I thought he hated Communists?
They are still in open contempt of the court order?
They will have to pretend to fall in line at some point then order the same thing another way, they aren’t popular enough to totally ignore the courts. Not that they won’t try.
Traitor to the nation.
Imagine if this happened while Obama or Biden were in office.
Pointing out the GOPs constant hypocrisy doesn’t even seem to matter anymore
It’s their sustenance
The only thing that works on those cretins is shame. Shaming them for being deplorable beasts is the only way to get them to stop being amongst the most vile people on the planet.
Which one is capable of feeling shame?
I don’t see shame doing anything. They defer to power and only so long as they’re weaker.
yeah but obama wore a tan suit so it’s all square /s
imagine if trump wore a tan suit
maga would call trolling the libs
Xi about to infiltrate the entire US without lifting a finger. Dude just stuns Trump on sight because Trump’s brain is just sex mush.
Trump fucked up so bad wirh Iran and he is hoping China oil can lower prices. If he can lower gas prices before midterms, maybe he can the epstein files secret a little longer.
This seems really odd.
Since Trump started the Canadian Tariff Wars, the amount of Canadian crude going to the US has dropped substantially. Guess where it’s going instead? China.
While China might sell to the US for less than they’re buying from Canada, it won’t stay that way for long. Just long enough to get the US hooked on Chinese oil, which will likely be sourced in Canada and refined in China before being sold to the US.
This says our pipeline exports are up from 2025.
This says while there’s a slight drop from 2024, 2025 exports to the US are still higher than 2023.
There is this article which links to some reports. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-china-trade-export-up-2026-9.7340408
Total crude petroleum exports to China more than doubled to C$5.96 billion
The links in your reply say the value of crude exported in 2014 was $153 billion. So, a very small amount.
As I understand, the desire to get crude to the coast for shipping to Asia is the justification for the pipeline projects.
I thought their overall use fell in 2026 as well.
One pod I saw (reliability unknowable) said their imports from the middle east had gone down, but their wasn’t clear visibility on actual usage. It could have been offset by using some of their huge reserves, or doing deals with Russia and/or Iran that weren’t being disclosed.
But China aren’t stupid and have been building out renewables to move towards less dependency on external energy supplies.
But China aren’t stupid and have been building out renewables to move towards less dependency on external energy supplies.
Exactly this. They don’t let people that are attached to things like gender-affirming vehicles - in some cases, even altered to burn MORE diesel in order to blow smoke on things like hybrids, EVs or bicyclists - drive our national energy policy, FFS.
Here, in America, we have a whole political party that represents the people attached to things like gender-affirming vehicles and therefore we have more of a vibes-based approach to energy plans.
Isn’t China a net importer of oil?
The largest net importer of oil. Not only do they consume so much, they also have the largest strategic reserve of crude. They’ve been tapping it since the Epstein-Iran war limited their access to Iran oil and prices went up.
They have massive refining capacity and they export refined fuel.
Yes. Massively so. I hear people say things like “Chinese oil” and it doesn’t make any sense to me. There is virtually no Chinese oil. There is Chinese financing, and there is Chinese refining services.
They import crude oil and export refined oil.
I tuned into “ trump tv” where they were informing their audience that trumps farts cure cancer and that there is a convoy of trans gender Mexican mice headed for the border.
One assumes the mice are heading there to pay for the wall
The Chinese press probably has been ordered to flatter the witless trump.
So yes, of course they are let in.
Flattery gets you everywhere with Trump, so it makes sense they’d be told that. If they kiss his ass enough he’ll just give them Taiwan.
Admitting the US has sovereignty over Taiwan is pretty funny tho.
Far from sovereignty, but the US has historically had a vested interest in keeping Taiwan separate from China, regardless of what each other party wants. They’ve kept up just enough of a presence in the south China sea to deter a direct attack but not enough to guarantee true sovereignty, whether or not Taiwan actually wants it.
… and Americans still won’t even entertain the notion of a national strike as their country is flushed down the toilet
A national strike would probably be more palatable if there were trusted community organizations that could help the most vulnerable who can’t go without pay, even for short periods. It doesn’t just have to be cash they distribute, in-kind goods or services would be useful too.
This is what people mean when they say voting isn’t enough to make meaningful change. Get to know your neighbors and take care of each other. The state is less scary when you have solidarity.
The German revolutions saw those things just taken and given to the people.
How long do you think a given Walmart could support people for?
Not long, everything is just-in-time.
Farmers were paid with capital and items siezed from banks and merchants.
The just in time month’s worth of rice for a family can last 4 families a week.
It just has to support people who can’t support themselves long enough to set up proper supply lines.
While this is an important topic, my original comment was simply about strike support. I think a huge barrier for people is how daunting direct action can be. If people can support each other through strikes and other acts of solidarity, planning for more impactful disruptions will be more manageable.
We don’t like each other enough. We see the government as a way to make other people angry.
The largest strike in the history of the USA was 70K people.
Why are you dreaming of magical solutions?
There have been national strikes in the world, like India, but the USA’s standard of living is much too high for that. Nobody else has managed a national strike under similar conditions, it’s unheard of. It’s never been done.
