• floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    15 hours ago

    “Economically devastating” seems to be the plan nationwide. Tariffs, protectionism, shrinking the population by deporting working people, persecuting the educated and defunding education… None of this fascist stuff will do anything but drive the country into greater misery and poverty.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      The grift, I get. The bigotry, I get. The hate, I get. Hell, even the fealty to Putin, I get. But at this point, they’re veering into gratuitous destructive stupidity without any upsides that I can fathom at all, not even abhorrent ones. I don’t get it.

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    24·
    15 hours ago

    Here’s the thing: That’s exactly what Trump supporters want. That’s the “pain” Musk talked about.

    They don’t care about the cost. Money or human.

    I asked a Trump supporter how they wanted to handle American citizen children of illegal immigrants and they said they wanted the children taken away and placed into Christian indoctrination programs (they didn’t call it that but that’s what they meant).