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    Re: World Cup

    There is no guarantee your fans/teams will be able to enter the US. There is no guarantee your fans/teams will be able to return home. Don’t come to the US.

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      I mean why the fuck is it there anyway they’ve literally spent decades shitting on the sport.

      (Yesyes i know, fifa is a corrupt pos but honestly how the fuck this was even floated as an idea is beyond me)

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        Major League Soccer has been gaining traction for a few years now, teams getting big and rich enough to buy Messi for $150M for 2.5 years, Apple bought the US MLS distribution rights for $2.5B over 10 years, a lot of people stand to make a lot of money. A whole new untapped market for fifa and the teams and advertisers and every company who advertises.

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      Bulldoze the white house, build the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial World Peace Fütball Colosseum.

      Honestly, an empty stretch of grass would do a better job of it all

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      It’s really unusual how everybody seems to talk as if the World Cup is only taking place in the US this year. It’s in Canada and Mexico too. Just shift the matches so they’re mostly / all in Canada and Mexico.

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        I don’t follow football so I didn’t know this and it cracks me up. Japan and South Korea also did the World Cup together and it made sense because of their geographical circumstances. The USofA not being able to host on their own is comical (and that’s on top of the question of who tf even wants to go there right now).

        Edit: regarding the 2002 WC, Wikipedia says: “FIFA has said that co-hosting is not likely to happen again, and in 2004 officially stated that its statutes did not allow co-hosting bids.[7][8] This policy has since been overturned as the 2026 World Cup will be hosted jointly by the United States, Mexico, and Canada.” Excellent show, lads.

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          and in 2004 officially stated that its statutes did not allow co-hosting bids. This policy has since been overturned as the 2026 World Cup will be hosted jointly by the United States, Mexico, and Canada.” Excellent show, lads.

          Just tells you that the US is behind schedule and that Mexico and Canada should have been conquered by now. Another thing Russia spoiled with their war in Ukraine. /s

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          It’s not that the USA can’t host its own. It has already done that before. It’s more that multi-country things are apparently in favour at FIFA right now, for some reason.

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if they threatened to move it though. They want some of that sweet sweet corruption money!

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    Whenever the economy of the United States is starting to go down, the US starts a war somewhere. During the war, someone has to sell weapons to them, and after the war, someone has to rebuild the country (and guess who decides which construction companies and from where get to do that). While the clock of those countries goes back a few decades, the industry in the US gets revitalized.

    Now that the problem is internal, the US wants the rest of the world to be destroyed in order to put the United States back on its feet.

    Frankly, I would say the better path is the one that’s already happening. The European Union, after more than a quarter century negotiating with the countries of South America (Mercosur) finally agreed to compromise. Canada signed a “no tariffs” agreement with China. NATO is sending troops to Greenland, not many, just enough that if the United States attacks, it will be immediately in war with every country with an army there.

    The world is moving forward, as it happens when one side pushes too much. As Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said while talking about the trade deal with China:

    “We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”

    (Apologies for the long rant.)

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    Dear US,

    You got the world in this mess. You voted a criminal pedophile dictator into office, twice.

    Clean up your shit yourselves. It’s what your precious second amendment is for, right?

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        Maybe an immigrant cleaner that they can threaten with ICE deportation to keep in check. Very on-brand.

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      Honestly after decades of ego and exceptionalism, this demand that other people fix issues they’ve caused themselves is pretty on-brand for the US

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        Manifested a destiny not to their liking and suddenly it is other people’s responsibility.

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          Yea those of us that tried kind of figured our allies would use some of that fucking intelligence they have been giving our country to fuck those of us that are trying over to maybe, i don’t fucking know, tell the world how they stole the election because they admitted it right on fucking TV!

          Right after they fucking declared war on us on fucking TV!

          But your fucking countries are in on it, too. Just you fucking wait and see. The rich that lead you sold you out too and are just waiting to cash in on you. If you let them do it to your greatest ally, you’re fucked.

          Sleep well.

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            Spoke like a true murican.
            You’re on point though, which means that because we have problems of our own, in part caused by you, we’ll just let the Great US of A solve its own shit while we’re busy solving ours.

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          The most aggravating thing is they’ve polarised themselves into thinking any outside force refusing to “fix it” is being sanctimonious.

