Trump is the symptom not the disease
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Trump is a result of American culture, not driving it.
Trump is a representative of America, not an outsider.
Trump happened again secondary to the diseases of hate and greed, not in advance of.
To further expound: In a healthy political ecosystem, Trump would not be able to get anywhere near any political office. He would have been immediately voted down as the cruel joke that he is. It’s only because America is so evil and toxic that he was elected twice.
Exactly, Trump is a perfect mirror of America 2025
“the diseases of hate and greed” - is found elsewhere too. Which is why Fascism is also on the rise in Europe and elsewhere.
I agree and that rise saddens me, but in Europe, I still generally have confidence that the majority of countries’ populations respect general decency, human rights and lack of corruption enough to keep the hate and greed mostly at bay. In the US, it’s now long past hope - the corruption runs so deep, so broadly that it’s taken over, and that means the country is doomed to be somewhere I never wanna live.
I still generally have confidence that the majority of countries’ populations respect general decency, human rights and lack of corruption enough to keep the hate and greed mostly at bay.
And yet fascism is on the rise 'cos dumbass illiterate bigoted motherfuckers exist in the EU too.
Trump was the best we could do. He represents our citizens.
He represents the morons who voted for him and refused to vote against him.
that’s like 2/3 of the US tho :/
Yeah, it’s not great. More people didn’t vote than those who voted for either candidate. All the dumbass “both sides” propaganda.
Honestly it’s the media’s fault. It’s extremely favourable to hatred and simple explanations. They lap up and spread everything he spews plus all the hate against him.
A fascist nation produces a fascist leader. Clearly the leader is the problem.
Capitalism produces fascism as its end result, period. The merger of state and corporate power is just the logical expansion of the selection of maximized profitablity over ethical behavior.
So every modern Western country is fascist?
They are steadily getting there. The far-right is gaining power EVERYWHERE.
Our culture is trash and it finds trash to represent it.
He’s a cancer, and it has spread.
I think US popularity is collapsing in the US as well. I know I’m starting to hate it here.
I’ve been trying to convince my wife to leave since 2016. I’m 99% sure the main reason she won’t agree is because she will burst into flames if she ever admits to being wrong about anything.
When I married my wife in 2005 she told me she’d NEVER leave her home and family. Took her to Australia for the first time in 2015 and within an hour of landing she was ready to move, which we did in November 2015, right before trump 1.0. Now since last November she’s looking into Australian citizenship and says she’s never going back. Don’t give up hope!
What about it made her want to move?
Mostly it was moving from the Midwest to a sub-tropical beach paradise. Which I thought (but definitely didn’t say) was kinda funny, because her reason for saying she’d never move was family. But pretty much all the reasons she’s been glad we did move are related to trump and what the US has become.
Sounds very american of her.
Some people like their family, friends and communities. Even non-Americans, believe it or not.
Was more refering to the “burst into flames if she ever admits to being wrong about anything”
Why not get a new wife?
In this economy?
One is plenty.
Yup, half our population is now defending human trafficking and statutory rape.
Never in my long life have I considered leaving America, but I’m looking at options now.
US
popularityis collapsing - FTFY.
nowhere more than in the us. Ugh these flag wavers. If you want pride in the country the country first has to act and function in a way that elicits pride!
I think a lot about something I read years ago. It said something like, “Some people love their country the way a child loves a parent. The parent is the smartest and the best and perfect. Some people love their country the way an adult loves a peer. They see the strengths, the potential, but also the weaknesses and problems that need to be addressed.”
Conservatives are generally children. Driven largely by emotion with a very simple moral framework. Much like you will likely struggle to explain to a toddler that taking the other kid’s toys, screaming constantly, and shitting in the sandbox won’t make a lot of friends, explaining politics to a conservative is likely to be an ordeal. They don’t care. They have feelings and that is their reality.
It’s also kind of funny how conservatives are the ones who typically say “reality doesn’t care about your feelings”. Everything is projection.
The qons are very much into performative bullshit that they think is patriotism. They’ll cry about how someone kneeling while a song plays and a piece of cloth is displayed at a sportsball game hurts “the troops”.
Then they’ll proudly vote for a party that treats the men and women of the military like a used Kleenex, and embrace a figure like Taco who called them suckers and losers.
They’ll blather about free speech, then cry about Hollywood airing shows they don’t like. They’ll talk about liberty and The Constitution, but want xtianity to be put on a pedestal.
“reality doesn’t care about your feelings”
but science is woke
Man over the years that projection thing just gets more and more. Which is just crazy when they spend most of their time accusing their opponents of things we eventually find out they are actively doing at the time.
the country first has to act and function in a way that elicits pride!
ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you
The patriotic thing to do now is fly them upside down.
Thats how I wear the little one on my black armband at protests. Definately in distress.
I’ve always said I’m happy to have been born where I am and I feel privileged, not pride, for that. Unfortunately I’ve been feeling less and less privileged recently.
Turns out most of the world doesn’t like felon rapist liars.
'Merica does though.
Don’t forget they don’t like people who are best friends and love to party with pedos
You’d have to mad to want to go to the clown show Nazi pedo-nation.
No, no, MAGAs keep insisting that the world finally respects us again!
To be fair. Respected and loved are two different things. I don’t think the rest of the world respects the US more than 1 year ago, just saying.
Respect? A LOT less.
I’m clicking your username, but it’s not taking me to a login page. what gives?
You need to send your own login password as a DM first!
Hunter2
And remember, respect is everything.
Is this really surprising to anyone?
Probably only hardcore MAGA. Actually probably not them because they wouldn’t believe an MSM article that claimed Trump was hurting the image of the USA, even if they could read
They probably believe it but think it’s because Trump is playing hardball and making them pay their fair share and that’s why they’re mad.
I think they love the hate. Because it’s the only emotion they get from anyone.
It is to me. That means the popularity came back after the Bush years and after Trump’s first term. It’ll come back after 2028 too because people have the memory of goldfish.
420 standing by.
Color me shocked.
But Trump said the world loves us?
Whatever he says, the opposite is true.
By world he means Russia and US oligarchs.
Nah, the oligarchs only love themselves. Fuck the little guy
But Taco said we were hot, and we weren’t hot when Biden was in office, because “worst president evar” or somesuch.
I have to trust dear leader and not any kind of real data, just like I believe him when he says we had the worst economy ever under Biden, in spite of all the evidence.
Good
This article is 2 months old.
And it’s only gotten worse
when US was popular in the world? can you call a bully the popular kid?
Basically the same way the douchey rich kid who’s tolerated because he’s got a Playstation AND an N64 is “popular”.
N64
OK Grandpa, let’s get you inside for a nap! 🤣
Golden Eye - pyramid level, slaps only, no odd job - was the height of gaming that the industry has yet to recapture.
The egg’s been captured already, give it a rest, tomorrow’s Thursday.
