it’s like you believe you can tariff them expecting they won’t do the same. Why do you believe the rest of the world is not going to retaliate and why do you believe America can prosper without the rest of the world?
What’s the point of having a military alliance with countries you puts tariffs on? That’s unfriendly to say the least.
this question could be rephrased to:
dear idiots, why are you so stupid?
OR
dear sociopaths, why are you so selfish?
the motivations don’t matter. they can;t be reasoned with.
conclusion: guns.
You could replace all the above by “trumpist”. There is no such thing as american conservatives anymore, the only thing remaining is trumpism, a soon to be modern form of nazism.
you could also waste your time splitting hairs about words.
Go ahead and start shooting people, seems to be your proposition (edit: look at his post history lol). But are you only about words or will you actually do something? If not then stfu.
you’re too stupid to understand what the point of any of this is. how about YOU STFU?
You comment on every post about guns lol. Well go ahead fucking do something with you guns, now’s the best time. But like most american, all you do is run your mouth like you know everything but you wont do shit. Because like most americans your either an under-educated facsist or a privilege-ass wannabe rebel. What a stupid country you have, hope you will all enjoy being billionaire’s bitches cause that’s your future.
thanks for the support but if you don’t have any constructive commentary, please fuck off.
Here’s a constructive comment : Dear americans, please start shooting each other before we need to do it for you. It’s really hard for us to make the distinction between an under-educated fat-ass who support pedo-president and an under-educated fat-ass who doesn’t care what he does. Hope that helps.
Shit like the other comment is why the left will never win in the US. They don’t care about your point or even progressing the conversation.
As long as they get their little point they don’t care. They got to “ackshually” on the internet and that hit of dopamine is good enough.
This feels so much closer to the real truth than anything. It really can be this simple for the trump cult.
I dont think this is the right website to ask this on. This became a post to hate on usa conservatives, not to genuinely answer the question
Edit: replaced us with usa to avoid confusion
Are you sure you mean conservatives or do you just label fascists, reactionarys, nazis and anything that isnt “left” as "conservative?
Well the conservatives are fascists right now so that’s a pretty easy connection to make.
Then the conservatives arent conservative anymore. They are fascist, so please call them that :)
Fascism is a conservative ideology, so they are both.
No. Facism is not in the same league as conservatism. I should know. People of my country got inspired by fascism, started their own thing aaand ww2 and holocaust
Fascism is at the far end of social conservatism. This is not something that can be argued.
This is a, “all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares” thing. All fascists are conservative, by definition. But (typically) not all conservatives are fascist.
You’re never going to get a satisfying answer to this question, because there is no actual reason. If you want, you can go peek in on the conservative subreddits and watch their gold-medal winning mental gymnastics, but the reason Trump is doing this is Putin told him to. The U.S. is destroying themselves for no gain.
Because they think it owns the libs, plain and simple!
The reality is that these people were/are unhappy in their lives due to stagnation in their finances/jobs, poor healthcare, and they don’t have a tight local community. Then these dumb, angry people are primed to accept someone who says they’ll fix their lives, and knows how to talk right to them. Everything else is just toppings, but that’s really the meat of it.
for no gain.
Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin rugpull, whoever owned initial coins made very, very large gains.
The $3 billion in quid buys a lot of anti-Ukraine pro quo
But, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could go on national TV and say he change US policy on Ukraine because he was bribed and he’d still be immune to any legal consequences (other than impeachment, but never anything criminal).
Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin
But wait, there’s more. Us taxpayer money will now be used to “invest” in these crypto scams.
There’s a lot of traitors in this country, but the conservatives on the Supreme Court may be at the top of the list.
It’s like that scene in the Incredibles where Mr. Incredible gets inside the robot, and has it tear itself to pieces. Except an entire country. And ~88,000,000 people voted against self-destruction and are being dragged off a cliff.
The answer is disappointingly simple: emotional satisfaction.
For decades, these people have been told that they are incredibly generous towards their allies, and that they get nothing in return. That their allies are abusing their relationships. Of course this is false, but they’ve been told so every day.
Now they get to abuse their “abusers” right back.
Victimhood is a requirement of conservatism. Like any cult or religion.
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Classic fascist strategy.
This country is circling the toilet FAST.
You guys do know that facism tends to be left leaning right?
