Spyke
lemmy.ca

The lines between Hitler and Trump are becoming less and less blurred

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MyOpinionreply
lemmy.myserv.one

It is almost like he told everyone that he was going to be a dictator on day one.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Technically he claimed that it would be ONLY on day one, but nobody ever actually believed that.

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Be a dictator on day one,

Use that day to remove all the barriers to remaining a dictator and also change the definition of dictator,

Profit!

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lemmy.ca

Ah, you are this idiot:

“Dude I'm South Asian. As long as a Black man, South Asian man or a white man behaves and follows orders, it will be fine.”

Must be a troll, nobody is this dumb. I have no time for trolls, blocked.

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

In other comments they revealed themselves to be a full-blown Nazi just trolling.

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Ya, looked at their comment history and modlog. Getting banned left right and center. Mostly right though. Ha ha

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lemmy.ca

It's not like he's invading countries and throwing minorities into camps....

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jaybonereply
lemmy.zip

Did Hitler hang out in sex rings? I wasn’t aware of that. I think he was into water sports, but there’s nothing wrong with that.

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lemmy.world

I think you mean more blurred, not less.

A less blurred line would be more distinct, providing a stronger, more obvious separation between the two.

A more blurred line is fuzzier, making it more difficult to tell where one ends and the other starts.

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qyronreply
sopuli.xyz

If the man was still alive, he would be salivating for what it is being done right now. It's the original agenda, on steroids, revised, fine tuned and turbo charged.

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Vedltreply
lemmy.world

When he was elected I was very scared that my son would be old enough to be conscripted and die in a pointless war based on the time line compared to original Hilter.

Good news though! Looks like he won't even get to live to see 10 years old! 👍

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We'll live to be old and so will our offspring. How the world will be by then is the great question.

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"You cannot beat the master of genocide and racial segregation" (Hitler, if he were alive today)

Hitler's agenda borrowed heavily from US policies. The US experimenting on his own citizens went on for decades after Auschwitz was closed.

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sh.itjust.works

I get what you're saying from the context, but the way you phrases it makes it sound like it's becoming more clearly defined that Trump is not Hitler. Generally, more "blurring of the lines" equates to a thing becoming less clearly distinguishable from another thing.

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If one circle is blurry, it can look like a Venn diagram.

As it gets more focused, it looks like the Venn just overlaps more than it did originally.

Then one day, everyone's like "wait a minute, it's been a single blurry circle the whole time" and everyone can see it.

It's not common usage now, but has before. So maybe they switched it up on accident, but if it was intentuonal then it wasn't necessarily wrong. They just meant as the differences get more defined, we realize they aren't really differences.

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Ya I maybe didn't wrong. Y'all know what I mean. 😜🤣

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It's very easy to tell them apart.

One dresses like an American clown. The other had good uniforms.

But yeah, both suck.

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Much like Argentina was a safe haven for Nazi’s, Trump is making Venezuela a safe haven for him and his mob.

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lemmy.world

If he's the president of Venezuela then let's open up the border to them. Let them come in they're American now.

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worhuireply
lemmy.world

This is actually a good argument .

The president of the USA can not be head of state of a different country. So they are either Americans or Donald trump accidentally abdicated the presidency.

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lemmy.zip

Is there anything explicitly forbidding it? I can't say I recall anything specific about it, but I admit I could be just forgetting a constitutional clause or something.

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ryvenreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

He cannot "accept ... [an] Office ... from any ... foreign State." I suppose he might argue that "accepting" and "seizing by force" are not the same thing.

Or Congress could pass an act to allow it.

Edit: Or, more realistically, someone will complain to the Supreme Court and they'll find a reason to avoid ruling on the issue and Sotomayor will write an angry dissent but nothing will change.

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Argue? Why would he argue? He says it, it happens, nobody has a choice but to accept it, the legal system is defunct. We are living in upside down clown world now. The clown has his own Gestapo and nukes. Fucker needs to be taken out like week old fish in the bin.

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CircaVreply
lemmy.ca

LOL the emoluments clause means nothing to Trump et al. He’s so bribed. It’s beyond fathom.

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Yeah… still would like to see congress actually at least mention it.

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sopuli.xyz

We better do NOTHING AT ALL about This! Not even a SLIGHTLY Stern Letter!

-World Leaders Apparently! And Democrats!

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It'll never be good enough, and nothing will ever happen fast enough, for these kinds of people. You burn through mental energy trying to engage them.

