• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        26 days ago

        The situation is such that the “best” they have are telling the ruling class “this is a bad idea and will harm the system”. Those people were sidelined in favour of the people willing to do what they want, who are incompetent.

        Capitalism will always reproduce this situation because eventually capitalism will always reach a point where to exploit further the ruling class will desire actions that are harmful to the system itself, but as their overriding goal is short term profit they’ll pursue it anyway. Thus, the competent people tell them no and get thrown out in favour of the less competent that will say yes.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    36·
    26 days ago

    What the fuck is going on with these idiots.

    The only thing worse than imposing absurd arbitrary broad based tariffs would be doing that in a chaotic and unpredictable manner.

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      26 days ago

      the chief executive of the united states of america is whoever most recently spoke to trump personally, and there are pro and anti tariff factions within his administration

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      26 days ago

      I. This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.

      As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.

      III. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “removed intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

      VIII. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

      IX. For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.

      Number #3 is the most relevant. Action for the sake of action so the Trump administration can tell its followers “Something is being done. We are going to fix your problems, which is China.”