• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    So not only did trumps stupid fantasy rants piss off our one of our two closest neighbors and centuries old friend, its now cost the USA multiple billions of dollars in business. For what? We gained nothing and lost so much.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, this is the art of the Trump deal. We all lose, but he, the billionaire, wins. Fuck the poor, he will gain despite them dying. This is America in 2025.

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        but he, the billionaire, wins

        Thats the thing on this one. No billionaires are even winning with this. Many multi-millionaries or close to billionaires are losing on this too. I could understand (but be angry) if this was more billionaire grift, but no one wins from this except possibly the EU defense industry.

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          Yes they are winning because they already fucking won by having billions of dollars. Their goal is to widen the wealth gap as much as possible. Then us poors are unable to fight back when they unleash mercenaries on us

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            2 months ago

            Their goal is to widen the wealth gap as much as possible.

            How would the rich in the USA losing billions of dollars of defense spending widen the gap? The story works against what you’re saying because the USA rich are less rich with Canada’s actions here. Thats what doesn’t make sense.

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              The goal for them isn’t to have the most money relative to you, it is to make you have no money and be in utter desperation. Then any kind of work that feeds you and your family will be acceptable. Any orders from a billionaire will be followed out of sheer terror of starvation or torture or whatever else the billionaires intend to use as coercion.

  • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Holy shit, the first thing I see when I visit that website is a popup telling me to either pay them, or accept that they are going to track me and sell the data to over 400 third parties. Fuck that.

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    2 months ago

    Maybe Trump will have better luck with Mexico in trying to sell his Golden Dome idea he got from his good, good friend Bibby.

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    3 months ago

    Why make a defense pact with the only nation threatening Canada. Canada would rather work with the EU.

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    3 months ago

    Good for them cutting off. But the insane amount of military spending is nonsensical. Where was all this money for global warming?