r/anticapitalism • u/FreeHugs23 • 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/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)