And they will attempt to replace these 10,000 jobs with ai.

Rather than put that money into the pockets of UK workers it will go to silicon valley tech broligarchs.

It isn’t just that they are just red tories, they are so incompetent as well.

Not as long as they keep buying any dip. Which could continue for a long time.

It’s either obvious bullshit, or the bloke is out of his depth.

I suppose I should try and not just throw people under the bus, but I struggle to buy it.

‘They rigged the election then I won’ (or words very much to that effect.

Meaning they rigged the election in 2020, then I won (in 2024).

Certainly there were concerns regarding the security of voting machines. Eminent computer scientists wrote to Harris about it in around 2022. Then Trump made the comment about Musk knowing about voting machines. She had ample time to do something.

But nobody else (before you) has suggested the election was rigged.

Your only claim can be that because Trump made that comment regarding Elon knowing the voting machines, Americans didn’t vote for Trump. It is a silly claim.

Ok I see. I think I took your original message to suggest that the rest of the world needed to do something to stop it, whereas I guess you are saying the rest of the world needs to wake up and not expect the old America to be around.

I think the world is realising that. I am in the UK, as far as I am aware much of our intelligence and military capability is intertwined with the US. That isn’t changing over night. But I guess that some sort of security co-operation with the rest of Europe, provided they make right their appalling response towards the UK on our leaving the EU, might happen regarding our nuclear capability. Failure to do so opens the door to the pro Russian reform party, which suits no reasonable person, least of all the EU who presumably can act reasonably when suitably incentivised.

Still you might rejoin the British commonwealth according to Trump yesterday, and I think it might be offered to him formally so that might deepen ties between our two nations lol. Maybe we will give him a title or something.

Thanks for the reply but you didn’t really answer my question.

You say other countries should be moving a lot faster, as though it is our responsibility.

Americans voted for Trump. Twice. And Americans are going to be most harmed by him. It is on Americans, including those in the military who took an oath to defend the constitution, to do something about Trump if they don’t want to be harmed by him, nobody else.

What do you mean? How do you think other countries should be moving, in response to Trump? And why?

A capitol building, too, if I remember correctly.

This presidency is debasing every institution it touches. It is built on the corruption of the courts, or he wouldn’t be in power at all.

I have read capital volume one maybe two and a half times. I wonder how close to Pikkety’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century Marx might have written today. I haven’t read Capital in the Twenty-First Century but think it is worth the time and effort it would take to study. I will find the time at some point.

That isn’t strategy.

I am referring to the fact that Trump seems to want America to be a manufacturing base, but does he have a plan to achieve this, beyond creating developing world conditions in the USA? He might be able to create conditions within the US where labour and environmental costs are cheap enough to be competitive with India or China, but is that actually his aim?

If he wants the US to be a manufacturing base he/his administration would need a much weaker dollar, which would necessitate at least various countries selling their dollar reserves. Does he want people to buy bitcoins as a strategic reserve rather than, say, Yuan? Does he realise that encouraging countries to give up on the dollar as global reserve currency is forcing the US to pay its debts finally? Is really an admission of defeat for the US, and the end of the US empire?

The fascism/racism seems innate to his personality rather than anything strategic, but why look to destabilise Europe into it rearming itself away from US arms manufacturers? He can’t expect countries to view the USA as anything beyond a competitor to China or India after this, can he?

Is his interest in Canada and Greenland simply because he has been told that sea ice is collapsing and the Arctic is going to be of strategic importance going forward? Or is he looking to start some kind of hot world war in order to try and recreate the conditions post WW2, where I could easily see his idea of a ‘GREAT’ America might have come from?

His tactics are easily exploitable: see Russia. It is hard to figure out if his administration has any kind of strategy in terms of geopolitics or geoeconomics.

On the one hand you have to take Trump seriously because he is dangerous, on the other he definitely is an idiot.

It is easy to post a response containing no information whatsoever.

Fascism might not be the inevitable outcome of decades of ‘the west’s’ brand of neo-liberalism on top of the historical circumstances to which it was applied, but, all things considered, it is hard to imagine an alternative.

Make America great by regressing it to developing world standards so labour and environmental costs are cheap enough to compete with China or India, so manufacturing can happen there again.

The oligarchy are the only people that profit from this.

It is really hard to believe how Americans did not get this.

Democracy is supposed to need an educated populace. Capitalism doesn’t. America made its choice for some bizarre reason.

If I remember correctly, Marx was clear that the size of a government under communism (rather than corrupted dictatorship of the proletariat as in the Soviet Union etc) would be much smaller than anything achievable under capitalism. Based on what I read, this made sense.

Places like China, that apparently still call themselves ‘communist’ have been authoritarian state capitalism for decades.

But whatever, I guess it is many decades too late to matter, if it ever mattered at all.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is the transitional phase from a capitalist to a communist economy, whereby the post-revolutionary state seizes the means of production, mandates the implementation of direct elections on behalf of and within the confines of the ruling proletarian state party, and institutes elected …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

Voted for by the US twice, after Trump was very clear about what he would do.

Seems a bit ostentatious.

How many felonies did he get away with before the election?

Why would he give a fuck about courts?

Things like history aren’t relevant to a lot of students

Oligarchs, and fascists need an uneducated population of working people.

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat,” announced Reagan advisor Roger A. Freeman during a press conference on Oct. 29, 1970. Freeman, an economics professor at Stanford, was also an advisor to President Richard Nixon." https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educated-proletariat-created-the-student-debt-crisis/

This is one of the many roots of the fascist oligarchy currently unfolding in the US.

Replacing education with the acquisition of a skill that can be sold to capital (for less than capital earns from that skill) is a mistake you might not have made had you had a better education in history.

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