Besides, your country is probably still using US dollars and accepting US aid, you can’t even stop enabling the international beast yourselves. But you have to work and feed your family, we get it.
accepting US aid,
Jokes on you and the thousands of dead people from starvation and preventable diseasw. The Trump admin got rid of USAID and our other means of international aid have been significantly curtailed too.
How many pedophile presidents have you had before this one?
There is always a first time for anything bud
Of course, you can just keep listing excuses instead of actually doing anything for your own country… that is always an option
Probably several presidents who raped children, people who seek power tend to be shitbags. They have all been smarter than trump.
Yeah, it’s that guy’s fault! Why isn’t that guy striking!?! Get him!
Reasons that make sense are only “excuses” if you already decided any reason couldn’t be valid ahead of time. America bad tho, true. All American bad.
sure… but also shitty excuses are just that.
I have heard the following shitty excuses:
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It’s never been done. That does not preclude anything from being done the first time
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USA is too big. A strike means people stop working, ideally yes they show up somewhere to make it visible but you do not need to be anywhere specific for that. Everybody can strike in their own town
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Re doing something small like boycotting Meta/Google: it will do nothing.
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Re doing anything that requires any sacrifice: I am not willing to be DIE for this.
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Re doing anything civil like writing to congress: they will just not care.
You probably hear very little of that on Lemmy.
Disagree. And I disagree wholeheartedly.
I heard/read quite a few of those type of excuses (and they are excuses, not reasons) when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and I was asking why no fucker was doing anything about it.
I have since lost hope, so much so that I have now pretty much stopped complaining about the us population being lazy, or complicit/evil, or complacent.
I got sick of, well, complacency.Christ, I have had the “america is a large country. It’s impossible to (insert excuse here)…”, on three different occasions by three different commenters about three different Donvict Drumpf based issues.
So, yeah, I see very little of that type of comment now… but only because I can’t be arsed anymore. I now just call the fat orange imbecile a paedo and move on.
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We will deal with the problem when the water around us starts boiling I promise. In the meantime has anyone noticed it’s feeling a bit warm in here?
yeah… that’s nuts
Just pitch it as an indefinitely long tailgating party.
May Day 2026. Anyone involved in any actual Union or labor activity in America has know this was gonna be the date for a like a year now so everyone has time to prepare
2027?
The Friday after work to ensure no economic activity is disrupted event?
This missed the mark just as holding a pool party with no pool and mandatory trench coats for all attendees
That’s when it starts. It’s timed around contract cycles for several major employers. Unions have been working to line this up so a fuck load of people can legally strike. It goes until demands are met.
But but, in return China is sending two pandas to the Atlanta zoo!
Murica so grate agin
This is a conspiracy theory, but is it really so far-fetched to assume that the most powerful 1% of the populations are joining forces worldwide to establish something like a global feudal regime?
It’s entirely feasible, since we’re talking about just a few thousand people here.
In any case, these people have one thing in common: they view democracy as a problem. This applies to Trump just as much as it does to Putin and Jinping. The same goes for their henchmen, such as Merz in Germany, for example.
It’s not that unthinkable when you consider the fundamental idea behind fascism, as shaped by Mussolini in his day: a brotherhood of the elites striving for absolute rule.
It seems to me that this is now the agenda, especially since in the U.S., with the pseudo-intellectual concept of “Dark Enlightenment,” there doesn’t even seem to be any attempt to hide it.
I’m not usually a fan of such ideas, but it does seem very, very suspicious to me, given that the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries are apparently doing everything in their power to undo the civilizational progress of the last hundred years—and are clearly doing so in a fairly well-coordinated manner.
I’m not usually a fan of such ideas, but it does seem very, very suspicious to me, given that the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries are apparently doing everything in their power to undo the civilizational progress of the last hundred years—and are clearly doing so in a fairly well-coordinated manner.
Have you ever been close to the top of of a large organization? While conventional wisdom is that the higher you go, the more informed, skilled, coordinated, wise, and even Machiavellian it is. My experience is that its usually the opposite. Sure, there are pockets of those things in individual people, but the people at the top are usually really good at a few things only. If they’re truly wise, they surround themselves with other people that cover their own gaps in knowledge, skill, temperament, etc. However the larger and more complicated the organization, the more outer rings of people are required with those other pockets of skills.
In short, complex organizations (this includes governments) are the opposite of " fairly well-coordinated manner". There are just too many moving parts and the environment changes so quickly that the rules that worked a second ago changed. Most successful organizations I’ve seen make “okay” decisions most of the time “good” decisions every now and then, and the best orgs do everything they can to limit their internal fuck ups.
The best vaccine against conspiracy theories about high groups of coordinated humans in leadership working against you is actually seeing humans in leadership trying to coordinate.
I’d be an idiot to say here what I do for a living, but yes, I regularly deal with CEOs -and it’s precisely this experience that makes it all the more likely to me that a conspiracy like the one mentioned above is underway. While I’m nowhere near that level, I’m still quite familiar with the politics in companies with 500 or more employees. For me, this is all the more reason to entertain such thoughts, because I know of hardly any company where performance or competence is even remotely appreciated. The people I know as “the decision-makers” should actually be the very last ones to make decisions—they’re self-absorbed, unscrupulous people.
