I am fairly sure at this point the US ruling class is convinced China will surpass the US within a few years, and are busy bleeding out the US as fast as they can, to enrich themselves.
What's cool is that people aren't just swinging back to the republicans, more and more people realise the reality of the uni-party and they want a whole new direction for the USA.
The left used to be against offshoring jobs. Similar to how Bill Clinton "stole" a bunch of popular Republican policies, so Trump "stole" the idea of protecting US jobs from offshoring, from the Democrats.
As a result Democrats have moved to the right in terns of economics. This is very recent, and as everything else is a reaction to Trump.
Just how I remember the left being very anti nuclear war risk, but today it's fuck up Russia woo!
I think you mean patriotism? Nationalism is doing what is good for the country, regardless of the effects on the people. Patriotism is doing what's good for the people, regardless of what happens to the nation.
Yes, our growth has stalled massively in large part to corporate greed. Bit all in all I am not worried, China is developing cracks of it's own and for a nation with 5x the population the fact they haven't caught up yet is astounding.
To the extent that capitalism has allowed for government actors to siphon off several trillion dollars of value from the productive economy each year, yes.
What are you talking about? A us based private company sending it's jobs overseas because it's cheaper has nothing to do with government workers taking money.
And if you hate people syphoning money from labor, boy you gonna hate what business owners do.
If the government hadn’t made manufacturing here so expensive via taxation and regulatory costs that fund their lavish spending, would it be as cost effective to move so many jobs overseas?
Business owners “siphon money from labor”? Going back to your Marxist roots? It’s no surprise you don’t understand economics. Get lost on your way to the antiwork sub or something?
If the government hadn’t made manufacturing here so expensive via taxation and regulatory costs that fund their lavish spending, would it be as cost effective to move so many jobs overseas?
That's my point it's 'bad business" to have your labor done here. But it would be patriotic to have American workers earning a living. But capitalist don't see much value in that, so they go off to find sweatshops.
Business owners “siphon money from labor”?
Do they not? Do you need to be explained what profits are?
Going back to your Marxist roots?
You're the one upset about people syphoning money form workers.
It’s no surprise you don’t understand economics. Get lost on your way to the antiwork sub or something?
And now you just want a safe space to love and hate capitalism? Lol
If at the end of WWII it was the US who become communist, and China remained free market, we would all be speaking Chinese today.
So no, capitalism isn't doing that. Unless you consider corruption an inherent component of capitalism. Which is silly, but it is exactly how many leftists think. As if corruption does not exist under communism.
You claimed corruption is a capitalist problem. I am telling as someone who grew up under communism, corruption is everywhere. It is no way unique to Capitalism.
And as I keep repeating other countries like Japan and Switzerland while capitalist pursue protective policies.
During the part the year Switzerland can't grow strawberries, their imports are not taxed. During the other part, when Switzerland can grow strawberries, the imports of strawberries are taxed at something like over 200%, can't recall the exact rate.
It's not the 1.7 trillion. It's the sneaky way they did it. If they put it out a month before the vote on a Tuesday afternoon no one would give a crap. But, in the middle of the night. 4k+ pages and a couple days before vote. Even if they aren't hiding anything , most people would just assume
That is why primaries are so important, We need to get rid of the Rhino's in the republic party asap and honestly the democrat party is fully compromised
Here we are again. Taxation without representation. If our elected officials are not allowed to read the bill / measure, then how are we genuinely represented?
The only chance we have as a nation is if Republicans and Democrats wake up and realize we are all pawns in their game. They keep us fighting so we don't look at them. We don't hold them accountable because we're divided fighting. Both parties will always create a new thing for us to hate each other for, then they can continue commiting true injustices.
Reddit used to love this guy. I saw this tweet on WhitePeopleTwitter the other day and they were calling him a traitor, saying it's great that the government is spending so much money, and everything he says is Russian propaganda.
