Yeah, but now, Germany's best trading partner is China, which replaced the USA... Well done... Self-sabotage...

Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess

dont forget the aca enhanced subsidies ended, and people saw thier insurance double or tripled or more in premiums/deductibles.

we never had anything but CENTER RIGHT parties, thats the biggest. and right wingers think there is an actual left in the USA.

doubtful, unless you have a md/PHD or some kind of stem background, "academic refugees"

both my brothers are in tech, one got laid of in '23 and stillhavnt found a job, although he is having a "personal crisis". and the other has been put on a bench "indefinitely" since they are using a recruiting company, they took him off projects with APPLE.

I was a developer. I've been getting project management certifications to career pivot. I would like to go back to tech, but I'm gaining skills to leave the industry. I can't survive another year without a full time job that pays moderately.

Not hate us. Hate the walldom of USA. Big difference.

Making everyone hate USA for peanuts. Priceless

"There are some things money can't buy; for everything else, there's Mastercard"

Those nice aspects were probably rose-tinted nostalgia of what we remeniscence the USA to be, the gallantrous saviour from Nazi-Germany. It took us 80 years to realize that that gallantry was only during WW2 and maybe not even then.

That's right. We shouldn't live. That's too costly! We must sacrifice ourselves on the pyre of privatised healthcare so that the superyachts get built on time.

No no you're right. What's happening right now is so much better than having an Israel supporter for president. You saved the world.

Yeah but the democrats weren't restraining Israel when they were in power despite clearly had the leverage (arms resupply).

They signalled to the voters they weren't holding them back. Indeed a great part of the slaughter happened under Biden watch.

If Trump wasn't around that alone would have ended Biden relection attempts.

The democrats did everything they could to find the worst postion on every single issue.

So yes I blame them when it should have been a fucking shoe in. They allowed the fascist to come to power due to their milquetoast acquiescence to their corporate and dark money benefactors.

Not to the people. They had sold out workers rights to the point where unions were bleeding out. And when a conman fascists came up claiming he would make it all better they had no way to tell people to stay the course with the democrats when the evidence was clear. Wages going down, workers rights in the fucking sewer, health issuance, housing and education across the country all trending down.

It was desperation of millions that they could neither voter for the democrats nor Trump. Which along with the republican cheating allowed them to secure the win.

And the democrat leadership is utterly lacking accountability for what they did.

Schumer, Jefferies, Pelosi, Harris, Buttigirg all knew the president was fucking senile and sick. He shouldn't have been in power much less running a relection campaign.

How they have not resigned for such a massive breach of trust is beyond me. It's fucking criminal.

And worse not pursing trump and putting him prison. Fuck me. They had every opportunity. Jesus, the man is a walking indictment. They had over 3 million files and 15 TB of videos which we know contain Trump and yet they did nothing!!

And now they won't even declare a general fucking strike.

How many more people must end up in concentration camps before they oppose Trump with everything they got????

I would assume that this is planned 100%.

Project 2025 will probably have some shit in it what else you could expect to happen next.

I don't know how this helps the ultra rich when they destroy a country, but there must be sth. they gain from that.

Maybe they just make fun of you by showing their power to each other.

Like playing bullshit bingo but actually throwing money at the president to get a bingo.

Not that equalising the trade deficit would actually make everyone's lives better in any way because it's a stupid metric to be concerned with.

It's like being concerned at the supermarket never buys anything off you. If you voice that opinion in public people would think you were weird.

It's true that the Democrats fucked up, but the people who chose trump over a not perfect choice are absolutely deserving of their share of the blame. Voters have agency themselves and should have been able to see what everyone else saw.

It's theoretically possible to pressure someone on our nominal side to change their stance on Israel, Trump would just laugh in our faces and increase the funding. It's not the fucking same.

The right are hard right and the left are fairly hard right.

The US doesn't have anything even approaching centre right, let alone left.

The lack of a proper left is why most Americans can't tell the difference between communism and socialism.

Although it would be extremely funny there's very little reason for any other countries to actually do that. Although if you have a degree in a relevant science area you might be accepted.

Perhaps you could pretend to be in a relationship with someone from a host country, a reverse green card plot.

Germanys current economy ain't great, tho. Been in a recession the last few years. And exports to China are shrinking as well.

I feel that with many actors that come out with public issue statements. People probably feel the same about my idols.

