• BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    As an American, this gives me the ick. We can’t just go back to the way things were when Trump is gone and expect the world to be cool with us. We need some serious systematic reform before anybody should dare trust us again.

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    5 hours ago

    Overthrow him and his whole crooked regime, then we’ll talk.

  • DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I’m sorry to tell you but he represents most of you. Most either didn’t vote or voted for him.

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    10 hours ago

    What, have patience while the US and its sidekick beat the crap out of the Middle East and the world economy?

    But they stand with us, hashtag, of course.

    Theirs is not to stand with us, its for people at the level of this bloke to organise the national shutdown, it’s logistics and support circles and for those below to urge people like him then participate in it, so the houses can be forced to act.

    Tired of virtue signalling Americans. Every day, we all hate you more and more and no, it is not on us to be patient and considerate of the g00d On3z.

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    13 hours ago

    Your spokesperson represents you as your voice and your image abroad.

    And your image abroad is …not good.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    As an American, fuck us. Trump is just a symptom of the disease, if we get rid of him and “go back to normal” then the world should expect someone like him to appear again, for all the same reasons.

    We need your help fighting the global climate crisis.

    I don’t like the framing of this because it makes it sounds like we’re somehow the leaders on this when we’re putting out 285% the per capita carbon emissions compared to the global average. It’s the same for the other stuff.

    We have no grounds to ask anybody for anything until we get our shit together. And that means, at minimum, dealing with the far right and removing the influence of money on politics. We do not need anybody’s help projecting the influence of our diseased system globally.

    Frankly, the fact that Trump has managed to convince the world not to support us in Iran the way they supported us in Iraq and Afghanistan is not an entirely bad thing, because we don’t need to be fucking around in any of those places and we don’t need anybody enabling us. Please don’t ever bail us out of anything we get into because of our stupid, evil military adventurism. We need to start feeling the consequences of our actions, or we’ll never learn.

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      16 hours ago

      100% agree, Americans are not blameless in this at all and they need to realize that. Respectfully, we’ll take your country seriously after you reform your democracy into something more robust and stable.

  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Clock is ticking, America. If we let this guy die of natural causes and/or let him finish his term, the world will never forgive us.

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    18 hours ago

    1/3 of the citizens voted for him, another third didn’t care enough to vote. They are all the same. And America is a continent, not a country. They don’t deserve to monopolize the name of an entire continent for themselves.

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      18 hours ago

      2/3 directly and indirectly supported him, even with all his bullshit he still as 2/5 support. I’m pretty sick of Americans with this “We’re not all assholes” vibe. They are doing NOTHING to stop him.

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    The author completely misses the point. Trump does in fact represent you. That’s how your system works.

    But beyond that, the problem is deeper than him. He’s a symptom, not the disease. If the vaunted checks and balances worked, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. If there were a meaningful opposition, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. There were countless failures along the way that allowed the situation to get to where it is.

    Even if you elect someone sane next time, there’s no guarantee it won’t happen again.

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      Yeah nah he doesn’t miss the point, Reich gets it.

      This is white American privilege at its peak. There’s no consideration at all of the outsiders position despite him knowing it; America first and this is a fair, reasonable ask. One they don’t afford others.

      I absolutely agree with the rest though, Trump’s a symptom, the cause is baked in. They’ll vote similar in again, if they get another shot. I’m done with the default position of trust. Now the society’s laid bare their weirdness makes a lot of sense.

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      This is the thing I keep trying to explain to my fellow americans. Noone seems to grasp, we cannot keep the power, we can’t be trusted with it, and anyone hoping we can go back is priming the world for larger disasters.

      Going back doesn’t cure the disease, its suppressing the symptoms. But the remission can’t last, it’ll come back stronger and more deadly.

      Trump 2.0 is all the proof you need after we tried to go back with Biden.

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    23 hours ago

    How can anyone ever trust us as a country again? We’ve proven that every 4 years is a gamble where an insane moron could be put in charge. We’ve gone back on our word and betrayed our allies multiple times. If I were another country, I wouldn’t trust us ever again either.

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    24 hours ago

    If it makes you feel any better, my feelings towards you weren’t changed by him.

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      Yah this is another thing, iv never liked america.

      Even as a teen i could tell America was a nation of greed not freedom, its a guise for someone to do whatever hey want, the fact of the matter is they just didn’t want to pay taxes and that’s why they revolted against the Britz and the only reason they weren’t beaten back into place was because the king was a moron at the time and completely fumbled leadership and control. Even at the very start their leaders decision makeing was motivated by selfish interests.

      now look at them, another moron leading, and he called himself king no less.

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    We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can

    No you’re fucking not.

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      We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can

      No you are not. You’re eating fried chicken and attending sports events. The Indy 500 has now turned into the Nuremberg rally.

      No one even questions why tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are pissed away on car sponsorship while toilets don’t even work in theatre of war.

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      If what they are doing is really “their best” then they are truly fucked.

      And, frustratingly, they’ll take the rest of us down with them.

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        If they take the rest of the world with them, then we are not doing enough to have our politicians free ourselves from dependencies like these. It’s not only the USA. China, Russia are the same