Comment by mmooss
15 days ago
> they have developed such a seething hatred for more than half of their fellow citizenry that they're willing to destroy the entire country, including themselves, just to hurt them.
That is the people following (speaking very generally). The leaders are leading people in that direction for a reason.
Yeah, I agree. But what is that reason?
I'm not sure I buy it, but this is one theory:
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3llu...
Seems reasonable to me. He'll pick and choose who to give relief to depending on how they bend the knee. It's still going to crash the economy and ruin the country though. In sane times, congress could take the toys away from the executive branch which is obviously abusing its powers. However, we're not in sane times.
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Ruling out money - though domestic companies can cash in from the lack of competition, and it fits the current model of building businesses with large 'moats' so you can enshittify charge rent-extracting prices.
The other usual option is power. I think it's clear that these people will do anything, go to any extreme for power. What is the path from these tarriffs. It's also possible that they made a mistake.
In a different thread I speculated that their plan is to blame their enemies and objects of hatred for the results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43575061
But it seems like they need a positive result from this?