Trump signs order establishing a sovereign wealth fund that he says could buy TikTok
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Two inches from the best timeline. We got fucked.
What two inches? What was the best timeline that we missed out on so narrowly? 2000? Because Reagan won by a lot, if I’m remembering correctly.
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I mean any timeline without this 2nd Trump term would be a heck of a lot nicer.
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Yes think of it more akin to what the Germans did to companies that failed or that they didn’t like during WW2.
Very similar premise.
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The funny thing is, if just won't work. Ok, he says to do it. Some lackey goes off to do it. But someone has to sign the check. The money has to come from somewhere. That's when the shit hits the fan.
Unless Congress does whatever he says like little lap dogs. Ok, yeah, I convinced myself now that it'll happen.
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Oof... Yeah, there it is
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Of course there wasn’t. Calling it like that was a marketing ploy to pull in leftist workers (see eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party). Fun part is that this trick still works, given how often it is used as evidence that “left-leaning people are the real nazis”.
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Indeed, his rhetoric gave the people back their pride, he gave them infrastructure and a job and helped Germany from the ruins of WW1 back on its feet. All for a massive war effort (and much, much worse), as it turned out.
Orange Mussolini is just an awful grifter, in it for himself indeed. -
Can’t put all eggs in one basket eh?
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Always has been
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Ironically I'll go out of my way to buy our support businesses who aren't American more than I will those that are American
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Socialism is good when the govt buys my shitcoin
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Well they haven't seen much abuse yet. They just dodged a nice bump in inflation for a month.
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Seems more like the standard fascist approach to me. It's probably not going to stay government owned.
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Demonize a minority group
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Government takes control of businesses owned by members of that minority
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Government gives control of the business to (typically larger) businesses owned by the dominant group, allowing them to artificially produce growth (what Zucc is likely aiming for)
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Narrow the scope of who is accepted in the dominant group, move on to the next minority, and repeat.
This is why communists often describe fascism as "capitalism in decay." Because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, it becomes harder and harder for companies to find new ways of producing growth, and have to find methods that are involved with actually increasing productivity, which is where you get enshittification. The fascist economic solution is obviously unsustainable, it's like eating your own arm, but corporations that are desperately focused on short term growth (the vast majority of them) will happily sign on.
Socialism, otoh, is not about finding more stuff to feed into corporations, but, upon reaching that point, transforming the economy to remove the need for endless growth through nationalization. But socialism is not synonymous with nationalization, especially when the nationalization is selectively targeted and (most likely) temporary.
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He's going to fund it with the tariffs
