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The only thing the US cares about our understands is money, so fuck every American business supporting this administration.
As a Canadian I have never been so insulted and betrayed in my life, and Americans laugh it off or just altogether do not understand why we're angry.
And I wouldn't say my perspective is anti American, I know a lot of good American people. I'm very much anti Trump and also very angry that as a group Americans delegated their votes by staying home or voted republican.
I've ditched google, Netflix, etc. I dropped my Apple subscriptions (and bought linux computer). I don't buy any American food brands, I've moved my clothes purchases to Canadian brands.
The only US brand I still support is Costco, and even then I'm checking the labels.
I also have a few holdout things I haven't replaced, but I am working on it every week.
Maybe what pisses me off so much about the Trump admin is that they forget everything that made America great in the first place.
It isn’t that Americans were chosen by god or anything like that. It’s that America fought for freedom and democracy, and those ideas allowed the people and economy to flourish (I won’t downplay that taking vast swathes of land from natives and slavery also helped build America).
Who could read the poem on the Statue of Liberty and say that America is just for a chosen few? The whole American dream was that you could go there and get a fair slice of the pie.
They forget about how the Irish were treated with the same disdain they throw at Latino people. They forget that their ancestors had to work.
They’re just so fucking spoiled, like a bratty child that has had everything handed to them assuming they’re special and forgetting they stand on the backs of all those before them.
I don’t think he (or his handlers) was ever speaking for Americans as a population when talking about making America great again. He was speaking for the rich and powerful who are yearning for the gilded age, with its company towns and Pinkertons and extreme wealth concentration.
The rise of the middle class and the democratization of rule has been a big bummer for them.
They already were in a gilded age. Look at how many fucking billionaires there are.
Yeah, but it isn’t great enough yet. The populace isn’t poor and desperate enough and there’s still room for more corruption in government.
But the democrats threatened to make them pay just a little bit more in taxes, like 2.5% more, so BOOM, fascism!
Dems never actually threatened that, though.
They threatened the working class, instead. Kept moving to the right, tossing queer peeps under the bus, tossing immigrants under the bus, etc etc.
Even now, the Dems are attacking progressives harder than they attack the Reich Wing.
Biden did threaten that, though, and his head of SEC actually started to go after a lot of tech monopolies. You are referring to the overarching democratic party. I was referring to the previous democratic admin.
Did he or did he just provide pablum for the plebiscite?
"Nothing will fundamentally change" doesnt sound like a threat to me.
I mean the person in the SEC was real, and she was really taking on the corpos. Whether Biden's tax stuff was to placate or not, he refused to remove her, and she was a huge threat to the monopolies of the tech giants.
Since World War 2 , Americans have been hugely spoiled and they have taken more from the world than anyone ever before. THAT had to run out some time, and Donny 2 Dolls has just hastened that process. I wouldn't be surprised if America became a third world country tbh, now that the silver plate they had everything served up on, has been stolen by Donny 2 Inches. There will be a small, extremely wealthy class, and then everyone else with shitty employment prospects, no social security or health provisions. Food stamps, gone. TBH there really should be a revolution, but as we've seen, despite being the most heavily armed population in history, Americans are sheep and will just bend over and take it some more, no lube.
America has been a third world country for decades now. The only reason that it hasn't felt like it is because there's so much money still circulating in our economy from helping the world rebuild after WW2 and selling military equipment and culture during the Cold War (plus the whole American Empire thing, can't forget that). By all the metrics that are used to rate the quality of health of a country - things like infrastructure quality, wealth inequality, healthcare costs and CoL vs income - the US is much closer to third world countries than to comparable European countries.
As somebody once said, America is a third world country in a Prada belt.
Murican here. We won't learn our lesson until the stupid really hurts. Elbows up, my friend. If we survive this shit, we'll owe you big.
You won't survive. I don't know what we'll come but countries can not trust America anymore. You have become unreliable and trump getting tossed doesn't stop that fact. But saying that I can t believe how much countries are still sucking America's dick.
Probably not, but that's still on us. We fucked around, and now we find out.
I’d say the issues can be fixed, but who knows if it happens really. I’d say a major problem is the same issues can appear elsewhere if other countries don’t take proactive steps to avoid the our issues. Things K-12 education needs to be well funded and free to all, even college education should be publicly funded. Implementing government restrictions on social media influencers and media companies that don’t adhere to something like the Fairness Doctrine. Splitting up monopolies or big conglomerates that try to take hold. Willingness for the government to go into debt to fund the future via more public transit options, nuclear power plants, and more public housing.