          Nah fam. this is something you’ve built from the ground up and entrenched into your culture, so you have to fix it. Outside forces imposing will end up with another iraq. (Or afghanistan. Or libya. Or Iran. ). Hell, even Germany was headed towards burying its cat turds until niemoller & co grassrooted the idea of collective guilt to come to terms with their crimes.

          It’s gotta come from inside the house.

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      I find it incredibly disheartening that even on this platform, your comment got five downvotes so far.

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        I mean, I get it, not everyone voted for him. My comment is bold and harsh. But on the other hand, it’s not our responsibility to deal with their dictator. Of course I’m willing to help, and unlike the US without oil deals or for anything else. I’m willing to help and support refugees, people who are a victim of this regime. I can’t change their system or do anything else I’m afraid. But I also think them doing nothing but complain is also not going to change anything. They aren’t fighting for their rights in a democracy anymore, protesting isn’t going to cut it if the regime doesn’t care about the law and constitution, and doesn’t recognize the judicial system whenever they feel like it. My grandparents and great grandparents joined the resistance during the second World War. I’m afraid the US is running out of effective legal, democratic options soon to fight the current regime and dictator.

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          It’s not just that the people downvoting you are too comfortable to fight back, it’s that by the virtue of being born in positions of extreme privilege (by worldwide and historical standards) they literally cannot conceive of a world where rights are acquired and retained through illegal or violent means, although every civil rights movement had an illegal and most often violent component to it.

          There’s a reason we’re seeing pictures of Black Panthers patrolling the streets. They remember and understand that rights aren’t handed out by benevolent elites, they are acquired through violence - either direct acts thereof, or the explicit threat of it.

          I honestly don’t know what to do about any of that. The task of educating Americans on the history of effectively protesting against authoritarianism seems impossible. For all that some aspects of their society are hyper-violent, the vast majority of the anti-MAGA crowd is astonishingly uninformed on the importance of unauthorized resistance, and all the major newspapers and social media platforms are actively suppressing attempts to correct those misconceptions.

          It’s fascinating. Trump is following in Hitler’s footsteps closer than anyone could have predicted, but one area where the present differs from the past is that in the years before Hitler became chancellor, Germany was rocked by frequent acts of deadly violence between Brownshirts and Communists. However I cannot think of a single analogue for the 21st century. Some people on here are talking of Civil War - clearly out of their ass, but I’m not sure that there is a line that Trump or Vance could yet cross that would trigger acts of blue-on-red violence more notable than an average British football match.

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      While I empathize with the sentiment, I’ve been listening to A People’s History of the United States lately. My takeaway so far is that change is only allowed to happen by the monied interests that control our government when it becomes in their financial interest for it to happen.

      Guns won’t do it. Civilians 1) can’t effectively opposed state violence with the arms and organization they’re allowed, 2) our society is violent enough that killing civilians opposing the government will always be sanctioned by some.

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        French revolution entered chat

        Russian revolution entered chat

        Typically American to say “we can’t do anything, we’re helpless, yes we have guns but they aren’t good enough”. History shows it’s totally possible to rise up against tyrants, even when they seem invincible and untouchable, and force a radical change benefitting all. Luigi showed everyone it’s possible. Everyone says they support him but no one dares what he did. If no one does anything, everyone is just complying with a fascist dictatorship. So far only Republicans tried to change things, by attempting to shoot Trump and killing Charley Kirk. The rest just continues to use billionare’s products, making them even richer and giving them even more power. All while complaining they hate it and can’t do anything.

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        Are Americans still scared of the British monarchy?

        It’s to rise up against a tyrannical government. THIS is the moment. All those people, including kids, have died during school shootings, accidents, gun violence, etc. to safeguard the right to have guns. It was all collateral damage, apparently all worth it, in case a rise against the government was necessary.

        The entire world thinks it’s crazy to give up so much safety, to risk your life and of your children, for a hypothetical situation in which it’s necessary to rise up against the government. Now that this situation is created by themselves, they ask the rest of the world to intervene?

        This is beyond the level of Idiocracy, because in that movie at least they listen to the smart guy.

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      We’ll have to keep that in mind next time your countries are invaded after years of appeasement.

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        Do you mean like that time you sat on the sidelines for three years of war and startes to act only when it looked like Germany might win Mexico over to attack you guys and you guys got scared of submarine war?

        Or do you mean that time you sat on side lines for two years and started to act only when Japan sank some of your ships?

        Or are you talking about the Vietnam or Korean wars that went so swimmingly?

