• @T00l_shed
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      Yeah but, I mean that bar is so low is non existant

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        What leadership has anyone in congress or executive branches shown? Right now they are just parroting trump and trump is just doing what putin wants. Musk is just enriching himself. It’s sycophants all the way down.

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            Underwhelming, sure. I don’t think it’s the same thing as actively damaging the country on behalf of Russia.

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                The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.

                US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.

                Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.

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                  And how has any of that damaged us? Give me some real world examples, not theory. What has changed? How are we damaged?

                  My day isn’t any different. I’m doing and feeling awesome. What damage has Trump caused?

                  • @T00l_shed
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                    Classic conservative thought, i am not affected therefore nothing is wrong.

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                    It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.

                    And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.

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                Exactly by what Trump and Musk are doing. Are you not keeping track of all the shit your heroes are doing? Damaging regulations, education, research, environment, consumer protection, security, immigration, freedom of press, etc. Social security and Medicare are next…

                • Donald J. MuskOP
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                  I like what they are doing so far. And so are the people who vote them in. They were voted in to do this stuff. It’s great.