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[–] 151 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (39 children)

I really need people to start to realize that we're at least a full decade further into the erosion and decline of the United States than most people seem to think we are. Trump is a symptom of an already sick and dying system. This isn't a fluke

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  • [–] 72 points 1 month ago (23 children)

    Europe should invade and force a regime change, liberate the US citizens.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    Once again, this isn't about regime. It's a systemic issue. The U.S. is a net negative for everyone, especially it's own people. The only solution is end the whole thing and try something new

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    And just like every kinda country/ government it should come from it's own people not from a foreign power.

    It will not last if it comes from outside, the one who got taken down before, always goes back to the fake patriotism and put another dictator in same place back in the end, if not the same fucker (see Napoleon for example).

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We should view wealth as a foreign power. The ultra wealthy are divested from the care and keeping of the country, and the regular people in it. They are openly hostile to the citizens, exploiting them and extracting rent and labor from them; and they seek to usurp and control the government.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    True, a few business with over trillions of dollar while the fucking country is trillions in debt, it's fucking ridiculous. They have money for war, but not for health, they have the biggest corporations in the planet but don't have any perspective to pay any of their debts. No wonder a con man was elected to represent the people of US.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Funny though. Americans seem to think they can cart Blanche take control of, oh I don’t know: Cuba, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Venezuela, Panama, and Iran and overthrow their governments with whatever right they seem to think they have. Hypocrisy much?

    Edit. I forgot the Gulf of Mexico.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Growing up in New Zealand we looked up to the USA as most nations did

    It has been downhill since 9/11

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    Exactly, the year before actually when Bush stole the election from Gore. To me that marks the start of the decline of the US.

    Really though Reagan kicked it all off but the actual collapse started in 2000.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Alternative pitch, your politics were under developed in that era - and a lot of people in the mainstream culture were (through things like TV, an uncritical education system, and a lack of information) able to be politically inactive, and fairly unaware.

    Because really you should have been sus on America and all the colonial countries and their parent countries for a long long time now.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Sadly, Aotearoa has gone down the populist right-wing path with Luxon and his merry band of cunts

    I hope everyone who voted for National at the last election suffers a week of uncontrollable dribbling shits and learn to be better people

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    I've been screaming for people to realize that the law doesn't matter if nobody is enforcing it. Absolutely nothing is stopping Trump from becoming a dictator. Maybe more people will open their eyes after midtetms

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I think the U.S. will decline much more quickly. The Orange Guy has been in office for barely more than a year and a half, again—the damage he’s done this time around is pretty much irreparable.

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    [–] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

    I know it's a meme but I really wish they would quote sources. Now I have to look it up. The burden is on the one making the claim.

    EDIT: Ok, I looked it up and it seems like BS. It may be true and would be easy to believe but White House maintenance is not a line item that is broken out. The amount spent is divided into many different buckets appropriated by Congress (probably on purpose) and is difficult if not impossible to determine. The term maintenance would need to be uniformly defined. Does it include secret service infrastructure, for instance? There have been a number of instances that have exceed $2.5M. It also seems pretty clear that Trump's "maintenance" budget is the highest ever. But Bush and Obama both spent hundreds of millions of dollars to essentially reinforce the aging structure.

    You're welcome.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    If you're going to complain about the lack of sources, you might take the time to do accurate research before calling BS. The source took took me about 3 minutes to find. From the Washington Post:

    The Executive Residence, which employs housekeepers, curators, calligraphers and carpenters, has not previously managed major construction efforts, experts said. In recent years, Congress has appropriated $2.5 million annually to its maintenance account, known as "White House Repair and Restoration."

    Since Trump took office, the administration has directed $875 million to that account, public budget records show.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    This vinyl is really hard to find.

    EDIT: I'm sorry. I seem to have accidentally and totally not on purpose posted this image of a rare vinyl in the wrong community.

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    [–] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There was another option on the ballot which meant this wouldnt have happened.

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    He's pocketing the whole thing. He's gluing fake gold onto WhiteHouse fixtures to make it seem like money is being spent but mostly he and his family are just pocketing the majority of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Why would it be a datacenter? We have lots of federally controlled datacenters. And data can be transferred at the speed of light, even if they want a direct line from the white house to a dedicated datacenter it'd probably be built in northern Virginia

    It's not a datacenter underneath, it's a luxury bunker. Trump alludes to it all the time when he talks about "the ballroom". He always speaks of the ballroom as a matter of safety

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    From the article

    And this has to be at the White House specifically because location determines oversight. When infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President, when it exists at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it can be classified under executive privilege. The East Wing sits directly above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker where Dick Cheney sheltered during September 11th. By demolishing the entire East Wing, you create space to expand that existing secure facility, integrate new infrastructure, go deeper underground. All protected by the classification that covers anything related to presidential security.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    And the White House has never been in more disrepair and parts of it literally look bombed.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    When Fidesz campaigned for getting elected in 2010, they only asked for one or two terms.

    Once they got elected, they asked until 2030.

    Around 2020, their think tanks claimed we can only think about a "post Fidesz society" after 2050.

    Meanwhile I've heard that some people within the party wanted to turn the words "liberalism" and essentially "democracy" into synonyms of "chaos".

    The moment mothers scold their children for having a messy room by telling them there's democracy in their room rather than anarchy, we have finally won, and turned democracy into an unthinkable ideology.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    All because some stupid, ignorant bigots wanted to "own the libs"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    They've been conditioned to want to own the libs for a while now, and FOX News has gotten super good at it.

    The fear and outrage and open bigotry are the hook that pulls people in. Then the red-pills (the conspiracy theories) invite the viewer to disregard all other news sources that run contrary. They're being gaslighted the same way an abusive spouse isolates their partner so there is no where else to go. Soon the viewer is in an information silo, just them and FOX News, alone together.

    And then every story confirms the MAGA ideology.

    I don't know if there's a counter for it. Reagan got rid of Fairness doctrine in news media, and our education system long decided that critical thinking skills beget disobedience.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    to escape from and distract from krasnovs dear friend, epstein, and to keep ms maxwell quiet.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    He moves in, and immediately tears up half the place, and now he has to spend his entire term staring out at a big muddy hole. He's such a redneck, the next thing will be wrestling matches in the front yard.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Naw, he's doing this for the next guy. /S

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