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There's literally secret contingency plans you don't get to hear about...

...what? You think world leaders are stupid enough to telegraph this stuff? Who do you think they are, Trump?

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lemmy.nz

It is often said that to truly be president of a place you must walk among the people unguarded to show that you’re in charge and not a big wuss

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Dang that must suck to be a fake president of 2 places

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Tbh I don't think even the most loved US president should be comfortable without some security. The country is so big, there is always some crazy person with a gun.

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lemmy.world

Text of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8.

“No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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focusfortereply
lemmy.world

You say that as if Donald Trump gives any fucks what the Constitution says...

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Or that the other branches of government haven't abdicated their obligations for checks and balances. They've given him carte blanche to be a king in this country.

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bastienreply
lemmy.wtf

Thankfully his presidency over Venezuela is entirely self declared, so this is clearly not illegal then /s

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You say /s but it is absolutely a not /s. If this goes to the SCOUS that'll absolutely be their decision.

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We should bring him and every elected official that takes money from Israel up on charges

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He's not accepting it, he's declaring it!

Totally different thing!

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lemmy.world

When this era of terror is over, I hope we have Nuremberg style trials for all these wastes of humans. From the white house to the lawmakers who sat idly by and let this country falter, to the ice agents "just following orders". And I hope we dismantle everything trump. No courts. No mercy. Globally. Cancel every contract they have given themselves and their friends. Corrupt judges out. End this Christian fascism. Every Trump aligned son of a bitch and bitch delta with

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lemmy.world

You are dreaming. USA did this TWICE. There is no turning back from this. The People of the USA seems to forget a lot in 4 years. So who will the next trump be, once the egg prices goes up again? USA will never be trusted again. They are in catagory with Russia and china.

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The USA will be treated as even less trustworthy than Russia and China. Russia and China are of course untrustworthy but at least they are consistently untrustworthy. Everyone knows to give them a wide birth.

But the USA, they insinuated themselves into high-level defence pacts and international military cooperation. Then they decided to turn fascist and destroy everything for no readily apparent reason.

If there is going to be any repairing of fences, it's going to have to start off with the US paying for all the damage they have done to the world order and all of the renegotiating of contracts that has had to be done because they didn't feel like fulfilling their international obligations. And also justice, if the Trump admin don't end up in prison then the rest of the world is going to see that for what it is. An attempt to defend the indefensible, and therefore an indication that they have not truly changed.

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reddit_suxreply
lemmy.world

There had to be a World War for Nuremberg to happen. What my fear is instead of World War there will be a World Civil war.

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SCmSTRreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

What is a "world civil war" and how is that different from a world war?

My understanding is that a "civil war" is a war within a country, for the dominance and rulership of that country, usually over ideals or laws or something. And a world war is just.... a worldwide war. I wish my grandparents were still around to seek real advice on this, I truly miss them and their experience and wisdom.

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reddit_suxreply
lemmy.world

They will be factions within countries fighting amongst each other. There maybe alliances amongst those factions but no nations against each other. The end an apocalyptic fragments of Nations

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

You could say that some of the national borders as they exist right now are needlessly artificial.

Take Spain and Catalonia for example. The only reason that Catalonia is not an independent country is because Spain won't let them be. There's no real reason other than Spanish national pride and if there was a war between the two you could classify it as a civil war or you could classify it as a war between two countries, it's entirely a matter of opinion.

But I don't think that US politics has any real bearing on whether or not that happens. Political instability in the United States doesn't really lead to any obvious change in internal politics for other countries. External policies obviously would change but not internal ones.

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Right wing nationalism is spilling into Europe, Aisa along with bad actors like Israel, China, Russia it will lead to factions and if we are truly unlucky civil war.

There is unrest in France, Germany, many of the Baltic nations, UK.

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SCmSTRreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I just thought about ww2, and I just realized how egregious it is that the Japanese and Italians sided with Nazis.

They thought "yes, mhm, we are on that side".

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lemmy.world

Don't sell Italy and Japan short.

Mussolini invented fascism, and did population-scale deployment of chemical weapons in Ethopia.. Imperial Japan are absolutely an all-time G.O.A.T of horrific war crimes.

Their behavior was egregious, and that's why they sided with the nazis.

