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Conservatives have absolutely destroyed America’s soft power. At least for an entire generation. They’ve made the rest of the world believe their shitstain childlike behavior is how all Americans act. This rapist president has made it clear to the rest of the world that agreements with the U.S. are worth no more than the paper they’re written on.
These fucking knuckle draggers are weighing us down and will continue to do so after their rapist idol is dead and buried.
The Democrats were unabashedly supporting genocide in Palestine and ran a candidate who vowed no deviation from that policy. If you think it’s just Conservatives, you haven’t been paying enough attention.
Don’t worry it’ll for more than a generations. China is already a peer competitor and what America had going for it was incumbency as the global unipolar hegimon. Trump has openly reliquished this position and, regardless of who succeeds him, it’s not something that can be easily restablished.
Winning goodwill back is almost certainly not going to happen. Even with assurances, other countries will feel as if they’re only one election cycle away from potentially unfair treatment. The only way we go back to American unipolarity is another world war which America somehow gets rich off of like WW2 or achieving artificial general intelligence before anyone else.
I think the leaders of the US understand this which is why they’re pushing for higher military spending everywhere and also going hard on AGI, no matter how far fetched it is in the near future at least.
Affirmative. Good to vent. Also, be kindly reminded it isn’t the first time in history this happens to a large and dominant culture, and regrettably it will unlikely be the last time…
Yup.
The US is a malign actor for the US as well. Our government has become a danger to our own citizens.
Still the bad joke of the world here.
Biggest prison population, most “asset forfeiture”, most chemically polluted “food” supply, paying the most for worst healthcare, relatively non-existent public transport, hegemonic oligarchy pretending to be democracy spreading democracy by “regime change”, “education” system indoctrinating insularity and ignorance,
[Edit + these the LLM added for me because it’s an exhausting list to manually write] mass shootings as a cultural pastime, student debt as a life sentence, “freedom” measured in gun ownership but not in healthcare access, military budget bigger than the next ten countries combined, “infrastructure week” as a recurring punchline, two-party system that’s just one party with two heads, “justice” system that’s a revolving door for the rich and a trapdoor for the poor, “American Dream” now just a subscription service with hidden fees, [Edit: and the list can go on for at least twice as long again yet.]
and a corporate monopoly media to bind peoples minds by.
… “land of the free”, “USA number one!”.
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Imagine the day everybody wakes up to the situation,
and does not fall for having their awakening psyop’ed into another divisive perverse managed groupthink.
they’ll just let the sauds blow up another skyscraper or 2 and invade some entirely unrelated country
it’s been the same playbook for the last 50 years
Wake up and do what? Most Americans are so individualistic they couldn’t plan a heist let alone a political movement.
Trapped in an endless cycle of jingoistic rugged individualism trying to all vote with their wallets.
For one example,
Wake up to that fact, and do something about it, like learning how to not be that, and how to do… well, not that [plan a heist ~ lol], but something else, something beneficial, to get out of the trap. I don’t know what. Maybe put a sign up saying “Want to start an amish community with me?” *shrug*
PS, 2 other tidbits that reminds me of… 1st, in my teens (decades ago), I graffiti’d on a friend’s wall art of the american flag, the phrase “one dollar, one vote”, and the friend welcomed satirical calling-out. and the 2nd, “It must be a trap” “Then why are you still going?” “I want to find out what kind of a trap it is.”, from Akira always sticks in my mind. :D
[Edit: OH! Or… to answer your
Wake up and do what?
question another way…
just exactly as I said:
not fall for having their awakening psyop’ed into another divisive perverse managed groupthink.
Do that.]
The triumph of disinformation, greed, and self-centered ultraconservatism; a country about to implode.
It could come to your country too unless you take action. I see so many other countries making the same mistakes we do here and it makes me so sad knowing that this could be their fate too unless they make different decisions.
The truth is I notice in Europe they too in my opinion haven’t done enough to combat disinformation for sure they’re better than we are but it’s not enough.
What we need is for every child to be taught as much as possible about critical thinking, propaganda and disinformation. The quality of education children get is super important. In addition I believe emotional resilience must be taught in schools somehow.
Please for everyone reading this contact your politicians or your school board and demand more done to combat disinformation.
Also remember we are all in this together. Look at all the Trump copycats there are in the world. Look at how Trump learned from Hungary and Russia. Because they were not stopped in one country they feel safe doing it in another. We as people must support each other and stand up for each other when bad things are happening somewhere because when something bad happens to someone else it could one day be you it happens to.