        Or the dozen military conflict after those that has only succeeded making middle east more unstable?

        Or the more recent where you kidnapped a president from a neighboring country?

        Im not really sure if i should be thankfull for any of those.

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        Since the second World War, the US is the country who keeps invading other countries the most. Next time my country is being invaded, the chance it’s the US is the most likely. So please, keep it in mind before invading another country, and stop it from happening in the first place. And don’t act like the US helps when a country is in need. It only helps if it profits oil, minirals, shady trade deals, etc. or does a dick measuring contest with someone else.

        And if you’re rusty on your history, let me remind you: only the US has invoked NATO article 5, no other country ever did. We don’t need the US help, we need the US not to become the issue.

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          *the western world power structure invaded those nations.

          Why you people act like you didn’t get shit and it’s all the big bad usa would be amusing if it wasn’t so stupid.

          I’ll prove how fucking stupid you are:

          If the usa went around bullying everyone and never gave anything to our UN allies then that’s fucking funny… explain the global intelligence apparatus that the major western powers all chipped in for that allowed the usa to do what it did? How about all of those not USA troops all up in those same damn countries? Explain why the fuck that isn’t on your countries? Are your countries so weak they’ve been bullied into doing all of this? Explain how the fuck your tax dollars funding those same fucking wars isn’t also your faults? You think your own countries decisions didn’t bear the same rotten fruit?

          Look in the fucking mirror.

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            to our UN allies

            The UN isn’t your allies, it includes China and Russia. Clearly you don’t even know the difference between NATO and the UN.

            that the major western powers all chipped in

            You’re stronger against your enemies when you’re “friends” with the biggest bully. It’s just the choice which bully to befriend.

            How about all of those not USA troops all up in those same damn countries

            You mean all those troops forced into the wars the US started? Yeah well, that’s the downside of being friends with a bully.

            Are your countries so weak they’ve been bullied into doing all of this?

            Kinda, yeah. During the 30s and 40s we had the same issue as the US has today. When that was over, partly due to the US, they said they would protect us in the future in exchange of us not joining communism and helping them fight it. Every country wss exhausted after the war, so we didn’t have much choice. Also, Stalin wasn’t great either, so it was the best deal presented. Since then the US grew to become the biggest and strongest bully, capable to strike anything anywhere withing a few hours. And they used it to get rid of people and regimes unwilling to trade their souls to the US.

            And we were stuck with the biggest asshole while being too weak to stand up against a bully. Until now, when war crimes and crimes against humanity went too far.

            You think your own countries decisions didn’t bear the same rotten fruit?

            Oh yes, I do think we are to blame for a lot too. But that doesn’t change the fact the US is far worse and a huge fucking problem right now. We know that issue, like I said, we had it in the 30s and 40s. But it doesn’t help when you say “but you’re bad too!” when someone calls out your country is run by elected fascists and should just fuck off and deal with it yourselves.

            We, the rest of the world, are done with cleaning up your shit.

            Look in the fucking mirror.

            How ironic.

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        You mean greenland? Ukraine? Venezuela?

        Or is this another pathetic attenpt to claim the US alone won world war II?

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          It’s quite telling that when you jump to conclusions as to what I meant, you end up at an extreme take.

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            Then tell us exactly what you were alluding to.

            Go on

            While you’re there, clarify what is extreme about the take.

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        You Mean,when You are going to invade us and afterwards say “sorry about that fellow ally, we won’t do that again”?

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    Dear America,

    You were so proud of your opposition to tyranny. You’ve been screaming “land of the free!” For a couple hundred years now.

    It’s time to put up, or shut up.

    All that privilege that came with “land of the free”? Your house, your full time job, access to education, freedom of speech, etc? Time to drop it all and FIGHT - like you’ve always bragged about! Always bragging about how great your country was, weren’t you? Then BE GREAT! Get 20 million in the streets of Washington, something might change. Yup, some people gonna die. Or they can disappear forever; dragged screaming and crying never to be seen again.

    Give up your privilidge, and FIGHT FOR IT!

    You slept while this beast crept into your home.

    Put your dog down, and quit whining to the rest of the world.

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      The loud ones are the ones with their tongues on the boot. The rest of us have to figure out who each other are without the bootlickers finding and ratting us out. Some of us have been fighting for decades. You are not helping.

      P.S. fascists are laying groundwork in your country too. What are you doing about that besides criticizing the US?

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        We’re doing a “don’t elect a multiple felon rapist pedophile” for president.

