• @ninthant@lemmy.ca
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    26522 days ago

    From my perspective in Canada, there’s nothing the US can do to unfuck this situation.

    Let’s say folks unseated Comrade Spraytan somehow and reversed all of his policies. I would still never trust their country again with economic or security dependence in the way that much of the world has enabled in the status quo.

    It was the American voters who selected this foolishness, not once but twice. They and their country will not be trusted for a generation or maybe longer. They threw away a very good thing for them because of abject greed, and now it’s gone forever.

    • @KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5522 days ago

      As an American I know I will never look at America or other people the same way again. The last few months have opened me to ideas I never considered before and have completely changed how I view myself and even the people I used to trust. This is certainly the Gen Y/Z generation-wide trauma event. I’m not sure the AIDS epidemic was even this bad. Government negligence is one thing. This is complete disregard for the law.

      • @al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com
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        2021 days ago

        I have news for you if you think the aids epidemic was negligent and not intentionally reckless because it was a “homosexual” disease.

    • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2021 days ago

      Yeah that’s how it seems to me too.

      November 24 was a turning point, and this path was chosen in a free and fair election.

      If Trump died tomorrow he would be replaced by someone just as bad by any meaningful metric.

      • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        1620 days ago

        You’ll never convince me it was a free and fair election. Just the perfectly legal shit that was done out in the open is enough to disqualify it as free and fair.

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            First you say it was free and fair, then you immediately turn about and say that doesn’t matter before there’s no such thing. Keep moving those goalposts, buddy!

    • @peteyestee@feddit.org
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      A lot of people, Americans, didn’t trust America before trump. America is getting played out and dragged across the ground by unholy people.

      I heard someone say; Angels and Demons, I never knew you could see them.

      It took time for me to understand the reality of that. Evil has humanity captured in its hand squeezing the life from its figurative body.

      What’s worse, ime, the same evil will use spirituality and uplifting talk to gather control of people while at the same time making moves behind the scene that are completely evil. The same way, it seems, that our government convinces people to lead simple lives directed by media and entertainment consumption, even politics, to the point that people wouldn’t know how to live in honest reality if they tried. Real reality has been war. …but everyone chose escapism and now look where we are.

      No one wants to believe the heartlessness it will take, the heartlessness that good honest people will have to commit, all the while trying not to get addicted to the power that comes with heartlessness, to defeat what is going on.

      America’s already been dead and they are coming for the rest of you.

      We have been at war for long time.

      When you see evil with your own eyes you will probably understand that terms like the devil, evil, and unholy, are the most potent words that can describe them, regardless what your beliefs are.

      They will do everything to uplift your life, just to tear it down and watch you suffer.

      Something is going on, all the people that have dealt with gang stalking or corrupt government officials knows how dark it gets. Corruption is intertwined completely now into America and it can’t be undone with law and politics.

      This is an undeniable truth many people know but they either buckle and become one of them, go to jail when they snap from the torment brought to them by those that took advantage of them, or they kill themselves.

      Evil reigns and people pay for it because it takes their mind off the truth. Ignorance is bliss and that bliss makes money and that money owns the world. You can buy governments with that money. And with stake in the government you can have soldiers fight battles for you regardless of authentic and genuine righteousness.

    • @Apple87sagan@lemmy.world
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      1022 days ago

      This is how I see it as well. Its not about manufacturing either, you cant increase manufacturing during a recession when no one can afford anything and no one is willing to work low wages.

      • @ninthant@lemmy.ca
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        220 days ago

        I’m not sure why you deleted that, because you’re absolutely correct.

        If not for being targeted, my own country would have elected a shitbird and we’d have become the lone US toady as the world isolated both of our countries, while the Americans treated us like an open pit mine.

        So it’s not that I think my countrymen are inherently superior. The Albertans who want to create a landlocked country — deeply vulnerable to American bullying — are acting dumber than the poverty stricken folks supporting Spraytan.

        And it’s not that I don’t trust democracy, I do trust that it’s reflecting will of the people. The American voters have shown a lack of priority to respecting their own commitments worldwide and a dislike of the world order that placed them at the centre. So while many in the country do have that commitment, their inability to keep the deplorables out of power means that the rest of the world can have no illusions about depending on them going forward.

  • @Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    Can we admit how completely fucked we are? Donald Trump is destroying the American economy and the American empire.

    You. How fucked you are. Also if you believe in “the American empire” maybe you should be.

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      It’s “We” because “you” aren’t the subject of the article, it’s “We (the People).”

