didn't really change any rules for gamestop. It skyrocketed in value, you were just one of the schmucks tricked into holding the bag by talks about it hitting 1200+
Dan Olson has a good videoI found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Kraneshares ETFs if you want to bet on China but I’d wait for the inevitable crash first.
China won’t crash of course but I’m guessing a lot of related stocks (in many places, not just China) will when the tariffs hit. China would be able to adjust in the longer term, of course. But honestly idk, I’m not a finance expert so really I’m just guessing.
"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?
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
This is what I mean when I say Trump is better foreign-policy-wise
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.
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.