        Also, not giving any single person the power of a king.

        If the USA had the right checks and balances, like most EU countries, the POTUS would not have been able to pardon his fellow criminals, would not have been able to delay Epstein files, and would not have been able to invade other countries.

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          If you think the US is just some anomaly and not the canary in the coalmine of a global rise of fascism, you’re in for a rude awakening. The US absolutely fucked it up, no question about it, and it’s up to Americans to fix that mess, but pretending it’s somehow contained and isolated is very shortsighted. “Fuck you, I got mine” is the exact type of attitude that leads to fascism. Nationalism is a problem even when your country isn’t objectively fucked up.

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        The Nazis executed my Grandpa for refusing to continue fighting in a war they forced him to participate in, in 1944.

        At the time, you could be beheaded simply for saying you didn’t believe the war could be won anymore. They called it “Wehrkraftzersetzung”.

        You can still resist without immediately forfeiting your life. You might regret not having done it when it is too late.

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        To be fair, comparing people trying to do fascism in other countries to Americans hits more viscerally than comparing them to nazis at this point.

        So, honestly, being critical of the US and calling out fascism and calling it “Like America” is extremely persuasive. Having Trump like you, as a political figure in the west, is a massive liability. Being seen as similar in any way is a massive liability.

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          Whatever fucking works. Don’t let the bastards win. I just don’t want anyone feeling secure in this being a US isolated problem, because it sure fucking isn’t.

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            You’re right, it isn’t. I think there are a lot of cerebral dissections of fascism as a populist movement in the USA, but it’s important to understand that cerebral dissections are an ineffective counter to any populist movement.

            Populist movements need a simple hook. An effective counter needs a similarity simple hook. The USA has provided one.

            I acknowledge it must suck to BE the simple hook : “This sounds like you wanna turn this country into the USA (everyone barfs)”

            Once upon a time, not even that long ago, that same simple hook could motivate positive change. For right or wrong, the cultural dominance of the USA made it an easily accessible shared point of reference.

            But, it is what it is. Work within the bounds of the reality that exists.

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      What weird image of us do you have that you think we have good jobs, nice houses, and access to education?

      60% of us live paycheck to paycheck, sometimes while working more than 1 full time job.

      Education is -$50k at base. A basic shitty (prone to mold and problems in a few years) new build house or nice old house in need of work (like a new $20k roof) costs on average a half a million. Rent is $2-3k/mo. And healthcare can bankrupt you.

      We have no good mass transit outside of major cities and vehicles now cost $30k to start.

      Minimum wage is still $7.50.

      As such most people came into this regime hanging by a thread, already fearful for their capacity to provide for themselves or their kids.

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        60% of us live paycheck to paycheck, sometimes while working more than 1 full time job.

        Then you have nothing to lose. Boo hoo hoo.

        Cowards. Fucking fight already.

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        All the more reason to fight for a better future, doncha think?

        They’re pushing the buttons for revolution, I hope for the best for the American people, against the tyranny of their leaders. The precipice of the future is laid bare on the stage, it’s time for the people to wake up and wrestle their lives back from the greediest motherfuckers we’ve ever witnessed.

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          I don’t disagree. Strangely we have an entire generation of self crippled young people who cower behind screens and wax poetic about personal anxiety.

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            Part by design, but also, hard to admit that we already lived through the good times, and that we have to fight to have them again.

            And yes, I’m one of those anxious people waxing poetic, I just hope my words are encouragement to someone who needs it, in the mean time just try to be a good member of your community, that’s all any one of us can do, and it does really help at the end of the day.

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              Therein is the main problem. Everyone expects someone else to ride in to the rescue. And there is no white knight.

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                Not many people are even in a good position to be an effective white knight, and the ones that are have spent their whole life trying to be in those places and don’t want to jeopardize it.

                Like, I’m Canadian, and not near the border, best I can do for the most part is keep apprised, encourage, and engage with my local community.

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                  I encountered an exchange a year or so ago where someone was encouraged to riot. They gave a very definitive, honest reply: “I don’t know how.”

                  Like it or not, like that whole Fight Club scene about how difficult it is to start a fight, I think the statement is middle of the bell curve defining. Only now, we have a younger generation crippled by internal shit, lack of unmoderated interaction experience, unable to even pick up the phone, so they’re not going to go outside to where people are. Just sit at home and hope someone else takes care of it.

