I used to experience a lot of negative emotions when I thought about the second ammendment
The ever-accelerating demise of the American empire will remove their fingers from every political and economic pie in the world, creating a small chance that something even worse doesn’t fill the gap.
Maybe then we can finally just focus on improving ourselves instead.
By crashing the US economy, he is teaching a better lesson about fascism than any history professor.
It’s also improving sales of used and handmade items from small businesses and craftspeople. My eBay sales are up 10% and I expect even more in the next few months.
Hopefully it will also alienate his big business cronies or accelerate the demise of their businesses I’m up for either.
My wife is no longer hostile to the idea of me owning guns.
I still don’t have any other than two collectors pieces that shouldn’t ever be fired except as a last resort, only one of which still has ammunition manufactured for it.
It’s the end of one of the worst empires in recent history, that’s a plus.
And he’s motivating the rest of the world to not vote right.
So apparently, from what i read, USAID, while it did some collateral good, was used for covert CIA foreign interventions meant to carry out incredibly damaging experiments for no reason other than CIA being CIA. A lot of these harmful missions were done under covert names like “sex changes in x country” or “lgbt support in y country”. Allegedly Trump saw this and killed the program, just out of bigotry, either before the CIA explained it to him or despite it.
Now i had doubts about this myself so i checked online from several sources and the consensus seemed that it checks out. Major news outlets wrote pieces on it. Even USAID defenders always say some variation of “even though USAID was involved in CIA operations destabilizing foreign governments, that was not its main purpose”.
So if this is true and as far as my research has lead me, i have no reason to believe it’s a fabrication, thank goodness USAID is dead. I thought the US CIA programs of destabilizing foreign governments for shits and giggles was a thing of the past, but i was unfortunately wrong and i now realize that not even aid should be accepted from the US and I’m glad Trump destroyed that program.
People worldwide see the true American heart.
I don’t think people are seeing the true American heart. I think Americans are seeing the truth in their neighbors’ hearts, though. We’ve been in denial about who we are and our responsibility to the world, because we trusted that our core values (freedom, equality, justice) would endure through scandals and fraudsters and would-be tyrants. Americans were lulled to sleep by casual prosperity and nominal world-leadership. We believed that the critics of America “hate freedom” or were jealous of our well-deserved success. Trump is the inexorable conclusion of that laziness, the funhouse mirror reflection of our own indifference to the world.
I believe most people, anywhere, are good people and want to be good people. The differences arise from defining what is “good” but largely we all want freedom, justice, and equality for ourselves. Extending that to others is a question of empathy, and empathy is created by exposure. America’s heart is our diversity, our multiculturalism, and we let that heart become overrun with bigots and tyrants.
That’s what the world is seeing, and has seen for 100 years. Bigots and tyrants, claiming moral superiority. It is the Americans who are just now seeing it for the first time.
Intreaguing that Americans didn’t see this on 9/11. It was, among other things, a nod at American exceptionalism.
because we trusted that our core values (freedom, equality, justice)
Are those really American’s core values? It sure hasn’t appeared that way from the outside, and that’s not a new thing.
That’s what we are led to believe as children, and it’s the principles we talk about when we want to foster civic pride.
But do we practice those values? Do we base all of our actions as a government, as a nation, as a community, on those principles? No, we don’t, but most of us Americans are just finding that out.
i appreciate the BuyEU and BuyCanada movements.
also uniting both canada and eu in terms of defense is a good move, imo.
the amount of incompetency people didn’t think would exist, we now have a good example of~! maybe it is not incompetency, but retrograde thinking~.
One silver lining that I’m hoping for is that the collapse of American global influence might result in a rollback of the insane intellectual property regime they’ve been pushing on the rest of the world for generations. There were already hints of this sort of thing happening back during Trump’s first term; the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty originally included a bunch of clauses protecting American IP but when Trump withdrew the rest of the signatories redesigned the treaty to remove those clauses.
The withdrawal of American foreign aid sucks, but likewise may end up removing roadblocks to various good things like family planning, sex ed, and so forth being offered. A lot of America’s foreign influence was a mixed bag due to their puritanical demands.
The US has been exporting a lot of terrible, insane policy around the world predicated on “golly, you wouldn’t want to upset your dear uncle Sam and his wallet, would you?” Good to see it go.
That’s a really good point… God Loves Uganda was eye-opening about US aid.
The end of the US empire.
America continues to support Ukraine and seems poised to continue that support into the future. Ukraine was my #1 issue in November and I expected much worse from Trump.
no change is hardly a silver lining
Considering a lot of us were projecting that the U.S. would begin arming Russia and the war would end quite dramatically in Russia’s favor? Yeah no change is a massive silver lining.
we are comparing with the alternative, which would be the Democratic party, silver lining means, the Republicans are destroying the system but alt least we’re getting something that we wouldn’t otherwise, which is not the case in this scenario
They’re being exploited to avoid death, compare that to what Macron wants from them. If anything, the good news is that EU won’t abandon Ukraine.
I was hoping his first term would lead to dialing back the new powers the executive branch has given itself since 9/11 but it didn’t happen and I don’t expect it to this time either
The crypto reserve idea might actually work, but it would work a ton better if it was less public because him tweeting about caused insane volatility in the price of Bitcoin.
I’m a US citizen looking for a way out and it’s probably not going to happen because I’m not rich and I’m not important.
The good news is I will likely be killed over this horseshit soon enough so I won’t have to suffer that long with it.
the silver lining is that you die?
it’s that i escape but yes
For a lot of us even before the election. Yup.
Well the rest of the world are enjoying the downfall of the empire
