“We’re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,” he said, shrugging. “We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”

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[–] 214 points 9 months ago (21 children)

When reached for comment, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told the Daily Beast in a statement, “It’s sad that Daily Beast interns cannot grasp the concept of pro-growth policies that create jobs. Their minds are clearly warped after cheering on Joe Biden as he wrecked our economy for four years.”

The pettiness is unreal.

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  • [–] 154 points 9 months ago* (15 children)

    This is not "pettiness". This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and other wealthy narcissists several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by "liberals" who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the same corporations/oligarchs.

    No war but class war, and the capitalist class is winning.

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  • [–] 73 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The rhetoric that politicians are idiots and they don't know what they're doing is also damaging, because it makes people assume stupidity rather than malice.

    But it is malice. The incompetence is real, make no mistake, but malice is in fact the end goal.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    When profits are involved, always assume malice.

    The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn't profit off the malice (eg the sales person or marketing team will lie to make a sale).

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Never believe that anti-Semites [read: fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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  • [–] 142 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    I wish he'd fucking die already

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  • [–] 87 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (15 children)

    Then we'd have President Vance and first Mistress Kirk. This cancer is going to take a while to cut out if it doesn't outright kill us.

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  • [–] 78 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Cult leaders need charisma and couchfucker ain't got it. He might end out pres in that hypothetical but he wouldn't have the implied maga threat behind him Trump does so I think he'd get a lot less of the agenda pushed.

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    [–] 122 points 9 months ago (29 children)

    I love it when they follow Trump's name with his age. Fuck the gerontocracy

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    [–] 92 points 9 months ago (22 children)

    Boomers in the 1980s: "Those damn robots took our darn jorbs"

    Trump in 2025: "We're giving these jorbs to the robots"

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  • [+] 68 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (18 children)
  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    You will continue to labor all day for reduced pay, while the robot pretends to do art all day

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    Reduced pay? If the rich get their way, we're going to be chattel slaves. They hate us so much and are so disgusted with us, even the worst wage slavery is too good for us.

    They'll kill off the unclean and disabled in mass exterminations, enslave us for a time while/if their ai gets good enough, and eventually when robots are good enough to replace even slaves, the rich will hunt us for sport and do coloseum games on us.

    People really underestimate how fucking awful the ruling class is. They are wicked, despicable people who genuinely think anything above slavery and bowing to them is too good for us poors.

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  • [–] 53 points 9 months ago

    This implies that sometimes he rants coherently which is not true.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago

    This dumb fucking child rapist

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago

    More people are working right now in the United States than at any other time in our history.

    The same can be said year on year every single year (except 2020) due to population and economic growth.

    What he doesn't say is that the divergence between the average wage and the cost of living has never been greater. So, while more people are available to work, they are earning less per hour in bread and bricks than they were 5, 10, 15, 20 (etc.) years ago.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Have some self-respect. Don't feed The Daily Beast.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago*

    I blocked /c/politics over this, but it seems like none of the big .world communities care about tabloid sourced/clickbait headlines.

    And, unfortunately, clickbait works. They always float up to the top of Active.

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    [–] 26 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    My parents aren't much younger than him and every time he speaks I worry for their health.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago

    I am once again begging people not to post a headline that starts with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    To think Trump 1.0 was an improvement over this shit show.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he's just a puppet with dementia.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Nah, 1.0 was only better because he spent the whole time figuring out wtf to do. He didn't even know he had to hire his own cabinet. 2.0 is the result of those four years of realizing the power and protection of the position, and another four of teams of knowledgeable people working hard to make sure this term would be the last they'd ever need.

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    [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    Finally a headline that correctly describes the situation.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Either put him in a home or in the ground. I don’t care which, but for the love of god, take away his Internet access.

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    [–] 20 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I hope this was his last merry Christmas. I hope we’re getting close to his Mussolini ending

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    They want artificial employees to discipline the labor market but what they will get instead is a deskilled labor force and business structures that are even more resistant to adaptation.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    Trump is nothing more than an incoherent buffoon. How long can he be propped up and worshipped like this? To the majority of Europeans, doing business with the US is considered far too untrustworthy. Our elected officials know this because we make it clear. Sadly, we too have buffoons arising and gaining power here. If they to get in, we are all fucked.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    beginning of this headline got my hopes up that he finally croaked. fuckers.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    When was the last time he ranted coherently? 95?

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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago (43 children)

    I wish Biden was still president.

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