• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    29 days ago

    He really does think the EU is a country. I’m not sure my opinion of Americans will ever recover from them having voted in this absolute moron.

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      29 days ago

      America was killed, by Americans, in a democratic election. And so many are still fondling the corpse, writhing with carrion bugs, and pretending it’s still alive.

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      29 days ago

      Oh…

      I can guaran-fucking-tee you my opinion of so-called “Americans” will never recover…

      I’m more concerned if the country is ever able to recover.

      FUCK!! IT’S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE MONTHS!!

      Much worse is yet to be realized.

      And, yes, I’m a suitably embarrassed US’ian.

      🙄 🤦‍♀️

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      28 days ago

      Twice. They did it twice.

      You can almost (but not quite) forgive the first time. You could -maybe- write it off as an experiment, or that they were giving the ‘real politicians’ a scare to get them back in line. However that’s a lot of ‘almost’ and ‘maybe’.

      But the second time, that’s fucking unforgivable.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      28 days ago

      ~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~67% voted third party or not at all.

      Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.

      That being said, Americans are dumbbbb

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        28 days ago

        As a resident of a Continental Country that is not the US, we’ve pretty much always seen Europe as a single, monolithic thing. It’s hard for us to grasp how something like France, which is just slightly bigger than Minas Gerais, 4th largest state of Brazil, is a completely separate thing from the rest.

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          27 days ago

          Honestly, that just seems like ignorance. It’s like you don’t know that France likes wine and Germany drinks beer. Or that the two were on opposite sides of two world wars.

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            26 days ago

            It’s like you don’t know that Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo were on opposite sides of the Farrapos war or Rio Grande do Sul likes wine and São Paulo drinks more beer.

            Regional cultural differences and history don’t come into question when it comes to how one country perceives others in the side of the world, so please, refrain from those simplistic ad-hominem arguments.

      • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        I was going to say this. Trump thinks the EU already is what I wish it will become.

        Maybe his efforts will push us further into that direction though?

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          28 days ago

          One of the good things to come from this is an end to the hegemony of the US. Now I have to hope the rest of the world will choose to be better as a result of it.

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              26 days ago

              While I’m sure it will at least partially fill the vacuum left by the US, it won’t have the “soft power” the US did over the entire Western world.

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                26 days ago

                If the US keeps trying this trade war trick, and they’ll end up realising that China is where stuff is made.

                I’m Norwegian and they seem to have a bunch of soft power here by saying “if you do that, we won’t buy your salmon anymore.” Time’ll show, I guess.

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        28 days ago

        It’s an economic zone made up of smaller countries, and functionality structured in a completely different way the US is regarding the fed vs the states. That fact the US president is referring to a continent as a country is unbelievably embarrassing.