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    I wish. I wish we admitted the moment we saw the election results. The longer we wait the harder it will be.

    At a certain point we will just become russia.

    If want to know the truth here it is: There are no good choices left. Sacrifice now, or sacrifice later. The only winners are people who die before they have to pay up.

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    From my perspective in Canada, there’s nothing the US can do to unfuck this situation.

    Let’s say folks unseated Comrade Spraytan somehow and reversed all of his policies. I would still never trust their country again with economic or security dependence in the way that much of the world has enabled in the status quo.

    It was the American voters who selected this foolishness, not once but twice. They and their country will not be trusted for a generation or maybe longer. They threw away a very good thing for them because of abject greed, and now it’s gone forever.

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      Yeah that’s how it seems to me too.

      November 24 was a turning point, and this path was chosen in a free and fair election.

      If Trump died tomorrow he would be replaced by someone just as bad by any meaningful metric.

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      As an American I know I will never look at America or other people the same way again. The last few months have opened me to ideas I never considered before and have completely changed how I view myself and even the people I used to trust. This is certainly the Gen Y/Z generation-wide trauma event. I’m not sure the AIDS epidemic was even this bad. Government negligence is one thing. This is complete disregard for the law.

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        I have news for you if you think the aids epidemic was negligent and not intentionally reckless because it was a “homosexual” disease.

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        That 30-ish% (or more) of Americans like and support fascism is a real problem. Its been a real problem for… roughly all of human history that 1/3 of us are selfish monsters that lack empathy.

        Trump stole the election. He announced he would, his lackeys did extensive voter suppression work, and then he bragged about doing it afterwards. He didn’t win a fair election, and it’s disgusting that the narratives have fully blown past that.

        The wealthiest people on Earth believe that we’re in an “end game” of some sort, and that now is the time to do everything in their considerable power to consolidate rule before the big collapse sets in. This isn’t an America problem, it’s a World Class War and the USA isnt even the first battlefield, just currently the most visible failure of the lower classes to fight back.

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        Its a global class war the Australian Murdoch family is a huge reason Americans vote they way they do. Also it has bled into Canada. The freedom convoy and people like Lauren Southern are paid shills for foreign billionaires.

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        I need to hire you to summarize my lengthy pretentious blathering into a nice concise sentence. :)

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        Can we please stop with the mental gymnastics of 30% didn’t vote 5% Tiger King and the rest got split between Harris and Trump?

        The fact is that the majority of voters chose Trump, period. Now you guys need to get your shit together and fix this shitshow, but as others have said it already, the trust is gone.

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        No the problem is ALL the about 75% that didn’t vote against him.
        They were fine with letting Trump win.

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          According to usnews.com (maybe not the most reputable source but),

          64% of the voting-eligible population in the U.S. voted in the 2024 election.

          Of those, who voted, 49.8% voted trump and 48.3% voted kamala.

          That means 31.8% of eligible voters voted for trump, 30.912% voted for kamala, 0.012% voted other, and 36% didnt vote at all. That makes it 62-63% 68% of eligible voters didnt vote against him.

          Which isnt much better

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            30.912% voted for kamala

            That makes 69.1% that didn’t vote against Trump.

            Or in very rough rounded numbers.

            About half voted, about half of those voted against Trump. = 75% that didn’t.

            It was never meant to be an accurate number, but a ballpark rounded number. From 75 to 69 is 6% inaccurate. Good enough for the point I was trying to make. And more accurate numbers dont change the point in any way.
            The point is a vast majority is OK with having a flaming fascist sociopath as president.

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      There’s a lot of money to be made by selling stuff to the US. I’ll be surprised if Canadian companies and trading agreements didn’t revert to their pre-Trump arrangements within a few years of him leaving office.

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        The US has managed to maintain disproportionate purchasing power for its size post WW2 due to trust and reliability. Purchasing power will inevitably erode as that trust diminishes and countries divest in the US.

        Doesn’t mean countries will stop selling to American consumers overnight but it will happen over the next 5 to 10 years. No one wants to do business with an unreliable partner.

