From world police to mafia protection racket.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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we did impeach him for extorting ukraine last time.
Let's do it again! Let's make sure nobody can break his record for impeachments.
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Nevermind that the terminals were not free and were paid for mostly by European allies. Duo of fuckers will leverage them anyway.
Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.
I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.
The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans. Fuck you, you selfish, coward, pieces of shit.
oh my apologies! I'll personally see to stopping it myself.
Come on doc, you've gotta help us, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
what? you want more? i can turn the socialized healthcare lever on as well. there it is! right there.
its so simple!
any other changes you think you want? i can grab a magic wand, if that will make you feel better.
Oh yes of course, the whole world has of course been watching the mass protests and general strike being organized with baited breath, oh wait.
American here: hard agree. This is all insane, but it’s predictable, and they told us about it ahead of time, and people still fucking voted for it. We shat the bed, now we must lie in it.
I’m probably gonna try to leave the country and renounce my citizenship at some point, particularly if the next few months are as catastrophic as I think they’ll be.
I was planning a holiday in the US this or next year, but decided not to proceed with it. I’d rather go anywhere else now really. Currently for me Russia = India = China = North Korea = USA now. Plenty of european countries I’d rather throw my money at.
The fuck did we... Oh right, Modi.
That's a bit of an extreme take. Surely you can see some differences between them...
I feel this. I would love to see Russia, China and India...but there's not a chance that I would knowingly give my money to those regimes. Not even through participating in their economy for half a week.
I think a global boycott on US-made goods + services is necessary. Trump can only do this because the US is such a powerhouse.
We don't really make anything though, aside from software I guess.
That is already happening in Canada. Those imperialists threatening annexation was finally what brought us Canadians together on something lol
Has there been any progress on dropping tarrifs between provinces?
I think I heard something about easing trade barriers between Ontario and I think it was either Saskatchewan or Manitoba.
Would be nice to see global sanctions against the US. Not realistic, but I hope all countries are moving towards significantly reducing American reliance. It'll be a slow process, but needs to be done.
Honestly sanctions agains companies like these that can be weaponized politically sounds very reasonable.
They are national security threat in the true meaning of the word.
Just relax and let trump continue destroying the USA. He’s doing putin’s work and fucking us all, Europeans and Americans alike.
The US is only such a powerhouse, because they generally have the support of their allies. That makes it the unparalleled biggest economic block in the world.
But without their allies, USA isn't that much stronger than China economically. And USA wouldn't be nearly the powerhouse they've gotten used to be.
So China just has to look on and do nothing, while USA is losing their world dominance quickly.
Yea, buyFromEU is already getting traction. More intense on reddit and a little bit on https://feddit.org/c/buyFromEU
I moved all my cloud computing from DO and Vultr to European owned options. It's a small thing, but it's about the only thing that I had been purchasing from the USA.
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The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans.
As an American, I'd just like to say we absolutely deserve this.
Sure, but does the rest of the world?
No we don't. Trump deserves to be kicked to the curb, but Americans are absolutely fine, if a bit short sighted.
A country is not its leadership, it's the people. And it's incredibly hard for the people to replace their leadership outside of election season, and even then, there's a lot of pressure to make poor choices on your ballot.
All Amerikans deserve this and worse because they sit at home and complain online while a literal textbook definition of a coup is happening to their country. The country that literally screeches at the top of its lungs about the second amendment and right to have a gun “in case of a tyrannical government”. Not a single shot fired. No protests, just complaints. Y’all gave up your country without a fight.
We’re definitely protesting. It may not make international news, but every day there are angry crowds outside government buildings or in the streets of our cities. The last I went to was this past Monday in NY and there were at least a few thousand of us. Personally I think we need more serious measures but protesting is a start.
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Time for the UK government to make good on all that money we spent rescuing OneWeb...
the weird cube man has been dicking around the Ukrainians over his satellite service since before he got involved in the election he just won. if you look into the history of spacex, a meeting with russia looms large in its early history. i personally think he's been a kremlin asset since 2004, at least.
He may have been a russian asset since 2004 (I don't know either way) but it certainly was nothing to do with that SpaceX meeting. He went there to try and buy Russian rocket engines, they told him to pound sand. He was forced to do it the hard way and hire a team and they designed what are now the Falcon 9 engines.
I don't understand why people keep making stuff up (not just this post, it's one of many), he's evil enough on the actual facts
I see it as an extension of the myth of American purity and external corruption. "This person is evil, some outside power must have compromising info on them." "Immigrants are violent criminals preying on innocent americans."
These attitudes ignore the reality that bad people can come from anywhere. There are plenty of villians with very mundane origin stories. What matters is if everyone else has the will and ability to keep bad people in check and hold them accountable.
The grifters in charge need no other motivation than a sense of superiority and an opportunity to make a buck.
What matters is if everyone else has the will and ability to keep bad people in check and hold them accountable.
Well said.
The grifters in charge need no other motivation than a sense of superiority and an opportunity to make a buck.
That's why corruption is an issue in every political system that we've tried, that contains more than a few thousand people.
Always seems like the people who want to be in power, shouldn't be...and those that should want nothing to do with it...
Please, everyone else quickly develop options other than the US. We’re going to need a minute to sort this mess out. :(((((((
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