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LOL no sympathy, smooth brain dolts
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He voted for smooth brain policies. Holy shit how do you wreck domestic production while putting tariffs on external production.
Ah conservatives, a bunch of lizard-brained copers
making yourself employable doesn't mean shit when the local community faces economic collapse since they are floating on top of the economic output of a single factory. Dude good luck finding a job with all the millions of other people moving to places where the work will be.
Also I wonder what he thinks the long term gains are? Dude thinks the economy is a muscle that needs to experience stress to get stronger. In the long term other countries will stop doing business with America, since they found more reliable partners.
Hurting minorities as always
Destroying the economy on the off chance that it might also hurt minorities...
It works, but...
It's crazy that people will destroy their own lives just to tell trans people which bathroom to use. 🙄
Hope he suffers as much as ~~humanely~~ humanly possible. He voted for an anti-democratic felon rapist to own the libs. As far as I'm concerned he's a traitor.
“They skinned my children alive while they made me sit and watch. But ya know what? I’m glad they did that. It’s what’s best for the country. Plus it builds character, and I’ll have a great story to tell my children one d….oh right”
Trump: I have concepts of a plan.
This guy: Oh boy, I hope those concepts survive his term!
Also I'm sure this LITERAL EXACT SAME GUY: "what Democrats don't understand is that socialism can't work because everyone at the end of the day is selfish and our country should run based on that assumption" also: "utilitarianism is evil and what the Nazis did if you believe in that you can excuse any terrible action with 'its for the greater good'." (That's a common type of excuse for anti-abortion people)
Cutting off your own arm to "own the libs". Nice job! Glad to know some people are so proud to vote against their interests. Keep it up!
the LOL means that they are not whining
Trump could cut this guy’s nuts off and he’d still find a way to put a positive spin on it
He's been sold on a fundamentally holistic view of the economy. "This may be uncomfortable now, but I trust it will produce a large national windfall in the future".
It isn't a bad attitude to have on its face. People do need to accept certain short term discomforts in order to achieve long term economic benefits, whether that means working industrial jobs to produce new useful infrastructure or risking personal health/safety in military conflicts to establish national security or curbing consumption to avoid long term ecological harm.
But the mass media this guy is ingesting is bullshit. So the benign "we're investing in the future" perspective is corrupted into a gullible "my local neighborhood wallet inspector is just helping to remove these counterfeit bills from the money supply" political apathy.
He's the victim of an intense, industrial scale propaganda campaign.
Incidentally...
Trump could cut this guy’s nuts off and he’d still find a way to put a positive spin on it
Hey, that trickle down is gonna happen any day now, exactly as promised!
"Trickle Down" is patterned, as a sales pitch, to sound like a Capitalist New Deal. Its the same pitch line, except its keyed to an audience that's been drubbed over the head with "The government can't be trusted to do anything nice for you" forty years after the New Deal and Great Society programs have gone stale.
You want modernized infrastructure? You want domestic growth? You want luxury consumer goods? Let private investment work its magic.
And, in fairness, we are now awash in privatized infrastructure, a staggeringly bloated finance sector, and mountains of cheap consumerist babbles well within the reach of the median consumer. The trickle came down. In 1980, a full wall of custom themed Marvel Branded Bobble-heads would have cost you a fortune. Now you can get it on a fry cook's salary.
The indoctrination system has people willing to suffer and die for their gods.
That guy is choking on copium. Downing in it.
There is no such thing as "gains" here, long or short term. This is 100% bad.
If you want more local production, you incentivize that, not hugely disincentivize everything else.
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What a priviledged take. (their downvoted reply)
Okay, so, being incredibly generous here, I sort of get their point, but why not slowly ramp tariffs up to allow domestic production to catch up? Because fuck you, that's why.
And, as always, none of any of the false promises of prosperity excuse any of the hate Trump spreads.
Genuine answer is likely that it's not intended to be permanent. It's designed to make him look good when ultimately removed and secure some support for conservative talking points around stopping drugs and immigration across the borders.
It also distracts from the major damage they're doing internally to the government via OPM which is much more difficult to reverse.
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It is performative and done from a place of ignorance.
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Gen X'er here, guessing this person hasn't had to look for a job in a while. Especially when externalities make the search more difficult, like having an entire sector upended.
It took 1500 applications, over 100 interviews, and 4 years to find my current position. And, this was a callback from a prior rejection! They let the first person go that I interviewed with due to sabotaging intake because they were insecure in their position. Have fun with all that.
My bet is also on they wildly underestimated what employable means (or overestimated the value of their skills and experience).
I’m also laughing over here at “long terms gains” of Trump’s policies. Unless this person is one of the billionaire class, there are no long term gains. The people who will benefit from whatever Trump and co. are up to wouldn’t be “out of a job,” they’d just transition to a new role either at the same company or another or be immune from the whole thing altogether.
Dude my last 2 job changes were due to layoffs. I had to take the first job offer I got after about 50 job applications because the job market absolutely sucks right now, and honestly I'm not happy with the job I could land because availability forced me to accept some red flags and compromises that I could see from the get-go of the interview process. I'm going to keep applying but I'm not holding my breath at this stage of things
Average conservative.
They don't see what the problem is until they get face-eaten. The sad part is the ones who go "Well as long as those brown people get it worse!"
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Well I'll say two things, first the old /r/conservative would never have allowed this open of a discussion. I don't know if these stayed up long but I remember people even going very slightly against the Fox narrative being banned.
Also this guy, completely and utterly misguided though I believe he is, at least has the courage of his convictions. He's willing to make a sacrifice for what he thinks is good for the country. I very much doubt he's right but still, that's more than most people can say.
When you receive information that proves you wrong you can do 1 of 2 things. You can admit you were wrong, or you can double down and twist the situation to avoid admitting it. "This is actually what I thought would happen and I wanted this". I actually think its cowardly. It takes courage to stand up and admit they were wrong.
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Wholly cucked
I voted for what's best for the country moving forward
Bigotry? Ignorance of economics? Or both?
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”I was full aware the leopards would eat my face. I’m in great pain right now, but I believe it’s for the best ”
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"protected after Trump's term"
So executive orders are useless for this, and what concessions are Republicans willing to make to get a Senate super majority to pass an amendment, which hasn't happened in most of our lifetimes?
You're still operating under the assumption that this administration will stay within the confinement of the constitution. Even then, his impact will be felt for years. He's destroying international relations far faster than they can be rebuilt and he's destroying the bureaucracy of the US on a fundamental level
"Im one of the good ones", "i put in the work"
American conservatives are so fucking dumb. I hope they get everything they voted for, fuck them.
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r/thathappened
TFW you're being principled and thinking long-term but your principles and thinking are a total disaster
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