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Yes, and? This was the expected outcome, short-term pain for long-term gain.
By limiting imports and exports through tariffs and deporting illegal aliens, we'll either get more unemployed Americans working, or we'll actually get focused on automation. Any industry built on the back of illegal labor should be collapsed. Those who hire illegal labor should be jailed, and the illegal aliens should be deported. We have homeless, unemployed Americans. Offer them the jobs. Give them American wages, worker protections, and the opportunity to contribute to society again. Yes, the costs will go up for a time, but we'll be investing in our community and in our neighbors. It's called protectionism for a reason - we protect what is ours.
Support local businesses. Support local products and services. Support those who support your community. Yes, Americans will have higher costs for a time, but that rising tide will eventually lift all boats if we can manage to keep the government out of our hair for a while.
We don’t make everything because that’s inefficient. We trade with other countries because it is efficient.
It would be like looking at your butcher, your metal worker, and your farmer, pointing at the butcher and saying, ok, now you need to do all three. There’s no logic to it. If we have orange juice and soy beans and Canada has metal, it makes more sense to trade. Every 4x game with trade you’ve ever played works like that for a reason.
And this automation you speak of doesn’t create more jobs.
The other factor. Homeless. There are people who won’t engage drug free housing because it’s drug free. Transition housing in Portland OR sits partially empty. Why? You can’t make people do what they don’t want to do. ( I said partially, not all.). There will always be people who “don’t wanna”. Naming such a large swath of different people as a potential resource when there isn’t as much there as you indicate, doesn’t work. And for those who would work it’s not that simple. Housing, showers, and in many cases drug rehab and mental health will be needed before practical work engagement can happen. People are messy, not easily quantifiable as resources. And they cost money to fix.
And you’re forgetting the biggest element. People voted for Trump because they expected prices to go back to 2016-2020 prices. Any increase is going to incite those guys, incite some of his base, to the nth degree. Maybe you’re ok with it, but unlike you, people actually living paycheck to paycheck will not be. I really don’t want to see more angry MAGA gatherings.
You’re not living paycheck to paycheck, or you would not be talking like this.
When I play 4X games and can't produce all the resources or research in my supply chain, I just go straight to Fanatacism (or the equivalent) and go for mass conquest.
The inflation that will be caused by Trump's tariffs isn't going to be "short term". If he does what he says he's going to do and the next president undos all of it, inflation is expected to get down to where it should be (i.e. pretty close to where it is now) in 10 to 15 years.
illegal aliens
So, humans who are born outside the borders of your country aren't humans anymore. Shut up Hitler.
That's not what "illegal alien" means?
Per Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alien Alien, noun: a. a person who is not of a particular group or place
Sorry, alien doesn't always refer to extraterrestrial life. They're just as human as anyone else, they just don't belong here in their current legal status. Resident aliens also exist - they're the people who came in legally and are not yet naturalized as citizens of this country. You might be about pull out the "no human is illegal" axiom against me, to which I'll respond, it is not illegal for them to be human. It's illegal for them to be here as they are, like any other form of trespassing. If they come here legally, according to law and custom, then they're Americans - or at least they're resident aliens working for the benefit of America.
Lol, short term pain will destroy any administration, well that is if democracy were at play. Checkmate i guess.
You're right, our voting population is very short-sighted.
Oh look, dipshit fascist
If you don't want Lemmy to descend into another Reddit echo chamber shit hole, you have to at least tolerate people of very different (even wrong) opinions when they appear open to discuss rather than just restoring to name calling
you have to at least tolerate people of very different (even wrong) opinions
Nope, not if they're a fascist
You can go ahead and associate willingly with Nazis, I wont
Conversation != Approval
"Associate" is an ambiguous term
you also have to be ready people will reply to you. free speech is not free from consequences.
It is an echo chamber already. You say anything controversial concern trolls come out the woodwork and accuse you of baiting and brigade you.
I have some political views that differ from the Reddit / Lemmy mainstream by quite a bit. But I find the downvotes on Lemmy quite harmless. And it at least seems far more likely that someone will have an honest conversation. That's why it's a shame to see people jumping straight to insults.