• opi@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I wonder what would happen if the world just kind of ignored him? Imagine that… Just do what China’s doing. No interaction. No deals, no negotiations. Just silent chuckling and finger pointing with whiskey’s in hand.

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      the US barely produces anything worth a shit anyway. so no need for imports. sure exporting to the US can bring in good money but they need the rest of the world much more than the rest of the world needs them. just let them take themselves out of the world economy and deal as if they never existed. the world would be better for it.

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      Then things will soon get very tough, especially for ordinary US citizens and the socially disadvantaged in particular. Trump’s idiotic power games are largely at the expense of US citizens.

      This is already evident from the fact that his import tariffs are in principle nothing more than a massive VAT increase.

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          6 hours ago

          Yes, I very much hope so.

          Unfortunately, however, I fear that the situation for ordinary US citizens will have to get even worse. That seems to be the prerequisite for Drump’s still frighteningly numerous followers to overcome the sect-like state of mind in which they live in thanks to their apparent lack of intellect and the deliberate misinformation by their own leader and all his greedy cronies.

          But yes: perhaps the collapse of the US standard of living, which I believe is inevitable due to this incompetent administration, will be able to perform this miracle.

          I think it is high time if anything is to be saved from total ruin.

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        It will be very tough. Hell, it already is. Maybe the american people will at some point finally do something about it? I personally don’t want anyone to go through any of this crap, but here we are. All self inflicted, too.