Because you now did it to yourself.

  • @[email protected]
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    1226 months ago

    Pour one out for America and Ukraine, and the Middle East in general. And Taiwan.

    Europe and Asia, you guys better get your shit together, we might be out of this one permanently. Or we might have a very long recovery time spanning decades. Such fucking bullshit.

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      Europe and Asia, you guys better get your shit together

      Yes, it’s now or never.

      Who am I kidding, we won’t do anything, of course. Everyone will huddle in his corner.

      • Echo Dot
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        76 months ago

        In Europe particularly the big problem will be Turkey and Italy as usual.

    • Echo Dot
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      276 months ago

      I know Americans get upset when I say this to them but honestly, I think it’s the time the United States broke up, it’s too big, it’s too powerful, and as soon as someone like him gets in charge everything goes to shit.

      If the United States was smaller it wouldn’t matter as much if a random dictator got in charge of a small bit of it.

      • @[email protected]
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        106 months ago

        As an American, I’m in agreement with that in concept. Partition would be a harrowing process though, as people scramble to go where they feel they belong. I’m not sure such a process could happen without another civil war.

        • @[email protected]
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          66 months ago

          Czechs and Slovaks managed to do it in a civilised manner only 30 years ago, so it’s not impossible.

            • @[email protected]
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              26 months ago

              You’re either being sarcastic or you don’t live in the U.S. I’m currently living in Louisiana, and I’m surrounded by racist idiots.

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            26 months ago

            What’s their landmass in comparison to the US?

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        I was saying this the last time around. America is too big and the parties are too polarized, the federal government can’t fairly represent all of its constituents at once. At any given time, half of the population is being underrepresented.

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        That’s more practical than just reforming the election system, apparently. Ugh.

        Oldschool Republicans may have a point here too, perhaps less federal power is better.

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      For the sake of my mental health I’m currently trying to gaslight myself into thinking that Trump being president isn’t bad. But the truth is there is no realistic way the country is coming back from this. Not in my lifetime at least.

    • @[email protected]
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      116 months ago

      Yeah, no. Our European society is in decline.

      Recently we had some floodings on Valencia. We are aiming for 300 dead… In a modern society 300 dead because of a flooding, the same dead tool as in 1957 when the same area flooded. Our society is definitely failing.

    • DarkThoughts
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      Recovery time? Getting our shit together? Europe and Asia won’t survive the climate collapse either. I don’t know why you people talk like this.