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Italy was more of a trapped situation

Japan pre-nukes however were extremely genocidal fascist, look up some of the stuff they did just before WWII, such as the "Rape of Nanjing", if anything the Nazis took some inspiration from them

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

A slight nitpick but Japan didn't side with the Nazis. They had their own thing going on with China and simply saw the Nazis as an opportunity for some payback. It wasn't like they really bought into the Nazi ideology as didn't really apply to them. The Italians were all in on it though.

Had the war turned out differently there would have been a radical cultural difference between Nazi controlled Europe and Japanese controlled Asia. In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.

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Waldelfereply
feddit.org

While they didn't 100% buy into all the details of Nazi ideology, the Japenese did believe themselves to be the superior race among the Asian peoples.

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Spaniardreply
lemmy.world

In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.

Like a cold war.

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Alternative history is sort of difficult because we don't know what the capabilities of those powers would have been. In order for the Nazis to have won the war a lot of people on both sides would have needed to make quite radically different decisions.

However it doesn't take much theorizing to suggest that Nazi Germany would have probably had nuclear weapons in that scenario (the Germans were moving in that direction towards the end of the war, but were never really able to make much progress because by that point they were losing badly and didn't have the resources anymore).

I can't see how Japan would have ended up with nuclear weapons though. So I suspect a certain amount of power imbalance would have existed.

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TipRingreply
lemmy.world

I think this warrants additional investigation. I am unfamiliar with Lisa Voldang so I don't know how to evaluate the veracity of the material.

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No idea what I think about this. It’s terrible as a concept. It’s dated 25 November. Has anything happened with it since?

It’s so sickening it almost seems like a twisted fan fiction.

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feddit.org

He’s spiraling into a singularity of narcissistic terror over [Jeffrey] Epstein, and decompensating with performative dictatoring

Couldn't have said it better.

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samus12345reply
sh.itjust.works

I'm not convinced he cares that much about Epstein. As far as not liking anything that makes him look bad, sure. But he's sending out armed thugs to murder Americans and getting away with it. Why should he care about being outed as a pedophile?

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Drusasreply
fedia.io

There must be something that he considers embarrassing, so obviously not pedophilia.

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tomiantreply
piefed.social

He doesn't feel embarrassment, but he hates when other people don't constantly sing his praises. Being a pedo subtracts from the cheering throngs. By a frighteningly small margin.

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Drusasreply
fedia.io

I think it needs to be something like him getting a blowjob from a man (or boy). That is something much of his base might consider unforgivable.

But also maybe something like being peed or shat or cummed on.

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Nah, getting head from a man or a boy would still put him in a position of power, it's been like this since time immemorial

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I heard something about his involvement in the case of a "disappeared" associate in Moscow, with that being Putins kompromat on him.

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Of course he doesn't care. But his base does care about Epstein and he knows he (for now still) needs their support.

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sh.itjust.works

It's the only thing that actually threatens his base of support.

Epstein files is the only thing that shuts the chuds up. They're cheering about Venezuela and getting off to ICE murders. But they, for whatever reason, only draw the line at pedophilic elitism.

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samus12345reply
sh.itjust.works

I don't think it would shut them up. A few would be peeled off, sure, but in the end they'd just make excuses for it like they always do. They draw the line when it's not the Dear Leader they worship that's the subject.

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sh.itjust.works

Well, no it won't change the true believers minds outright. That is true. But I do know the biggest divisions we've seen in public with the GOP has been over the epstein files.

Anecdotally it's the only topic the chuds I know don't want to discuss, be aware of, or have to do the work to justify.

So if anything it thins their ranks a bit, which is absolutely a worthwhile end. No other wedge issue has been as effective.

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I'll take anything at all that creates even the tiniest bit of discord among them at this point. I just think we should temper our expectations of how much good it would actually do.

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He’s over Epstein. He decided fuck it, he’s going for total power so that whatever is said about Epstein he can just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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lemmy.world

Hey maybe wars of aggression and intentions to annex allies are just as bad as the child sex trafficking we all know he did.

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lemmy.world

Idk, I mean he hasn't launch a nuclear miss... check google quick He hasn't launch a nuclear missile yet...

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zr0reply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Probably only because they hid the button. He would press it, thinking this will order 10 Big Mac meals

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Should go for a victory parade so his new subjects can show how happy they are under his rule. Lincoln Continental convertibles get great ratings, I hear.

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feddit.org

America was always a nazi shithole, we just didn't care because they made our elite rich and it was only brown people who were getting fucked over it.

Welcome to reality my frieds, a portion of us have been here for a long time. Kissinger should have been the only canary needed to see it, yet, here we are...

