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[–] 47 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

It's not a matter of simply waiting out one bad president and then expecting everything to go back to normal.
It's naive to think that there isn't an enormous fundamental public sentiment in America of everything that Trump and current day Republicans represent.

The rest of the world no longer trusts America and has been spending that last few years forging new friendships and alliances.
It will take generations to come back from the damage America has done to themselves over that last decade.

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  • [–] 26 points 16 hours ago

    And it will never be completely the same. The amount distrust towards everything that is American like tech, products and politics has never been this high. It finally opened Europe’s eyes to see that it needs to be less dependent on America.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    You won't come back from what trump did the last two years, ever.

    That post WW2 rush just went away, like the magic smoke leaving an expensive processor that was pushed too hard.

    IMO you can only aim to be a normal country now.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago* (2 children)

    You are a lot more optimistic than I am. Here in Sweden our politicians are still all buddy-bud with the US, seemingly completely unaffected by the repeated threats and tantrums.

    We'll be good little lapdogs.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm thankful in a strange way that this bloated orange corpse was incapable of stopping himself from insulting and attacking Canada and Canadians so relentlessly and disgustingly that nobody in our country can close their eyes to it.

    It's galvanized us in a way that I've not seen in my lifetime

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    You'd think that here in Sweden we'd feel similarly on account of the threat towards Greenland, and by proxy Denmark. But alas, our politicians are fools, hence why they're letting Peter Thiel and his named-after-evil-objects company worm its way into both our police force and our military.

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