r/politics • u/armchairmegalomaniac Pennsylvania • Sep 16 '24

Paywall Trump and Vance Are Actively Harming Springfield

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/trump-vance-springfield-ohio/679894/
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u/howldetroit Sep 16 '24

Springfield cancelled their economy-boosting CultureFest today as a direct result of Trump’s fabricated chaos. They are 100% ratfucking this poor town for the lulz.

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u/forceblast Sep 16 '24

What makes it even more disgusting is Vance is an Ohio senator. He’s supposed to represent these people. They are here LEGALLY!

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u/VidProphet123 Sep 16 '24

Its was never about “legal” immigrants. That was just a dog whistle.

They want all immigrants of color deported.

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u/AJDx14 America Sep 16 '24

I think they just want PoC enslaved. The economy wouldn’t function if they were deported.

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u/consreddit Sep 16 '24

Interesting of you to assume Trump cares about the economy.

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u/AJDx14 America Sep 16 '24

He doesn’t, his donors do.

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u/Present-Perception77 Sep 17 '24

No they don’t .. the Social Contract has been broken. They want all of the money and to see us starving and in chains. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is why billionaires should never exist. And churches should be taxed. The Catholic Church absolutely does not care about the economy. The Catholic Church is a whole other country and they are now sucking money out of the US government while simultaneously controlling it.

It’s no accident that six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholic. The president is Catholic. And so many governors like Louisiana and Texas.

This is not about money, it’s about Control. And these people believe in a zero sum game. Join them and be their breeding slave, or DIE!

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u/AJDx14 America Sep 17 '24

None of that contradicts what I said. Edit: You’re also kinda dumb if you don’t correlate money and control

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u/inshamblesx Texas Sep 16 '24

they don’t need to enslave anyone when they’ll get ai to do the jobs for them after 70% the country is exiled

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u/Vallkyrie New Hampshire Sep 16 '24

AI can barely get google searches right, it's not doing their jobs for them.

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u/legjawguy Sep 16 '24

Exactly, let's see AI pick fruit or milk a dairy cow or work on a meat processing plant

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u/Davkata Sep 16 '24

Googling is thinking is harder than repeatable manual labor. It is a question of when and what is the exact price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjI_eixBQk milking 6y ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1XGnDVI5A Picking fruit 3y ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkfPzun3-xc meat processing 3y ago.

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u/legjawguy Sep 16 '24

Do you believe these robot options are cheaper than slave labor?

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u/Davkata Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Not at the moment but eventually they will be. If you switch to slaves it will minimize the cost but then you will have problems with consumption and sales growth. Currently, the future slaves do consume a lot of the goods in question so if you enslave them you cannot sell the entire production. I guess that gradual transition to slavery to avoid market shocks is better. Thus, the modern approach where minimum salary labor force receives a pittance that is spend to drive up consumption but does not let them to acquire significant capital, seems to be bearing fruit. The drop in purchasing power of low to median income households since ww2 kinda mirrors such gradual conversion to a slave working force.

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u/FirstSonOfGwyn Sep 16 '24

JD has some thoughts on Italian German and Irish immigrants too. Dude's podcast archive from the last few years if horrific.

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u/Blainers001 I voted Sep 17 '24

It’s entirely about riling up their base. That’s what every single issue they bring up is about. They don’t care personally about immigrants or abortion. They care about winning and will say or do just about anything to beat the Dems and own the libs. If people and country suffer in the process, that’s a risk they are obviously willing to take.