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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Turns out most of the world doesn't like felon rapist liars.

'Merica does though.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Don’t forget they don’t like people who are best friends and love to party with pedos

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 days ago

You’d have to mad to want to go to the clown show Nazi pedo-nation.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Careful, that might get you detailed. No colors allowed.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No, no, MAGAs keep insisting that the world finally respects us again!

[–] SheepHerder@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair. Respected and loved are two different things. I don't think the rest of the world respects the US more than 1 year ago, just saying.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm clicking your username, but it's not taking me to a login page. what gives?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You need to send your own login password as a DM first!

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 73 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Trump is the symptom not the disease

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

He's a cancer, and it has spread.

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[–] CromulantCrow@lemmy.zip 104 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I think US popularity is collapsing in the US as well. I know I'm starting to hate it here.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Yup, half our population is now defending human trafficking and statutory rape.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

US ~~popularity~~ is collapsing - FTFY.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

Never in my long life have I considered leaving America, but I'm looking at options now.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I've been trying to convince my wife to leave since 2016. I'm 99% sure the main reason she won't agree is because she will burst into flames if she ever admits to being wrong about anything.

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When I married my wife in 2005 she told me she'd NEVER leave her home and family. Took her to Australia for the first time in 2015 and within an hour of landing she was ready to move, which we did in November 2015, right before trump 1.0. Now since last November she's looking into Australian citizenship and says she's never going back. Don't give up hope!

[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about it made her want to move?

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Mostly it was moving from the Midwest to a sub-tropical beach paradise. Which I thought (but definitely didn't say) was kinda funny, because her reason for saying she'd never move was family. But pretty much all the reasons she's been glad we did move are related to trump and what the US has become.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 118 points 4 days ago (8 children)

nowhere more than in the us. Ugh these flag wavers. If you want pride in the country the country first has to act and function in a way that elicits pride!

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 66 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think a lot about something I read years ago. It said something like, "Some people love their country the way a child loves a parent. The parent is the smartest and the best and perfect. Some people love their country the way an adult loves a peer. They see the strengths, the potential, but also the weaknesses and problems that need to be addressed."

Conservatives are generally children. Driven largely by emotion with a very simple moral framework. Much like you will likely struggle to explain to a toddler that taking the other kid's toys, screaming constantly, and shitting in the sandbox won't make a lot of friends, explaining politics to a conservative is likely to be an ordeal. They don't care. They have feelings and that is their reality.

It's also kind of funny how conservatives are the ones who typically say "reality doesn't care about your feelings". Everything is projection.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The qons are very much into performative bullshit that they think is patriotism. They'll cry about how someone kneeling while a song plays and a piece of cloth is displayed at a sportsball game hurts "the troops".

Then they'll proudly vote for a party that treats the men and women of the military like a used Kleenex, and embrace a figure like Taco who called them suckers and losers.

They'll blather about free speech, then cry about Hollywood airing shows they don't like. They'll talk about liberty and The Constitution, but want xtianity to be put on a pedestal.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Xtianity sounds like the Muskrat’s new political party (or religion, or both).

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"reality doesn’t care about your feelings"

but science is woke

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[–] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Is this really surprising to anyone?

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

But Trump said the world loves us?

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