Apparition of Jack

As funny as it is to dunk on Trump the sad reality is that a lot of regular people are going to be fucked over by this. Expect poverty rates to rise in the coming months.

America already had perfect trade deals with everyone they needed to This is like a farmer threatening to burn 25% of his crops unless people sold him more candles (he doesn’t need candles) It’s pure nonsense

Few people willingly admit this but Trump is basically only in power to maintain white supremacy. His cult would accept hellfire in the streets if it meant white people were the ones controlling the ashes. In many ways the battle for the future of America isn’t purely over economics but the battle between ethno-nationalism vs racial plurality.

This tariff thing cuts to the core of their ideology. Republicans believe in nothing else if not “green line goes up.” Trump so far has been able to get away with some of the worst and most oppressive abuses of power in American history thus far, but so long as the economy had the facade of normalcy his base would support him no matter what. This changes that. The idea that Trump is some sort of economic demi-god who was divinely sent to bring back 1950s prices has been seriously challenged. And if he can be wrong about this, what else can he be wrong about? Look at the response by someone like Benny Johnson online. Suddenly going from “Dems are ruining the economy” to “actually we don’t need money after all” as a way to try and cope with these actions. And as economic instability harms more and more people, I imagine his support will continue to erode. Of course, there will always be those who support him no matter what, and for the time being he still has massive amounts of power, but as he fucks up more and more he’ll paint a bigger and bigger target on his back. Truth eventually cracks through.

Honestly my take on these things is that I’ll never understand why people care so much about society’s opinions. Maybe it’s because I’m a straight male but I feel like even if I was gay, trans, whatever, I’d just accept that and not really care if other people don’t “get it.” It I was born with a penis but then had it removed and filled myself with hormones, I honestly wouldn’t surprise me that most people wouldn’t really know what the fuck I was doing. That’s incredibly fringe behaviour and accepting that you live in a collective context makes life like 97% easier. Of course, if someone was being outright dangerous towards me I’d tell them to fuck off and demand something be done, but at the same time I wouldn’t just focus on that as if that’s all that defined my identity (also risk is an inherent part of life for all humans so there’s that too🤷‍♀️ ) I mean fuck, I know it’s not the same as transgenderism but I sometimes get jealous of drag queens just for how much fucking *fun* they have. Why does everything have to be so goddamn miserable with these people?

Seeking refuge is a human right. Remind asshats of this every time they complain about asylum seekers.

Does this mean Trump supports paid maternity leave? 🤔

Praying for the people of Thailand in this trying time 🙏

It’s King Tut’s man cave

@Leo GuraDo it man!!

@Leo Gura At some point do you think these people will ever realise how fundamentally miserable, broken, sad and lonely people they are? None of them can stand each other. None of them sees any of the others as more than anything but as means to their own ends. Even their own families fucking hate them. Thiel, Bezos, Musk, Trump, Zuckerberg - they’re all so fucking miserable. As much as it annoys me they have all this power, part of me is glad I’ll never end up like that, living a constant, never-ending web of lies and deceptions, chasing the next high. It just sounds awful tbh.

Who the fuck knows. If it suits them they’ll certainly try. But we can fight back, and we can win. There is a growing movement of righteous anger and a dawning realisation among the people that democracy isn’t just something you take for granted, it’s something you have to uphold and work for. There is a growing realisation that democracy truly is the best form of government, and the progress of history requires its expansion, not diminishment. There is a growing realisation that our safe, prosperous societies are only built off common work, which can only be done if the people are free and protected by the people around them. Trump cannot and will not win. The path forward is arduous and difficult to see, but it is one we will walk, and one will overcome. And at the end of it all, the great promise of world history, the great promise of prosperity, community and freedom for all, will finally be achieved. This is our moment.

@aurum this is like a bingo card for people Republicans are caught having sex with

I think he does a bunch of drugs.

Nah man this is pathetic. Like actual caveman-tier politics analysis. You might be thinking I’m rude or an asshole, and you’re probably right, but I also have to call it as I see it. MAGA and Trump are existential threats to democracy. They would sooner send the world to hell if it meant retaining power than creating heaven if it meant listening to reason. If you can’t see this, then I feel sorry for you. I truly hope one day you get out of your delusions.

@Elliott AOC might be loud because there’s a lot of justified anger in the US right now. It’s weird that you say Bernie is civil why AOC is loud when the two of them are openly aligned with each other. If feel like you’ve sunk a whole bunch of propaganda about her that just isn’t true. If you actually listen to her (and not what some talking head on the media says about her) you’d see that she’s actually incredibly nuanced, even for her loudest opinions. Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to agree with everything she says, but when it comes to thinks like corruption, Republican overreach, citizen right’s, wealth hoarding etc she’s always right on the money. Next time you hear her, listen to what she’s actually saying, and don’t just focus on the fact that she’s “loud” or whatever. There’s a LOT of people suffering under Trump right now (poor people, migrants (even legal ones), seniors, children etc) and her agitation is a way to highlight that suffering and stop MAGA from ruining even more lives. Again, even if you don’t fully agree with her, I urge you to reconsider your thoughts on what she says and see if you agree with anything she’s saying. EDIT: Comparing her to Trump or MTG is just ridiculous, lol. Trump is loud against working Americans and vulnerable people; AOC is loud against oligarchs and state oppression. It’s like saying both Nazi Germany and the US were bad in WW2 because “both wanted to defeat their opponent” - the comparison is just nonsense.

