• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    This acknowledges colonial structure language. The obvious is that you get more colonial servant loyalty by not needlessly publicly humiliating the servant and his people, to be able to ask for important favours that are dutifully executed. Extra dumb to attack countries you have a trade surplus with.

    The mistake of the Iran war could easily have been avoided if smarter allies than Trump could have explained to the dotard that it wasn’t going to work. The surprise attack did 0, and was a complete embarrassment. But the weak lashing out of no one jumping in to help while telling all their help would be useless, should be a private embarrassment of being told no beforehand.

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    “Funny” thing with all that is that what makes the US debt bearable is the dollar being held up by US soft power. Thanks to Trump everyone is slowly (or quickly for some) reducing their dependency on the dollar. Guess what happens next?

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      It’s almost like donnie is doing everything possible to destroy America.

      Though I’m told by the moral scolds and the Tone Police that Russiagate is a “hoax”.

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        Honestly, look at the people who voted for him and look at his dementia and his general contempt for anyone but himself. The Russia thing may or may not be true, but either answer does not absolve US citizens of their responsibility in how this has all unfolded.

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      The dollar collapses, the people lose trust in the dollar, and the capitalists come up with a genius new idea: corporate backed currency! Walmart cashiers get paid in wal-bucks! (redeemable only at Walmart and walmart-operated businesses).

      You mine sixteen tons, what do you get? Freedom from government-backed currency oppression, that’s what!

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    The demise of the average American’s economic power wasn’t brought on by any of the outside Allies. It was completely designed and carried out by US CEOs to create and then enrich the billionaire class. It wasn’t a ‘nasty’ Canada or ‘helpless’ EU that caused the problem. It was a US government backed creation and building of the Oligarchs that has purposely destroyed American people’s wealth so a select few could become super rich and therefore politically powerful in the bought and paid for American ‘democracy’.

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    this whole episode is a source of shame and embarrassment for the United States.

    Like it or not, those who the US elected into power feel no shame or embarrassment, and are the representatives of the US to the rest of the world.

    So while I have no doubt it is a source of shame and embarrassment to many Americans, to the United States it’s just another untreated self-inflicted wound.

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        And even if he was, it was a minority of people who voted for him. Representative democracy my ass.

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          The United States is defined by its laws; if Americans don’t like the result, change the laws. If the currently elected lawmakers won’t do that, change the lawmakers. If they refuse to be changed, forcibly (but as peacefully as possible) remove everyone complicit from the equation. Even if that involves dumping NFTs in Boston Harbor.

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            It’s a nation of laws and if that fails we need to break the law? I can’t say I disagree on the latter but that seems to negate the former.

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          People who don’t vote don’t matter. Sorry not Coting was a vote for Trump.

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            And that’s how our system works. Ain’t it grand?

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    Nobody ever thought this was included in American power. This is the result of a pants-shitting sack of pathetic