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The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

The world can't even make Israel a pariah state

US politics are chaotic, guided by extremists and driven by monetized misinformation. I'm afraid that the rest of the world will not change it's opinion just because the trump admin is out of power. The next one could be much worse, not better.

great, let’s not do anything then, trenchant fucking observation there

From the outside it looks like there's still laneway to go on the downwards trajectory. Reversing it takes a lot of action and time, I guess.

Where the fuck have you all been for the last few decades?

oh fuck off

You have been asleep for the entire 21st century

you actually posted this gif multiple times tonight like it's some sort of trenchant insight, incredible

All this bullshit does is impose a social tax on discussing a topic you’re probably only pretending to care about.

Stop being such a stupid motherfucker

Almost every other country in the world is quietly hoping that the US gets its arse kicked at least enough that it doesn't keep doing this.

As much as I despise Trump and his minions, I have nothing but respect for the lethality and ability to execute the mission of our military forces. What's happening to Russia in Ukraine won't happen in Venezuela. This war must be stopped at home.

I can only hope that the rot has set in in the US military, and they find a way to fuck it up. I have no respect for military forces who execute illegal missions of aggression.

Hegseth is a piss pig and a piss pig will piss up more things than you might first anticipate.

Are you serious right now?

yes, the problem with the U.S. is absolutely also with the people and not merely with Trump, but I once again made the foolish mistake of not stating every single one of my opinions in a single word-restricted social media microblogging post

do you want every single one of my takes explained in great and nauseating detail or do you want to use a microblogging website? because some of you seem to be confused about how these two things cannot actually coexist

A lot of people are replying to this with some version of “oh ho ho, but no one boycotted the Cup in Qatar or the Olympics in Russia and China, what’s the point?” the fact that people all too often have the ethics of swine does not mean it is thus stupid and naive to demand better anyway

Trump is not the real problem. The oligarchs backing the GOP is the real problem. It would take something unexpected and dramatic for that cancer to get removed. Not just from the White House, the Congress and Wall Street. So not really any hope here.

Fuck off, doomer

But what americans have to acknowledge is this "cancer" is in them. The guy in the white house is the one they wanted. He is just the picture of who they are as a people. Cuting it out is therefore not that simple at all. Even elections won't do it.

Yup, everything that is happening is fully within our history, it’s just that nobody got taught Reconstruction and Redemption/Jim Crow in school to understand this is Redemption 2.0 (now including gender) and a return to the systems of slavery/oppression that the south lost the war over.

I do in fact understand this, but of course, this is Bluesky and I understand that means everyone here is contractually obliged to assume everybody else here is both tragically under-educated and Bad