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lemmy.world

Yep, this is pretty true to form for U.S. intervention in Latin America. It just used to be done covertly by the CIA instead of plastered all over Twitter.

And an obligatory fuck Henry Kissinger.

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America was always a Nazi shithole, but nobody noticed until they got online, and their cultural blindspot (education), made them afraid of anything new or different - including critical thinking, which the Russians exploited.

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lemmy.world

No lie, he is distracting from this story about him murdering a litter of puppies and having a wooden tent stake KICKED deep inside of his anus by a boy he was raping, after having another child shot in the head in front of the boy.

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having a wooden tent stake KICKED deep inside of his anus

Well that would certainly explain his weird-ass iconic posture, stiff gait, and alleged near-constant incontinence!

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I hadn't heard about the puppies, tent stake, or child being shot part. That's horrifying.

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lemmy.zip

Man. All them politicians in DC must be writing some mildly worded letters. Cause they sure as fuck aren’t doing anything else.

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lemmy.world

But the oil companies don't even want it to begin with. I actually am starting to think he's trying to provoke a war with anyone to distract from Epstein.

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No joke, the day after it happened, they said they were gonna wait a week to even vote on whether or not he was allowed to do it.

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lemmy.world

MAGA: Trump kindapping Maduro was justified because he was acting like a dictator and was a net negative to the people of Venezuela!

MAGA after another world leader Kindaps Trump for doing the same thing: 😮

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It makes me feel really sad to see the USA go from 80s / 90s Era golden times into false wars, the murder of millions and now we just putting the building blocks in place to have a new form of the Nazi party.

The problem is that everyone is so Tribal now and fixed into their positions I can only see it escalating. I'm worried for my children.

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That supposed golden age was a time of massive deregulation, which is still wreaking havoc on the country.

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In the 80s and 90s, America was massively involved in destabilising Central America and the Middle East.

Iran-Contra / Nicaragua, Panama, first Gulf war, Afghanistan...

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He needed to go to prison on January 7th, 2021 with his trial starting the next day, and immediately barred from running for office under the 14th amendment of the US constitution regardless of the outcome of his trial or any pardons.

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I am no legal expert, but I'm pretty sure that makes Juan Guiedo President of America.

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So now the us executive is being ruled by the president of Venezuela?!? Certainly those conservatives will overthrow a foreign dictator that is locking up US citizens right?

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lemmy.world

"relax, you have the donald syndrome, he's just speaking metaphorically"

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literature.cafe

The USA would be 100x better and 100x funnier if it was run by actual clowns

Imagine all the silly stuff they could get up to if there was just 100 clowns in the senate building

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Curious what would happen if he names someone as ambassador on the UN and that person shows up to vote as Venezuela.

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The wake up call has been ringing for between the last 10 to 400 years.

The problem is that this time Cromwell/Napoleon minus the military genius/Hitler has tactical nuclear warheads.

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He didn't think to call Venezuela his own personal property? Free State of Venezuela. What a fool.

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To this kind of news, pessimists would say "it can't get any worse than this." Optimists would say "it can, it can." TIL, "I can" is the new MAGA.

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I was told here though that it was perfectly fine what he did and totally didn't take over the government because he didn't put the noble peace prize winner into power

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I recognize Delcy Rodriguez as the legal President of Venezuela, and I sincerely wish her the best of luck picking up where Maduro left off (in some way). Seriously!

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We don't need another latina American woman president. Just look at how Peru and Mexico suffered

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CircaVreply
lemmy.ca

Villagers with sticks in Vietnam beat the USs ass. Same with goat farmers in Afghanistan.

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zecareply
lemmy.ml

Not quite. The us has strength, yes, but not to that point. Its strength is sufficient for some things, but it cant do everything it wants. The us cant even do whatever it wants internally... Look at venezuela, even after trump stated that venezuelan oil belonged to the us and was stolen by the chavist administrations, what is the us doing right now concretely? The us is buying oil at normal market prices from the chavist administration.

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zecareply

Its already invaded by the us curently. What else do you got?

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lemmy.ca

You wanna drive an invasion, you couldn't even drive your thumb up your arse, ya impotent shitweasel.

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lemmy.ca

Protecting a bloated orange conman who fucks little kids.

The US deserves to collapse.

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Yozreply
lemmy.world

Keep dreaming, if US does collapse, the whole world will collapse. Never forget the world relies on us. From your iphone to movies songs , anything you can think of comes from the US.

