• rockettaco37@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    As somebody from the US, I can’t wait to see our country fall. The world isn’t going stand by and let us fuck with them anymore

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      1 day ago

      I am also in the US and horribly disappointed in how our population let the world’s stupidest and vilest people manipulate them into giving over control. I really had high hopes for America, democracies are really our best hope for the future.

      But now I just want it to accelerate, we need the shit to really hit the fan so our population wakes up and realizes who the real enemies are, the putins and musks and trumps and millers and bannons… they are the beasts that stalk us in the modern age and need to be put down or taken away and the only way this will happen is enough people become uncomfortable enough that they forget the narratives and storylines that manipulate us so easily.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 hours ago

        As much as it pains me, same. Lots of Americans are going to die, but at this point we deserve it. We’ve been sleepwalking into fascism for over 40 years, and have ignored every single warning we were given. I used to care about us being united, because I know what the fate of red states will be if Balkanization happens, but now? Fuck 'em. Let’s just split apart so we no longer have to support all these MAGA welfare queens in Alabama and Mississippi. Let corporate interests swoop in and go full classical colonialism on their weak economies. If they really want to work in sweatshops for nickels, fuckin let them. My blue state is strong enough to stand alone, I know most other blue states are, so what’s the point in defending the people a collapse will hurt the most when they voted for it?

      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        20 hours ago

        This kind of goes as a warning over what happens when a democracy isn’t set up in such a way to prevent this thing from happening. Just getting rid of first past the post elections could’ve helped in preventing this and had given us a more balanced government that wouldn’t have been so easily captured by moneyed interests.

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          7 hours ago

          The electoral college was actually intended to prevent this exact scenario. Of course, it failed spectacularly.

      • rockettaco37@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        As much as I hate to say it, I fully agree. We need something drastic to happen so that the population will open its eyes.

        On a completely separate topic, I think states need to become a lot more independent from the federal government. I’m in NY for example and I’ve never felt prouder of my state than right now

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          23 hours ago

          I think states need to become a lot more independent from the federal government.

          Most red states would collapse. Not that I care anymore. They’re leeches.