US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Thats the thing the confounds me, who really wants to work in factories with long hours in probably shitty wages unless they literally have no other choice?, do we need to accept more immigrants to make up for this?
If no one wants to do the job then the employer has to offer higher wages and better conditions to be competitive and entice local workers, if they aren't allowed to import cheap foreign scabs then they actually have to do this no matter how much they don't want to, and if the tariffs are done properly then doing so will still be cheaper than offshoring for their bottom line. This is all how the entire system is supposed to ideally operate, infinite brownoids breaks it
 
For America or China?
I keep imagining Buck Broken Chimp and a few of the other doomers who do drive by arguments sitting by their computer with a notebook and pen, scheming all day for an argument to go like "THIS WILL CONVINCE THOSE DARN DIRTY USPG USERS NOW THAT TARIFFS ARE EVIL!!!" and everyone going "lol are u retarded"

You doomers do give me a good chuckle sometimes!
Remember when everyone was Black pilled as fuck and saying it was Joever and I was the only one dropping white pills and being optimistic? Yeah I’m gonna mention that a lot from now on.
If this is what does in the CCP's power then the moral of Trump's second term is that "Trade is power"
My dad got to see The Soviet Union Collapse, now both I and he will see the CCP collapse.
 
America has a 5% unemployment rate. Most of which is kids, retired people and the rest is druggie criminals you don't want to be around. Who is going to work in these factories Trump wants to build ? The birth rate is low so it's not like we have more factory workers coming down the pipes.
I heard a rumor that there's a ton of former federal employees that are looking for new employment. Maybe that'll hold us over until we can research the ability to create more human beings somehow. Maybe buy the tech off India.
 
There it is, final proof this user(s) is completely ignorant of US trade relations, and is too lazy to look it up.
Obama 2- International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Trump 1- Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
Biden- Nordstream
Trump 2- ?
Oh wow. You pulled out all the previous admin stops. Anything related to 2025 I should be interested in? Oh, no? You’re completely relegated to drudging up decades old material? Okay then, whatever you say to fit your point.
 
So now Trump is in bed with fucking Blackrock.

Imagine thinking this is a good thing.
America is a semi-fascist economy. A lot of Trump's deals with foreign countries have intimately involved US companies, and he's in no way unique in that regard.
 
America is a semi-fascist economy. A lot of Trump's deals with foreign countries have intimately involved US companies, and he's in no way unique in that regard.
Where is the fascism? All I can see are corporations groveling to curry favor with the current government. Many of them did it for the previous administration so they'll do it for this one to.
 
Where is the fascism? All I can see are corporations groveling to curry favor with the current government. Many of them did it for the previous administration so they'll do it for this one to.
Lol, I shouldn't have used that word, I can barely even define it incorrectly. What I'm getting at is the US government integrates corporations into its governance structure, sometimes giving it powers it could not easily get legally; think something like letters to tech companies directing them on what to censor. This simultaneously gives corporations the ability to wield their own influence to shape American governance.
 
Lol, I shouldn't have used that word, I can barely even define it incorrectly. What I'm getting at is the US government integrates corporations into its governance structure, sometimes giving it powers it could not easily get legally; think something like letters to tech companies directing them on what to censor. This simultaneously gives corporations the ability to wield their own influence to shape American governance.
I think the best way to describe that dynamic that would be cronyism.
 
Lol, I shouldn't have used that word, I can barely even define it incorrectly. What I'm getting at is the US government integrates corporations into its governance structure, sometimes giving it powers it could not easily get legally; think something like letters to tech companies directing them on what to censor. This simultaneously gives corporations the ability to wield their own influence to shape American governance.
That is unironically a correct defi itinerary of facism. The state and private business working together at the states discretion to benefit the public. There is a reason it was popular prior to the holocaust. And why it has be redefined to just be about nazis.
 
Oh wow. You pulled out all the previous admin stops. Anything related to 2025 I should be interested in? Oh, no? You’re completely relegated to drudging up decades old material? Okay then, whatever you say to fit your point.
So now Trump is in bed with fucking Blackrock.

Imagine thinking this is a good thing.
Badman and Fatpacks back-to-back looks like John is about to eat that burger.
 
That is unironically a correct defi itinerary of facism. The state and private business working together at the states discretion to benefit the public. There is a reason it was popular prior to the holocaust. And why it has be redefined to just be about nazis.
Fascism showed it was not against the establishment of business cartels as long as it serves the state but that is not a characteristic it exclusively has compared to other governments. The state of the USA is still too weak by its standards, there is no national labor organization and not enough central planning.
 
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It's all part of the advantages and disadvantages of being an island nation. Sure someone has to cross an ocean to get to you but you're stuck with whatever isn't underwater around you.

In Japan they apparently have an almost complete lack of the following:
Nickel
Cobalt
Bauxite (Aluminum Ore)
Nitrates
Rock Salt
Potash
Phosphate
Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas

Their natural resource geography makes them very reliant on imports if they want to function as a modern country.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, a member of the first Japanese Embassy to the US (and a really fascinating historical figure) actually commented on this in his autobiography.

One of the most shocking things about American life to him was the massive piles of scrap metal we had sitting around. In Japan, that stuff was so valuable that a house fire would attract a swarm of peasants who would dig through the still-burning wreckage in order to scavenge singular nails. In America, you'd find an abundance of broken tools sitting in garbage dumps, or tin cans on the beach, all neglected and worthless to us.

That's also why they're so prideful about their metalworking. When your country is so barren, you need to make everything last.
Makes me think. Japan should evict everyone off one of the RyuKyu islands or wherever, set up a nuclear plant there and become the worlds dumping ground for waste, processing everything valuable out of it for raw materials and then passing them on to Japanese manufacturers. I bet the Japanese could figure out an efficient way to do this and reap a shitload of money. Paid to take the waste, paying to process it, having a huge amount of common anjd rare elements at their disposal, and then profiting Japanese industry with the resultant products.
 
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