In case others are also bad at remembering every acronym concerning the US and its politics:
EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency
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Only a miracle can save us. And I hope you have already understood this, but someone has long understood it.
How long until RFK Jr. recommends detox therapies for health issues caused by all the dereguation?
Yes, they plan to kill people.
Yes, they ~~plan to~~ kill people.
I've always wondered in those gray, dystopian movies with smog filled skies, smoke stacks, military forces, and people behind fences: how could they let it get that far?
I never even considered how quickly it could happen.
Same here. In just 10 years the world went to hell in ways I could not see possible.
The rest of the world has been watching you walk blindly down this path for three or four decades. We warned you, repeatedly, and received shitty, belligerent flag-waving in response.
Nobody literate outside the US is at all surprised by where you have found yourself (though we are a little shocked by how easily the decent people among you are rolling over and taking it). Trump is perhaps not the LEAST of your problems, but he’s not the cause, either.
Chances are that whatever country you are from also has an alt-right problem. Seeing the .ca instance, if you are from Canada, you weren’t far from electing your own lite version of Trump. Thankfully our mistake amplified so much bullshit that the Canadian’s didn’t repeat what we did.
Yes, we have an alt-right problem thanks to you allowing a house fire to start on our street after three decades of responding like assholes when we told you not to let your kids play with matches.
“Your child’s going to start a fire and it’s going to spread.”
“Shut up, you’re America’s hat.”
America is burning itself down right now and your response is "well there's smoke in Canada!"
My response was that this is becoming a global problem, and all the smug “I’ve been saying it for 30 years” bullshit is just dumb. Perhaps with all that precognition they should have retired by now with their foreknowledge of the global markets.
I know, it's always the same responses from Americans:
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Everywhere else is bad too!
American exceptionalism never dies - even when the country goes to shit that just means they're going to shit better and faster than everyone else.
Deflection - vague statements about other countries having an a right wing is irrelevant to how shitty America has become.
Defeatism - "this is a global problem". No, it's not. There are many countries that haven't turned their leaders into Kings with nothing to check their power or prevent them from chasing their every whim. You mentioned Canada, Canada has not invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader. Canada is not insisting it needs to Annex an allied nation. South Korea is actually holding a political leader accountable for trying to have a coup and taking them to trial. We should just change the logo of America from "Land of the Free" to "Nothing can be done to stop this." -
Why haven't you / Aren't you doing something to stop this?
See above - "Nothing can be done to stop this" / "Can't somebody else to this for us?" Anything to avoid dealing with the actual shitshow they are living in themselves.
FFS, a leader of a supposedly democratic country has invaded another country, is openly talking about annexing another, openly stating human life has no value, and your response to that is "but but Canada has a Conservative party that lost their last election!"
Anyone paying attention since at least the Bush-Gore election would know we were fucked.
I grew up in the Middle East and immigrated to Canada. The problems of the US were not 100% obvious to me from there.
god you anti-american losers are so fucking annoying. You are not unique and neither are your countries. They do all the same shit as America. It's just popular to hate on Americans lmfao. Like can you stop being a fucking loser for just a second? Why are you belittling this person you know nothing about? Because they're American? They're literally on your side.
Fuck America. Fuck an unfathomably large percentage of Americans. But to just lay into someone with some "told you so" smug attitude like your own shit doesn't stink? Shut the fuck up and do something useful, you useless ineffective twat. Christ.
Told you so.
Also, love how American liberals start sounding like MAGA the moment they get told their good intentions accomplish fuck all on their own.
Any American who is surprised by what’s happening, I assure you, is not on “my side,” they’re low-information, intellectually lazy idiots who never bothered to pay attention until white people were in danger.
Tell me more about how I sound like maga because I called you a useless, ineffective twat for belittling people. Tell me more about how I sound like maga because I'm calling you out for being a xenophobe.
Go on. Read my comment again. Tell me about how maga I sound.
"Low-information, intellectually lazy idiots" that's a lot of educated elitism for someone who claims to be further left than a liberal. Sounds to me like you're an elitist snob.
Fuck off and die.
Fuck off and die.
"I just don't understand where this Anti-American attitude comes from!"
Yeah, because it's such an uniquely American thing. You're so right, man. You're not putting forth the laziest argument imaginable.
Your behavior is neither common nor normal.
You're running defense for xenophobia and pretending like I am particularly problematic because I called out xenophobia.
Shut the fuck up and do something useful, you useless ineffective twat. Christ.
- Someone who claims to be "on your side" and doesn't understand why someone would have an anti-American attitude.
Lmao yeah keep justifying your hatred for civilians in another country because of their government. Really works out for everyone involved. Cunt.
