• fwdbias@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    His only concern is himself, he thinks he’ll benefit so everyone else can suffer as far as he is concerned. This is the broad motivation of the entire movement. As if America first didn’t make it obvious enough, it was really “me first”. What they don’t understand is how the me in that is entirely relative and they quickly become expendable.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      maybe if you explain to him the cause of the great depression being isolationist economic policy hitting everyone really hard, meanwhile japan with its keynesian policy managed to do pretty well, even in the face of global economic downturn.

      Some people find facts more reasonable, ironically, even if they will cognitively dissonant themselves from them.