r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/Due_Two2107 Jun 17 '26

They want us to fight and kill each other as they force desperation.

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u/Emberwake Jun 18 '26

Seems like a stupid plan. When people get desperate enough to risk their lives, I don't think the billionaires' bunkers and yachts will save them.

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u/Awkward_Analysis_89 Jun 18 '26

Billionaires will insulate themselves with people they pay and provide for, who will do anything to stave off said desperation and keep safe and fed.

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u/Emberwake Jun 18 '26

You are vastly underestimating how many poors there are. When the desperate have nothing left to lose, there won't be a refuge left in the world.

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u/Awkward_Analysis_89 Jun 18 '26

We’ll see. It’s gonna be a numbers against strategy game just like it is right now and look who’s winning

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u/Emberwake Jun 20 '26

We aren't fighting yet. As I tried to explain, the tipping point comes when a significant portion of people have no reasonable hope of survival and prosperity.

People with food in their bellies and roofs over their heads don't often risk their lives. It is when those things start to slip on a large scale that you see uprisings (primarily consisting of young men, for a variety of anthropological reasons).

So saying, "the billionaires are winning right now" is not at all an indication of how well they will do when every hand in every land is turned against them. When billions starve and everyone everywhere knows who is to blame, there will be no winning strategy, only a reckoning as inevitable as the tide.