• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    15 hours ago

    So is it their goal to turn the US into an irrelevant backwater or what?

    So far they’ve introduced bills that diminish their own military force, decimated global trading relationships, now they’re trying to back out of the final commitments they have left. By the time 2030 rolls around no one will want to be president because they’ll have no power.

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      8 hours ago

      The worship of limitless work and the military, a toxic obsession with hyper-individualism and isolation, with a paper-thin facade of morals and self-proclaimation of greatness, while everyone is broke, without opportunities, hooked on drugs, and stuck with crumbling infrastructure in vast stretches of remote nothing-land, while getting used and abused by multinational corporations and barons?

      Sounds like they’re just pushing the mentality of the southern states to a national level.

    • grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      It’s worse: the US president’s only remaining power will be military. And when the only tool you have is a hammer…

      WWIII is not a meme. It is imperative that the American people correct the course of their nation before it is too late.

    • viking@infosec.pub
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      12 hours ago

      Nah they want to attack whoever they fell like without having to go through a meeting.

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      12 hours ago

      Yes. The most charitable interpretation is that people have forgotten the lessons of the 1900s and think that a replay of Herbert Hoover is a good idea.

      Last time it took a few decades and destroying countless lives to fix. Hopefully the cost is lower this time.