| and it's going to be like that for decades unless november there's a broad sweep of offices and the other party actually exercises power for once and prosecutes politicians criminal behavior instead of that infuriating clemency nonsense they always do. I'm betting they'll get elected and then sit on their hands as hard as possible calling it a "return to normalcy", fight their constituency, insist on doing absolutely nothing, and then get kicked right back out 2 years later and whine about people not voting for them. The change has to be sweeping. The current people in power doing crypto pump and dumps: Internet trolls posting rage-baiting AI slop as official government communications as like the FDA and the CDC, then betting on polymarket about who they're going to bomb, teenaged 4chan trolls ctrl+f'ing for keywords to cancel things like cancer research because it has a "woke word" like "diversity" in published medical literature, these should be structurally impossible from getting near power again. Don't ever forget this happened. There's no undo. Decades down the drain. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/halted-nih-clinic... And the Wild threats to invade neighboring countries. Someone needs to do to America what America did to Venezuela. But instead, these criminals get to keep their jobs and it goes completely unpunished. Seriously, felony is not the right term. It's way beyond that. |
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| ▲ | 2000UltraDeluxe an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I suspect the people of Greenland won't ever trust Americans again. This isn't just going to go away. You can't just undo what Orange Mussolini is doing, and it'll take far longer than a decade before anything like a trusting relationship can be reestablished. | | |
| ▲ | codeduck an hour ago | parent [-] | | Not just Greenland. I imagine a lot of people here in Blighty will not take well to the US meddling in the sovereignty of the Falklands. I do wonder if the sudden noise is due in part due to to Peter Thiel's move to Buenos Aries. |
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| ▲ | mzhaase 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | As a European, that would change nothing for me. The issue is systemic disinformation, fundamental lack of empathy and all those echo chambers. As long as this exists, the current situation will repeat or get worse. | |
| ▲ | mdp2021 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > november Have the Dem restored "appealing" and leadership? -- Edit: look, see? About the barbarity of sniping (the counterargument to the at least two hitters at time of edit is not the post from lyu07282). My post is obvious and direct - friend of mine met only days ago a minor intellectual stating that voting the current administration in the usa was "right" given the opponents, and it is one of a long series of encounters. That the acquaintances of the friend were insulted or not in response is irrelevant. That a regime gave power to another out of evident faults is a fact, and if the reaction of some is ventral - "oooh! boo!" - the highway downwards remains paved. | | |
| ▲ | kristopolous an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | no, i have no trust in them. There needs to be some set of adults who take this lawless criminal hijacking of the government seriously for what it is. This is clear as day, not a matter of politics. It's just clear crime. The material evidence is irrefutable and indefensible and it happens multiple times a day. | |
| ▲ | lyu07282 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The DSA is pretty much the only hope democrats have left to restore any amount of credibility and they are fought by pretty much everybody right now. | | |
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| ▲ | nikanj 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The democrats will gain a paper-thin majority, but one politician from Bumshart, Nebrahoma will block every important vote and nothing will change. Feels like I’ve seen this movie before | |
| ▲ | jmorenoamor an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Sorry but no "unless" left IMO. China has been and is still gaining momentum in every strategic matter, and they are very probably going to lead from now on. What I am curious about is how that global leadership is going to change them, from citizens to government. | |
| ▲ | exe34 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's cute that you think power is going to change hands in November. It'll be his reischtags fire. He's already planning to send ice to police the elections and only in places he's bound to win will people be voting. | |
| ▲ | mschuster91 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > and it's going to be like that for decades unless in like november or so there's a broad sweep of offices and the other party actually exercises power for once and prosecutes politicians criminal behavior instead of that infuriating clemency nonsense they always do. European here. I've written about that on Reddit but can't find it because the search there is dogshit so I'll have to write from memory... We will not trust the US again any time soon, and so is our position regarding the UK. What both of you did, and especially how you got there, is an appalling history, a tale of a completely subverted democracy, and most importantly of a system that never got forced to be updated to centuries of learnings, unlike virtually all developed countries who underwent sometimes multiple wars, revolutions or the occasional peaceful democratisation. Before we trust you again, you must undergo what we Germans had to post-1945. You have to update your constitutions, yeet out the fossil crap that in no small part led to the situation (FPTP voting, media regulations, in the case of the US making voting either a holiday or move it to Sunday like everyone else), prosecute not just the corrupt politicians but also the oligarchs that backed them, introduce an educational system that is actually worth the name to prevent the youth being corrupted, and demonstrate for many years that you can be trusted again. Trust is easy to tear apart. All you need is a buffoon shitting in his own diapers [1] or a bus littered with propaganda [2] and a dumbass uneducated populace. But it takes decades and/or immense suffering to (re)build. And for both the US and the UK we gave you not just one chance to show you're better, but multiple. The US first had Bush wo tried to rope us into the Iraq war with his WMD lies, then after Obama came Trump 1, and after Biden came Trump 2, and the final straw regarding the UK and its ever more braindead PM choices was Lettuce Liz [3]. [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_Leave_bus [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce | | |
