• Formfiller@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    The economy hasn’t worked for the working class since the Great Recession. I’m sure the billionaire class will get what is left in communist handouts while we are all put in cutthroat facist homeless work camps because being homeless is illegal. Unless we finally fight back but I’m not going to hold my breath

    • oo1@lemmings.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      8 hours ago

      I’m sure you’re just using “communist” rhetorically there, for various USA history reasons that I don’t fully understand.

      But it’s important to point out that corruption isn’t the same as “communist handout”. There was nothing “communal” when the USSR did corruption, and nothing “communal” when the USA does corruption. It’s all just concentrating power in a few peoples hands with as few limits as possible.

      Good luck to you though, if your political forces can’t stop the concentration of power then conflict and likely bloodshed might be the only option. And there’ll be a lot fighting to save the empowered, hoping for some crumbs to trickle down to them. I can’t believe that all the pro-gun rhetoric in the USA - that I’d previoulsy though crazy - begins to make some sense.

      • Formfiller@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        6 hours ago

        Yes I was being rhetorical when I said communist handouts ( government bailouts for the rich). The word communism is constantly demonized in the United States while they dismantle the social safety net and strip away the social contract. I know it’s corrupt and a lot of citizens know but we don’t have a political party that isn’t bought and paid for. I understand the second amendment as the final check on power but our government has always illegally targeted any left based militias. Unfortunately the oligarch bootlickers are the people with the majority of the guns and the far right militia groups that the government has always turned a blind eye to. I do hope to see a new FDR before I die but I’m worried it will be tyranny and Russian satellite rule instead. Our propaganda machine is strong and unrelenting. I worry Europe will succumb to this corruption as well.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    37
    ·
    1 day ago

    He’s just do an executive order to have them upgrade it up to the best economy in the world. Simple.

  • dhork@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    35
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    Goldman Sachs’ chief economist just earned himself a tropical vacation, funded by the US government, to its Guantanamo Bay resort…

      • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        26
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        Water boarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds pretty rad if you don’t know what both of those terms mean.

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      Any threat the US Government makes henceforth has a huge asterisk beside it. This administration is disorganized on purpose, we’re going to score so many own goals the next four years it’s going to look like a Harlem Globetrotters game and we’re the green jerseys.

  • tatermangia @lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    23 hours ago

    Likely, disinformation. The elites want us to think the world burns while they buy our stocks and commodities. Wonder: who profits when the world markets go down? From the richies: be bold when others are meek, be afraid when others are bold.

    • piecat@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Fucking lol

      It is burning, and they are going to take advantage of it. That’s not disinformation, that’s the “why” for what trump and elon are doing.

    • Lukas Murch@thelemmy.club
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      22 hours ago

      Wasn’t it reported that Warren buffet had like 60% of his wealth in cash? If that’s true, Warren Buffet will profit once he buys cheap assets and then the economy recovers.