Cimbazarov

If these tariffs stay, all these people saying "this is a necessary hardship" are gonna flip on Trump at the first minor inconvenience. These people are 's and have the self discipline of a toddler

Damn ok, there is a kernel of truth to it https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/scm_e/subs_e.htm

I'm just hung up on the "illegal" part. Illegal where? In China? Is Trump saying China is violating their own laws?

illegal subsidization of companies

What?

We are actually very lucky that Musk is the most uncharismatic person in the world. If he had just a little bit of charisma, or even Trump level charisma we would be so cooked.

Like how do you end up so hated when people in this country lick billionaires feet at every opportunity

That sounds so crazy that it just might happen

Have to give the radlibs credit for once

Now that I've read Losurdo's Western Marxism, he definitely fits in with the intellectuals that Losurdo criticizes. Shame, because I found his analysis insightful at times

Honestly what is the alternative? We should let them get away with breaking the law? Yanis Varoufakis also had a similar take. While I agree making these people accountable does nothing to stop fascism, I don't understand how this is a bad thing.

Maybe it's just the wrong framing? Like you're not going to stop fascism by just prosecuting the fascists, but I do think it's a start. However I am confident that this will be the limit of how far they go and they will continue pushing neoliberal policies until their population is fed up. If there were an organized left this would be a prime opportunity.

It will be used against leftists regardless. I hate that argument that "we can't repress the right because they might do it back to us" when historically the right has always been repressive of the left

I agree that it wont stop fascism. At least holding her accountable makes it seem like she actually is a fascist, unlike the Dems crying that Trump is a fascist but also being super soft on him. So I think this is a good thing, even though its clearly not enough. My expectation is there will be another far right figure that will take her place if she can't run.

but I would rather not celebrate too loudly if I celebrated along with pro NATO eurolibs,

they would be delusional to think that fascism is defeated for good just because LePen is barred from running

Huh that's interesting cause I remember the syria flag changing almost right after the government collapsed. Didn't realize Afghanistan also had a flag change, which makes sense. Guess this is good confirmation to normies how inauthentic the overthrow of Assad was.