• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Why? Like seriously what does the idiot think he’s going to achieve with all of this. Because it seems like the republicans are speed running political irrelevance.

    It doesn’t matter how many idiots they get to vote for them if the US dollar ceases to be the world currency because of all their stupid decisions. They’ll end up being in charge of an barely populated (ironically everybody with any brains immigrated) unproductive wasteland with crumbling infrastructure. I’m sure the great and wealthy will love living in that world.

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      23 hours ago

      Why?

      These assumptions are not so inevitable considering how the US can compensate them:

      if the US dollar ceases to be the world currency

      Fascism helps to fight the wars that prevent anybody from dropping the dollar. Libya and Iraq don’t have to be the last ones.

      They’ll end up being in charge of an barely populated unproductive wasteland

      Not if Europe doesn’t have enough energy for their industries and has to shift them to the US. It hurts to see, but that’s what is happening.

      Downvoters, why does this not answer OP’s question?

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        22 hours ago

        Why would Europe move manufacturing to the US. It would be just as expensive as in Europe, if you were to move manufacturing elsewhere it would be to India.

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          16 hours ago

          To avoid tariffs and because the elites have agreed to do so. The EU promised to buy US gas despite not being able to do so. So there must exist agreenents outside the law. I expect the same for manufacturing.