TankovayaDiviziya

joined 2 years ago

Probably too distracted by culture wars and other single issue pet peeves to pay attention to the whole picture. My coworker says he agrees with most of what Trump says but is extremist on others. I was like, it's part and parcel what did you expect? A friend supported Trump for his non-interventionist foreign policy, which may be true on Trump's first term, but not so much anymore on his second term. I haven't spoken to him in a long time but I reckon he may be regretting supporting Trump.

What I notice about Trump supporters or those who sympathises with him, is that they don't really talk about economics or how his bill guts major public investments and agencies, and give more tax cuts to the rich. It is more often on culture wars, or even Epstein files (not dismissing the Epstein files but the Republican economic policies will have more severe consequences to Americans in generations to come and should be talked about more).

A lot of people supporting an ideology or a politician is being in our own social bubble. In my social media feed, I see only anti-Trump content. For others, they see pro-Trump. We've became more polarised since the Second World War because of the advent of new modes of communications. In the 20th century, TV and radio were the social media that polarises the society Even if Trump did some good things (remember that he said Hitler did some good things, and yes, Hitler may well have) but the problem with demagogues is that they bait and switch. You can't ignore the genocidal intent of the person simply because he or she gave you free healthcare.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I haven't seen the show, but the premise of "The Thick of It" is that the real powerful figures are staffers, not the politicians themselves.

Funny you think that taxing the rich is not going help pay off all the debt (no one says that alone will fix the debt problem), but advocating for tariffs is basically taxing everyone across the board. And who is actually going to be hurt by this? The ordinary folks. The rich don't care about paying more for groceries and goods because they can afford to pay more for the extra costs imposed by tariffs.

And since you mentioned about the Great Depression in your other reply, guess which is a contributing factor to the Great Depression? That's right, tariffs. It was imposed over one hundred years ago by none other than the Republican party. Ted Cruz himself said to stop imposing tariffs and shaking up the stock market, or they will lose both the house and senate again for another 60 years like the last time!

Tariffs can generate revenue, but it is a short term solution that will create a long term problem.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I was amazed when Rome Total War came out. 20 years later, the game looks like it was made on Windows Paint. At least Creative Assembly remastered the game.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

When I requested the data they have of me thanks to GDPR, I learnt they shared my information to other apps and websites. I deleted the app as soon as I got the info.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Americans informally create coalitions. That's why you hear the term "caucus" a lot more often, like Bernie Sanders "caucusing" with Democrats. Many libertarians may not like Trump and the fascist Republicans, but they still caucus together. The problem with caucusing with Democratic party is that they sideline the left, especially Bernie Sanders, in favour of more corporate friendly candidates. As for the Republican party, well the right always act right and value group cohesion and appeasing the rich more, even if they become fascist.

Caucusing is hardly working and here is the hard to swallow pill for Americans: organise grassroots campaigns and plant actual progressives into primaries. Americans used to be good at doing that. That's how they got the Roosevelts, ended the first Gilded Age, and third party candidates being elected more. The duopoly system became entrenched sometime after the early 1900's, probably when Theodore Roosevelt ran third party and split the vote of progressives, which handed the presidency to the racist Woodrow Wilson.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even Warren Buffet advocates on raising taxes on the rich, and called out the nonsense that doing so stop businesses and individuals from investing.

Imagine asking AIs to form your own opinion.

"Grok, should I support Ukraine or Russia?"

Who would have thought that we are all becoming like Batman's villain, Two Face, to make decisions from an inanimate object.

Better late than never. Or, better than setting a condition, which is way weirder.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why did we ever stop calling them weird?

Because it has been normalised.

By the way OP, you missed the opportunity to call them of GOP-- the shorthand for guardians of pedophiles.

Good. YouTube is a contributor to increasing massive societal polarisation. We don't want kids these days turning to Nazis. Some of the kids and people I grew up with became extremist.

 

I see this from handful of people who are either immigrants or part of traditionally marginalised backgrounds. It's stupid and pathetic, it reeks of desperation, and you are not going to be spared because bigots don't care.

 

Truly living up to their tankie label.

 

According to Bloomberg, names like Mark Zuckerberg, Safra Catz, and Jamie Dimon all dumped massive blocks of stock while prices were still high. By the time Trump rolled out new tariffs on April 2, tech stocks had already started bleeding. Every one of those early sellers dodged a bullet, and the timing is loud as hell.

Executives sold billions as Trump’s tariffs loomed

The first quarter wasn’t quiet. Trump’s team hinted at sweeping tariffs leading up to April 2, a day he branded as “Liberation Day.” That threat shook investors. By the time the announcement dropped, billions had already been erased from global markets. The tech world felt it the hardest. Elon Musk reportedly lost $129 billion this year as stocks tied to phones, chips, and software kept slipping. A few billionaires are already buying the dip, but plenty have already made their exit.

 

There is more to life you know? When will liberals learn.

Edit: I changed the title so that people will understand what I am getting at. It is important to realise that economic anxiety trumps other concerns, especially in the growing wealth inequality and the overt shows of oligarchic rule. As Franklin Roosevelt said: People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

 

As everyone knows, Reddit is cannibalising itself and the longer time goes on, the users will have deleted their accounts and/or migrated to somewhere else, or they will simply forget about their accounts and log-in details.

 

I wasn't fully convinced before that Putin has Trump in his pocket, but after that stunt, I am convinced that he is under Putin's thumb. Trump and co. could have had marching orders from Putin to do exactly that. Also, this is something that Putin have done and would do, publicly humiliating someone on live TV.

 

Why would they want to win anyway? When they are already winning from so much corporate donations???!!!

 
 

And unfortunately lemmy.ml is getting more online traffic recently.

 

I saw plenty of kintsugi kits available in my area (to those who do not know what kintsugi is, it is the art of fixing broken ceramic/pottery items using lacquer). However, I do not know if the quality is good for the price presented by these shops. Could anyone knowledgeable or experienced in kintsugi give some tips? I'd appreciate any help and thank you in advance.

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