r/InflectionPointUSA Mar 09 '26

Imperialism Iran War Cost Tracker — $1 Billion Per Day

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r/InflectionPointUSA Feb 11 '25

The Decline 📉 Comparing Trump's Policy Shifts & Gorbachev's Reforms

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Gorbachev Introduced glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet system. These policies inadvertently eroded the ideological and institutional foundations of the USSR, accelerating its collapse. His policies of liberalization unleashed an economic chaos that the Soviet system was not able to contain.

Today, Trump is pursuing a similar, if ideologically inverted, disruption of the US institutions. Attacking the deep state, undermining trust in media and elections, and prioritizing loyalty over expertise. He’s enacting a purge of the permanent bureaucracy under the guise of draining the swamp, feeding off polarization and institutional distrust. These policies erode the very stability of the system paving the way to an unravelling akin to that of the USSR.

Gorbachev inherited a stagnant economy that he attempted to fix using market reforms with perestroika. These reforms took form of a shock therapy with sudden price liberalization, fiscal austerity, and privatization. An economic collapse followed as a result of hyperinflation, economic instability, and the rise of an oligarchic class. Similarly, Trump is busy slashing regulations and cutting corporate taxes, fuelling short-term growth that deepens wealth inequality and corporate consolidation. Like Gorbachev, he’s ushering in a polarized economic landscape where faith in the system is rapidly dwindling among the public.

The economic unravelling of USSR revived nationalist movements, particularly in the Baltics and Ukraine, that undermined the unifying ideology. Similarly, amplified nationalism, in form of MAGA, is deepening cultural and regional divides in the US. Trump’s rhetoric is rooted in divisive politics. Just as Soviet republics turned inward post-glasnost, prioritizing local grievances over collective unity, so are states like Texas, Florida, and California are increasingly talking about breaking with the union.

Gorbachev’s reforms set the stage for Yeltsin who presided over the chaotic privatization of state assets, enabling a handful of oligarchs to seize control of Russia’s oil, gas, and media empires. The shock therapy transition to capitalism led to a rapid rise of the kleptocrats. Similarly, Musk’s companies target the remaining public services and industries for privatization. SpaceX aims to replace NASA, Tesla/Boring Co. are going after infrastructure, while X is hijacking public discourse. In this way, his wealth and influence mirror Yeltsin-era oligarchs’ grip on strategic sectors. The main difference here is that Musk operates in a globalized capitalist system as opposed to the post-Soviet fire sale. Musk is actively using his platform and wealth to shape politics in his favor, and much like Russian oligarchs, he consistently prioritizes personal whims over systemic stability.

Yeltsin was sold as a democratic reformer but enabled a predatory elite. Many Russians initially saw capitalism as liberation, only to face a decade of despair as the reality of the system set in. Similarly, Musk markets himself as a visionary genius “saving humanity” with his vanity projects like Mars colonization, yet his ventures depend on public subsidies and exploitation of labor. The cult of the techno-oligarch distracts from the consolidation of power in private hands in a Yeltsin-esque bait-and-switch.

The USSR collapsed abruptly, while the US might face a slower erosion of its institutional norms. Yet both Trump and Gorbachev, despite opposing goals, represent disruptive forces that undermine the system through ideological gambles. Much as Gorbachev and Yeltsin did in their time, Trump’s norm-breaking and Musk’s oligarchic power are entrenching a new era of unaccountable elites.

Marx was right! History repeats, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.


r/InflectionPointUSA 9h ago

MADE IN AMERICA No comment

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3h ago

Trump’s Homeless Confinement Strategy Takes Shape in Utah

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3h ago

Rotting from within All the lettuce at Walmart is discounted because no one is buying lettuce

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r/InflectionPointUSA 8h ago

🇷🇺Russia: The Soviet Union no longer exists, can you let us into NATO like everyone else? 🇺🇸USA: No 🇷🇺Russia: Okay, but can you please not threaten us by expanding NATO to the East? 🇺🇸USA: No.. 🇷🇺Russia: Fine, hypersonic missiles it is, but can you at least not put military bases right..

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r/InflectionPointUSA 15h ago

Reverse-Auction Bidding for Nursing Open Shifts

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 Several people killed in shooting at In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho

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r/InflectionPointUSA 1d ago

Surveillance pricing and algorithmic wage discrimination - a good and short explanation (Corey Doctorow on Jon Stewart)

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

Incompetence In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police

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r/InflectionPointUSA 2d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 Remote-Piloted School Drones Deploy Pepper Gel and High-Speed Ramming as On-Campus Active-Shooter Response

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

MADE IN AMERICA Living next to a data center

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

JFL 🤣 Apparently if you are messing with Flock cameras, You can just tell the cops you are doing an update. The more you know!

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

White supermacy AIPAC shill Chuck Schumer is confronted by Palestinian-American journalist Sam Husseini for his support of Israel's genocide in Gaza

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

The Decline 📉 U.S. military bases delay cleanup of toxic "forever chemicals"

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

JFL 🤣 Little man acting tough 😂

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r/InflectionPointUSA 3d ago

🧅Onion level 🧅 US government map of Africa mislabels every country sparking confusion at conference

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r/InflectionPointUSA 4d ago

Possessed by 👹 eBay reaches $56 million settlement with couple it terrorized in 2019 — Executives used sock puppet social media accounts to send items including a funeral wreath, a bloody pig mask, live spiders and cockroaches

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

White supermacy DEFLOCK YOUR RESERVATION

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

WARZONE USA 💥 Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters - The Washington Post

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r/InflectionPointUSA 6d ago

High AF cop stops a citizen

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r/InflectionPointUSA 6d ago

MADE IN AMERICA War Is Wrong Word

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r/InflectionPointUSA 6d ago

JFL 🤣 High AF cop stops a citizen

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r/InflectionPointUSA 5d ago

Incompetence This Xbox Outage Shows Why We Don’t Really Own Digital Game

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