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[–] QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why more people aren't talking about the fact that he's building a data center under the Whitehouse

[–] Kaz@lemmy.org 4 points 4 hours ago

Because the Democrats were involved with all of the camps they're building as well. They seem to be planning for something and the Democrats don't seem to be against it.

America is probably setting itself up for a civil uprising, after AI decimates the country..

It's all super weird govt behaviour.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Hardly. The damage done is not so easily fixed. The US has proved it can't be trusted.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah Trump this the symptom, not our sickness

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Trump is the symptom, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing about ICE in there? All those people in cages?

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Anything that Trump has done via executive order can be undone just as easily, but the weakening of U.S. soft power is likely permanent. Nobody can trust the United States to act as a consistent and reliable cohort in any capacity, because we have proven to be unreliable and our foreign policy has been wildly inconsistent, shifting with the whims of the ignorant American electorate every 4-8 years.

I also don't think it's going to be that easy to purge the MAGA corruption from government agencies. They will put their masks back on and pretend to be good little worker bees, but everything that they do will be in service to Trump, not to the nation or the constitution. It will take ten times longer to root them out and oust them than it did for Trump and his cronies to install them.

If we have an unbroken string of left wing progressive presidents for the next 30 years, we might recover. If even one Republican snake manages to slither into office, the work will be undone in the span of a single term.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

You're wrong, though. Executive orders can be undone, but it's what happened after the order was issued that cannot. People quit. People died. People got tortured. Institutions collapsed. You can't undo that by reversing the order.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

Roughly 1/3 of America voted against what we have now. That means 2/3 are still wanting (or at least complicit) with what we have now as well.

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico. No country other than the USA calls it anything else.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] Janx@piefed.social 25 points 15 hours ago

Trump has already caused decades of harm, some probably permanent. When people warned of irrevocable damage should Temp be elected, this is what they referred to.

A single example: Iran. If they still exist when Trump leaves office or dies, they're not going to jump back into the Iran Nuclear Deal. If we don't want them to have nuclear weapons, Trump shouldn't have withdrew us from the statement that was working in 2018 just because it was an Obama success! Shit like that is why we're fucked...

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 33 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)
  • The US will bomb another several countries for no reason

  • We will remain subservient to Israel

  • We will get another Republican in four years who will repeat every mistake they've ever made and then some

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 8 points 16 hours ago

Actually, if Vance 25th amendments his ass after January 20, 2027, he'll get Trump's last 2 years, and he'll still be eligible for two full terms.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The US will bomb another several countries for no reason

Yes, but the bombs will be manufactured by a diverse team of forward-thinkers and dropped by the first-ever gay genocidaire.

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[–] enphurgen@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

That's a good fantasy but, youve shown how easily you can alienate your allies and trust will not be rebuilt immediately.

You will have to show that as a country youve all collectively grown.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 5 points 12 hours ago

Its times like this when the line fron 28 Days later pops into my head for no reason in particular; "This motherfucker's waiting for Marks and Spencers to reopen"

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. Guaranteed.

Also, billionaires are going to be embarrassed and start giving away their money. The pedophiles that were all in charge will demand to be put in prison for their crimes out of pure guilt.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 5 points 10 hours ago

And the whole bus clapped.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 199 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

This viewpoint is flawed and dangerously naive.

The damage is not as superficial as a name or a building. The USA allowed this to happen. The checks and balances that were supposed to be built into the system have failed. The United States of America, it's government, and it's whole social structure is no longer reliable. It does not end with the removal from power or even the death of Trump.

[–] karrden@lemmy.zip 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In 2016 the world got to know Donald Trump. In 2024 the world got to know the American people.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In 2024 the first world got to know the American people.

FTFY. Places that had to live with the consequences of US bombs and CIA regime change already knew what the American people were like.

[–] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The thing that the whole word has learned is that there's NO limit to what the American people will shrug off and do nothing about, whether they like it or not. None whatsoever.

You're right that others have previously found themselves on the wrong side of that, apparently nonexistent, limit, and already learned that their lives didn't matter a bit to any Americans. But the attack on Venezuela and economic war against Cuba – formally unsanctiones acts of wanton destruction, carried out for the lulz in the name of all Americans – were very much not believed to be in the cards, even by those countries.

