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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 88 points 8 months ago

..... and no one should put all the blame on one man ... he isn't that powerful or persuasive

It's a complicit government that had decided to allow this orange menace to do as he pleases because it benefits some wealthy owners.

It's a lot easier to blame one man because it would remove the complicity of a large organization of people that are driving all this.

[-] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

It's easy to just blame the government. When the reality is there is an entire complicit class of voters voting them in

[-] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

there is also the rest of us who don't do anything to stop him and his regime.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

So they just SAY they will build this tower, not they are building it. What's the chances they aren't building shit but told our dumb fuck president this to get this done? I think pretty high. They can strimg him along, because they know he will be gone in four years either by end of presidency or death.

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 10 points 8 months ago

And that is what I don't get. He is so easily wooed by stuff. The UK trade agreement is not great, but he flounts the high tariffs that the importers will have to pay. Someone dangles a picture of something shiny and he jumps. This is so weird

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago

The UK trade deal is great because over here it was basically just reported as "the status quo has been maintained", and then they just moved on to other news items. No one really cares about it.

Trump was going on and on about how America "has the best beef", and how it's unfair that we won't take it, and this trade deal essentially means that farms will have to follow UK food standards in order to send beef (or whatever) to the UK. Since none of them will, essentially nothing has changed.

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 3 points 8 months ago

Right? Nothing has changed except the tariffs that are still in place and will cost the americans money. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I mean. Empty promises for things to be paid for by somebody else are kind of his Thing. Walls, Tariffs. It makes perfect sense.

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