• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    It’s his goal. Kill off the ability of the masses to contact and trade with the outside world, so they depend on him. Then extort the poor₁ much as possible.

    ₁ “Poor” here being everyone who isn’t a multimillionnaire. Because compared to people like Muskrat, everyone is poor.

    • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net
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      12 hours ago

      I don’t think it makes sense to ascribe some devious plan to Trump. It is like saying that COVID-19 had the goal of making a short term bump of IT jobs that would be shed a few years later, breaking the long term job security of programming as a profession. 😉

    • iocase@lemmy.zip
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      19 hours ago

      Yeah it’s pretty smart too since he’ll be dead in the next 10 years or less so he won’t have to live with consequences…