I’m quite happy to see this shithole disassembling itself. Was about fucking time.
I personally feel that Trump’s first term is pretty less consequential in the world stage than the second term. But then this second term of his is only three months in, and it is already causing havoc that even the oligarchs are inconvenienced and thinking twice now about supporting him!
It’s certainly time for the US NOT to be the most influential. There should be term limits on stuff like that.
I know America deserves all the shit we’re getting right now.
But I feel like like people in other countries are being a bit cavalier about the fact that they’re locked in a room with America and it’s got a loaded gun.
Trump may be an idiot, but he has the world’s largest army and a nuclear arsenal at his fingertips.It’s very much the “you’re locked in here with me” moment.
It’s been a bit concerning seeing all the people just giddy with the prospect of millions of people dying from internal issues, either idiotically not understanding or simply being too naive, that when an animal dies, it doesn’t go quietly. Especially not when it senses the cause of its death is near.
And I believe enough people will view the rest of the world as the cause, I genuinely think if it came down to losing control permanently or causing the literal end of the world by launching as many nuclear and conventional strikes as possible before death takes them.
Personally, I don’t relish the downfall of any major country, and despite other countries issues I’d rather see them overthrow their tyrannical governments than grab popcorn and cheer as they crumble to civil wars and starvation. That just seems a bit too close to being “arch villain from a cartoon” for my taste.
I’d really like to see the Cure For Fascism being used here in my own country, but unfortunately “be the change you want to see in the world” just leaves a dead crazed lone gunman in the street. Organization will be needed.
Republican America is not a loaded gun. It’s a deranged rabid coyote. It seems so obvious: don’t fight the rabid coyote. No one will win. But we’re trapped here with it. Its taking its bites out of everyone close to it, and everyone else. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? Lie down and take it? Stand on the table and try to keep away? No one is coming to save us. This will not go away. They will not surrender.
The only way out is through; for Americans to start their civil war to disrupt their regime or, if they can manage it, figure some other way to oust their fascist government and their cult. To all the Americans fighting the good fight, keep it up, the world literally needs you.
The Republicans have already proven the laws mean nothing. They’re already boasting plans to stay for a 3rd term. There’s no waiting this out.
So, bring it on, you fascist fucks, let’s fucking go.
I used to think he was a big dumb dumb. Then January 6th happened and I quickly realized he was a dangerous idiot and I haven’t been the same ever since.
I’ve been watching history repeat itself while I’ve been surrounded people who still act like Trump and his cult-like followers are still a bunch of silly dumb dumbs.
I’m too exhausted to have any words to say anymore.
I’m rooting for the Yellowstone supervolcano at this point.
It’s not a thing, sorry. You’ve been misled. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/yellowstone-volcano-erupt-more-magma-found
Here’s a video with a really cool dive into the science behind it. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts
Godammit, now I have to hope for an asteroid strike.
I think unidentified girl at bat has got that one.
Dude. I fucking live here. I wanted to watch the hegemony decay, we’ve been responsible for some absolute nightmares. I did not want to life through shitting ourselves like a sun-setting dementia patient.
Yet here we are.
Shower thought:
I wonder if Rome had stand-up comedians, and if they had the best humor before the fall.
This shit hasn’t been funny for at least a decade.
This meme is literally me except I realize that I live in it
Not for much longer if Trump stays in the White House.
Americans have been fucked from the start, Hitler talked a lot about how he was inspired by Americans way of treating colored people.
Then they beat Hitler, but took all his scientists. They included rocket builders, but they also included political science and propagandistists.
The Nazis literally rebuilt in America, and took 71 years to show the people they were there, and 85 years to gain control of the largest military in the world.
Then they had an interesting civil liberties fight for less than a decade, before the Nazi republicans just started the war on drugs as a way of shutting them down and arrested / killed everyone involved.
I simply don’t trust Americans to fix this problem themselves. It is my dire belief that the entire world will have to invade America, like we did with Germany.
Ooh, those Nazis, taking over America and doing such horrible things as…
the Civil Rights Movement…?
It’s confusingly worded, but I think they were saying “they” as in “America” were having a civil rights movement (60s), and that the Nazi successors started the war on drugs to undermine and destroy it.
Top Nixon aide and Watergate conspirator John Ehrlichman.
Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy (1980s, in the Reagan White House):
Yep.
More like assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.
And no, obviously i am not saying that the political scientists and propogandists were doing this, they were old as shit when that happened.
But they helped other people spread the same ideology, do you think Americans weren’t racist while the civil rights movement needed to be a thing?
It got stopped though, by who?
I realize that I’m not going to leave a single dent in 57 years of conspiracy theories by saying this, but
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It wouldn’t require government intervention to create opposition to the civil rights movement, they were more common than MAGAts.
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The government targeting the icon for peaceful nonviolent approach would certainly be an unusual play to make.
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The opposition to civil rights in the federal government was the majority party, and the passing of the Civil Rights Act was bipartisan.
