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.

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.

Dunno, I think Musk was forced to buy it, then he suggested it was going to be all sorts of things while massively cutting costs, before pivoting to giving Trump a quarter of a billion in order to get access to government.

I don’t think there was any intention to buy twitter for propaganda, and I haven’t seen any evidence that shows to what degree (if at all) it helped Trump get elected.

Reddit is pretty useless for getting any kind of advanced information on any topic. The impression I had of the US election based on it was completely out of line with reality, so in that case it couldn’t be trusted as an accurate source of information on current affairs.

People are addicted to it, but you’d have to be pretty sad to pay for it.

Blocking ads on it is a trivial matter. It never made any money.

The question is why did anyone think it would ever be worth much at all.