For the last 40 years through free trade we’ve had a large population join the market from countries like China, Russia, India etc.

Free trade with China has given us cheap consumer goods but at the cost of our own manufacturing which suppressed wage growth and inflation for a long time. We hit the peak of this just before Covid and we are now feeling the after affects.

China’s dramatically aging population along with geopolitical instability means that the logistics and manufacturing capacity that existed overseas for 20 years Is now failing. The US forced to reshore or nearshore (Mexico) much of its manufacturing capacity. Basically if we want to continue to have stuff we need to find somewhere else to make it besides China. This isn’t a cheap process and it won’t be as efficient as the old system.

Russia’s war with Ukraine has huge implications on resources and energy. Russia exports a lot of raw materials, fertilizer products, food, energy and aluminum. Taking them offline has affected international trade and has many many markets.

Our institutions that support labor have also withered over the last 40 years. Labor unions don’t have the sway they used too and politicians have ignored their needs for decades. Big business will not just give wage increases much like in the 20s and 30s Labor will need to grow and become more combative than it currently is to see any improvements.

In short the world order that we all grew up in is breaking down and changing. It will be at least a decade before these changes finish shaking out and we see solutions to the problems we are facing fully materialize.

If you read the linked article in my post Trump made inroads with young women too.

lol, yes Millennials and Gen Z are trying so much harder to fix the situation by voting for change… ohhh wait

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/yes-trump-improved-young-men-drew-young-women-rcna179019

A. Many men would not marry a woman who didn’t take their name.

B. Makes parenting more difficult in social settings by not sharing the last name of your kids. I.E. Picking up your kid at school or making medical decisions about kids and having a different last name as the child forces you to jump through a lot more hoops.

C. Women tend to grow up knowing they are going to change their last name it’s not even an afterthought. My girlfriend told me her and her friends would often talk about what their name would be if they married a guy they liked.

D. In some states it is very difficult for a man to change their last name but for women the processes is already in place.

I agree with all of your points but believe there is one more.

Many vote for their party because that is what their family has always done. To them it is like rooting for their Football or Baseball team. They just want the win and feed off any news stories that support that view. No matter how much of complete failure a Republican President is (G.W.B. Comes to mind) their popularity never drops below 28% - 35%.

Na, it will only take two years.

Trump tariffs will crater the economy in a year.

Massive round ups of migrants both legal and illegal. Killing farming and destroying families.

Musk well being Musk and chopping the Federal Budget,

50,000 vetted loyal Trumpists ready to take over the Federal government.

Matt Gates in charge of the Dept of Justice leading Trumps Vengence tour.

RFK Jr starts peddling raw milk and makes vaccines illegal.

It’s gonna be fucking LIT. I can’t wait to tell my half wit Dominican coworker who voted for Trump “I told you so” when their family gets deported. I can’t wait to tell my idiot sister in laws who voted for Trump, I told you so when the government programs they rely on (including Obama Care) get wrecked.

Of course I’m going to suffer too, I’m stocking up on N1 masks, food, toilet paper and bullets… but holy shit I’m going to be saying I told you so in the nastiest most demeaning way possible for the rest of my days.

It’s very telling about your character when you compare an adjudicated rapist, facial and insurrections with a former prosecutor and vice president that you choose to attack the prosecutor / VP over the criminal facist.

I appreciate the clarity of seeing what is in your soul.

I’m sure Trump will improve the situation. Good job getting rid of Genocide Joe and Hatchet girl Kamala!

Just as the founders intended.

A parents inability to parent their children should not infringe upon my right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Thats it, shut it down people, we’ve gone full circle. Israel is killing its own people by killing the people who want to kill them…

Your mental gymnastics deserve a gold medal for that performance.

Yeah chief, the only person quoting Hitler or the Nazi’s in this entire thread is you.

You either have fetishized Nazi’s to a degree that you can’t separate your fetish from reality or you’re just projecting.

Either way you can fuck right off.

I’ve stated it multiple times in this thread. Here is a copy paste from earlier:

Sucks to be on the wrong side of history. No one wants to loose their communities, property or livelihoods. However the Jews had a claim to the area going back thousands of years and they needed to go somewhere.

There were many Jewish communities across the Middle East prior to the 1940s that no longer exist anymore either. I wonder who pushed them out… do they get the same sentiment from your bleeding heart?

There have been two state solutions on the table with Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital on the table multiple times. Palestinians turned every one of them down. Instead of building their own state they will be further pushed out of Gaza. Where they go is anyones guess no one wants them, especially other Muslim states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution

Let me know if this is clear enough or if I should draw something with a crayon for you.

I don’t know, any national government that encourages chants such as “Death to America” and has been attacking Americans since the late 70s isn’t very high on my friend list. They also have been supplying Russia with military aid against Ukraine, so fuck Iran.

Iran also let a couple of long range drones off the chain last week and attacked some random shipping near India in the Arabian Sea. They don’t seem like the best of neighbors even to nominally neutral countries. But hey maybe random acts of violence are your thing.

If you have no issues with Iran perhaps you should go visit and report back on what you find. It would be great to get an independent opinion.

I’m sure you would make some great YouTube content. Just don’t be a pussy and ask for rescue if your trip goes south. I’d like to see you fully commit to this one.

I moved to Reddit during the great Digg exodus.

Last year I had the exact same experience with the same subject in a r/Europe forum. I decided after the temporary ban that I wouldn’t use Reddit. Deleted my beloved Redditisfun App and never looked back.

Were you sodomizing yourself with an Iranian flag covered dildo when you wrote your comment?

The hardcore Republicans I knew after W’s disastrous presidency became temporary embarrassed Republicans and claimed they were always just Libertarians. As soon as the Tea Party sprang up they were back to their old ways.

Most are never going to change and when faced with the consequences of their own actions they will simply change names rather than reflect on their mistakes.

Well shut it down boys we’ve gone full circle. Israelis are killing themselves by killing the people responsible for…killing them.

That is perhaps the most convoluted display of mental gymnastics I’ve ever seen.

Well, New York is American soil, if Terrorists were hiding under a building there I hope our government can surgically remove them. I then hope that our government would glass whatever shit hole those terrorists came from.

Tel Aviv is Israelis territory, it’s response is up to their leadership and the will of populace.

No Putin and Hamas are cut from the same cloth. Both are aggressors.

I fully support Ukraine and hope we ship them all the weapons they ask for. I hope they regain all the territory they lost and wipe Russia from the map. But at the same time if they are not able to secure the lands they lost I hope they have sense enough to know when to compromise.

The Palestinian leadership has displayed no such common sense as of yet.