I gotta give it to US exceptionalism. Most countries take years or decades to construct the required web of madness that sustains autocracies and dictators in power. Trump managed to speed run authoritarianism in just couple of months.
It has been decades. You could pick multiple points in US history that started tipping dominoes in this direction, but we can primarily thank the Reagan administration for where we are now.
Don’t fool yourself, repugnicans have spent half a century slowly building up to this by crippling education and taking over talk radio, creating Fox News and eventually co-opting ALL impactful social media
I am not American, so I will just continue to point and laugh at how Americans could do this to themselves. It genuinely doesn’t make any difference to me how much of a shithole you choose to become.
It genuinely doesn’t make any difference to me how much of a shithole you choose to become.
You really think the fascists will stop with greenland, canada and mexico?
The largest, most effective military in the world is now controlled by the same kind of people who ran Germany in WWII, and even if the entire rest of the world adds theirs together (which they won’t bc russia and china just want chaos) it still wouldn’t be HALF of the U.S.'s peacetime footing
Our COAST GUARD is more effectively equipped than 95% of other countries ENTIRE NAVIES
So yeah, you may be fat and happy and full of snark now
You won’t be when cheetolini’s jackboots are stomping on towards your nation, because the eternal bloody greed of fascists is never sated and this time there’s no U.S. to come save you fuckers
They haven’t started with Greenland, Canada or Mexico. Loads of shit keeps coming out of its mouth hole but not much is actually happening outside of your borders. Just the occasional tantrum.
Geopolitics may be spicy for the next few years, but the US has clearly decided to go on the path to irrelevance. Throwing tariffs about just means we won’t trade with or give a shit about you.
The US isn’t invading mainland Europe any time soon. The ocean is vast.
I’d hate to be you once the backlash hit. You really have no idea how bad this is going to get for everyone
The ocean is vast.
And America has the most powerful, distributed and equipped navy in existence with more experience in rapid naval deployment than any other nation in human history
The US military in its current state is not invading Europe. Only being annoying. Invading Europe you are looking at millions of dead Americans, possibly tens of millions.
I gotta give it to US exceptionalism. Most countries take years or decades to construct the required web of madness that sustains autocracies and dictators in power. Trump managed to speed run authoritarianism in just couple of months.
It has been decades. You could pick multiple points in US history that started tipping dominoes in this direction, but we can primarily thank the Reagan administration for where we are now.
Don’t fool yourself, repugnicans have spent half a century slowly building up to this by crippling education and taking over talk radio, creating Fox News and eventually co-opting ALL impactful social media
Pretty telling how lemmy’s only response to authoritarian overreach is snark
I am not American, so I will just continue to point and laugh at how Americans could do this to themselves. It genuinely doesn’t make any difference to me how much of a shithole you choose to become.
Or you know you could call to take refugees from America before they start sending those of us who oppose the regime to el Salvador
You really think the fascists will stop with greenland, canada and mexico?
The largest, most effective military in the world is now controlled by the same kind of people who ran Germany in WWII, and even if the entire rest of the world adds theirs together (which they won’t bc russia and china just want chaos) it still wouldn’t be HALF of the U.S.'s peacetime footing
Our COAST GUARD is more effectively equipped than 95% of other countries ENTIRE NAVIES
So yeah, you may be fat and happy and full of snark now
You won’t be when cheetolini’s jackboots are stomping on towards your nation, because the eternal bloody greed of fascists is never sated and this time there’s no U.S. to come save you fuckers
They haven’t started with Greenland, Canada or Mexico. Loads of shit keeps coming out of its mouth hole but not much is actually happening outside of your borders. Just the occasional tantrum.
Geopolitics may be spicy for the next few years, but the US has clearly decided to go on the path to irrelevance. Throwing tariffs about just means we won’t trade with or give a shit about you.
The US isn’t invading mainland Europe any time soon. The ocean is vast.
I’d hate to be you once the backlash hit. You really have no idea how bad this is going to get for everyone
And America has the most powerful, distributed and equipped navy in existence with more experience in rapid naval deployment than any other nation in human history
The US military in its current state is not invading Europe. Only being annoying. Invading Europe you are looking at millions of dead Americans, possibly tens of millions.
Look at WW2 germany, do you think fascist leadership cares how many it sends into the grinder?
Look at WW2 Germany, Nazis are fucking losers.