• jaykrown@lemmy.world
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    I genuinely believe at this point that trump is working to weaken the United States, how big of a chance is there that this is deliberate, that he’s not actually acting in good faith of the American people based on his actions?

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    Republicans: We need more people to have babies!

    Also Republicans: We need more babies to contract preventable diseases and die!

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    You know when they say “Keep your enemies close” they don’t mean elect him to the highest office, America.

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    Poor fella must have misunderstood. We want fewer children to get shot, not shots.

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      I hate to sound defeatist, but the US will never recover in its current form. The US political system is too right-leaning, and the right wing propaganda machine and cuts to education have done irreparable damage.

      We need a complete change in trajectory to recover, and left unchecked the GOP and DNC will burn the country to the ground before they let that happen. Nothing short of a French medieval device will do.

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        We’re not that right leaning, our political system gives too much power to empty land that happens to have a few right wing nuts living there.

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        It’s the Fall of Rome. Sooner or later, there’ll be military crisis as charismatic leaders tear the nation apart.

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        Nothing short of a French medieval device will do.

        The “medieval device” you are referring to, back in 1792, was in fact a cutting-edge modern era device.

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        I hate to sound defeatist, but the US will never recover in its current form. The US political system is too right-leaning, and the right wing propaganda machine and cuts to education have done irreparable damage.

        I don’t believe its impossible.

        Its very improbable, but the sudden rise of democratic socialists and massive support thats forming around them does open up possibilities, if enough of them get elected to power, they could start to right the ship. Get even more into offices, and they could start undoing bullshit and passing fresh new laws, for the people, not the powerful.

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          I don’t believe the end of our current political system means we all die, it hopefully means the shitheads in charge face consequences and we get a system in place that doesn’t let this happen again.

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      I’m a Canadian but I strongly suspect the US will never fully recover from where they are now. Even just consider international relations - Trump has irreparably damaged America’s relationship with Canada. I seriously doubt Canada will ever fully trust the USA again.

      A stark contrast to 10 years ago when we had one of the strongest allied relationships on the planet.

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        It will again, but it will take decades and huge changes on the part of the USA

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        I doubt anyone fully trusted the USA to begin with. Its not like betraying deals and acting against friends is a sudden new development afterall.

        but I do think, if we can start to cut the cancer out of the country, you would find a lot of the world welcoming the US back, if for nothing else than their own personal interests… probably mostly as a geopolitical counterweight to china.

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        Old people die. Young people take over. What does canadas youth think of americas youth? Those are the only opinions that matter, ultimately.

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          You’re not wrong, but your timescale is. What does the next generation of not yet born folks think about the next generation of not yet born folks will ultimately matter.

          I’m pretty firmly convinced the reason it took this long for the fascist takeover and probably WWIII is because it took about this long, 70-80ish years, for the living memory of WWII to, uh, stop living.

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        Yeah I don’t know why we ever pretended that exists, Canada is a nation whose entire cultural identity is resentment at being mistaken for American, and some of them speak even snootier French than the French do. We’re not friends, we’ve never been friends, it’s probably healthy to stop pretending we’re friends.

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      Antivax organizations pay an annual fee to RFK Jr. Children’s Health Defense paid him $510,000/yr before he entered the administration.

      Trump has been close to Wakefield since 2016. Wakefield and RFK bring the critical idiot votes to Trump.

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      See, thats the thing about Trump.

      You don’t need to bribe him.

      You can get him to do almost anything with just a carefully calculated discussion/ego buttering.

      Because he is an incompetent fool who thinks he is the smartest person in the room. So he is very, very manipulable.

      And this has always been the case, its not just now causes old and rapidly declining… Though the old and rapid declining part does make it a lot easier to push his buttons… Which is why his manipulators like Miller and RFK try to stay close at all times.