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If US does collapse, the whole world will collapse.

Fine with me, that's a risk I'll take to stop fascists. The problem with Americans is they don't see how anyone would accept this, because this is about treasure for them. For me and my family it's existential.

In other words it's easy for you to say all of this because you're in the US so you're apparently incapable of understanding that others would rather die than join you. Also you seem to think no one else has power over your country. I think the first thing we should do is cut the power to the northeastern US, preferably during the deep winter. Nothing quite like freezing to death in the dark to provide that much needed perspective.

Cheers!

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Yozreply
lemmy.world

When we take your country this troll will be LOL

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Not in line with current party doctrine. You gotta regurgitate the newest talking points.

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lemmy.today

You clearly know fucking nothing about America. Weakest job report since covid, prices through the roof, can't afford anything, all thanks to Trump. Go touch grass and read an economics book

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lemmy.world

Yes keeping graphics cards cheap is definitely worth increasing groccery prices, privatized healthcare, unaffordable housing, state sanctioned violence against minorities, and 1000+ other issues. But hey at least the new Call of Duty is running great!

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

Ah, I see. You live in a white supremacist fantasy world.

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I know this gets brought up a lot and maybe over done. But dude, that is 1) Not the case as being evidenced right now in large swathes of the US, and 2) Literal Nazi talking points. Like word for word what they told Jews before rounding them up and gassing them. (Also literally what US Japanese were told before being rounded up and put in concentrations camps despite obeying the law, but that's less known)

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Come visit America right now. You're practically wasting money staying there, just move over. It'll be fine, you'll even get free rides in federal vehicles!

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lemmy.world

Bruv they aren't committing more crime. That's one of the reasons people are mad. Immigrants literally commit less crimes than nationals. Your argument for minorities committing more crimes is flawed because the only reason you think they commit more crimes is because police arrest them more, whether they were doing something illegal or not. "We target these people because we've targeted these people before"

How tf did this maga ass Kool aid get over to Australia? You have no idea how shit it is here or how shit works here.

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Turning Point USA pushed hard into several other countries (sometimes under other names but often still as Turning Point). A lot of rich assholes ate it up because they think less taxes is what they need to reach nirvana or some shit.

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lemmy.today

Please, please, please come tell my neighbors, many of them Indian, how they're doing fine. I would fucking love to see what they do to you. You're a racist idiot. Again, go touch grass and read economics books not fap to racist talking points from 4chan.

Also please come tell the legal Mexican and Somali communities being deported how they should have just followed the law. I think it'll go about as well for you.

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You sound just like the Latinos for Trump. "I can't be racist, I'm one of the good ones". It's not going well for them.

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You're presenting a graphics card as your entire argument? That's the left wing socialist screw up? Goddamn I thought you needed to go touch grass before but now I think you need to just walk to the beach and stare at the waves or something too.

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

You can do a lot less with $100K in the USA than in other countries. Americans get paid more because they immediately have to pay that back out on expenses that are covered by taxes in civilised countries. So the pay sounds much better but it really isn't. You're falling into the trap of thinking "if we just did it like the Americans and didn't pay for any common goods, we'd have more money in our pockets." You would, for about 5 minutes until the bills came. Then you'd have less, and also live in a dysfunctional society where everyone is miserable and angry and defensive. Left wing politics is what protects a society from this fate. It's not worth throwing it all away for a slightly cheaper graphics card.

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lemmy.world

Check your homeowners insurance cost and property taxes before you start talking about how cheap houses are in Texas. It can run $18k/year in insurance and another 10k in property taxes for a $400k house... If you put 80k down on a $400k house, the mortgage is roughly $2100/month in principle and interest, plus another $933ish per month for Property taxes($5000/year), insurance($5000/year), and hoa fees($1200/year). Your housing cost is ~$3k/month. Property taxes go up every year on top of that. They are limited to a 10%/year increase but historically, that translates to basically a guaranteed 10%/year increase, especially in the last 10 years. Insurance premiums have more than doubled in the last 10 years as well.

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lemmy.today

That's also not covering the god awful electricity stability so you want some sort of generator or battery backup so you don't literally freeze to death in the middle of winter. Basic starter generators are what, $10k right? And then $2k in gas a year? Minimum.

