• Cummunism [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    he doesnt know how to run a business or the american economy, plain and simple. he’s bullied so many into giving him money for decades he thinks it will work if he tries the same with sovereign nations.

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      It’s got to be this. He’s running the US economy like it’s a business. Not even like a legitimate business but a shitty business that uses mafia tactics and eventually goes bankrupt.

      I just hope all those feckless EU leaders aren’t stupid enough to be shaken down

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        that uses mafia tactics

        So basically how we treated the global South except with Europe, to which they’re upset because only ‘the coloreds’ are supposed to be treated like this.

        God I really hope this indeed becomes the century of China.

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        This is how he’s always been, he’s always been a failson who got ahead on Mafia tactics. He inherited a ton of contacts and networks from his father along with a ton of money, and pissed it away on gaudy gold toilets and bankrupting casinos. He never actually ran a proper business in his life.

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          I’ve never actually verified this but I have always been entertained by the talking point that he woukd be richer if he just put his inheritance in an index fund.

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            This is one of the least logical Russiagate accusations I’ve ever heard.

            The casino was open until like 2014 but wasn’t all that popular through the 2010s. Let’s call tbe peak the 90s to the early 00s.

            You’re suggesting that some nebulous “Russians” (who? Politicians? Oligarchs? Gangsters? Typically only gangsters need to launder money) took their ill-gotten roubles, converted them to USD (already a form of money laundering, doing this alone would suffice), flew to Atlantic City, gambled it away in Trump’s casino, converted their winnings back to roubles (losing heavily during the exchange rate process), and flew back to Russia, because Trump was friendly or something? All at a time when Russia was politically neutral to the US during the Fukuyama End of History era? At a time when the rouble wasn’t banned from global markets? What fucking purpose would laundering their money in a different nation’s currency altogether actually serve?

            Do you actually think before you post or do you just fire off some fucking Tom Clancy fanfic with Trump and Spooky Russians :tm: attached to it and expect it to be taken at face value?

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        He’s running the US economy like it’s a business.

        I’ve met a few small time capitalists (like they own small factories with less than 50 workers) in my day and the one thing that unites them is that all of them believe that governments should be run like a business.

        These people are imbeciles and they’ve convinced large swathes of people to believe the same. It’s incredible.

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        I just hope all those feckless EU leaders aren’t stupid enough to be shaken down

        It’s not a stupidity, they are compradors. Just they are now compradors whose master fucked up good old Al Capone advice about gun and a kind word.