      And you don’t think America is an empire? That’s a wild take on this site, most people treat that as a given.

  • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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    I wish. I wish we admitted the moment we saw the election results. The longer we wait the harder it will be.

    At a certain point we will just become russia.

    If want to know the truth here it is: There are no good choices left. Sacrifice now, or sacrifice later. The only winners are people who die before they have to pay up.

  • BaconDragonOverlord
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    Idk I find if funny to read American empire capitalist decline, imperialist defeat, and Zionist fanaticism within the first few sentences of an Article.

    Like how deep do you have to be in the American left “liberal” talking points.

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      Liberal talking points are basically nowhere to be found in this article. Liberal talking points are things like “Israel has a right to defend itself”, “I’m a capitalist”, “We should balance the budget by reducing spending”, “nothing will fundamentally change”, etc.

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          The left in the USA is basically non-existent organizationally speaking. We have a center-right party (Democrats, or what you’re referring to as liberals) and a fascist party (Republicans).

          Probably most leftists in the US that vote vote for Democrats, but I (like many others) sit well to the left of classic “liberalism” (i.e. “free markets, free trade, free people”) and “neoliberalism” (de-regulate everything, cut tax rates, and form “private-public partnerships”).

          As the article covers, Zionism, for instance, is deeply embedded in both parties.

  • Laser
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    422 days ago

    Buy the ticket, take the ride! Are you tired of winning yet?

    • @Letme@lemmy.world
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      See this is the problem right here. 1/3 of Americans are deplorable, always have been, back to the founding fathers. And it only took 28% to elect Trump/Elon/Vance. How can the world ever trust the US political system again? It’s been hacked by Citizens United, and at this point has been completely corrupted by the billionaires. I do believe that it can be fixed, but it won’t be. This has been a long time in the making.

      • libertyforever
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        What do you mean 28% to elect Trump? Are you including people who are ineligible to vote?

        Anyway, the problem is that you think the other side are deplorable instead of trying to understand why more voters voted for Trump rather than Kamala. You are the problem.

        • @EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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          Would love to hear your explanation as to why voters chose Trump over Kamala that doesn’t boil down to being duped into conflating popularity with functional policy.

          Our government is a clown show of reality TV rejects that you have rationalized as qualified due to a diet of purely manufactured infotainment.

          Anyone with any meaningful government experience has done nothing but warn you about how little fucks Trump gives about this country, but you think because he puts himself in front of an American flag he has every right to store all our countries most valuable secrets in a bathroom with a fax machine readily accessible to any foreign agent willing to pay Jared more billions.

          Trump has done nothing but shit in your mouth, and the only one believing it tastes good is you. Too bad generations of Americans will now have to eat it too because you’ve been tricked into thinking punishing made up enemies somehow equates to societal progress.

        • @dickalan@lemmy.world
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          Ohhh look a fake ass patriot thinks he’s doing something American when actually he’s the most controlled person in this thread

    • OBJECTION!
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      What stage of decline is it when Trumpers are bragging about a stat that still shows a majority of the population saying we’re on the wrong track?

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          According to your own stats, the majority of people disagree with that assessment and think things are still getting worse.

          But regardless, what people think isn’t necessarily reflective of reality. This is the best argument you can muster, not that Trump is actually improving things in specific, tangible ways, but just, “My guy has managed to convince marginally fewer people to hate him than hated the last guy.” Of course, we’ll see how many people still feel that way by the end of his term when we’ll have likely fallen into a recession thanks to his bullshit.

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              If you look at the historical polls about the direction of the country, wrong track always win, it is just a matter of how bad.

              Yeah, no shit. That’s the point. What you’re bragging about is “Most people hate us, but they hate us marginally less than they hated the other guy.” It’s pretty pathetic that that’s the point we’re at.

              Significant improvement since taking office is a good first step for the Trump administration.

              It’s not a “good first step for the Trump administration.” Trump didn’t do shit to actually improve anything, it’s just that he has a significant following who defend anything and everything he does, or are willing to give a different face a chance. Democratic voters are more likely to vote reluctantly while still seeing the country on the wrong track if their guy wins. It means nothing. The minority of people who think like you are simply wrong and the majority who disagree with you are correct.

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                  Lmao yes. I’m literally a communist.

                  I’m frequently accused around these parts of being a secret republican trying to sow chaos and help Trump win because of how much I criticize the democrats. Here’s my comment history searching for the word Biden and for Obama, if you want to see for yourself.