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  • Are you asking this genuinely? Yes, we do. We are a net exporter of refined petroleum products, we export low sulfur coke for steel production. We export agricultural products, particularly soy beans. We export advanced robotics and pharmaceuticals. I think, granted this is from 15 years ago, but we also export a significant amount of vehicles.

  • Like the preppers during COVID, they’ll LARP it for like two weeks, then get all up in arms that it’s too cold or too hard, give up and then blame the nearest scapegoat for why it sucked.

    I say we double or nothing. Promise em like 100 billion in funding and let them go build a cloud city on Venus. First one to stay a night there gets the prize and to shape their narcissistic technoutopia how ever they see fit.

  • I grew up poor in a poor area of the country. I also moved around a lot. I went to public schools throughout. While there were certainly a few subpar circumstances in the education system, on the whole, I got a good education, one that equipped me well once I got out of my "young adult with a chip on my shoulder" phase.

    What astounds me is that it appears that a vast majority of the country did not receive an education that equipped them for adulthood. That we would even need to consider that we have to lower our standards and write at a 4th grade level. To me it's like argumentum ad absurdum.

    There was a podcast that I listened to recently, where the islanders mentioned that they knew of the white plantation owners progeny as the dumb and lazy ones - resting on their laurels over generations had made them stupid and ill equipped.

    So perhaps this is the circle of life, the meek shall inherit the Earth. All I can think is that the system has failed us, or maybe we have failed ourselves. I dunno.

  • Really, fund managers? This was it, this is what tipped you off? It wasn’t:

    • The multiple times he tore up and then attempted to flush official presidential documents…and even ate some of them
    • The time he shirked all of our allies to cozy up to dictators who clearly use him as a Manchurian candidate at the expense of the American people
    • the time he said he would divest from his businesses but then never actually did, and then built a hotel within walking distance to the White House, clearly breaking all sorts of the nations norms right out the gate
    • The times he went bankrupt 7 freaking times and yet continues to call himself a successful fucking businessman
    • The time he deliberately hid archives of records from the American people in his bathroom and then, when discovered, said they were his
    • The time he said he hated “losers” who die for their country
    • The time Kamala broke his brain during their first debate and he went off on a incoherent diatribe
    • the time he negotiated with literal terrorists
    • The time he redrew a map of the US to show a hurricane hit Alabama
    • The time he said it was a beautiful sunny day when it was clearly raining
    • The time he gave a hate speech for his inauguration
    • the time his language was deemed so toxic and offensive that he was banned from Twitter
    • The time he fell in love with one of the most inhumane dictators in the world
    • the multiple times he lied about his golf game to the point that it was a running joke to those that played with him
    • the time he called himself the messiah and your salvation
    • The time he danced for hours at a rally instead of saying anything
    • That time he simulated deepthroating a microphone in front of 1000s of people
    • the time he ate pizza backwards with a goddamn fork
    • the time he wanted to commit multiple crimes against humanity to develop the Gaza Strip into a strip of hotels
    • The time he pardoned all of the people who sacked the capitol and tried to kill both the Vice President and the Speaker of the House

    When a person is showing you who they are 500 times over, believe them.

  • This week on The Americans, they discover that they elected the old man who yells at the TV! Hilarity ensues when he chucks the remote and breaks the screen then goes on a wacky adventure to buy another TV under the new tariffs!

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
    wildncrazyguy138 @fedia.io

    Repeat after me: The power they HAVE is the POWER we CEDE.

    We are not so different from that pre-revolutionary France: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/19448/the-three-estates-of-pre-revolutionary-france/.

    The current POTUS is a megalomaniac imperialist who thinks himself a depot rather than an elected official. A significant majority of the clergy, particularly evangelicals, support his efforts because it amplifies their power. The nobility class (oligarchs, billionaires) hold an imbalance of the country's wealth. We are vastly becoming servants to their feudal "estates", except now we call them C-corps. The rest of us, the common-folk, the 98%, are in disarray. In a world of abundance, our paychecks continue to grant us less and less purchasing power. As feudalism progresses, we are forced to rent instead of own. We know the system is rotting, but we are not coalescing around the reasons why.

    One of the first areas that the POTUS has attacked is USAID. There is a reason for this. Of all of the departments, USAID employ(s/ed) the la

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    wildncrazyguy138 @fedia.io

    If a 2M employee return to work order is declared soon, I could see us in the US finding ourselves with tent cities full of white collar workers.

    Possibly with tents numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands. And that became such a halting thought that I forgot to rinse the shampoo out of my hair.

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    wildncrazyguy138 @fedia.io

    We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the

    We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the tariffs.

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    wildncrazyguy138 @fedia.io

    Looking on a relief map, the Iranian plateau and the Himalayas look oddly similar

    Looking on a relief map, the Iranian plateau and the Himalayas look oddly similar