I regularly deal with CEOs -and it’s precisely this experience that makes it all the more likely to me that a conspiracy like the one mentioned above is underway.
I’m confused by this statement. If you’re familiar with the regular pockets of incompetence that is present in any leadership organization, what leads you to believe they would be successfully executing a broad coordinated conspiracy like this? I’m not suggesting its a lack of greed or narcissism at the top for them to try, but to actually succeed seems pretty unlikely to me.
Because they have the money to do so. Those who have it simply pay good people. You should know this if you’ve ever dealt with large companies. It doesn’t take good management—just the money to pay the people who do the work. You should also know that giant online corporations like Meta have an incredibly small number of employees compared to industrial companies, and labor is the biggest cost factor in any business.
What do you actually do for a living? You claim to have insights. Where did you get them?
Because they have the money to do so. Those who have it simply pay good people. You should know this if you’ve ever dealt with large companies. It doesn’t take good management—just the money to pay the people who do the work.
The problem isn’t the resources to execute, its forming a coherent strategy, and actually following through with it while balancing their own interests against their co-conspirators that are also all trying to do the same thing. Many times the failure is simply not forming the right initial question. If that step is messed up, then the best implemented plans are solving the wrong problem or addressing the right problem only incidentally at best.
You should also know that giant online corporations like Meta have an incredibly small number of employees compared to industrial companies,
What is leading you to that conclusion? Unless you’re intentionally omitting many offshore resources, the biggest tech giants rival large industrial companies. Meta has more employees than Exxon Mobile. Alphabet has more than 4x the number of employees as Bechtel. Microsoft has 100,000 more employees than Koch Inc.
Are there tech firms with a smaller headcount than other industrial firms? Sure. Even then, I’m not seeing where you’re going with the headcount-to-successful-conspiracy metric.
and labor is the biggest cost factor in any business.
I agree labor is the biggest cost of nearly all businesses. What does that have to do with the ability for a core group of leadership in multiple competitive organizations successfully coordinating a worldwide conspiracy?
What do you actually do for a living? You claim to have insights. Where did you get them?
I agree with your prior statement for myself too : “I’d be an idiot to say here what I do for a living”
If you want to dismiss my observations because I’m not presenting my bona fides, you’re welcome to.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. Of course tech companies have a lot of employees if you count all the “mechanical turks”. That’s simply misleading.
None of that has much to do with what my original comment was about.
You’re saying that it’s impossible for powerful, completely degenerate people to be capable of playing their power games.
My take on this is that a look at the history books proves you wrong. LinkedIn-style fairy tales about leadership and all that bogus doesn’t change much about that.
None of that has much to do with what my original comment was about.
The whole headcount thing was your point, not mine. I could never tell where you were going with it.
You’re saying that it’s impossible for powerful, completely degenerate people to be capable of playing their power games.
No, I never said its impossible. I said the closer you get to seeing those in power, the less likely it appears to happen for a number of reasons, but mostly because they are simply not as smart or capable as we generally give them credit for. Wealth and power does not equal intelligence.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. Of course tech companies have a lot of employees if you count all the “mechanical turks”. That’s simply misleading.
Are you seriously dismissively calling tech workers from outside the West “mechanical turks” like they’re throwaway people? I’ll say this as nicely as possible: Fuck that racist bullshit!
These are people like you and me. No different. They contribute high tech and high quality work to multi million and billion dollar programs. They may make a fraction of the wage we do here in the West, but that isn’t because they are any less smart, skilled, ambitious, or honest. That is only the product of history and geopolitics. I’ve personally gone to India and seen first hand the work they do, and worked alongside them. They work as hard as we do for a better life for themselves and their families. Fuck you for thinking less of them.
This post of mine can probably get me banned, but if it goes that way I’ll take that if the alternative is accepting open racism.
I’m familiar with the history of it. It was a person in the box. Mechanical Turk is also a 21st century reference to people that do brainless work born from the AWS service. In either reading I’m only seeing you’re saying they don’t count as workers, or they’re workers that don’t count because their work is trivial.
I see from your post history that English may not be your first language. I’m really hoping you’re just miscommunication. Please explain the non-racist/non-dismissing meaning I’m hoping you’re trying to get across.
What I meant by that was that many tech companies hire people, who frequently perform these tasks on a project basis for only short periods of time, and pay them a pittance for their work. Their numbers are likely to fluctuate greatly.
I was by no means trying to emphasise the fact that these people mostly live in countries where wages are particularly low and where there are virtually no labor protections; I was simply pointing out that they are usually hired on a short-term basis.
This exploitative practice, as well as other “gig-work” arrangements, is unfortunately quite widespread, especially in the tech industry, and serves to increase corporate profitability. Many tech companies use this approach to reduce the number of permanent employees—a practice that, of course, isn’t unique to the tech industry—but using these practices there are many tech companies that generate astronomical revenues with a comparatively small workforce.
The global feudal regime is called the WEF. It is ran by the West.
