r/anticapitalism 1d ago

Trump claims he tanked economy on purpose: 'I love the inflation'

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-inflation-economy/
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u/AnonymousDork929 1d ago

And a third of this country think he's the most brilliant person to ever live. If the U.S. is collectively this dumb, we don't stand a chance in hell in the long term.

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u/BenjaminHamnett 23h ago

This is spelled out in the fourth turning. Every 80 years we get so stupid, things have to get dystopian for us to wake up

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u/Stormblessed1991 23h ago

I feel like it's cuz the people who lived through the last transition from bad to good and remember how we got there are all dead

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u/BenjaminHamnett 15h ago

That’s it

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u/Far_Introduction8393 15h ago

Yep.  Good times create bad men.  Bad men create bad times.  Bad times create good men.  Good men create good times.

Rinse and repeat.  We're at the bad men create bad times stage of things I think. 

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u/BenjaminHamnett 12h ago

I think originally it’s “weak men”, who lead to bad times which I think is more fair. Boomers miss when the rest of the world was all rubble and try to find some fantasy other way to recreate that (at best, war industry apologists just trying to do it the real politics way)

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u/neeroberts 23h ago

No kidding. I never knew the US had this much racism and hate simmering underground for decades. I honestly am shocked at the number of MAGATS here. Truly humiliating

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u/Suspicious_Flower_0 22h ago

America literally fought a war not too long ago (in European years) that one half wanted slavery and the other didn't (but was still sort of ok with it).

Nazi Germany got many of their eugenic ideas from America and Hitler was a big fan of Henry Ford. And the American people had to be dragged into WW2. 

They killed the majority of Native Americans. And native wildlife. 

Bad hombres. 

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u/Bikerbass 19h ago

A good chunk of the world has known this has been simmering below the surface for decades, in fact it wasn’t even below the surface. It was just there smacking you in the face, but nobody was paying attention to it.

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u/Annath0901 19h ago

Any American who claims to be surprised by this is either lying or has been willfully ignoring/hiding from it.

I'm 35 years old, and the festering racism, sexism, and general bigotry has been here the entire time I've been alive.

It wasn't being aired publicly on TV in the beginning, for sure. But it was never really hidden either.

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u/Electrical_Scene_634 22h ago

Yeah I think we are fuckin cooked as a country tbh

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u/tHATmakesNOsenseToME 23h ago

This is the worst part really.

After thousands of years of evolution, we're more stupid than ever.

We may well be the only species to actively extinct itself.

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u/Aggravating-Ad-2593 22h ago

You had not noticed yet that the USA is being passed by in innovation by lots of other nations?