Usually I am sympathetic towards people losing their jobs. However, that goes out the window when their government is hostile and I am watching family struggle due to the trade war.
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To the Americans crying about how unfair we’re being by celebrating their economic loss and how “what are we supposed to do about our administration?”
Now you know a fraction of how every person in a country under US sanctions feels. The exact logic you’re railing against is the same logic your country applies to Cuba.
The difference being those people have to deal with the immiserstion of brutal poverty and you just have to deal with having to find a new job and some mean Canadians online poking fun at you. Cry me a river.
American Voters: “Republicans are better for Job Creation! We heard it on The News.”
How about you Americans let the rest of us enjoy a little bit of what you’ve been doing to all of us for the entire existence of the US.
You don’t gotta do shit, just don’t be a bitch about people laughing at you for the same shit y’all laughed at everyone else for.
And yea I know it’s not YOU it’s your country.
This is exactly the same behavior as when men come out of the wood work and say “I’m not like that” when people start taking about toxic masculinity and shit.
It’s not all Americans but it’s always an American.
Shedding jobs is literally what our administration has set out to do. Its what the Fed has been aiming for. They recently voted to hold interest rates, with some members voting to raise them. Idk who these “analysts” are, but they’re fucking morons. Even if interest rates were cut, it would take like 6 months to a year to see wages and employment bounce back.
I’m def not saying it is good to be losing jobs, but it is intentional.
I don’t know if lowering rates would help anything at this time. I think it’d mostly just go into the AI bubble who’s goal is to reduce jobs.
Well, right. The goal is to increase unemployment to lower wages. There are multiple things going on to keep that pressure on, and lowering interest rates .25 or .5% or whatever would be meaningless. Shifting them back to zero might goose borrowing and ease the labor market but also like nobody wants to do that right now. It’s fine and natural to act like even market forces are totally neutral, but if you have half a notion you realize that attitudes toward hiring and firing are shaped just as much in the private country club as they are in the market.
I like the example of interest rates because its bound up with inflation and employment in a way that is very recent and easily demonstrable. There’s tons of examples of business and finance sickos calling to raise interest rates to drive down wages, while simultaneously raising prices that are directly transferred in the largest part into profits and bonuses, while calling it “inflation.” People lived through it, we know it, we understand it, its provable that increasing unemployment to drive down wages to increase profitability is an intentional activity by the political and economic classes.
But I agree, it isn’t just interest rates.
I’ll join the Americans in the thread in reminding that this is less of Canada vs US and more of the 99% vs the 1%. A struggle that exist on each side of the border with the 1% cooperating across the border. I say this as someone who actively dislikes plenty of American culture. 😅
I too enjoyed this juicy bit of schadenfreude tho.
American culture is the world’s foremost cheerleaders of the global 1%. It’s their brand. They can wear it.
Canadian here, and I agree. Sadly global products tend to lead directly to the 1%, and its best if most people buy from local and small businesses – for the environment too. And to donate / help poor countries so they can be better self sufficient.
help poor countries so they can be better self sufficient.
So so many problems would be solved by this. Help at macro country-to-country level, not on individual level.
To me, an American, here’s how this reads: In past economic downturns, the US government could at least construct a plausible story of our resilience and strength because of things like “inflation is high all over the world, but ours is lower than other trading partners” or “unemployment rate is higher than we’d like but still lower than other developed nations” and things like that. This time around, it’s clear in many ways that our federal (and often state) governments are making things so much worse for us than necessary, not doing anything that’s effective to fix the problems, and other developed countries / trading partners / former allies (even those who are facing similar issues and/or dealing with Trump’s shenanigans) are doing better than us in metrics that are important for the working class.
Believe me when I say, I’ll be pointing this out and rubbing it in MAGA supporters’ faces along with everything else. Even a mediocre president and incompetent congress could have maintained the slow but steady recovery we were in the midst of before Trump took over.
Instead, they supported and elected a terrible president and malicious / complicit congress, and the resulting damage to our country, the economy, and our reputation is now cemented in. They voted to fuck everybody over, which tracks with the rapist and pedophile supporting crowd.
I’ll be pointing this out and rubbing it in MAGA supporters’ faces along with everything else
GLWT, most of them live in a different reality
My thoughts exactly. Why bother? They’re hopeless if they haven’t figured it out by now, so you’re just antagonizing an idiot. I’d rather spend my limited capacity doing something productive, though antagonizing idiots might be productive for some.
We have to keep trying
Well said, maybe one day our nation’s can be friends again but it will be a long hard process.
Your country will never be what it used to be and that may be hard for some of you to accept. I hope you guys come to your senses soon.
Hmmmm I don’t usually start my day with porn but ok, what the hell it’s Friday
I would use that Notification Settings button at the bottom to disable all those apps’ notifications. Most of my apps are denied notification permission unless they are for messaging or necessary. Makes the phone less hassling
…some people might want those notifications?
Right? Super strange just telling somebody to disable their notis lol clearly they want them on.
And what - miss this beautiful moment OP shared with us?
Found the mansplainer.
Ironically mansplaining as a term is often used in a condescending manner (such as here)
heh a bit of an oversharing/thinking out loud moment; it happens
“Hey! They took our jooooorb! Get 'em!”
Don’t disturb me pls.
I guess I am technically employed currently, but it’s not in my educated field that payed way better so I would like some more of those jobs specifically please.
This was in time for Shadenfriday!
