• MetalMachine@feddit.nl
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    17 hours ago

    Cut the crap on the “civilized” world farce. If there was any decency the israeli onslaught would be punished. Instead these countries stand by them and do nothing.

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      Civilised doesn’t have to mean flawless. The US is still a horribly barbaric country, and the weapons Israel use to commit genocide come from the US.

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      16 hours ago

      Many of the countries in question don’t have a military presence that could dwarf the others, nor an army that would willingly fight larger enemies for those morals.

      Obviously, I’m not including America in that statement.

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        You’re correct but there is much that can be done without military intervention. The least these nations could have done is a weapons embargo and sanctions. Many other diplomatic levers that can be used but aren’t.

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      18 hours ago

      Home of the Brave (we’re terrified of non-white, non-male, non-cis, and/or non-Christian people)

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    18 hours ago

    The Olympics may be interesting, but they won’t be happening in the United States.

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      The next American Olympics is scheduled for Summer 2028. America, and the world, will be a much different place by then. I expect that we will have an Olympics of mostly authoritarian nations, and no Democratic nations.

      And there will be lots of ludicrous world records set, because they will fuck with the timings. These guys can’t do anything without cheating.

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        I don’t think the Olympics will happen at all in the United States in 2028.

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        I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a Nero situation happen at the next Olympics.

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    Come on come on carry on! This has potential. So it’s uncle… wotsisname? Uncle Scar? Uncle Sam? Uncle Scam? tricking Simba into going there right? What happens next? I’m intrigued

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      You’d think EU Simba wouldn’t need to be warned to not go towards fascism, but the way it’s been going lately…

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        The way it’s been going lately is that the US is the only country which chose Trump. Don’t worry about us, worry about yourself.

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          I mean, he wasn’t running anywhere else, so yeah. I do worry about other places, because while the US plunged head-first into fascism, far-right politicians are also gaining power all over the world. Just take care not to become like us!

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            The far right are not gaining anything. Le Pen got beaten in France, Farage got beaten in the UK, AfD got beaten in Germany. You’re on your own and we don’t like you.

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              That’s just the countries where it went not absolutely terribly. As someone who lives in the Netherlands I can absolutely tell you that we’re being ruled by a fascist, and people from Italy, Turkey, Serbia, Hungary and probably a bunch of other countries I missed can probably say the same about their country as well.

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        22 hours ago

        Hmm perhaps

        ciiircle historicaaaal… Just like in aaalabaamaaa… Faaamily treeees … I don’t know I’ve never been musically gifted

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      Kick US media out of your country, use opensource software and you’ll be better off.

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        Don’t be afraid to just take US intellectual property.

        It was acquired through exploitative neoliberal and neocolonial policy. “AI” is actually the peak manifestation of this.

        Also, China does it (though in some cases consensually) and its gone fairly well for them.

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          21 hours ago

          Apparently China just came out and said they dont care about american copyrights so this might grow.

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            To be fair, its not like the West played by the rules during the colonial era so that’s understandable.

            A number of US based companies have willingly given away IP in the past to access the market.

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      I think Europe had their time. They are nodding knowingly and pitifully at America at how hard it will be to climb out of it.

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            In some cases, but rich people are usually right wing as it justifies their wealth. Consequently they are classists. And racism is just another type of classism.

            In other words, Europe has their own rich monsters.

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        23 hours ago

        Russia is worse then the US is, but the US is working on it. Both are helping out likeminded European groups. Musk was turning up at German and British facist party events for a reason.

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          So what you’re saying is that the UK needs a repeat of Cable Street to drive home that fascism isn’t welcome and drive out wannabe-Mosley.

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            Would be an option. Another really good one would be a reform of the election system. It is insane that Labour got 2/3 of the seats in parliament with only 1/3 of the votes. Even worse with Reform polling at about 1/3 of the votes right now.

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        Are you kidding? Europe is trying it’s best to keep up with the USs sprint to the hard right.

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          The crisis of the 30’s was a factor and now we’re in the same position.
          Dramatically worsened by the results of ‘there will be no more Nordstream’.
          Not a peep from our EU leaders, just more bootlicking, crippling sanctions on ourselves and buying wildly expensive and polluting US fracking gas.
          And billions more of their murder toys OC, what else are our pension and social welfare funds for?

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    My cousin was an Olympic sprinter and that couldn’t make me give a fuck about the Olympics. Honestly it just seems like another thing to distract families so they have something to talk about. Also, the committee is basically run by the mob. Hard pass.

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      It’s one of the few things where most of the world fights without anybody dying. We need way more things like the Olympics to remind us we are all part of the same species sharing a collective space ship Earth.

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    I cannot fathom how maple MAGOT 51st staters haven’t looked up the price of insulin in the US vs Canada yet.

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      Consider all MAGAts cultists. You cannot fathom how fucked in the head they are. You could point this out, any logical person would see how crazy expensive insulin and other medication in the US Healthcare system is … but MAGAts have no logic whatsoever. They will just say its “fake news” or liberal propaganda.

      I am serious. You have to shut MAGA down. These bitches are crazy.

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    The football world championship is going to be in the US too. The goalies aren’t the only ones going to be shot at.

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        That was my belief for quite a while. There’s certainly no shortage of stupidity, but the real problem is that people do understand the evil shit they vote for, and they fucking love it.

        Look at the Trump admin: he didn’t trick us into voting for him by giving some ‘on paper’ bs about why the things he does is somehow good; he just got on stage and started shitting on veterans, disabled people, women, immigrants, etc. The majority of voters looked at that and said “YUP! THAT’S MY GUY!!”

        We’re (collectively) just fucking evil. Idk if there’s a fix for that.

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          The thing is, they don’t truly understand the consequences. Otherwise c/leopardsatemyface wouldn’t be a thing.

          They believe that they are free from consequence because they keep being told that, and by the odds they’re unlikely to face major direct consequences of their choices. And when they do, often it gets blamed on “the other side” instead of the people they choose to represent them.

          It’s not about them being too stupid to understand, or too evil to want better, it’s about an unwillingness to think about the consequences of their actions.

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            Oh i’ll be around to remind them. I’ve been doing rounds on calling out the idiots that still keep blaming dems for not saving them from themselves. Voters are entirely to blame for this and need to grow up and own their entire part in this mess.

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              They’d have to be willing to listen to you for it to matter. And shouting “you’re a moron!” at them has gotten little to no positive response thus far.