Until you get rid of trump and the republican party I am not interacting with the usa in any way. I have not spent one penny on anything from usa since he stole the election.
Fuck The USA
As an American, fuck this cowardly shit. Enough people voted for this or didn't vote at all to make it happen. Americans walked right into fascism through laziness or complicity. Democrats in Congress are doing next to nothing to fight back against this regime because they don't want to upset their SuperPAC donors. They're relying on a windfall during the midterms so that they can get into power and then still do nothing like they have been doing since Reagan. A government is a reflection of the people in a democracy. We made our bed and now we have to lie in it. We cannot expect others to clean up the messes we create or to excuse our bad behavior when it's inconvenient for us. This "but I'm one of the good ones" take isn't good enough. Resistance has to be more than op-eds and impassioned speeches. We bombed a school. We killed innocent children. I have not heard a single other person in my life try to cope with the guilt of that. Our discussions lasted as long as the news cycle and everyone just moved on. My tax dollars help pay for a bloated military budget that was used to end the lives of little kids on the other side of the planet who were just trying to go to school. We as a people need to sit with the reality of that and process the guilt instead of immediately finding reasons we should be excused. Maybe after some self reflection on actions and consequences, will we make better choices.
I love Robert Reich, but he should know better. The world needs to deal with the US skeptically from now until we clean up our house. Until we get rid of Citizens United and big money in politics. Until we shore up our gerrymandered districts. Until we deal with healthcare in our country in a real, meaningful way. Until we start taking care of those who own the least and stop catering to those who own the most, we should be handled with a ten-foot pole by the rest of the world. How can we say anything about the splinter in any other country's eye while we have a log in ours?
Well said.
51% of your country is complicit in all of this eat my asshole. That's 163 million people.
It's funny how people associate a country with shitty leadership with the citizens of that country, and yet they oppose immigration from that country. Pick a lane.
In an ideal world, all the good people — or at least people who support the same values — would go to the same country and we'd see which one wins, economically... But most can't afford to move.
I have spent the majority of my life playing a four year cycle of "please don't be fucking stupid". I'm 47. I'm sick of this shit. Fix your fucking country.
We all agree that German civilians were complicit in the Holocaust right? There were of course brave ones who died fighting the Nazi party take over or worked to evacuate Jewish people in secret but the rest got swept up and went along with it. So what’s the difference here?
Only a very small handful of braves have died so far
If Trump is supported by a large swath of the government including the democrats that support his policies, and the corporations that benefit from the corruption his movement promotes.
How long until his movement becomes normalized in the population as well? What makes an entirely nazi country? 60% support? 70%? And what is a good time for this nazi country to be stopped?
As an American, this gives me the ick. We can't just go back to the way things were when Trump is gone and expect the world to be cool with us. We need some serious systematic reform before anybody should dare trust us again.
The Republican party and its enablers should be dismantled.
From a foreign point of view, your entire political system needs to be dismantled. It's very obviously broken.
Exactly. The Democratic party is just as corrupt and beholden to special interests. Nothing is going to change until money is removed from politics and media owners removed, it'll never get better.
Well, yes. It has many deep and interlocking problems.
Get your shit together cunts