                  General strike is likely the way. Less interactive. But it would take bank/mortgage and landlord support to not break the people doing it. An all in general strike.

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        So start rioting.

        Did you think the rest of us got our rights because the powers that be were especially pleased with the way we fellated them that morning?

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      Your house, your full time job, access to education,

      What America have you been watching, because I’d sure like to live in the one where we get those things.

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        US propaganda came from the US, and now the US is bitching about it. Beautiful

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    As an American citizen, I fully support the rest of the world putting us on time out until we get our shit together.

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      I am willing to endure some hardships and long periods of beans and rice (and one other thing!) to see this through until all the fukking morons who wanted this finally get their consequences. Which is happening, just slowly.

      I was never an accelerationist until now. I still think it’s dumb but I also want this abomination of an administration to keep making mistakes so it makes enough people mad enough that something breaks and we get change.

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      Bit of column A, bit of column B.

      Trump is not a uniquely American invention and he’s not the first bumbling dictator to gain power through populist bigotry.

      However, there is a significant feedback loop with America outright rewarding craven Nazis, handing them “success” and then allowing them to continue perpetuating and emboldening people just like them.

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    Sorry. You got us all to fall for capitalism. Now our governments only think of the profits. They don’t care about your personal freedoms and liberties. Or ours, for that matter.

    We all need to organize and unionize.

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    help

    We can’t.

    The US was told that if they voted it in, the world couldn’t help.

    We did help by advising them to vote because it was the easy way to stop it. They didn’t listen, told the world to mind its own business, made excuses like work et al as why they couldn’t vote. Some said it was their right not to vote.

    That was the easy method and since we weren’t entitled to that vote, we couldn’t help there either. Now it’s one of the harder ones; either shutdown to force action from politicians who can stop it, or civil unrest. The first is easier, the circumstances the same. We cannot help, it has to occur from within.

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      We help by moving on, building new ties, and never forgiving or trusting again at least as long as this farce is in living memory.

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        and never forgiving or trusting again at least as long as this farce is in living memory.

        Watch that memory die the moment a European politician sees a chance for lining their own pockets…

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          How so? Is the USA really a viable investment right now? Do you realistically see it becoming reliable one in the foreseeable future?

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            No and no, but that hasn’t kept European politicians from treating it as such. Especially our German “government” is full of sycophants kissing Silicon Valley’s arses.

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            Compared to Europe? Yes. If we are cutting out morals, anyways and I’ve got some bad fucking news for the countries that helped America get this big with the large global intelligence apparatus: No one gives a fuck about morals but the plebs, maybe.

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              The rich can weather the chaos just fine. They can use the opportunity to buy even more when the prices are lowest.

              Things that would wipe a normal persons retirement or kids college fund out are seen a “market corrections” and investment opportunities by these ghouls.

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                They can use the opportunity to buy even more when the prices are lowest.

                Yup.

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      This ^^ we were all actively against usa voting for a tyran. Yet they chose dictatorship over egg prices. Not much to do about it.

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    The fact is that boycotting the us is for the good of the entire world. The Israel backed child murdering pedofiles running this country are a cancer.

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      I think that hate the American people, too, and a boycott is probably something they would love. These rich (think about how much musk has) can outlast most of the world. So I think the answer lies somewhere else, but I’m not saying not to try it.

      I’m just saying make a plan b.

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      Less of a snake and more a hydra. Trump needs to be dealt with, but more evil will pop up in his place. You need to get the team to eliminate the lot of them and not just the leader.

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          And no letting Nazis escape into the shadows and only barely punishing the powerful ones. Every single one needs to be dealt with from the top to the very bottom including any crumbs that try and escape.

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        Yes, but if you chop off a hydra’s head, two more will grow in its place. That’s a good thing, because with today’s GOP, those two heads will immediately start snapping at each-other and start ignoring everything else.

        The current hydra’s head may be droopy, and its brain may be filled with lesions and lead. But, it’s able to focus on other things, at least for a bit, and direct its body to fight them. As soon as that head is gone, the other heads will probably tear the body apart as they fight each-other.

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        The head is not just the eyeball. I have a very long list, but I would settle for the VP, the cabinet, all of Congress, and six Supreme Court justices. If I had my druthers, the list would probably have 40M assholes on it in just the U.S. There are a bunch more globally.

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    Why doesn’t the USA (the biggest A) just use some of the freedom that it keeps exporting to oil rich countries?