Deifict hawking in the US in 2024? Sounds great for global capitalism. US is THE consooming engine.

Atleast Argentina is a smaller country. Atleast Russia was disconnected from rest of the capitalist world pre 1990s.

And it’s by no means “radical”. Bill Clinton the neoliberal establishment guy ran budget surpluses in the 1990s, sucked money away from the (mainly poor) people and increased household debt.

Elon Musk doing to the US what the US usually does to foreign economies to destroy them

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21 points

Sounds about right… My fucking god, twitter economists…

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‘rapid recovery’, the economy will be cut in half and stagnate there for decades. it’ll be Greece but worse. I don’t think it’ll be very good for China and other exporting countries either at least in short term but they’ll recover if they also don’t do the same austerity.

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5 points

The EU, in GDP per capita terms, barely recovered from 2008 and the latter austerity policy. In purchase power terms, it’s sunken below what it used to be before 2008, even with China’s growing industry and cheaper exports driving down the prices of many consumer goods.

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6 points

Critical support. Though i don’t believe even reps are stupid enough to give the grenade to this particular manchild.

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2 points

imagine being dumb enough to do shock therapy to yourself

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23 points
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Honestly if Trump follows Elon Musk’s genius 2 trillion cuts it’s going to seriously fuck with the US ability to do imperialism for the coming decades.

The last two years of Biden was a huge gamble for the imperialist state and basically praying that the Global South doesn’t end up ditching the dollar (it worked because no alternative has been found yet).

Now the US needs to flood the Global South with the dollars again to retain its hegemony, and Trump cutting 2 trillion (which is a lot!) is going to destroy the monetary supremacy of US imperialism abroad.

I’m starting to think that they won’t allow Trump to win this time because you don’t want to screw with the imperialist machine.

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10 points

I’m starting to think that they won’t allow Trump to win this time because you don’t want to screw with the imperialist machine.

Which would unironically probably cause a civil war

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You really think so? I’d think they’d just have him actually assassinated and just have Vance (he’s a chucklefuck with no principles anyway, he’d be easy to blackmail) held by the balls to do what they want wrt imperialism.

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2 points

If they do off him, I don’t think it’s off the table. It’d be seriously destabilizing.

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7 points

Was just thinking along these lines. This would seriously turn things upside down no way this goes off without serious fuckery

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Honestly if Trump follows Elon Musk’s genius 2 trillion cuts it’s going to seriously fuck with the US ability to do imperialism for the coming decades.

God willing, I hope so!

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I like how the pitch for austerity is always, “look, when we do this everything is going to get so much worse for an indeterminate amount of time but then I promise it will get better and everyone will be better off.”

and no matter how many times it is done and only serves to ruin lives and devastate communities beyond recovery with no benefit ever being recognized aside from a tiny, ultra wealthy minority using the chaos to purchase control over critical resources and exponentially increase their net worth, they keep promising it will be different this time and everybody will benefit.

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25 points

US gov literally has infinite money

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Infinite money is only for war and corporate subsidies sweaty.

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16 points

literally cutting you own income bro

you will lose subscriber bro

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