Because you now did it to yourself.

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    8 hours ago

    Pour one out for America and Ukraine, and the Middle East in general. And Taiwan.

    Europe and Asia, you guys better get your shit together, we might be out of this one permanently. Or we might have a very long recovery time spanning decades. Such fucking bullshit.

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      6 hours ago

      I know Americans get upset when I say this to them but honestly, I think it’s the time the United States broke up, it’s too big, it’s too powerful, and as soon as someone like him gets in charge everything goes to shit.

      If the United States was smaller it wouldn’t matter as much if a random dictator got in charge of a small bit of it.

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        As an American, I’m in agreement with that in concept. Partition would be a harrowing process though, as people scramble to go where they feel they belong. I’m not sure such a process could happen without another civil war.

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        I was saying this the last time around. America is too big and the parties are too polarized, the federal government can’t fairly represent all of its constituents at once. At any given time, half of the population is being underrepresented.

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        That’s more practical than just reforming the election system, apparently. Ugh.

        Oldschool Republicans may have a point here too, perhaps less federal power is better.

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      For the sake of my mental health I’m currently trying to gaslight myself into thinking that Trump being president isn’t bad. But the truth is there is no realistic way the country is coming back from this. Not in my lifetime at least.

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        The only hope is that he’s so far gone mentally already that he ends up mostly doddering around the oval office. The problem is he’s already surrounded himself with the most vile people who will have no problem doing terrible things in his name.

        Maybe he’ll die and JD Vance will magically regain a conscience.

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          That’s a feature for these people not a bug, he’ll be a hollow shell for his cabinet to pass what they want to pass

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      Europe and Asia, you guys better get your shit together

      Yes, it’s now or never.

      Who am I kidding, we won’t do anything, of course. Everyone will huddle in his corner.

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        In Europe particularly the big problem will be Turkey and Italy as usual.

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      Yeah, no. Our European society is in decline.

      Recently we had some floodings on Valencia. We are aiming for 300 dead… In a modern society 300 dead because of a flooding, the same dead tool as in 1957 when the same area flooded. Our society is definitely failing.

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      Recovery time? Getting our shit together? Europe and Asia won’t survive the climate collapse either. I don’t know why you people talk like this.