So what’s your problem with AOC then? I feel like she agrees with basically all of this (honestly I’m not even sure she supports illegal immigration, she just doesn’t support using unconstitutional actions against them when they’re here.) Where do you take issue?

You have strange politics 🤔 What do you believe politically?

Idk what to say dude. If Bannon is so anti-Trump why is he literally aligned with him? If Bannon pushes back against social security cuts, it’s because he recognises how unpopular they are and how much they’ll hurt the Trump administration. He doesn’t actually care at all about old people not getting pensions, he’s just trying to gain as much power as he can to push his ethnonationalist agenda. I mean dunking on AOC? Really dude? She’s one of the few shining beacons of truth and humanity in this shitty time lol, how can you be so blind? 😂 Bannon, Trump, etc will never, ever give a shit about you. They don’t care about democracy, or prosperity, or anything like that. They just want to push their nationalist agendas and make their way to the banks.

@Elliott Dude, Bannon has been aligned with Trump since Day 1. If you can’t see how MAGA propagandists operate by now then IDK what to tell you lol. Maybe you could get away with being this gullible in 2017 but not these lol. If you want some conservatives who actually give a shit about the country, check out the Lincoln Project. They have a bunch of incredible anti-Trump content to check out lol, its honestly hilarious 😂

@Elliott He literally did Elon’s Nazi salute a few days ago as an overt wink to his supporters - he’s trying to fool you. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/12/2309813/-Steve-Bannon-s-plot-to-convert-Democrats-into-ultranationalists

Yes, absolutely. It’s a shame that some of the best anti-Trump messaging isn’t coming from the Dems at all, but then again fuck the status quo Dems lol. You’re absolutely right in pushing that sort of message - this current crisis is a crisis of American democracy that extends beyond party lines, so messages like that appeal to people across the political spectrum.

No. Be careful with Bannon. He is one of the worst people in Trump’s circle. Hes an explicit white nationalist who plans to use American dissatisfaction with the status quo to turn America into a white ethnostate. He will say things that progressives like (like supporting Medicare or calling Musk racist) to make himself more palatable to Americans whilst in actuality not caring about any of these and in fact pushing for the exact opposite. Without giving him too much credit, he’s incredibly cunning and has a very strong grasp on social psychology but is using those to push one of the most evil ends in existence. Don’t be fooled by his lies. That’s what he’s hoping to achieve.

This is why I made a thread about allying with Christian Democrats. I think disaffected conservatives (like the Lincoln Project) are a completely slept on demographic who’ll be key to defeating Trump.

This might be a controversial topic, but with the increase of global instability over the last few years alongside the broad changes to society in general (the internet, global trade etc.) I think now more than ever is the right time to genuinely seeing the UN as a government in its own right, and not just a limited forum for discussion / international policy making. Take a look at the recent violence in the Middle East. Can we honestly say that, say, having both Hamas and Israel vehemently fight to assert their nationalistic claims is leading us to a better world? Even for their own citizens? Of course the most radical in each of these countries will never see eye-to-eye, but for the broad groups of people caught up in the crossfire, what good does it serve them to have governments wage war unchecked to assert obscure nationalist claims going back thousands of years? Or how about the massacres in Syria? The cause and responsibility of these massacres seems murky at best, and in a nation still reeling from a decade-long civil war and now being carved up by dozens of competing powers (Turkey, Israel, Iran, Russia, the US, the EU etc), is it really so insane to think that some sort of international governing body committed to democracy and the rule of law would lead to worse outcomes for the people in Syria? The challenges of the 21st century are sometimes too great to comprehend, so how is relying on the same nationalistic dick-waving humanity has done so for the last 10,000 years going to solve any of them? Are we not one people? One species? One humanity? Does it really, genuinely matter if it’s Russia, or Iran, or a bunch of Sunni radicals who control some small strip of East Syrian coast? What else is our endgame? Constant shit-flinging endlessly, dragging each other down over arcane disagreements that serve no purpose other than to puff up the egos of a handful of people? In a world where literally everyone is now online, where everyone can talk to anyone else anywhere on the planet at the drop of a hat, is it really so crazy to think we should start using our collective human resources to build a co-operative, prosperous society that respects law, democracy and arbitration? Are our ties to our limited pieces of land so great that we’d rather die in a rocket crater, flag in hand, than prosper with our neighbours who might look slightly different to us? At what point do we say that cooperation and agreement is better than division and bloodlust? How many more random massacres, pogroms, bombings, wars, riots, assassinations, invasions are we going to brook until we say enough is enough? What’s the point of all this bloodshed? Where does it leave us? What does it accomplish? There has to be a better way, and there is; and that way is for us to genuine look to genuine world cooperation. Thank you for coming to me ActualizedTalk.