They listen to their country’s media which has a main goal of making THEIR country look awesome compared to others. The US media thrives on division and drama.

In america we work 2 days a week, bike to our local boulangerie and trade some of our welfare stipend euros on a fresh baguette courtesy of ahmed, then go to the theater to watch a transgender opera

Welcome to Hell

That is not how our media works though. We do not have party sponsored propaganda channels on mainstream TV, mainly because that is a fucking idiotic concept.

I probably listen and read more US news and media than my own and I can assure you local news is much more critical of our government than US (let's exclude Fox since it is classified not as news but entertainment due to liabilities from lying all the time) media is.

As I said the US media is DESIGNED to create conflict. It is designed to create racial, religious and disheartening news. Controversy = Cash in the US.

If you exclude FOX there are NO conservative mainstream news channels in the Is btw.

This post was edited by MadMan87 on Apr 7 2025 08:50am

Newsmax is in the top 25 US ratings , its about half of CNN's rating so its still certainly smaller but fairly large still in its reach.

Also note worthy, might see a surge in viewership in this and next months ratings since Trump just endorsed it.

This post was edited by SBD on Apr 7 2025 08:57am

An argument raised by Asmongold is actually cogent. That enough men in the rust belt and rural america are already in a 2nd great depression and feeling it every day. Tariffs aren't threatening people who already have nothing to lose. It won't hit most food or energy or rent, its the rain falling on the investor class, 6 figure pension retirees, metropolitan elites. Most of America doesnt feel a thing when stocks go up or down.

hey i saw that and agreed too. people will be happy to pay the tariff tax on the corners of their finances if it hurts the investment class more. sure there's 5d chess theories about the rich holding cash to buy up the crash, but right now Tennessee plumbers aren't freaking out, its New Jersey brokers.

I don't think that's necessarily true, a significant amount of low cost products come from overseas. Dollarama does exceptionally well during recession but all its items are overseas cheap manufactured items. China, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, just look at the tags on any of your cheap walmart clothing. You can say, well that's not core like food, but it is everyday spending, and a small hit obviously already hurts this people enough.

I think it very much will have an impact, and the attempt to downplay it is just service to a party that's causing more havoc than anyone originally anticipated and its just a cope to say it won't. Look at almost every product distribution company that does well during recessionary pullback periods, its ones that carry ultra cheap manufactured items from overseas.

I do think its true that's ultimately how Trump got elected, obviously there's a level of unhappiness in the states as peoples financial positions decline and life declines, and Trump was the ultimate middle finger to Washington, well the only one really so disgruntled people who thought Washington was not severing their interests anymore went the middle finger route. And I don't think they're wrong, Washington was serving special interest groups more than the average rust-belt American. Its just unfortunate we only had the one middle-finger candidate.

From a pure dollar value, it might hurt the upper-class the most, but that dollar value means the least amount. I think that's the difference in thinking. You think I care if my investments swing 7 figures? No. It will have zero impact. I would care if my paycheck was 1500 every two weeks and suddenly all my cloths and consumer goods went up even 5%.

Quick google:

Case in point - https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/dollarama-hikes-dividend-by-15-races-to-open-new-stores-even-as-tariffs-spook-consumers-192446270.html

This post was edited by SBD on Apr 7 2025 10:06am