| ▲ | 0xDEAFBEAD an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | >Before we trust you again, you must undergo what we Germans had to post-1945. Literally just yesterday, Germany's public broadcaster released a 26-minute documentary. "The far right's rise: Is Germany at a breaking point?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOk01r2eoc0 The AfD, which became Germany's top-polling political party for the first time last year, is now the clear leader in polls. It may soon win an absolute majority in a German state election. The far-right is also widely projected to win the 2027 French presidential election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2027_F... And Switzerland seriously considered immigration restrictions much harsher than anything contemplated by the US. It's interesting to see how leftism changes as you cross the Atlantic. In the US it's usually baseless moral self-flagellation; in Europe it's usually baseless moral preening. In neither case do the facts seem to be particularly important. "we gave you not just one chance to show you're better" is such a fascinating thing for you to say. For years our leaders told you to be less dependent on us. Now you're speaking as though your dependency on us was some kind of favor you were doing for us. It's mind-blowing how out-of-touch you guys can be. | | |
| ▲ | KellyCriterion an hour ago | parent [-] | | Please elaborate, whats so strict about Switzerlands restrictions? Why shouldnt a country be allowed to limit the people they want to have from immigration? (Exercise for you: Try to get a passport from Liechtenstein, even if you work there permanently for a Liechtenstein company, its unlikely that you can even rent an appartment there!) | | |
| ▲ | 0xDEAFBEAD an hour ago | parent [-] | | >Please elaborate, whats so strict about Switzerlands restrictions? Why shouldnt a country be allowed to limit the people they want to have from immigration? Precisely. Why is it that people only clutch their pearls with horror when this principle is applied to the US? | | |
| ▲ | jjav an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I suspect because we don't regularly hear of masked armed thugs in Switzerland beating up, sometimes killing or throwing into concentration camps innocent people who were looking to immigrate. Nothing wrong with making immigration laws strict, if that's what a country wants.
That is totall fine. But there is no justification to beat people up, kill them or throw them into concentration camps. Just tell them no in a professional manner and politely send them back to their own country (also, not some random contry they haver never been in). | | |
| ▲ | nikanj 20 minutes ago | parent [-] | | ICE has killed US citizens too, they don’t limit themselves to immigrants |
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| ▲ | exe34 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | How many Swiss citizens have they detained in concentration camps and deported to places they've never been and have no connections? |
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| ▲ | dangerscouse an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Feel like there’s an opportunity for a faulty towers reversal where we apologise for Brexit, Boris and Truss. If it helps any, 48% of us wanted to stay. This Brit has a profound sense of wehmut. Seems like the whole continent is struggling with nationalism though, no? Hearing AFD is on the rise | | |
| ▲ | mschuster91 42 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Feel like there’s an opportunity for a faulty towers reversal where we apologise for Brexit, Boris and Truss. There certainly is, and I for one would certainly appreciate it. The problem is, with Reform polling as high as it does... there is a pretty high chance that they torpedo any negotiations :( |
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| ▲ | rapnie an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Trust and trustworthiness. Trust is very hard to win back, once its gone. Trustworthiness makes you willing to rely on a partner. Trustworthiness only builds very slowly over prolonged periods of time, by consistently not betraying ones trust. | |
| ▲ | Emma_Goldman an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You write as if you have confabulated yourself into being Europe's official spokesperson. This is all a bit high-handed. I'm not really sure how you are comparing Trump's US - responsible for pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, tearing up the Iranian nuclear deal and then starting a war to reimpose it that has created a global energy crisis, kidnapping Maduro and threatening to invade Greenland, beginning a global trade war, giving up on climate mitigation, nuclear treaties and AI safety - with the UK over the same period. Liz Truss is not really Trump's equivalent. She achieved exactly nothing in the UK, let alone the world, in her few weeks in office. It's also worth pointing out she didn't win a general election: she became PM via the Conservative Party's internal selection process. |
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