• Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    We don’t think the world sees us as the Avengers anymore. At this point things are so bad here we’ve stopped thinking (which is different than not caring) about how the world thinks of us. For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking. It’s like riding in a bus the size of a football field being driven by a drunk, that’s what living in America is like.

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      2 months ago

      For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking.

      But you’d be fine with it if he did it while you were looking, of course

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        My point is that we’re so inundated with terrible news and horrific policy we can’t start to mount an opposition to a specific change before the next horror arises. We had military occupations in our cities which have been forgotten because that was half a dozen scandals ago.

        Personally I’ve been in panic mode for a year because I was a government contractor before Trump let Elon Musk lay me off. Due to the economy Trump is directly responsible for the only job I could find pays 1/4 of what I was making with no benefits.

        Now there is a war. I’m going hungry.

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      2 months ago

      2013 international Gallup poll: “Which country is the biggest threat to world peace”

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      This implies the global south enjoyed imperialism before Trump. The global south should be far more against the US Empire in the top image.