Another day, another go fuck yourselves Americans.
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Just the 31% that voted for him.
What about the 36% that didn’t bother to vote?
The sizable chunk of democrats who aren’t doing fucking anything or don’t care because it doesn’t affect them personally
Fuck magnets too.
How the fuck do they even work?
I’m more concerned with how they managed to make rocks thinks than how they made rocks be attracted to one another
They engrave magic glyphs on them bro.
Trans-rocks. When did magnets become woke?!
/satire
Americans voted for Republicans to control all branches of the government.
Nah, as a fellow American that's not how it works. Their shit is our shit too even if you didn't want the shit. You can definitely say that to other Americans tho.
When you hear anger towards the country, don't take it personally, they have every right to be angry at America and it's not really fair to jump in and say "but not me!". Let them vent, if you need to say something agree with them lol
Abs the percentage that stayed home or protest voted
"Europeans are beholden to US policy."
lol ok.
What a putz. EU, U do U.
France is an interesting choice as the first ones to threaten. They might be the country most willing to tell America to fuck off and spend an evening lighting Teslas on fire.
DEI initiatives don’t really exist there like they do in the United States. Their constitution already bans employers from making distinctions based on race, gender, religion, etc. The closest thing France has that I know of is a requirement for corporate boards to be 40% women. They aren’t going to change that law because Trump threw a hissy fit.
Plus, DEI doesn’t even really mean anything specific in the United States anymore. It’s just a dog whistle (like “woke”) Republicans use to signal that they’re racist and sexist and stir up racial animus. They use it when it doesn’t even make sense. Trump blamed “DEI hires” when an ARMY helicopter crashed into a passenger jet even though all the pilots and the air traffic controllers were white men. He blamed the LA wildfires on DEI.
DEI is basically the modern n word.
I was going to say, it's not always a derogatory word. Those who are still aligned with DEI don't use it that way. So yeah, I guess it is.
DEI in the US just means not being a racist, misogynistic, *-phobic piece of shit.
Small Govt. say what?
I've come to learn that when they say "small government" they don't mean that what the government touches is small and focused. They mean that the size is physically small but have the same, if not more, power than a large government body.
Basically they want fascism and a monarchy.
I found a similar thing with "small business". Right wing neo-liberal conservatives love to go on about small business - but their notion of what that is does is very different from ours.
The right wing idea of a "small business" is 100 employees and a $40 million turn over. They aren't thinking of a general store or a diner that a family has owned for three generations.
Yeah, the small business is just one guy in an office trying to get government contracts which then get subcontracted to the actual people doing the thing, but for less.
When I was a right winger and had some more connections to musicians here in Hungary, some came up with the idea that the government should allocate some funds to pay musicians to use Hungarian made equipment, especially as some popped out in 2010 expecting a "raise in nationalism and love for domestic products", so they don't have to use foreign ones in exchange of endorsement money.
The reception? We got called communists for barring them from buying "quality branded" products from the west, and they told us the horrors of buying Tisza shoes instead of Adidas too...
In the late 1990s in Australia we had similar attempts to promote domestic products in the supermarket. As a kid at the time I questioned why we'd buy local when global brands were higher quality and more familiar to me, especially as I've lived in Europe and Asia.
For me personally - part of the issue with nationalism movements promoting domestic production that is that they are often tied with racism/xenophobia and are often used as a ruse by some greedy person to promote their own business to the local market. They get people angry which creates free publicity and unearned brand loyalty.
In Australia, we have a number of very loud and outspoken racist politicians who allegedly believe in this country and want it to do well, but when you look at their actions they're all wining and dining billionaires and only looking to attack Aboriginal or foreign people, not uplift all Australians to a brighter better future.
It sounds to me like the program you were a part of had noble intentions, but without knowing more details I have to assume it could easily have been affected some of the issues I've mentioned.
Small enough to fit snuggly between you and your rights.
That's a good way to have foreign companies that are currently invested in the US to pull all of their investments and fire everyone working for them over here.
Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.
I'm increasingly seeing that as the point. I've believed since 2016 that he's either intentionally or being easily manipulated to serve Russia's interests and obviously I'm not alone here.
But at this point, dismantling US soft political power, military power, economic power - every action Trump is taking is directly damaging the US with no apparent self-interested payoff. Sure, it's plausibly deniable and just on the edge of conspiracy-sounding to the public and mainstream, but the theory that Trump acting to destroy the US on behalf of Russia is currently the best fit to the evidence.
100% agree. He's been a Russian agent from the start working towards the dismantling of the US in every way. Including, I think, trying to push the country so far that it splits up so the US is no more. Putin's revenge on the US "winning" the Cold war.
The flip side of that is that Putin deserves the Gaddafi treatment for having inflicted Trump on us (even without his aggression against Ukraine).
Make America Go Alone!
This is the lens through which I see his actions, too. I have one additional twist, which is if it doesn’t benefit him personally, it needs to go. Even if it’s replaced with something 10% the value, he now owns 100% of that 10%.
@Xanthobilly @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein partly this. Possibly also dementia + power-crazed wannabe dictator I suspect
Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.
That is why tariffs make sense. If you were preparing the US for WW3 then you would do exactly what Trump is doing.
He's stupid enough to believe that autarky is a desirable situation, without actually knowing what the word means.
It can be under certain circumstances, its generally desireable for a country to be able to feed itself for example, and being able to produce products yourself is useful when negotiating trade agreements. The problem is when autarky becomes conflated with isolationism.
European countries tell trump to take his tiny mushroom dick and shove it up his shit encrusted asshole.
Trump can go fuck himself.
It's clear that his ambition is to be the dictator of the world.
Or else what, he will double tariff them?
Double-secret-tariffs!
You better listen otherwise I'll crash my economy!
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