Not what I said at all. I explained my dislike of you because of how you behave.
Oh, sorry, little baby doesn't like me because I yell at xenophobes for being xenophobic?
At what point do we start considering that Yellowstone exploding and erasing North America might not be as bad as we initially thought?
Er, wouldn't that also set the value of human life to $0?
Actually it’s currently at negative if he’s killing people so Yellowstone would at least bring it back up to 0
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The purpose of a bill is what it does. This weakens environmental regulations and protections for humans. Allowing companies to pollute and pay their executives more. It was always the goal.
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I just moved to New Zealand at the beginning of the year. The thing I was most struck by immediately after landing was how good the air smells outside. And I was at the Auckland Airport!
That and the quality of the eggs immediately radicalized me. They've taken so much from us.
For me its how large and healthy random animals look in other countries outside America. Like even the squirrels and birds in America look like they are struggling in comparison.
Wow, that's something I haven't thought to look at. I did notice that I haven't seen an unhappy dog in the couple of weeks I've been here. I've seen a lot of dogs, and some shy ones, but not really any anxious or angry dogs. That hit me out of the blue a couple days ago.
you should see the size of the rabbits in my backyard here in suburban Ottawa
the foxes, however, are cute and small as always
tell me more about these eggs
Now, before I tell you this, you should know that this was a carton of the cheapest eggs I could find at a random Pak 'n' Save in Auckland. So this isn't some boutique farmers market thing. And it's happened twice, with two different brands, so it wasn't a fluke.
So the first thing I noticed was the color of the yolk. In the US, I'm used to a sort of medium canary yellow color; but when I cracked the first one into a bowl, I audibly said "oh!" because that yolk was practically orange. It was such a rich yellow texture. I've seen something close to that in a hen-fresh egg in the States, but even that was a little duller in color than this.
I only scrambled them that first time. And I didn't even do a particularly good job; didn't use a whisk, probably didn't use the right ratio of milk to egg, I got distracted so I wasn't paying attention to how long they cooked, and I didn't have the right seasonings. But with just salt and pepper, those were the best scrambled eggs I've ever eaten in my life. On a random Saturday, and by my own hand! They had this creamy texture, it was nowhere near rubbery, and it had this flavor to it that I can't describe really. I have come to discover that that's the true flavor of a fresh egg. I had never really tasted the flavor of egg before.
The second time, I made sunny side up eggs for my father in law. I've never gotten sunny side up to even kind of work, but this time...well, I kind of broke the yolk a little bit, but...anyway, I'm not a great cook. But he agreed that they were really good.
Then I had them boiled. They were slightly overdone, but I barely needed salt or pepper.
I'm looking forward to eating eggs now. We've even gotten some of our kids to eat them. They're just so much better than the stuff I picked up at home.
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Honestly, Trump is either incredibly stupid or destroying everything is his goal.
Theee things: He’s absolutely stupid. He’s a self-centered narcissist. He’s immune to consequences.
The confluence of the two and the power he has lets him do a lot of self-serving…well, everything. From money to bullying to whatever.
And his position protects him from any consequences. Which lets him keep doing everything he’s been doing.
What is incredible is that he has been doing and saying heinous shit his whole life and his history of business failure was always still cast as success for some reason.
Like he has been raping people his whole life, and he probably personally threw that baby in lake Michigan, things that are punishable by life in prison or the death penalty in some places. Yet he evaded everything.
Even in the era he was doing this, the coked up 80s, lots of people went to jail for fraud and crap and the shit he was doing. The fact that such a high profile person like him evaded it still is just incredible.
The only answer is that the people that like him figure his shitty behavior supports their shitty behavior. And they’re not wrong.
And that is. How he got on the apprentice is because when they were looking for successful CEOs to star in the show they couldn't find them. Because CEOs that are good at their jobs are generally too busy running their companies to be on some dumb reality show. Trump? He basically had an open schedule. All his time was devoted to the show. He didn't have much else going on at the time.
And the producer now is publicly apologizing for this.
I read the article. He not only singlehandedly rehabilitated his ailing image (he was seen as a washed up relic by that point) but the writing and the entire crew did their best to make him look like a competent leader and manager and 'America's boss'.
His ego and his pocketbook are all that matters. Arguably all that ever has. Any time you think "he did what?" consider who is paying him or stroking his ego. That's all it is.
New ballroom? Ego. Stripping environmental protection? Pocketbook. Invade Venezuela? Pocketbook. Ice Gestapo? Ego. He doesn't care anything for America. He cares for the slice that lets him line his pockets and feel like a big strong boy. There is no heart, there is no morals, it's him, his ego, and the wallet he sits on.
I think you forgot triggering the libs.
Ego.
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