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[–] 180 points 2 years ago (27 children)

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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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    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.

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  • [+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Maybe he’ll die and JD Vance will magically regain a conscience.

    God the only hope is that JD doesn't become president, in name or practice.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    JD doesn't have a spine. Due to childhood trauma, he adapted to whatever POS stepdad needed him to be, and still exhibits similar qualities as an adult. Not a good leadership quality in stressful situations, lol.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Just read an article in the guardian by a climate scientist lamenting how many times he and his colleagues presented flood risk data to city officials in Valencia but time and time again they ignored them. Very sad.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Europe [..] you guys better get your shit together

    LMAO my guy we're sandwiched between the US their thousands of nuclear warheads and Russia their thousands of nuclear warheads, what do you want me to do?

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