• Mac@mander.xyz
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    25 days ago

    Meaningless wordy apologies piss me off.
    Apologize with actions.

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      25 days ago

      Let’s see.

      1. Economic and strategic oil reserves are declining fast, with seemingly no effort to conserve oil. Thanks to the war with Iran.
      2. The only reason the US is not in a recession yet is because of AI, which is not profitable, and destined to crash.
      3. Other nations are slowly divesting from US treasuries, limiting the financial options.
      4. Infrastructure has been rotting for decades, and it’s starting to break down.
      5. Climate change has started to produce dangerous heat waves and other extreme weather, further straining infrastructure.

      Anyway, that’s what I can think of from the top of my head.

    • adarza@lemmy.ca
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      25 days ago

      and blamed when everything isn’t magically fixed before the next mid-terms.

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      25 days ago

      The President, the Senate, the Supreme “Court” and a large contingent of their wealthy and elite went apeshit.

      No one will trust the US for at least a lifetime, if they can get their act together before completely self immolating.

      • AzuranAurora@piefed.ca
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        25 days ago

        The damage this administration caused may never truly be undone, as the issues that led to all of this stem from the country’s very core.

        Other countries aren’t going to want to make long term deals with a country who may immediately go against said deal because they elected a nutjob. Allies are now seeing that America can and will turn on them despite decades of positive relations purely because of the president’s whims, even threatening invasion over imaginary threats. It’s been shown that America’s political system is so utterly broken and rotten that somebody as unqualified and psychotic as Trump can win an election not only once, but twice, and that it can’t be relied upon for anything long term since it’s always one bad election from unravelling.

        America has lost its soft power, its respect on the world stage, and as the Iran war has proven thus far, its ability to project its power outside of its borders effectively. Its government has been gutted and replaced with sycophants devoted to one man, and I’m sure they’ll sabotage things if they’re forced out. America is toast.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    25 days ago

    No, he’ll receive a Nobel Peace Prize for the achievement of being US president while not being Donald Trump.

    Tell me you don’t remember 2009 without telling me you don’t remember 2009.

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    25 days ago

    As a Canadian, an “apology tour” would feel like this to me.

    If the next administration wants forgiveness it’ll have to show real progress on fixing America’s broken system of government and its broken culture. That’ll take longer than four years so the next administration should not expect forgiveness. The best it can hope for is to get started on eventual forgiveness.

    In the meantime we need to keep diversifying away from America and building defenses against them because there’s no reason to extend the benefit of the doubt. They elected not-Trump after the previous time Trump was elected and where did that lead them? Back to Trump.

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      25 days ago

      Exactly this. The whole “RAH RAH MURICA IS THE BEST” overly nationalistic mentality America has is killing it. When they refuse to recognize their country’s problems and deflect and attack when faced with criticism, it prevents them from addressing those problems until they’re too big to ignore. It’s nuts how many people in America are living in trailers at astounding levels of poverty, yet they are ferociously loyal to a country and party that doesn’t give a single flying fuck about them or the 12 American flags flying amongst all the junk and garbage strewn about the lawn.

  • makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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    25 days ago

    I think they should start killing the more serious offenders in the party.

    Round them up convict them and shoot them in the face and broadcast it.

  • AzuranAurora@piefed.ca
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    25 days ago

    Lip service is pointless. America is so utterly broken as a country that it’s going to take more than words for other countries to take it seriously again. America is only one more election away from just unraveling again, and its system is (by design) rotten and dysfunctional and won’t stop being so without major reform. I don’t see that happening under the two party system.

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t want to hear it. Fuck you, America. The GOP has united the entire world around hating you and it’s gonna burn for a generation.

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    25 days ago

    I don’t think it will work. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for not being W Bush and then the USA elected Trump twice.

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    25 days ago

    I don’t know that it would help. The longer Americans keep Trump in power, the more their former allies realize that it isn’t “just Trump”.

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    25 days ago

    Yeah probably, some will keep a grudge, but people nowawadays have very short memories, so will probably forget in a decade