• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    This all reminds me of a coworker I had back in the day that was like 6 weeks from retirement and they were super excited and happy and hopeful. It was all they talked about.

    And 2wks after they retired the 2008 crisis hit. Their portfolio went to absolute shit, they panicked and sold. And then later missed the window for good general recovery.

    It broke my fucking heart.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      This IS, however, what most Americans voted for, so yeah, cry me a river, you got what you wanted.

      The rest of the world has to deal with the fallout of your stupidity, so seriously, do not ask for petty points anymore, you can literally starve to death and the world will no longer care.

      Give us a call once the US is a democracy again with a completely revamped political system with 30 parties, overhauled police force, overhauled healthcare and economic rule set, overhauled culture… If then you grovel on your knees for aologies for decades of terror world wide, culminating in two trump eras that measurably made the world worse in countless ways, then maybe maybe we might start thinking about caring about you.