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The American masses already accepted that you can be a billionaire through hard work and dedication and not through theft, corruption and abuses of power, so why wouldn't they accept that these rich fuggs, who would never give out a dime for no reason, gave such a big present out of the kindness of their hearts?
Americans haven't had a brain in so long, y'all need to stop keeping your hopes up for some sort of proletarian revolution there...
The Democrats are up in arms about this (because it's illegal as fuck) but there's quite a bit of right wing push back, even from everyone's favorite ~~cumsucker~~ ~~plastic surgery disaster~~ ~~Russian asset~~ pundit Laura Loomer
Loomer said she loved Trump and would “take a bullet for him. But I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400m ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/trump-qatar-plane-maga-republicans
Being more racist than corrupt makes you right once in awhile.
Holy fuck that is the most based thing Loomer has ever said. I'm gonna call a spade a space and say "jihadists in suits" is a sick burn.
Sprinkling racism in a corruption criticism does not make the criticism better. Instead it make it seem dependent on the race of the people doing the corruption, which is exactly the message the corrupt rich white people want to bring across.
You're right but I'm happy to see that vitriol towards valid criticism. It's about time they get called out for being monsters
When loomer starts criticizing your grift…
I have hope for a proletarian revolution, just not a big one. We are not taking the steps necessary to assure the new boss isnt Same As The Old Boss < Pete Townshend shriek >
But when enough people die or we are forced to face our own capitulation with death camps (mass graves will do) or even after a century of EU / China occupation and provisional government, we might want a system that has a truly fair election system and ironclad checks and balances, even an extra-broad distribution of executive power.
Maybe even institutionalized wealth redistribution. (When I was taking [capitalist] macroeconomics 101 in college circa 1985 it was well known how wealth disparity can undermine democratic features of government.)
Or the leopards will eat all our faces. Just all of them. Then the only working class remaining will be imprisoned and forced to work. All the experts will be long dead. And resource reserves will quickly become scant as the ownership class (Ayn Rand's maker class) will get to experience the truth of Rand's post-taker society.
And that's when the paramilitary class will realize they don't need the ownership class. (See Elysium 2013)
So, if we're lucky, the revolution will be nonviolent and we'll squeak by with enough reformation to work towards a multi-party system and get rid of the slave-state–favoring imbalances. It won't stop the stupid (or the far-right — infused with billionaire cash) trying to demonize intelligentsia and academia, but it'll allow us to move towards a capitalist state with socialized services and a propensity towards moderate ministers. (Great Britain went this direction and is now seeing deterioration of their system thanks to Tory meddling.)
What a wonderful and hopeful take, all things considered, lol. Thanks for your reply. 🙏
I don't believe in wonderful and hopeful when accurate is bleak. Feel free to consider solutions to veer the US away from the bad ending, but I've been screaming like Cassandra about this when we were torturing alleged terrorists in the 2004. We had many, many chances to change our direction but it meant elected officials choosing to do good rather than get rich, and they chose the latter.
So I have plum run out of faith or hope that they're going to do better.
If you can offer a more hopeful take that doesn't involve miracles of conscience or sociological serendipity, please enlighten me, and I'll look to facilitate that.
Otherwise your hope only redirects the energy of sympathists toward ineffective action while ICE seizes parents, leaving toddlers in the streets.
You say that like Trump doesn't know exactly what strings are attached. This "gift" is a deal, we just aren't supposed to know the details.
Trump knows the strings are attached to the USA rather than him.