In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

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    30 days ago

    I feel like saying it’s normal for empires to fall due to external causes is not accurate? It’s usually the exception. Maybe the external factor is the final kick, knocking over a rotting house of cards, but the cause is almost always division, internal conflict, or unsustainable growth. An empire is much more likely to collapse under its own weight than it is to have Alexander the Great kick its teeth in. The Ottoman Empire was called “The Sick Man of Europe” for a reason.

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      30 days ago

      LOL empire. They haven’t lasted for even a century. It will be a footnote in history.

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              30 days ago

              Well then, enlighten me and tell me exactly from when to when you consider them an empire?

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                Probably from the moment of our emancipation from England. Occupied more territory than most European states ever had at that moment.

                If you want to be pedantic about it how about when we occupied the width of an entire contenant? September 9th 1850

                We didn’t spring fully formed from Zeus’s forehead to fund the destruction of the Reich.

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                  30 days ago

                  from the moment of our emancipation from England.

                  I was asking from what year, decade even to what year. This is as vague as it gets. If I wanted to be pedantic I would ask what a “contenant” is. That date you mention is about California? I think you don’t get what being an empire means. It’s not having a really big country.

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    1 month ago

    good old lefty progressivism reduced to: “look at what trump is doing!”

    if you’re truly progressive or left, you have as much ire for the democratic party-- if not more.

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      1 month ago

      You’re getting downvoted by the same people who got upset by calling out that Kamala and Biden were not good candidates.

      If they were, they would have beat this idiot.

      The DNC has no idea, nor does it care, what people really need or want. They don’t represent our reality. The only Dems who do are… You guessed it: Progressive.

      AOC, Bernie, Ro Khana, Cori Bush, Nina Turner… None of them are supported by the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. All of them have people in mind over reelection.

      It’s time for a sea change.

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        1 month ago

        I think Kamala was an embarrassment that deserved to be called out, Biden is evil, and the establishment often cares more about suppressing progressives than beating Republicans, but I absolutely downvoted that dumb as shit comment.

        The Democrats can be responsible for failing to defeat fascism, complicit in genocide and the backsliding of civil rights, and a problem in need of active and forceful change without saying stupid things like they’re just as bad as the guy empowering Nazis, destroying the civil service, and persecuting trans people with deadly results.

        That’s fucking stupid online edgelord politics.

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          1 month ago

          complicit in genocide

          stupid things like they’re just as bad as the guy empowering Nazis

          They’re the same picture

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      1 month ago

      What happened in Gaza is a taste of what the undesirables in America are going to face. Especially Israel’s AI targeting tech.

      That’s what democrat supporters don’t understand. We can’t accept genocide anywhere, not just for moral and ethical reasons but because genocide will come for us too.

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        1 month ago

        If you’re in the US and voted anything but Democrat, or didn’t vote at all, then this is your fucking fault.

        Fuck the democrats, fuck Kamala. They suck. But look what your rigid morality has made.