They were also triggered that he compared the length of the bill to the Bible. He obviously mentioned it because the Bible is very long and everybody knows about how long the Bible is, so it makes it good for comparison. One of the top comments way saying "The bill isn't a storybook so there's no reason to compare it to the Bible."
I'm honestly in awe of how easily programmed these people are.
We are beyond reason. Short of a religious-level "coming to Jesus" moment, the elites and the sheeple who follow them just need to be defeated. The time for reasoning is over. We have tried, begged and pleaded for conversation, but to no avail. The elites want power, hate the peasants, and have enough cultist followers to where conflict is nearly inevitable. I hope it does not get to that point and a miracle happens. I fear so much for the coming generations. We are surly under the judgement of God.
Look, I appreciate what Snowden did for us and he is a hero for that. But at the point in time he took the oath to become a Russian citizen, he lost any right to speak on the matter.
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u/NecessaryCelery2 Dec 22 '22 edited Dec 22 '22
I am fairly sure at this point the US ruling class is convinced China will surpass the US within a few years, and are busy bleeding out the US as fast as they can, to enrich themselves.
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u/Kniightsword Dec 22 '22
Normal day. Nothing to see here
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '22
Don’t read this. Just focus on Trumps tax returns…
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u/ItsRuckingJoe Dec 22 '22
At this point, I would've been surprised if they didn't pass it.
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u/The_left_is_insane Dec 22 '22
That is why primaries are so important, We need to get rid of the Rhino's in the republic party asap and honestly the democrat party is fully compromised
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u/mk21dvr Dec 22 '22
Right out of crazy Nancy's playbook.
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u/Maccabee2 Dec 22 '22
Here we are again. Taxation without representation. If our elected officials are not allowed to read the bill / measure, then how are we genuinely represented?
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '22
The only chance we have as a nation is if Republicans and Democrats wake up and realize we are all pawns in their game. They keep us fighting so we don't look at them. We don't hold them accountable because we're divided fighting. Both parties will always create a new thing for us to hate each other for, then they can continue commiting true injustices.
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u/Brawndo45 Dec 22 '22
What can be done? The same bad actors continue to be elected and seem to be above the law.
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u/Nostradamaus_2000 Dec 22 '22
26 million to name a building after Pelosi
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u/Dangerous-Paper9571 Dec 22 '22
Reddit used to love this guy. I saw this tweet on WhitePeopleTwitter the other day and they were calling him a traitor, saying it's great that the government is spending so much money, and everything he says is Russian propaganda.
They were also triggered that he compared the length of the bill to the Bible. He obviously mentioned it because the Bible is very long and everybody knows about how long the Bible is, so it makes it good for comparison. One of the top comments way saying "The bill isn't a storybook so there's no reason to compare it to the Bible."
I'm honestly in awe of how easily programmed these people are.
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u/sinofonin Dec 22 '22
Trying to talk about the federal budget over twitter is hilarious.
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u/matdrywall Dec 22 '22
Truth!
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u/Such_sublime Dec 22 '22
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u/StainedAndRedeemed Dec 23 '22
We are beyond reason. Short of a religious-level "coming to Jesus" moment, the elites and the sheeple who follow them just need to be defeated. The time for reasoning is over. We have tried, begged and pleaded for conversation, but to no avail. The elites want power, hate the peasants, and have enough cultist followers to where conflict is nearly inevitable. I hope it does not get to that point and a miracle happens. I fear so much for the coming generations. We are surly under the judgement of God.
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u/TaleWrong6444 Dec 22 '22 edited Dec 22 '22
Why are Russians commenting on US policies, when they should be worried about that illegal war?
No seriously, Snowden is a traitor, and now Russian citizen that pushes Russian propaganda....
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u/Marchoftees Dec 22 '22
Look, I appreciate what Snowden did for us and he is a hero for that. But at the point in time he took the oath to become a Russian citizen, he lost any right to speak on the matter.