• @ninthant@lemmy.ca
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    2652 months ago

    From my perspective in Canada, there’s nothing the US can do to unfuck this situation.

    Let’s say folks unseated Comrade Spraytan somehow and reversed all of his policies. I would still never trust their country again with economic or security dependence in the way that much of the world has enabled in the status quo.

    It was the American voters who selected this foolishness, not once but twice. They and their country will not be trusted for a generation or maybe longer. They threw away a very good thing for them because of abject greed, and now it’s gone forever.

      • @al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com
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        202 months ago

        I have news for you if you think the aids epidemic was negligent and not intentionally reckless because it was a “homosexual” disease.

    • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      202 months ago

      Yeah that’s how it seems to me too.

      November 24 was a turning point, and this path was chosen in a free and fair election.

      If Trump died tomorrow he would be replaced by someone just as bad by any meaningful metric.

      • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        162 months ago

        You’ll never convince me it was a free and fair election. Just the perfectly legal shit that was done out in the open is enough to disqualify it as free and fair.

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            First you say it was free and fair, then you immediately turn about and say that doesn’t matter before there’s no such thing. Keep moving those goalposts, buddy!

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      A lot of people, Americans, didn’t trust America before trump. America is getting played out and dragged across the ground by unholy people.

      I heard someone say; Angels and Demons, I never knew you could see them.

      It took time for me to understand the reality of that. Evil has humanity captured in its hand squeezing the life from its figurative body.

      What’s worse, ime, the same evil will use spirituality and uplifting talk to gather control of people while at the same time making moves behind the scene that are completely evil. The same way, it seems, that our government convinces people to lead simple lives directed by media and entertainment consumption, even politics, to the point that people wouldn’t know how to live in honest reality if they tried. Real reality has been war. …but everyone chose escapism and now look where we are.

      No one wants to believe the heartlessness it will take, the heartlessness that good honest people will have to commit, all the while trying not to get addicted to the power that comes with heartlessness, to defeat what is going on.

      America’s already been dead and they are coming for the rest of you.

      We have been at war for long time.

      When you see evil with your own eyes you will probably understand that terms like the devil, evil, and unholy, are the most potent words that can describe them, regardless what your beliefs are.

      They will do everything to uplift your life, just to tear it down and watch you suffer.

      Something is going on, all the people that have dealt with gang stalking or corrupt government officials knows how dark it gets. Corruption is intertwined completely now into America and it can’t be undone with law and politics.

      This is an undeniable truth many people know but they either buckle and become one of them, go to jail when they snap from the torment brought to them by those that took advantage of them, or they kill themselves.

      Evil reigns and people pay for it because it takes their mind off the truth. Ignorance is bliss and that bliss makes money and that money owns the world. You can buy governments with that money. And with stake in the government you can have soldiers fight battles for you regardless of authentic and genuine righteousness.

    • @Apple87sagan@lemmy.world
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      102 months ago

      This is how I see it as well. Its not about manufacturing either, you cant increase manufacturing during a recession when no one can afford anything and no one is willing to work low wages.

      • @ninthant@lemmy.ca
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        22 months ago

        I’m not sure why you deleted that, because you’re absolutely correct.

        If not for being targeted, my own country would have elected a shitbird and we’d have become the lone US toady as the world isolated both of our countries, while the Americans treated us like an open pit mine.

        So it’s not that I think my countrymen are inherently superior. The Albertans who want to create a landlocked country — deeply vulnerable to American bullying — are acting dumber than the poverty stricken folks supporting Spraytan.

        And it’s not that I don’t trust democracy, I do trust that it’s reflecting will of the people. The American voters have shown a lack of priority to respecting their own commitments worldwide and a dislike of the world order that placed them at the centre. So while many in the country do have that commitment, their inability to keep the deplorables out of power means that the rest of the world can have no illusions about depending on them going forward.