It’s better, but still not great. You’re still limited by having enough money to be able to buy shares. The people with more disposable income have a greater opportunity to benefit, while those with less may not be able to afford it at all.

Even the lowliest employee with the lowest pay should still have an opportunity to benefit from their labour.

That’s not true at all. If every worker was a shareholder, then I might agree with you. But shareholders are the rich, who have capital they can invest and gain from. Corporations are set up to only benefit the rich. The average worker gains nothing but their measly wage/salary regardless of how well the company does or how hard they work.

Corporations are not for the benefit of all. They are for the benefit of the rich upper class and derive their wealth from the work of the working class.

esprit de corps spirit

It’s like his PIN number.

Only supporters would get aid.

Those who don’t read history are doomed to repeat it.

So is the separation of church and state.
And the right against unreasonable search and seizures.

But it turns out writing it down doesn’t make it so. It’s not a fundamental law of the universe. It has to actually be upheld and defended for it to do anything. Until the American people do something they’ll just keep walking all over it.

If it’s a legitimate threat, it’s not a distraction. It’s called “flooding the zone” and it’s intentional, but it’s mean to overwhelm us in general with the sheer amount of bullshit he spews.

But don’t make the mistake that this is a distraction. He’s opening a path to strip anyone he dislikes of citizenship and exile them to a foreign death camp. This is deadly serious and should not be ignored.

Stripping anyone he dislikes of citizenship and sending them to a death camp in El Salvador is important. It’s one of the most important things happening right now. He’s literally paving a legal path to kill anyone he wants.

“Then I sacrificed myself to save you from the rules I made up myself. I could’ve just changed the rule, but somehow this convoluted plot line was simpler.”

Don’t underestimate him and assume it’s just a distraction. He’s willing to do far more than this.

This notion that tariffs will drive manufacturing and production back to the U.S. is a pipe dream, and even if it were to occur it would take a decade to build the factories, infrastructure, and supply lines.

And on top of that the counter-tariffs will make it even worse. Manufacturers would have to make their products within the US and suffer tariffs trying to sell to everyone else. That would given them ~350 million people inside the US to sell to, and literally everyone else would pay higher prices. They could never compete against that. So not only does it take a long time, stable economic conditions to invest in, but they would be restricting their market severely if they brought manufacturing onshore.

Still, the Canadian economy is heavily tied to the US. They’re going to tank their own, but it’s going to hurt us up here too.

Yeah, although it took them a couple years to even do that. I keep wondering what their “Pearl Harbor” will be that finally gets them to take action.

Nice to see that he’s punishing Canada (35%) with higher tariffs than the EU. Also nice to see all those concessions everyone made have done exactly fuck-all.

Appeasing Trump does not work. It just shows him you’re weak and willing to back down. He will come back for more again and again as long as you keep bending over for him.

If things continue as they are, I have no doubt that day is coming.

“Home of the brave”.

Maybe it was at one point. Maybe it will be again.

Nothing of what you said is true. “Oriental” usually refers to east Asia. Australia is Australia and Europe is Europe.

That kind of question is pretty standard after an event like this. What’s interesting is how defensive he got though. He knows it was fucked up and he knows it could hurt him so he responds like a scared animal. It blows my mind that anyone can look at things like this and think “yeah there’s a strong leader”

This is it exactly. The Democrats are not on your side. They’re neoliberals. They believe in the freedom of money. They are a party for rich people. This isn’t a battle between left and right. It’s a battle between rich and poor.

To his supporters? Yes.

This guy’s upset you won’t break your back to make him richer.

What a piece of shit.