        It would also be naive to assume Trump does not have a successor and that a significant number of the American populace don’t end up supporting him.

        America has poisoned itself with its disinformation engines in the pursuit of never ending growth. Unless there is a major change in the status quo, this isn’t going to change anytime soon.

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        Will he ever leave office?

        Also, Trump isn’t the only reason all of this shit is going down. It’s the entire Republican party. It’s every ICE agent, it’s the Supreme Court deciding a president is above the law, America is rotten to the core.

        Richest country on the planet with plenty of land, many climates allowing a diverse range of crops, and various resources like oil and ores. And they’ve fucked it, just to get their hands on more and more dollars, to what purpose? Greedy fucks.

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          Will he ever leave office?

          He’s an old man. Either Americans will get rid of him, or he’ll die of old age.

          America is rotten to the core.

          Is that new? The US has/had many great attributes, but they’ve never been as good as their PR pretends. Jim Crow, the Trail of Tears, Iraq, Vietnam, the CIA, etc.

          Richest country on the planet … Greedy fucks.

          I can’t disagree.

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        Oh, you misunderstand me.

        Absolutely yes, people will continue to trade with the US after a few years. Hell, they are still doing it today!

        What’s different is the level of dependence the rest of the world will enable in the future. Their special status no longer applies; and there is no trust they will be good actors in the future.

        Long term cooperation will be built in anticipation of likely irrational and volatile behaviour. Something like the integrated North American auto industry or aligning with the US as primary defence contractor or intelligence, these mistakes will be not be repeated.

        There will continue to be trade, but across the world a higher priority will be given to domestic production and alternative suppliers for critical products. For example Canada had been slowly retreating from our protectionist policies on dairy — but instead I expect these to now be strengthened. I expect to see a stronger push away from reliance on the US for military equipment, semiconductors, financial and digital services, and more.

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          Their special status no longer applies

          Their special status is money, a productive economy, and a massive military. Trump may damage those attributes, but I suspect the US will generally retain them.

          And other countries will line up to get access to that trough. Even if governments don’t want to buddy up, the moneyed classes in those countries will agitate to get access to that market.

          I expect to see a stronger push away from reliance on the US for…

          During COVID we said we were going to start producing our own vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and PPE. We said we would address the crisis in Canadian healthcare. In the three-ish years since the end of lockdowns, we’ve settled back into our pre-covid rut.

          Post-Trump, it will be the same. As long as the US is a huge market, we’ll eventually settle back into the NAFTA rut.

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            It’s not just money, it’s the realization that we are nothing to them. It’s the betrayal of seeing someone you thought was a friend stab you in the front without remorse.

            So I do believe it is different this time. Perhaps history will reveal you to be correct — PP yipping about being “Americas best friend” indicates at some think the old status quo will return — but I don’t think so.

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      A lot of people, Americans, didn’t trust America before trump. America is getting played out and dragged across the ground by unholy people.

      I heard someone say; Angels and Demons, I never knew you could see them.

      It took time for me to understand the reality of that. Evil has humanity captured in its hand squeezing the life from its figurative body.

      What’s worse, ime, the same evil will use spirituality and uplifting talk to gather control of people while at the same time making moves behind the scene that are completely evil. The same way, it seems, that our government convinces people to lead simple lives directed by media and entertainment consumption, even politics, to the point that people wouldn’t know how to live in honest reality if they tried. Real reality has been war. …but everyone chose escapism and now look where we are.

      No one wants to believe the heartlessness it will take, the heartlessness that good honest people will have to commit, all the while trying not to get addicted to the power that comes with heartlessness, to defeat what is going on.

      America’s already been dead and they are coming for the rest of you.

      We have been at war for long time.

      When you see evil with your own eyes you will probably understand that terms like the devil, evil, and unholy, are the most potent words that can describe them, regardless what your beliefs are.

      They will do everything to uplift your life, just to tear it down and watch you suffer.