Earlier this year, Denmark -- fucking DENMARK -- a vassal state of ~5 million people -- prepared for a fight with the US to the point of sending blood bags to Greenland. But the very idea of that doesn't even give Americans pause, Trump voters or not.

At least people in Nazi Germany feigned ignorance, Americans straight up don't give a fuck.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Greenland might be an anomaly to US but Venezuela, Cuba, Iran is par for the course for US. A war monger will war monger no matter the leadership not the consequences. Europe will still be the vassal at least the leadership, the populace will forget it the moment the new iphone launches.

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[–] mrsilkworm@piefed.social 19 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

As a European,

It will take a lot more than these, along with plenty of time and pain, to regain the trust of the rest if the world.

Mostly it will require a turn, in behalf of the USA, to a functioning democracy, with checks and balances, a functioning senate and house of representatives, a functioning justice, a functioning administration, a working economy, fair trade and so on.

I m not very optimistic that the USA will do it in my lifetime if ever.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Don't overestimate European leaders. They will jump back to depending on US for defense at the first sign of any stabilization in US. There's still barely any real resistance. They are doing the absolute minimum necessary to preserve sovereignty but not much more. Germany sided with US over its EU allies just couple weeks ago.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 33 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The international community will never trust the US again. Every shred of soft power and trust in the US is gone, and nobody will make an agreement that isn't purely short-term transactional for decades to come.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Constitutional reform at minimum is required, preferably a sweeping change to how their voting and districting works.

And make voting day a fucking holiday ffs.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 30 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

This has two problems, because it assumes:

  1. the next president will not be a similiar idiot
  2. there will still be elections.

It has been looking like Trump is going for a dictatorship for a long time and things are getting increasingly worse recently.

[–] Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 20 points 20 hours ago

There is a third problem. It assumes talented people are will return to jobs where they can be fired at the whim of a presidents.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
  1. that all of our former allies will be on board for a smooth resumption of prior status quo.
[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Europe doesn't trust each other enough to have any other choice.

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[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 41 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The world knows that it is not only Trump. We know that there is a broad election basis supporting that policy, that there are billionaires pushing it and that the whole GOP is totally in line with it. We witnessed how Biden tried to fix the damage of Trump1 and then we got an even worse Trump2.

So the world is trying to get out of their dependence on the USA and that will go on, because there will always be the threat of another trumplike president coming from the MAGA swamp

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, Americans need to pass a whole lot of constitutional amendments to prevent a future president from doing things like this.

This whole thing has shown that the "system of checks and balances" that they're so proud of is just a sham. If the US actually managed to push through constitutional changes, that might be a first step in rebuilding trust. Until then, everyone has to assume that it's just a matter of time before there's another Trump-like president. Historically, passing constitutional changes has been extremely difficult, so it's no given that that can even happen in a reasonable time frame.

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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 14 points 18 hours ago

And then, after another 75 maybe 100 years of being international pariahs, the rest of the world MIGHT consider taking you people seriously again....

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

If you don't see him try to force a third term then you're lucky.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember when we repealed the patriot act and got rid of the TSA? Or put the guardrails back in place after that big crash? No, the other crash, the one that happened after the guardrails were removed the second time.

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[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Ok, but this is all Day 1 shit. What are you actually going to do to improve people's lives?

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

I don't even believe most of this will happen. Whatever secret underground facility is being built under the WH will be used. Loyalists will cover for loyalists. The SC will remain compromised for ages.

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That's not how it works.

In many cases trust is broken and it might never be restored. People won't come back if they know they can be vilified and fired again in a few years. Allies? We will never think of the US as a reliable partner again. Not in my life time.

Americans elected a psycho, a literal psycho. The only thing I will remember is that it will likely happen again.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 30 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Americans elected a psycho, a literal psycho.

RE-elected*

they elected him twice! It's not like they didn't know what was coming, they were okay with it

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago

The its allies will unlikely want the USA back because this shit ain't the first shit.

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 5 points 16 hours ago

The US will be respected again!

lol

[–] MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago

we smadd solving world hunger to that list? Seems about as likely as all that other bullshit

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