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I didn't want peace for people, I only wanted the peace prize... If I can't get the peace prize, I will send people to war...
I mean, sure, that's the worst thing we've seen all week so far. But look - Harris didn't do enough for the proletariat!
So. Y'know. This is the Democrats' fault.
You gotta put /s or face confusion.
Fun fact, detecting written sarcasm is one of the more, let’s say, rare elements of verbal fluency.
Lemmy.ml genuinely believes this. They will still insist that not supporting Harris was somehow the right decision.
Holy unhinged, Batman!
Also wholly unhinged. The hinges are just gone.
This reads more like a diplomatic demand in civ 1
A bully will always pick a smaller target. When the world says "No!" the bully will bravely run away.
It's easy to tell which ones he's written and which ones his "PR department" has written.
I do not envy the successor who’s going to have to unfuck Americas reputation in the world.
I'm not sure it will be unfuckable to be fair. The amount of damage (reputational and whatnot) is so big that the country is right now a banana republic with a toddler autocrat. The only reason people still cater to him is his army. But even for that to keep working, he needs money. And there's a limit to how much other countries can tolerate.
He's dumb enough to not realize the US is drowning in ever-growing debt that other countries could simply cash in and send the whole manbaby imperialist fantasies to hell in a month or less.
He has pretty much torched all of the USA's soft power and standing as a trade partner.
GWB had already done some damage to both, which Obama tried to repair (more so on the trade front). Then Trump I happened and made it very clear that the USA were no longer a reliable partner and probably not even politically stable in the medium term. Biden tried to salvage something but then Trump II happened and conclusively buried what little goodwill the States had left.
I don't think the pax americana is going to survive the decade and neither is the petrodollar. It remains to be seen whether the States will become a local hegemonial power, a failed empire with lasting ambitions á la Russia, or will even fade from relevancy entirely. I don't expect them to remain a superpower.
I just read something about this, and it jibes with my own thoughts on the topic:
“There is a shift in U.S. policy and in many ways it is permanent,” according to a senior official with a European government. “Waiting it out is not a solution.
I mean, let's play out the possible scenarios for 2028... I don't see a single one that results in slowly rolling back everything that happened since 2016. And even back then the USA was not the most democratic; it was easier for Europe to not see it back then, but that is not the case anymore.
Dude is weird. Is this his normal, is it drug-induced, or is it dementia?
Yes.