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Trump fucked around, now America gets to find out
America was never a leader, is was always a bully
Now the world had had enough and is pushing back. The facade is slipping and America is shown to be the house of cards it always was
Americans fucked around. We took our democracy for granted. We were too polite to challenge the bigots in our lives. We were too afraid of being called elitist or communist or soft, so we sat on the sidelines with furrowed brows and clutched pearls while shitty people steamrolled our freedoms to pave the road to their own successes.
We're all to blame. The Conservative shitbags, the opportunistic centrists, the ineffectual progressives, and the shiftless appliticals who never bothered to try. Trump didn't happen to America. Trump is the inexorable conclusion of America.
It was very carefully and insidiously taken from you
I agree that it was inevitable though. It was a county founded on the idea of fucking people over to get ahead
Maybe there's hope for the future. I sure hope that there is
It used to be a bully you could reason and work with, and that at least understood give and take. Now it's just a drunk bully, starting fights for whatever.
It's a toddler
Just look at the tantrums, let alone the shitting itself...
The world gets to find out. None of this affects only the USA or China. They‘re both freaking out right now.
It was stolen from the indigenous population
It only achieved independence because the French hated the English
It has interfered with the autonomy of so many countries
The US sat out of the second world war until the tail end things, because there were quite a few people who thought that Hitler was actually pretty cool (so history is repeating)
Since then there has been a series of wars waged purely to try to show other competing powers that 'Murica punches hard
I think it's hilarious that you call me "tough guy", as though I value people thinking that I'm a hard cunt or something
That's a yank thing.
I don't have to worry about my safety, because I don't live in a country where violence is ever-present due to everyone being afraid of everyone else
Clearly I'm not going to win an argument about hating America if I do as well. But there are a lot of us here that haven't done anything wrong and have done everything we can to stop/change things.
And yeah, the fucking BRITISH of all people have room to be judgemental of America.
Edit: /s
Edit edit: also, I want to point out that the spanish, French and British did the colonizing. We took it from them. And THEN we did the horrible stuff to the people who were left.
I'm not a Brit, so there's that...
Well then you're either australian, (which is cool, love you guys) or south african, and maybe can talk shit, or definitely also can't.
Definitely not South African...
Not Aussie either
You said hard cunt and yank, I suppose you could be Canadian but they tend not to use the word cunt. And if you're anything else then you're definitely trying to be like someone from one of those countries. Why?
I'm disappointed in your poor geographical knowledge
I'm definitely not Canadian
You didn't answer the question. Where are you from? What have you done to prevent fascism?
And poor geographical knowledge? How so? In what way? I'm working off 2 words and I fully suspect you're lying. Your rage against America isn't necessarily misplaced, as long as it's well founded and isn't hypocritical. But let's not act like America is the only country that's done evil. And demonizing the entire population when less than half of the populace supports it only hurts the friends trying to right the ship. Shitting on all Americans like that is more likely to push more people to the right, than help our cause. Vitriol only separated people, trust me, I've been here for 40 years and watched as the zipper of cohesion has undone at different rates over the years.
I know you have rage. I do too. It's well founded. But point that rage where it belongs, and encourage those working to save us as a global society and species. To do that, we have to cut out the cancer. But currently that cancer is in the nervous system of the world. If you cut out the nervous system to cure the cancer, we all die anyways. You understand what I'm saying? Don't be trump, alienating allies never gets what you want. Just be cognizant of that.
I'm a Kiwi
Alright well then that does go to my American ignorance because we often lump you in with Australia, apologies for that.
Edit: however, I would also say that that doesn't have anything to do with geographical knowledge.
Also, are you indigenous?
Pakeha