Usually I am sympathetic towards people losing their jobs. However, that goes out the window when their government is hostile and I am watching family struggle due to the trade war.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

    Maybe those innocent people should haul a guillotine down to DC and loudly complain to those responsible for this mess instead of pointing fingers at other countries.

    Y'all get no sympathy from me. Take care of your fucking fascism problem. The second amendment is useful for more than shooting children in classrooms.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (9 children)

    Oh wow! The exact same sentiment that USians were repeating time and again for the past four years about Russians, is verboten when it comes to USians themselves. What a surprise!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Oh yeah, anyone who's pointing out USian hypocrisy is a tankie.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    Sure, apropos of nothing but four years of USians bitching across social media on how Russians are all subhuman scum that all deserve to burn right where they are. Then when the US has their own mentally ill pedofascist conman as the president for the second time, it's suddenly “oh well, what can you do”.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Oh sure, years of being constantly on Reddit and part-time on Lemmy totally hasn't brought up any ongoing trends. And ‘another commenter’ is definitely not yourself.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Sometimes the baby gets thrown out with the bath water. It sucks, but that's life (at least, that's what people say).

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Wow, a fan. Sorry I don't pay attention to the internet names but I used to read Dick Tracy in the newspaper as a kid. Your heart seems in the right place you just need to step further back a little to see the whole forest.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You have definitely not stepped back based on all your comments. You're the common stereotype of an American who THINKS they've done that but it's extremely clear to everyone else that you just have slightly less tunnel vision than most Americans, and what you have is still well within the borders of pinhole tunnel vision with your face planted on the ground.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (19 children)

    YOU VOTED FOR YOUR MISSERY AND IT AFFECTED THE WORLD AND NOW YOU ARE SURPRISED PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPORTING YOU.

    YOUR COUNTRY IS THE WORLD TERRORIST AND THE FACT THAT ONE MAN CAN AFFECT THE WORLD ECONOMY LIKE YOUR ORANGE MUSSOLINI HAS IS PROOF OF IT.

    YES, PEOPLE ARE HAPPY THAT YOUR COUNTRY IS FEELING A SLIGHT SLIVER OF WHAT IT HAS DISHED OUT TO OTHERS IN OVER 250 YEARS.

    YOUR IGNORANCE IS WHAT FUELS YOUR COMMENTS AND YOUR "EXCEPTIONALISM" IS ALL YOU KNOW.

    IMAGINE THINKING YOU ARE THE BEST NATION ON EARTH ALL WHILE TERRORIZING MOST OTHER NATIONS FOR OVER 100 YEARS.

    THIS IS WHY WE ARE PISSED.

    NOW FUCK OFF AND GET RID OF YOUR FASCISTS.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    That's not what bigot means lol

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How are you unable to see that not at all the same? They're using facts to show one country has done a LOT of bad towards the whole world, soecific countries even more so. That in no way is "strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics", it's them being with all of the world other than the country in question who has objectively done the bad things. And it's absolutely not "intolerant of those who differ". It's clear from your comments that you're a brainwashed idiot but you clearly also have problems comprehending simple words.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Not having sympathy due to the government you guys elected is not the same as intolerance. Stop acting like a victim

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Good for you or im sorry to hear that or whatever. I dunno i didn't read it when it sounded like more whining. Bye baby girl

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    But by your own definition of bigotry there’s none of that to be found in this thread. Sure, you could construe an intolerance of people from the US (even though it’s more like intolerance of their many years of harmful bullshit) but there’s absolutely no partiality toward any group. It’s purely frustration at the US and many of its citizens’ stubborn unwillingness to own up to the countless problems their country has caused across generations, let alone right now.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I'm intolerant of the US in the same way someone might be lactose intolerant. When you find out, it doesn't mean you immediately hate all dairy, you just have to start considering what items are worth the consequences.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The holier-than-thou mentality really doesn’t hold up to any standard of practicality when it comes to relations between countries. No doubt people are struggling in the US, yet purely because of the fact that there are more people living outside of the US as opposed to within its territories, you better believe I’m going to be grateful when non-US folk are doing better than US ones, especially since it’s in spite of everything the latter has done.

    Plus a little schadenfraude for all the problems we’ve overcome and even improved ourselves through after the US sent them our way, it’s good for morale after all.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    Ever heard of realpolitik? Being righteous doesn’t matter on a geopolitical scale, especially not when it comes to an imperial superpower currently in the midst of its death throes. I’m afraid you’ll have to come to terms with billions of people understandably revelling in hundreds of years of a country’s utter nonsense finally returning itself to sender. Might be irrational, but it’s definitely not without precedent.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Mhm… I’m sure you have some solid reasoning for that claim that you’re withholding for good cause and not for a complete lack of substance.

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

    50+% of the US is not innocent, so fuck off

    edit: sorry, 50+% of eligible voters. not of the whole population

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (28 children)

    Not many innocents. They voted for this, and a third didn't care to vote at all

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Well hopefully this will be a lesson learned for the apathetic populous that allowed this to happen.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    They are grouped. It's called the United States. They, as a country, voted for this. They, as a country, tolerate this.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago*

    Tough shit! You're fucking doing it. It doesn't matter why you're fucking doing it. If you're doing it because your system of governance is broken, that's still your fucking problem to solve. What, you want us to come down there and fucking solve it for you?? What are you even doing here? What stunted emotional need are you trying to meet right now?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    That third voted for this by sitting out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Not in the US. Attitude is irrelevant. You either pull the democratic party left by participating in primaries or you help elect Republicans. There are literally no other possibilities.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Oh so you're just engaging in bad faith or are incredibly ignorant of US civics. Either way you've got nothing productive to add to a conversation. Fuck off.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The people who voted for the Dumpster at least managed to take the most basic, simple first step in starting to fulfill their civic duty. I don't know if I can bring myself to laud that, but I've certainly no credit to award those who didn't even vote at all.

    If so much as 10% of the nation is engaged and has so much as a spark of competence yet cannot bear to vote Democrat, where did all the 3rd-party and off-ballot votes go? Why are those still practically a rounding error, hovering around 2% every year but 2016?

    Those who didn't vote at all ought to feel the most shame, because the laziness of abdicating all personal responsibility doesn't offer half the emotional shielding that idiocy does.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm unsure how to feel about the non-voters. Im in UK and didnt vote in the Brexit thing, because I didn't understand nearly enough of the rules or regulations and was being sent contradictory pamphlets every day.

    I dont know what it looked like inside the US leading up to the election, so maybe it didnt seem as easily "maybe good vs definitely evil" as it did from the outside.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    So all the USians celebrating that Russia is cut off from Western trade and SWIFT, and that its economy is failing, are huge assholes?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    It literally doesn't matter. It is total bullshit, but it is human bullshit.

    Some will cry, some will gnash, some will joke, some will mock, some will defend, some will be hopelessly devoid of nuance.

    It doesn't matter because it's playing right into the hands of the ruling class. There is zero fucking difference between all of this, no matter where you're from, not functionally.

    No matter which people from where at the time are spouting whichever opinion, it doesn't matter.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I wasn't being nihilistic. I was pointing out an anthropological fact. I can take the first Canadian comment and take it on a walk through time on the People's Canada has harmed and--

    No, actually. Fuck this and fuck me for trying to help. Fuck the Canadians. Fuck you too.

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