• Mallspice@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve thought about moving out of America but global warming seems primed to kill us all by slowly pressuring us to death or near death without aliens coming down here to lay down the law in a way we can’t ignore. We’re all fucked, whether sooner or later. As much as I would want to live in Europe or Southeast Asia, I would feel about Russia or China like I did about Trump in 2022, that the peace is only temporary.

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    15 hours ago

    It doesnt matter, america affects every one on the planet.

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      13 hours ago

      Negatively. By stealing and hoarding resources? By destabilizing world politics? By driving and supporting war across the globe? Most earthlings are unaffected by these things directly. America is not that important.

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    I wouldn’t get too cozy over there. We’ll just end up bringing America to you :) Sleep soundly

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        9 hours ago

        America’s best export is suffering. Right now we call them tarrifs.

        Thanks to closing down USAid, we gave up soft power.

        A coalition of the willing, ready to make the world safe for Democracy, like 80 years ago.
        Swap the beaches of Normandy for Chesapeake Bay.

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    Right now, wherever you are, there are people paid by the USA trying their best to make your life worse in order to

    • Align your country’s foreign policy closer to the goals to that of the USA
    • Shape your economy so that American corporations can enrich themselves by extracting the maximum value out of your country.

    So yeah, there is no escape from America. That’s the whole point of being the global hegemon.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah but we still have free health care and strong unions/labour laws, so it’s not that bad

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      Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.

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      I don’t think enough people noticed the Trump regime’s demands that EU destroy their own healthcare just so theirs could look, well, not better but less terrible by comparison.

      This is not a joke. These people will absolutely do everything they can to rob the few nations on this Earth that manage to take care of their citizens to the point they’re all beholden to the same crime lord family.

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        Yeah, do not even for a second entertain the notion that European companies wouldn’t love it if your health insurance were held hostage by your employment like it is in the USA.

        The truth of the matter is European quality of life has been coasting on the gains made in the past by the blood and sweat of the unions and the concessions made by the governments to stave off the specter of communism. Billionaires in the US are seeing this slice of wealth and are coming for it via the populist right-wing parties in every country. If anyone can get this fact through the thick skull of anti-immigrant voters, let me know.

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        The Trump administration is way too incompetent to actually achieve anything. They want that from the EU but they are also throwing away their own good cards to apply any pressure.

        If the US pull out their NATO troops from Europe, have their statements leaked that they hate to help Europe, and impose insane tariffs on Europe no matter what, they have nothing to pressure Europe with.

        European nations cancel F-35 orders and order Rafaele, Eurofighter, and Gripen instead and there is nothing the US can do about it now. It’s the same with healthcare. The US have nothing to pressure the EU with.

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      Good thing Trump’s absolutely destroyed any kind of international leverage the United States had. That’s the one silver lining to all of this: The USA has been on a steady path to fascism for a while, accelerating under Republicans and slowing down under Democrats but never reversing. However, now that you’ve gone fully mask-off you did it under the leadership of an outright moron, who’s making it much harder for Americans to drag the rest of the world down with them.

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    15 hours ago

    How I sleep knowing that 90% of my genuine reddit opinions result in fire that can melt steel beams in world trade center.

    Meanwhile my mere presence at the holy sites of Jerusalem or even in means of transportation has similar effect. Honestly maybe I would trade this talent away for something more useful because no-one even wants to pay me for it.

    It takes zero conscious effort on my part too. So I would be getting some good passive income like this. If you want someone pissed off hire me and I will push all the right buttons