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James Earl Ray, past crimes included Burglary, Armed Robbery, Mail Fraud (stealing checks in the mail), and Armed Robbery Again before escaping prison from 1967 to 1969 before being caught in London, during which time he traveled many states but eventually wound up in LA where he worked and frequently visited the George Wallace headquarters, Wallace being a Segregationist politician and presidential candidate. Ray was renting a room across the street from MLK Jr’s place of assassination and fled shortly thereafter.
I am not saying the government killed him directly, but i definitely think that the Nazis had a role to play in the American propoganda machine, that helped racism grow back to its glory days.
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Americans were quite sympathetic towards the Nazis before the war. A lot of the pseudo-science race teachings and call for eugenics, which is genocide, were supported in the US. The Nazis got inspired by the flag saluting fascist ritual “pledge of allegiance” that still exists today, but long before. Henry Ford and other “models of the American Dream” could spread their Antisemitic hatred globally, while being recognized, revered or at least tolerated by their US American co-citizens.
The US was on its best way to become a fascist empire in the 20th century already, without any influence from the German Nazis. The German Nazis may have helped slightly, but the responsibility lies with the US Americans. After all the US was founded on a settler colonial white supremacist ethnic cleansing and genocide itself.
I agree with your conclusion. The US will not stop until it is stopped, like any other fascist country will not stop until it is stopped.
Americans were quite sympathetic towards the Nazis before the war.
There are examples, yes, but that’s a hell of an oversimplification. Such that it could be called bullshit. Which I do.
It’s… really not? You might want to go brush up on your history.
It is my dire belief that the entire world will have to invade America, like we did with Germany.
More likely, the rest of the world will look the other way while America cannibalizes itself.
I am hoping America splits into pieces, with Europe supporting the democratic bits. In the long run, that might allow Free America to rid itself of conservative baggage and become a genuinely shining city. Here’s hoping that we get a decent ending to this sordid tale.
I hope thats enough, but i am afraid that while America cannibalises itself, the oligarchic Nazis will just gain more control over the ashes.
That basically is their gameplan. Project2025 aims to turn the US into a christofascist nation, whereas the techbro “Butterfly…something” plan is attempting to dissolve the government and split the nation into corporate serfdoms.
And this time, don’t take the scientists.
Er… not to douse the flames of my own deliverance or anything but you do remember about the nukes, right?
Yeah, everybody has nukes now. We can’t stop any evil people from doing anything, because they got nukes. Can’t stop russias dictator, can’t stop chinas dictator, can’t stop the American dictator.
How long will it be before insane amounts of money was able to buy up Europe as well?
Yep that’s pretty much how it works! Sucks, doesn’t it?
The south.
The Nuremberg Laws were Jim crow but with the one drop rule crossed out and Hitlers name written at the top.
Black GIs came back from liberating Europe, to be lynched for being ‘too uppity’.
If it wasn’t for the south desperately trying to drag us into their filth we wouldn’t have had W, we wouldn’t have Trump, we could have had universal Healthcare and just generally not sold everything out to the oligarchs.
The rise of the United States was due to the destruction of the south as a political power, allowing the rest of the country to grow, for instance the transcontinental railroad.
Cancer can go into remission, but it doesn’t always stay there.
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The problem with that solution is it makes us no better than they are.
Well, a little better, we’d be saving the world from their filth and evil.
But personally, let’s replace them with hardworking, decent Mexicans, who seem to make such better Americans because they don’t take it for granted.
But the south is just destroying us as a nation, again, and our mercy is why, we needed to hand over the entire ruling class of the south over to their slaves and just walked away.
160 years of evil and suffering because of a moment of mercy, how unfortunate.
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I don’t think they would take them.
I just figured we need to build a wall, Mexico too, I’m sure they’d be glad to pitch in for their side to keep the worthless meth trash off their lawn.
That’s a garbage take. In very few states do Republicans win by majorities greater than 60/40. So those 40% of southerners actively voting against these policies should be nuked?
Atlanta should be reduced to ash because surrounding counties voted red? Hell Georgia has flipped back and forth recently and is nearly a 50/50 split. Even florida had 42% of voters vote against Trump. That is millions of people.
This is truly a really bad take. If we just mandated voting and mailed everyone a ballot this issue would likely solve itself. It would be cheaper than nukes too
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My family moved me there in high school, I managed to escape after college.
It gets better, that’s all I can say, just keep your head down and try to survive.
They’re monsters, but hopefully you can leave soon.
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Every single Confederate officer and politician should have been hanged until dead.
Absolutely not!
What kind of message does that send?!
We should have given all the slavers to their slaves, and then just walked away.
Let nature quietly take its course.
So basically the hydra uprising in shield but with the american government
Depending on whether it is a slow self dismantling or a rapid explosion the US will either be a lot less, or a lot more influential.
Not anymore.
As an American, I’m fine with the US no longer being the most influential anymore, as long as the most influential country that replaces us is a democracy. Preferably much more democratic than we are.
Like 95% of democratic countries are much more democratic than the US…
Was.
American empire has barely started toppling, this is gonna get a whole lot more fucky before “was” is an accurate label :(
It took me a while, but I finally understand why “may you live in interesting times” is a curse.
Ooh boy.