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To run a heater or ac, you need a significant generator. I have been looking at battery systems and to run an existing residential ac, its like 10k and you need two inverters. Where I am, the power failures have been minimal and manageable (30 minute intervals every couple months) The exception was Hurricane Beryl and we were out of power for 3 days. I intermittently ran a generator for our fridge and the neighbors to charge stuff but even running a window unit was not an option on our 5000w generator. It burned maybe 2 gallons of gas?

Running an electric central air heater is also essentially out of the question. With a gas heater, you just need to run the fan and not heat the elements.

Despite the health risks, that is why we still use. Gas water heaters, gas furnaces, gas dryers, and a gas stove in our house. I want the fallback of running stuff without power. The grid is also shitty to the point (in some areas) that it fried my uncles induction stove, fridge, and ovens even living in a major city.

That also wouldn't have helped during the winter storm in Austin because the gas supply basically froze and lost pressure so those folks were really hurting.

I think the big built in generators run 15k plus and run off natural gas. I did learn that they also require a maintenance subscription (because of course they do) and thats like 2k a year iirc.

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gdog05reply
lemmy.world

I think you're looking at averages and not median. The US has a lot more billionaires and now trillionaires. Median household income in Australia is $1800/week and in the US it's $1500/week and plummeting plus our unemployment is now through the roof to a degree that's not even being measured accurately. And we go broke from healthcare.

I know you pay more for some elements of gaming, and you're being shafted on that. But maybe check the news out a little and ask if Call of Duty is really worth all this.

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lemmy.today

We don't have the first trillionare yet. Musk hasn't actually been paid that package.

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Yeah, I was being a bit glib about that. Who knows, maybe we can bankrupt Tesla before he does.

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Yeah but with the US in charge, that $650 will be spent on a hangnail.

Invade my country because graphic cards are too expensive.

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

This is the most ignorant comment I have read on the internet in a while. And I read a lot of shit on the internet.

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They're open source, can always suggest on the github repos even if you can't implement yourself.

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BassTurdreply
lemmy.world

Conservative politics always ends in a dog shit economy. Trump is currently top two worst world leaders for their country following only Putin.

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The leopards would quickly eat his face. “This isn’t what I voted for!!”

7

We have blacks for MAGA in the states, there's no explaining stupid. Case in point - look in the mirror.

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startrek.website

History showed it many times: people who annex never ever make it better for the annexed. They always exploit and things get worse.

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You couldn't leave, you'd be less than a territory, at best. You'll get no representation, no voting rights and certainly no citizenship. We'd pillage your resources and you'll live in a fucking shack to support my lifestyle. We won't help you when a natural disaster strikes, we'll ensure you can't get the help or supplies you need in a famine. You and your future generations would die in the streets begging for sovereignty.

Stop advocating for this stupid position or it might just happen. Fair warning.

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

Starting to think you probably live in Moscow.

7

There is a difference between the America of 30 years ago and now that you may not realize. You reference housing and yeah 30 years ago you could afford housing (possibly) but now private equity has purchased housing so new home ownership is getting impossible. You mentioned American laptops (made in China) and operating systems (Linux is from Finland), but the breakthroughs that allowed for current American tech dominance were based on policies that have been dismantled and now currently exist due to monopolies. We are on a downward trend over here where we are living off the accomplishments of old. Think about it like IBM. They were a tech powerhouse until they moved to being a services company and then became a shadow of their former self. They still exist and are a big company but nothing compared to what they were. That’s America now. Australia has the potential to take the reins if they DO NOT follow the current US example as do many other countries.

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I submit that you have no fucking clue what America is supposed to be, and that you’re just getting your jollies off of parroting jingoistic conservative dogma.

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cygnusreply
lemmy.ca

Seriously - it's like these people are new to the internet. It's such obvious bait, and a mediocre effort too.

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You should be able to get a free room with meals at the nearest loony ward. Just show them this comment..

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Lucky_777reply
lemmy.world

"You need a real leader" and your first pick is Donald Trump?! Lmao. You need to touch grass or get a lobotomy. Reset your brain, because Trump is the worst leader of all time. Many Roman Caesars were better even.

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If I had a dollar for every time on Lemmy that I encountered a mysognistic CS student that thinks they know more than they do, I would now have a dollar. And that's quite a fucking shame, considering I've been here for years.

The industry you're trying to break into was founded by women, LGBT folks, and people who envisioned technology as a path towards the betterment of humanity. Do better. You're acting like a disgrace to its legacy.

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I hope you get what you wish for.

But Trump will invade Austria first on a typo.

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