What is one thing we should be concerned about?

Water!

mL, Ltr

Basic global goals ✨

No no you're right. What's happening right now is so much better than having an Israel supporter for president. You saved the world.

I men like, the international ridicule, antagonizing your closest allies, having the government murder American citizens in the streets, the increasing inflation, the reduction of manufacturing investments. Totally worth it. At least Trump doesn't support Israel, right? That's clearly a W.

I can't keep watching people act surprised about this.

Trump's administration is not trying to successfully accomplish anything. The sole and entire point is to hurt America at the behest of foreign interests. Making the world hate us is the point.

Well, that, and to enrich himself and his regime.

When you hire pirates to attack a ship, you expect a little looting.

I don’t know how this helps the ultra rich when they destroy a country, but there must be sth. they gain from that.

They're looting it as it goes down. For example, Trump sued the federal government for the time his tax records were leaked; federal government - which he controls - settles with him for $$$$$.

Meanwhile, the ultra-rich are getting more tax breaks so they can get a bit richer. What do they care if the US fails? They probably have money stashed all over the world.

There has got to be a long German word for the feeling which is essentially incandescent fury but at the same time sorrow/pity.

How do you have a trade surplus in a consumer society? How do people not see how stupid the trade deficit excuse is? Are Americans that uneducated?

They have enough money that money doesn't matter. Making people for whom money does matter have less gives them more power.

They don't want to be rich in a developed capitalist country, they want to be lords in a feudal society. The average quality of life plummeting doesn't matter as long as the highest remains the same and they get more power.

Genuine attempt at being helpful:

Can you sell the house and rent instead?

Got any cars you or the family rarely use?

Basically: Can you downsize and give yourself / your family more padding in savings, less ongoing costs?

Is Germany's economy based on exports to China? I feel like Germany's problems, like other European countries, lie else where

*wero ;)

And raping

(Mastercard is getting cut out in the EU)

Rose-tinted nostalgia that was purposely manufactured through pervasive mass-media and institutionalized propaganda. The US population has been heavily indoctrinated ever since the 1950s and the second Red Scare/McCarthyism.

People are nostalgic for something that didn't exist because they grew up on stories and teachings that were utter fabrications of events which overplayed the US's role in WW2 and downplayed the atrocities we committed to our own people and those abroad in our Imperialist quest to cement capitalism as the global economy and stifle the growing wave of communist sentiment that was on the rise during the early-to-mid 1900s.

Not yet, that will take some times, but I will be more than happy to use a sovereign solution.

With all due respect if I lose my house then life isn't worth living anymore. I don't own a car. I don't have a family.

Well, the US is going insane with tariffs, our gas delivering country is running amok in Ukraine and our biggest cars importer decided to build cars themselves. So... Yes... Things have changed.

Could you rent out a room?

Well, germanys economy is not solely reliant on exports to China, but they are significant nonetheless. Historically, we used to export a lot of cars to China, but ever since the EV boom german car manufacturers struggle because China heavily subsidizes its own car industry, making domestically produced cars much cheaper than the imported german ones. And technologically, China becomes ever more advanced so it increasingly doesn't need to import engineering equipment/machinery from germany as well.

But yeah, the decreasing exports are just one of many problems of germanys current economy.

most people dont take classes that go this deep in economy, or even economy courses. its too keep people ignorant.

This is really informative, thanks for taking the time to reply.

Of course, I am not kicking Germany as many countries find themselves in difficult times.

I listen to a military podcast and they seem surprised that the US threatening to invade another NATO country was such a big deal for Europeans. 🙈

When it's not working, it's working.

Thank you.

And killing.

And also a LOT of Americans.

Not for nothing. Trump and his friends made butt loads of money!!! And any day that money is going to come trickling down to the average Joe just like it's supposed to... any day now.

I visited one of my customers yesterday, a metal anodizing plant. Only the owner was there, he told me they had no orders to fill and that he hadn't seen anything like this since 2008

Nuance. Two things can be true. We are doing this to ourselves, but not in a vacuum. And if you want to destroy a house, the best way isn't to send a man with a hammer, it's to give the kids inside a soccer ball and tell them their parents said "play ball!"

Countless terrible groups and people have been set loose with their own individual agendas and goals, yes, but that's as part of a greater plan whose only goal is to harm America and its interests and allies.

There's plenty of blame to share, I promise.