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Fuck the current administration and remember to VOTE if you're in the USA (lemmy.world)
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I'm getting fucking sick of this orange fuck lying and causing the United States to fall behind. END THE TARIFFS. If you don't vote you're a part of the problem.

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

We are not economically as powerful as the US, but that is mainly caused by decades of the petrodollar. The hostility versus science in general in the US has reached a new height, which already caused a massive brain drain. The damage to federal institutions will take decades to fix if y'all ever get together long enough to even start doing so, and the next "dear leader" in that timeframe can wreck any progress you made to recuperation what you've lost.

Your countries voting decisions have destroyed trust into your democratic nature and into how well your institutions are equipped to deal with a traitor like Trump (hint: they aren't, not one bit, and it has been this way since Nixon and Reagan). The worst damage that has been dealt are the attacks on NATO and the absolute disregard for the territorial integrity of your allies. This is something we CAN'T forget, because it means you left behind the structure that gave your place in the world in the first place: a strong military and economic pact between the US and Europe.

The issues shown up by Trump do not go away when he goes away. Europe in general places a lot of importance into stability between neighbours, thanks to the permanent state of war we have been in for most of our history.

The USA isn't stable, and it won't without it being the result of a civil war, thanks to your civic religion.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    You might want to hold off a few more weeks before attempting to predict the future. MAGA is crashing and burning fast right now.

    As for democracy itself, it’s looking like it’s going to survive here. Trump and co. don’t have the competency or work ethic for a real takeover. When they’re finally out (coming soon), yes, we need more laws and fewer “norms,” and I think Democrats have finally gotten that message in a way that the Biden administration failed to.

    Regarding NATO, the EU, etc., you’re really underestimating how short memories can be and how fast perceptions change. The EU would be relieved and eager to accept a sane, normal America again. They don’t want to spend money they don’t have on defense, and they can’t coordinate for shit when it comes to threat response. Their failure in Ukraine is just as shameful as ours.

    The brain drain issue is real and sad, but like tourism, it can and will reverse just as quickly.

    Of course there will be permanent damage to America from the Trump era, but it’s almost over and it wasn’t actually catastrophic in the sense of “America is on an inevitable trajectory of permanent decline” the way some ML and anarchist commenters on Lemmy would like to believe. Trends can be reversed, and when this one is, America will still be starting from the strongest position in the world.

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

    MAGA is just one expression of the rot that has accumulated. The Tea Party also crashed and burned, and then simply transmuted into MAGA, and the next populist rat catcher in the fangs of the billionaires will be selected even before Trump is gone.

    The real takeover is already completed. Your democratic institutions have been gutted and made into tools for the executive (outside of the central bank, but they are working hard on that), your supreme court infiltrated, your congress and senate utterly unable to reign in the executive. Your military has been "cleansed" of people who might resist. Your media is fighting for their lives against the FCC who is getting weaponized against them, or they have already surrendered or were belonging to the billionaires in the first place.

    There is not much left of anything that made your country great, because all of these are signs of an autocracy, not a democracy. The US are going the same way as Russia did - a democracy on paper, while not representing that in any real way.

    And because of all of this Europe will not forget this. Yes, we do not actually want to increase military spending, but it is happening in the largest scale Europe has ever done this outside of WW2 (Perun has a great video regarding this, where a) Europe is supporting Ukraine with more Money than the US now b) after a ramping up-time of a few years military spending is now bigger and growing faster than anything russia can accomplish even with a wartime economy.) Our "failure" as such is that the LNG deliveries from Russia will still go on until next year (13% of EU LNG still comes from Russia this year) and that there is no political will to put boots on the ground, which is hard to sell to the populace.

    And i would not bet even a cent on that you are out of Trumps claws. He will for sure try to get a 3rd term, regardless of what your constitution says, and he has a supreme court that will ensure that, just as they ensured that he is pretty much untouchable. The decline will not be catastrophic for now, but the US's place in the world is not left empty, it is gone - no other country can take that risk anymore after the US threats against other sovereign states, the meddling in South America and the buddying-up to Putin.

    Edit: Goddamn, even Canada prefers to deal with the EU rather than with their southern neighbour, and they will also not forget the threats against their sovereignity for a long, long time. The current rerouting of trade routes will not stop regardless of your midterms.

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