It could come to your country too unless you take action.
I’m in a developing country already out of the shadow of a gun-toting jackass who nearly sold us out to China, no thanks to disinformation, and currently having to deal with politicians and businessmen ripping off the government in infrastructure money.
The US may soon have the hardest fall unless something drastic happens.
That’s a tough situation, I really hope things get better for you there!
I agree, we really need to course correct now or it will be terrible!
Shshshsh!
This is UMURIKA!
You’re supposed to blame everything wrong on “the left”, or, “commies”.
God damn socialists
That’s the spirit! XD
They have always been. It’s now just impossible to ignore.
Not now… Always have been
But now to white people in Europe, too! Not just brown people in South America… and the Middle East… and Southeast Asia… and Africa.
Where I live we have square kilometers of american GI’s that liberated europe. As a first in human history victors did not loot or rape. Instead they scrambled to be home by christmas. Europe is forever indebted to these men and the people that led them.
Yeh and 99.5% of them have since passed away, all that’s left is grift riding on the coat tails of stolen valor.
I’m a German guy from Berlin, next year I’ll be 50. My dad was born in 1944 and it’s pretty safe to say he survived being cut off from food supplies by the Soviets only because Americans pulled off the Berlin Airlift. These brave pilots helped save the lives of people they had considered enemies not much earlier.
So I would not be alive were it not for Americans. Am I indebted to America? Fuck yes, of course I am.
Having said all that, it’s so painful to see America turn to fascism - the very thing those GIs you mention fought against. A country I love, people I love, losing their minds and their hearts. Literally turning evil, led by a criminal lunatic who so obviously follows the demagogue playbook…
Somewhat glad my grandpa, a WW2 vet isn’t around to see it.
I feel like them being around was the only thing staving it off
If you’re German, then your government aided and abetted the genocide in Palestine just like America did. I’m not sure what Germany’s current state of involvement is, but I doubt they’ve entirely severed support for the fake state. It’s not just us being run by criminal lunatics.
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but yeah, that’s what i’m saying. you are the baddies.
How about Trump & the five people who like him… THEY’RE the baddies.
I can’t help that I was born in USA 😢 I don’t want to be a baddie.
Same here, born here too. We have to keep fighting and make the best of things. I don’t blame people for saying these things but I wish people would take real actions instead of just talking among themselves and saying “it can’t be fixed” or “it won’t change”.
What’s at stake is if we don’t fight we’ll risk turning into the next Nazi regime and cause untold suffering all around the world. So for those people who sit in the comfort of their homes in a another country they may not realize that one day the repression advocated by the Trump regime may come to them personally so everyone in the world must do all they can to put a stop to this now.
There’s a lot we can do. The solution is to identify what pillars of support are holding up Trump and what can be removed the easiest. One part of the solution is boycotting companies that donate a lot to Republican campaigns. For example boycotting Twitter and Tesla can make a big impact on this and boycotting right-wing media like Fox “News”, CBS etc. Urge people to exclude right-wing websites from their Google Adwords account.
it’s your responsibility to help change things for the better, then.
if it were just a couple of people and just trump. this would not be an issue. it goes way deeper.
it’s your responsibility to help change things for the better
Yeah, we know. We’re working on it.
“IT’S A PUPPET!” – Brian Conley
I’m sorry but this article is a laugh: “But while it has fallen short in the past, there was always broad bipartisan agreement over what the U.S. should be: a reliable ally; a country that supports those less fortunate, stands up against tyranny worldwide and is a beacon of freedom for human rights defenders.”
I think it would be more accurate to say that the USAs optics have tried to pander this way. But now they are not even bothering with their PR. The USA has been wheeling and dealing even during WW2.
It’s actually in some ways refreshing in a sense that the US is embracing its role as imperial villain in many peoples stories. Shocking to people that live in America sure but to anyone that has experience with America’s foreign policy as an external entity it seems like America is finally accepting itself for who it really is and embracing its decline in a sort of reverse coming of age manner.
It’s a terrorist, pirate state run by a fascist.
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Thanks to MAGA, the 1st World views the USA on the same level as Russia, China and their allies. The article is spot on in regard to the future.
No shit. Ostracize the hellhole.
Latin America, South and East Asia, and the natives within America itself watching White People finally realise America are the bad guys:
Better late than never I guess
bin laden warned us!!! !!! !!! !!!
when he was known as tim osman? or after?
