• WanderingThoughts
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    19 hours ago

    America was a great experiment in maxing out capitalism and rugged individualism. Now all other countries know how it will end and to oust any politician even hinting at doing the same.

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      17 hours ago

      America and the UK, together they show the world what not to do. Conservatism and oligarchs are poisons that kill civilizations.

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        13 hours ago

        I really think we need a sublemmy dedicated to specifically tracking the high stakes competition between the US and UK to spectacularly faceplant in the stupidest possible fashion.

        It is a very close competition so far and there have been a lot of upsets in the sense that it has made us all upset that the world is burning.

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          7 hours ago

          There was a time when I thought the 2016 Brexit referendum was going to be the dumbest political story of the year. Then the US said “hold my watery beer”.

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          13 hours ago

          “…Stupidity, Phobia, Greed, Wrath, and Traditional Values…from your powers combined, I am Captain Conservative!”