Hitler put all the leftists in camps and also purged the left wing of his own party, he came to power by being appointed by center-right big business interests specifically as a way to crush the left and destroy labor unions, and those interests did quite well under his rule, the term “privatization” was literally first coined to describe the Nazi economy.
So those are the points showing the Nazis were right wing. The points showing the Nazis were left wing are… they censored speech (which the right also does, all the time) and they have socialist in their name (curious on whether you consider the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea a democracy).
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No. It doesn’t.
Hitler was left leaning. What side was trying to censor opponents and throw political opponents in jail? It was the left and it backfired.
Exactly one political party in US history ran a candidate from a prison cell, do you know who it was and what the party was called?
Hitler was not left leaning. He was supported by the old guard and the industrialists like Krupp until he out grew them and then turned on them. At the end of the day he was an autocrat, a totalitarian. Think was Gaddafi liberal? How about Suddam? They both had extensive social programs, but they were not left leaning. In the Weimar Republic it was the right wing courts that tried to censor and throw people in jail, and often let the right wing activists off the hook for similar offenses. Left and right wing groups can both censor and throw people in jail, ie USSR, but generally this is in service of totalitarianism, the ideology at that point is just a husk to keep people in line while people vye for control.
He’s not worth more than 3 words from me. Thank you for standing up for truth. I know it’s a loosing battle on the internet.
New troll account, ban speedrun.
Extreme right wing nazis fought extreme left wing communists in WW2.
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If they were capable of thinking critically, they wouldn’t be Republicans in the first place.
That’s easy. Constitutionally, you can’t be President longer than 2 terms. Wartime emergency powers can stop elections, cementing power permanently.
In the United States war and martial law does not stop the election cycle. There is zero precedent to support this, even Roosevelt had to campaign during WW2. In fact, the constitution is quite clear on the opposite - it perscribes elections must be held, offering no mechanisms for deferment.
If precedent still mattered, that would be comforting.
Ditto for the Constitution
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I imagine it’s so no one would be willing to come to our aid as he destroys the country.
Simple bully logic. If you are bigger than someone else, simply hit and threaten them to get whatever you want. Works really well until all the victims gang up and fight back together.
Their feeling, or at least the way their leaders are telling them to feel, is that America is the world’s Daddy and our “so-called” allies are leeching off us like no-good adult children who still live at home and eat all the Nutella, so we have to shake them off to be Great Again.
I was just watching a panel discussion about Trump and the tariffs and had a thought. He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? What if he put the tariffs on to generate tax dollars that he can use to give billions of dollars to the wealthy but what if he’s double dipping and selling exemptions? Like, what if when he talked to the big three auto makers he said, “I’ll make an exemption to the tariffs for the auto industry if you give me $100 million”?
Everything Donald Trump has ever done or ever will do, is a grift.
He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? I’ll
This is exactly what they were the last time around. They poked so many holes in that tarrif policy it was a seive
If you seriously think that this isn’t market manipulation then I’ve some lovely bridges you may be interested in acquiring for a low price!
Ya I have no doubt him and his gremlins are manipulating stocks. They probably heavily invested in EU MIC like Rheinmetall before starting all the drama that caused it to spike and US MIC to dip. In a week they’ll cash out, buy the dip on Raytheon and suddenly trump publicly reverses a ton of bullshit. Rinse and repeat on all of his drama he starts. These tarrif games are screwing heavily with stock prices too. No doubt they’re making bank with the whiplash they’re causing.
Simple actually, it’s the good-ol American Exceptionalism kool-aid
It pleases Putin.
I haven’t seen any republicans here so I’ll also offer my opinion as a sane person ….
- Narcissism. There is only me, and other. There are no allies, just suckers. it’s all about me. Right here. Right now.
- Bullying. Trump styles himself as a great negotiator but from the outside it looks a lot more like bullying. And if you believe his commitments, you’re a sucker. He thinks this is “making deals” but is the only way he knows how to operate
I would say maybe it’s something else in that a large portion of their base globally does not see leftist aligned government powers as allies
We’re talking about”left” here, all lowercase, not “LEFT”. Basic human rights and safety nets, all people created equal kind of stuff, less exploitation, that are still capitalist and democratic.
Vague terms though that makes it easy to think you’re right and they’re wrong. The divide though is that both right and left have different understanding of what is being exploited and what are basic human Rights