      Something is going on, all the people that have dealt with gang stalking or corrupt government officials knows how dark it gets. Corruption is intertwined completely now into America and it can’t be undone with law and politics.

      This is an undeniable truth many people know but they either buckle and become one of them, go to jail when they snap from the torment brought to them by those that took advantage of them, or they kill themselves.

      Evil reigns and people pay for it because it takes their mind off the truth. Ignorance is bliss and that bliss makes money and that money owns the world. You can buy governments with that money. And with stake in the government you can have soldiers fight battles for you regardless of authentic and genuine righteousness.

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      This is how I see it as well. Its not about manufacturing either, you cant increase manufacturing during a recession when no one can afford anything and no one is willing to work low wages.

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          57% of Gen Z men voted for Trump. This isn’t a Boomer only issue anymore.

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            No, 57% of registered Gen-Z voters who were men voted for Trump. Keep on mind over half of Gen Z didn’t even vote. So the overall percentage of Gen Z who voted for Trump is much, much smaller.

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          They’ve grown up in relative privilege (their parents are relatively more well off than the boomers’ parents), and still find stuff to complain about. It won’t reach a tipping point until they start feeling real pain. That, unfortunately, hasn’t happened yet.

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    It always darkest before the dawn…

    Wrenching the DNC from the neoliberals was a huge win, and means we’re not only more likely to win the next election, we’ll actually get someone willing to help while in office.

    Without neoliberals fixing the primary, we’re more likely to get a nominee that actually shares the same policy values as Dem voters.

    With them in control of the party we had zero chance of actually winning, the best result with them was things just slowly got worse.

    Wealth inequality exploded under Biden, and nothing was permanently fixed.

    So today sucks, and so will a lot of days coming up, but shit…

    At least there’s a chance for shit to get better now

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        DNC chair election was in February, we got Ken Martin who was the state party chair of Minnesota.

        Where he has a very long track record of not standing in the way of voters and giving them the most popular candidates by letting fair primaries happen.

        There’s a reason people haven’t heard of that yet mainstream media suddenly started being ok with pointing out flaws of the DNC

        Now that it’s not beholden to billionaires, they want Dems to lose even tho the n xt four years will be a shit show

        Billionaires will always pick a fascist over a progressive

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          Ken “we will take money from good billionaires” Martin is a neoliberal.

          The DNC is in the same hands.

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            That’s the only bad thing people can say about him lol…

            It was a “gotcha question” during the chair campaign that was only asked to hurt his chances and help the neoliberals candidates.

            The question:

            Would you refuse donations from any billionaire?

            Was bait, and he isn’t a big enough idiot to fall for it.

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              “The only bad thing you can say about him is that he’s happy to take orders from billionaires lol…” Is this meant to be a good thing for you?

              “From the river to the sea” is a chant used by extremists to support the destruction of Israel. It is appalling to embrace this rhetoric in this statement, which also doesn’t even acknowledge the slaughter of Israeli & American civilians.

              https://x.com/kenmartin73/status/1711559578897252524

              Cope all you want but he’s pro-billionaire, pro-Israel, and more of the same. Time will show you this.

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                “The only bad thing you can say about him is that he’s happy to take orders from billionaires lol…” Is this meant to be a good thing for you?

                He said he wouldn’t refuse donations from any billionaire, because saying he would refuse donations from any billionaire would have prevented him from becoming DNC chair…

                Cope

                I’ve literally never seen that word used by someone making a rational argument, maybe someday it’ll happen someday tho.

                And yeah, he’s so “pro Israel” that the state he was chair of is one of the few out of aipacs grasp

                Have a nice life bud.

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      There needs to be a next election before any of that. I’m not being pessimistic; Trump is reenacting the Nazis’ consolidation for power and he will go after free and fair elections. Hell, he’s already started with the SAVE act. It’s up to Americans whether this is right before dawn or the start of a long, long night.

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    Idk I find if funny to read American empire capitalist decline, imperialist defeat, and Zionist fanaticism within the first few sentences of an Article.

    Like how deep do you have to be in the American left “liberal” talking points.