@KaiserKitty@KuteboiCoder@placebo@stoner713 it's not just that simple, because if it were, you would have a smart businessman that was doing that. The entire system is set up to punish hiring americans, and it's been like that for 50 years.
It was first enacted to try and help blacks, but the way everything was written, any non-white would do.
But now with the constant pressure to lower wages everything has be about how much can you fuck over long term thinking for a quick bump now.
I don't regret the outcome of the election just yet. And I'm glad that the wheels came off now instead after Dumpp puts his appointees in at every level.
I think the Techbro Right walked right into some unforced errors and crippled themselves by pretending to be pro-free-speech for a hot minute. Elon can't take that away from us without losing what's left of Xwitter.
@KuteboiCoder@placebo@stoner713@KaiserKitty Do not regret or love the outcome; understand the situation we are in. This is not something that can be fixed with a single election. Thus a single election can either be a net positive or a net negative.
Globalism is very deeply intrenched in everywhere.
Kamala isn't just a worthless bureaucrat; the Kamala supporters actually hate us, viscerally, at the rank and file level. When she lost, they lost, or at least suffered an institutional setback; even if they didn't all experienced actual losses personally in real life.
Trump was pretending to be on our side at that moment, and therefore it was important for him to win at that moment. That is ultimately a win for us, at that moment.
I've posted somewhere that I'm voting for Trump even if I don't like him, because he is a placeholder candidate for MAGA populism; and he's going to retire or die soon anyway.
@KuteboiCoder@placebo@stoner713@KaiserKitty Trump is on Trump's side. What does Trump *actually* want? It is hard to know, but based on what he has said when he was much younger - he wants to win, he had an interview where he says he does what he does because he likes winning.
Ok - so it's ego.
But what does that look like to him? Well, this is the far trickier part - the best guess I have is, it's what his vision of America looks like, because that's the standard that he's judging his ego against.
I think he actually likes working class white guys, unlike most of our political class.
what influences Trump's ego is ultimately a question of who has access to Trump and has the ability to make him feel part of the in-group.
If Mark Zuckerberg gives him a firm handshake, and tells Trump that Facebook is a big successful American company that Americans like and Americans use, that influences Trump a hella lot more than the kill-niggers copypasta on stormfront or anywhere else.
Trump is persuadable and dumb, but the #MAGA train is even more persuadable and dumb.
I remember a live broadcast of a Trump rally, and Melania approaches the podium says in her thick accent, and says "let us pray". Immediately, I saw every hand shoot up, every eye shut on the front row where faces where visible, with the most pious, #sincere#zen#expressions.
No hate for wanting to pray, obviously, but I was quite amused that entire crowd could be switched instantly into prayer mode by... well, a foreign-born billionaire trophy wife who has posed nude in magazines.
A woman who had no prior work in philanthropy or missionary work before her husband entered politics.
@KuteboiCoder@placebo@stoner713@KaiserKitty understand one thing well, Trump isn't dumb. He plays dumb because it's an easy act where you can get people to do stupid shit that helps you.
Remember, he had a tv show and has appeared on WWF. Acting is a skill he is good at.
@KuteboiCoder@placebo@stoner713@KaiserKitty I think it is easy to overestimate how much power he had in 2016. All of the GOP threw Derek Chauvin under the bus, for example.
I'm glad this mass disillusionment with Trump and Elon is happening after Kamala's campaign closed up shop, and before Trump is sworn in and starts appointing officials
@gnu2 Fair enough - but look at it this way then. His McDonalds stunt worked so well because he didn't *feel* out of place. For that to work, either he's a really good actor or he's actually comfortable there.