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"It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that we’ve barely even entered the find out stage. Shits about to get a whole lot worse for a lot of people." - Wednesday, April 23, 2025 (lemm.ee)
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https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1k5yk4w/terrified_trump_flees_tariffs_war_after_ceos/momfo0j/

"It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that we’ve barely even entered the find out stage. Shits about to get a whole lot worse for a lot of people."

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1k5yk4w/terrified_trump_flees_tariffs_war_after_ceos/momuz6g/

"People honestly do NOT understand how this works on any level. We have become an “immediate, right now” society and as a result the general populace has no concept of time scale for things like manufacturing, food production, etc. None of this shit happens overnight, and most manufacturers and producers will try slightly overproduce or keep a minimum of excess supplies on hand in case of a minor disruption to supply lines - but once that handful of emergency supplies or parts is gone? THAT is when you find out how absolutely fucked you are."

"Pausing a handful of tariffs for a month or so will make zero difference. Large scale manufacturing plans out months and years in advance and a 30 day grace period means nothing to someone who is now looking at a possible fifty percent or more, who knows increase on a multi-million dollar contract a year down the line. It’s the instability and lack of logic that will kill so many businesses."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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What to Understand

  1. Donald Trump is the most obvious liar and egomaniac since year 2013. It is blatant, it is obvious, it is clear as day, it is documented.

  2. Understanding the Problem Assertion 1: The problem is not Donald Trump. One liar "Big Shot" who plays golf and spends time with his family retired in Florida on the golf course and goes and hangs out with his buddies is nothing special for a man age 70 and older.

  3. Understanding the Problem Assertion 2: The problem is We The People, the population of society. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

  4. How did this happen? Assertion 3: A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.

  5. Understanding the Problem Assertion 4: The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Egomaniac sure. But it’s important to recognize and come to terms with at may very well be an underlying pathology. The man’s behavior set fits in neatly with Cluster B personality disorder. Narcissist type.

We’ve become far to accustomed to calling non diagnosable behavior by a would be diagnosis: oh I’m OCD about this, ADHD much? to someone who is distracted, oh he’s vain so he’s such a narcissist. That’s not how any of this works.

The pathology of Cluster B is just functional enough to not be institutionalized. But barely. Borderlines find themselves there most often due to their self destructive tendencies.

Look at the behaviors:

  1. Elaborate construction of false realities
  2. perceived enemies of focus, it’s almost like they need an enemy to focus their vitriol
  3. No blame of their own, (see 2.)
  4. outwardly destructive to anyone who contradicts or attempts to dismantle the false reality
  5. spiteful doubling down when you tell them they’re wrong
  6. revelling in power over scenarios and subsequent exploitation where applicable
  7. lack of empathy
  8. delusions of grandeur, self-importance
  9. Unabated need for admiration
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Also very common behavior for drug addicts:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20438087211044362

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Nah, there’s an eely quality to every conversation with an addict, a quality that remains long after becoming clean, but this persistent defense of the false reality isn’t that. An addict can be interpreted as someone infected with a dark passenger that hunts the next fix, with a narcissist there is no such separation. No empathy. No deviance. This is who and what they are while the addict can wrest control back for themselves.

The other difference is an addict can read a room. Again, another life skill that persists long after getting clean.

Of note, there’s nothing wrong with the toolbox carried by former addicts, depending on how they choose to use that toolbox going forward.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Decades of corporate fascism and a two tier legal system gave way to: actual fascism! It's almost like they're symbiotic or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Decades of corporate fascism and a two tier legal system gave way to: actual fascism! It’s almost like they’re symbiotic or something.

The size of the Apple iPhone screen and Twitter-length messages and SMS text messages length reduced all thinking patterns to one-line of thought, it's almost like there is a media ecology connection or something! As if the year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone changed all behavior in society, and 5G mobile networks too! To short-simple reaction thinking.

 

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