Yeah but it's all worth it to not have to have access to abundant cheap labour, wait hang on.

Soft power that has taken nearly a century to build up.

That’s the amazing thing about this moment in time. It is incalculable the amount of human effort that went into building this soft power reserve that is just being pissed away.

I can’t imagine what it would feel like to be someone that worked on serious trade deals or had some kind of diplomatic role. The number of Americans that volunteered in the peace corps to better the world and in doing so also buy goodwill with their time and work.

And for nothing. Literally nothing.

It has fundamentally broken trust internationally for at least a generation with absolutely no direct gain for American industry or prosperity.

40 odd years ago I wanted lots of stuff from the us. Too much to mention

30 years ago I wanted the cool tech, movies and TV shows etc, fast food etc. Video games and so on.

20 years ago all I wanted from the us was fast food and movies.

10 years ago all I wanted was one thing from the us. Movies. That's it, just one thing.

For the last 5 years it went up as I wanted two things. Movies and to hold the obese orange fuckbasket accountable for his many, many crimes.

Now today, though, I just want him to be accountable.
I don't give two shits about the shit food and the even more shitty movies or any of that useless crap, just do the fucking decent thing and make him feel the consequences of his actions. Just fucking once.

The decline of the us started decades ago. The collapse of the us started in 2016.

Nowadays that's only true for movies.

Depending on where in the world it's still mostly true for shows and music as well. Although they've been losing their near-monopoly, just look at how popular Korean entertainment is now compared to even a decade ago.

I hate Trump with every fibre of my being, but his hubris and bumbling has done amazing things for Canada and we're getting stronger every day.

When this is all over we should almost erect a monument for him as thanks. Maybe a gold coloured toilet in the middle of a field or something.

The one thing I'm worried about is the idiots who think Trump and his goons' policies are sound and they are succeeding. We have those in Japan and they seem to be getting louder every day.

Ideally our government will weaken itself enough that we can just declare independence

Send them a rude letter in a disrespectful manner that throws away all trade talks.

ts beyond time for japan and korea to find commanality and join

Good luck with that. Especially the older generations that still hate each other. Add to that whenever the japanese right or Korean left want to stir shit up with their nationalist bases, the opposite country is the go-to. Previous agreements etc. be damned.

It's not obvious to me that even if the two countries would be willing to do so that there would be enough strength to have any relevance related to China, so I'm not sure how viable it would be

Something like a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere! (Sorry, sometimes you gotta take the shot.)

I'm surprised they didn't gang up long ago.

Yeah but now DJT has given your governments the impetus to finally begin casting us aside, that's the difference...

And more power to them, I'm deeply ashamed by this nonsense. Granted I have seen the writing on the walls for at least the 20 years I've been voting age, and almost every single person Ive ever known has been saying "your just being alarmist, something something bootstraps" when I explain what I see. It is only shocking to see how much it has accelerated in such a short time window. Capitalism has gone from a predator praying on a healthy populous, do a carrion eater picking through our remains for the last loose change we have, and meanwhile there is a group of people that know our country has almost nothing left to steal trying to push towards authoritarianism since they know a collapse is immanent.

As long as we fuck over illegals though, that'll fix everything, don't mind the billionaires rifling through your pockets since the 60's.

I wish i could just live in blissful ignorance, totally happy about current events and not knowing i was helping to destroy my country. Lucky fucking idiots.

Mr. USA disrespectful jackass.

I mean it is, and explicitly so.

Hes burning bridges while doing so and it doesn't work the way he thinks it does or at least like he's selling it, as a balance sheet, but this is 100% what people were voting for, if they were aware or not.