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Mao killed more people than Hitler or Stalin. However, Mao was not "smart" authoritarism. No one claimed that! 🤣

Meanwhile.... the job situation worsened under Trump in 2025, by all metrics! 😀 Job creation number Unemployment rate Native born unemployment rate Labor for e participation rate

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It is sort of funny that this story is completely unrelated to the thread's topic, and that a poster obsessed by transgenders sneaked it in! 😀

Baseless assumptions. Fact is that the K shaped pattern has been amplified in 2025. You can gaslight as much as you want, it is a fact.

Tariffs are similar to a sales tax. Unlike the wealthy, the poor spend most of their revenues on consumption, so they are more affected by it. Of course, the wealthy are also affected when they buy an expensive Swiss watch or a German BMW, but unlike the poor, they get enough tax cuts to pay for the increase. As concerns your assumption that businesses will use the higher profit resulting from lower taxes to lower the price of their products. This is far from certain. They can increase returns for shareholders, or buy back their stock. Which also increases the value of top management's stock options 😉. In particular when prices of imported products increase because of tariffs, thus lowering price competition. For example, studies have shown that a significant part of Trump's tax cuts has been used by companies to buy back their stock. Finally, your are ignoring the redistribution aspect of taxes, which can be used to improve the situation of low revenue classes.

Who buys cheap products from China? The rich or the poor? Who gets tax cuts, partly financed by tariffs revenues? The rich or the poor?

And that's why the economy is now K-shaped? 😄

It's also related to the growth life cycle of Western countries. The golden age described by some posters was a high growth period, characterised by the so-called "Fordism" model. Now Western countries are at a maturity stage, characterised by low growth. When the added value is significantly growing, it's easy to give a fair share of it to workers. When it's growing only slowly, economic actors compete to get a share of it, and the weakest ones get only peanuts.

And now? Among current parties?

Complete BS propaganda! 🤣

Which party do you support in your country?

Israel is certainly willing to strike, provided the US supplies enough weapon and ensures enough protection against Iran's missiles.

Which "credibility"? 😄

It's right-wing posters who are lauding China's political system on this thread! 🤣

It's quite relevant to explain why he was Clinton's friend at that time and why he isn't any more (among ther reasons).

Baseless rant. The strong economic, scientific and technological development shows that, unlike the previous autocratic type (Mao), this autocracy has been smart. And also smarter than the Russian autocracy.

Complete BS, as usual. Try to send a message in China about democracy or simply mentioning Winnie the Poo on Chinese social media! 😃

Trump was leaning Dem, at that time! Then he understood that there were more conning opportunities with RW supporters and switched side! 😄

China was first granted MFN status in 1980...

So you just wrote that when Dems needed tips about Trump, Epstein was their best source! 🤣

From the nasty little thumb down I got, there's at least one such person on this forum!

Quote: "No idea what you are blathering on about". 🤣🤣🤣

China, an autocracy! Who would have thought?

It's so obvious! Only morons may believe that exporting countries are paying tariffs. It's just one of Trump's multiple lies for the gullible!