silicon_reverie

We're already well past this. He wants to strip any citizen of their rights and their very citizenship simply on his say so. 25 million naturalized citizens? Deported. Political rival elected in a free and fair election? Deported. If he wants someone gone, he's going to find a reason. Even if your family has been here since the country was founded.

The immigration secret police now has more funding than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA, & others combined. The only group better funded than ICE Is the US military, and Trump as the Commander and Chief of that military has already has a track record of sending soldiers after US citizens on American soil. Just imagine what pumping this new round of cash into his new private army is going to do.

You can't call it free market capitalism when you're literally restricting who can and can not import rice and then getting upset at yourself for the self-inflicted starvation. This isn't capitalism, it's the very definition of Protectionism, and yes: closed-matket protectionists are failing everywhere, from Brexiteers to MAGA morons, to closed-market rice farmers.

This isn't to say that unfettered Capitalism is the answer, or that all protectionist policies are bad. Any policy taken to the extreme is guilty of the real sin: not learning from the strengths and weaknesses of the systems they rail against and using them to build a more robust and functional middle ground.

Friendly reminder that, on the whole, there's nothing "friendly" about the frankly horrifying Chinese and Russian human rights records, so "friendly" Lemmings begging us to focus on the single cherry-picked tree instead of the forest of atrocities might not be as "friendly" as they claim.

There are many shortcomings and worrying trends in the EU and the United States, but let's hold off on the false equivalencies to countries that engage in genocide, jail or "disappear" dissent, and (until recently) engaged in forced sterilization and/or abortion for women against their will as part of the One-Child policy. So yes, China is very "friendly" and "progressive" /s. As for modern Russia (since you're only mentioning the USSR), abortion is only legal as an elective procedure through the 12th week, requires a 2 to 7 day waiting period, and can be refused by the doctor against the patient's wishes. When you talk smack about countries in the EU despite praising Russia for the exact same thing, it doesn't exactly feel like you're conversing in good faith.