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Trump says US has "captured" Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife in "large scale strike" - latest (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 31 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I'm not American but to answer your question: no, I don't care who Americans elect. The country is a corrupt terrorist state and won't get any better without being split apart and/or rebuilt from the ground up

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    Yep. I can't see a reformist answer to the core problems of the US. A US president is still beholden to haute capital who own the mass media, the tech industries, the supermarkets, etc.. A hypothetical socialist president would turn out worse than Allende. In order to solve the core issues of the USA, it would need to cease being the USA and become some other country.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    I don't know what you're trying to get me to say but your country has repeatedly threatened us (Canada) with annexation and has tariffed us to the point where people I know are barely holding onto their jobs. The thing that angers me the most about it is the fact that Americans don't even seem to consider the annexation threats a factor in why Canadians are angry at them. The amount of propaganda your country pumps into its people means that a majority of even the most progressive people are thoroughly brainwashed into believing that getting to be American is actually a blessing

    I can assure you that I don't have anything nice to say about the US no matter the hypothetical scenario

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I can't answer any of your questions unfortunately. I don't know what repercussions the UK winning the war of 1812 would bring but my uneducated knee-jerk opinion would be that I think North America would have been better off as individual colonies turned countries rather than massive states. I think an EU style system with much smaller countries would have prevented what the US became. But again, that's just my uneducated opinion and I haven't put a lot of thought into it

    For the communism stuff: I am not nearly well read enough about it to recommend anything

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