Glad to see some liberal politician stand up to Trump.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Hey, seriously, if any other countries wanna say “hey we’re gonna collectively trade war the ever loving fuck out of you so long as Trump is in power”, I would heartily encourage you to do so. He’ll scream about it being extortion, but you can just turn around and say “yeah. It is. Because you were extorting us, and turnabout is fair play.”

    It’ll be economically catastrophic for US, but honestly, I do think it needs to happen. The vast majority of our citizenry need to have the delusion of “American exceptionalism” shattered.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s not what Musk meant, but he’s not wrong that Americans need to suffer a little bit to learn.

      I worry that too many of them simply aren’t going to learn and are just gonna do what they did during COVID and go to their death beds blaming it on everything but COVID… they’ll go to their deathbeds blaming it on everything but Trump, their God Emperor.

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        18 hours ago

        Even better reason to make Americans suffer and become weaker. Weaken their world influence and weaken the good will they were able to abuse to monopolize their military industrial complex and sell their goods.

        This generation will suffer greatly but in the long run the move towards less dependency on the US is for the better. The US needs to lose their ability to hold the world hostage in the future.

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      15 hours ago

      The US will just get the war machine rolling full gear and bring freedom to some shithole country that has natural resources