• @AlpacaChariot
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    6624 hours ago

    The sad thing is, this would be a completely hysterical thing to say like 10 years ago but now it’s a serious consideration.

    Electing this dickhead once is a blip but doing it twice in a row indicates that the american voters actually want this, which is deeply troubling for Europeans (and the rest of the world).

    • @joostjakob
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      12 hours ago

      Bush junior’s first term was a blip. His second one should have been enough to look for other partners.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      Most of the American voters were too fucking stupid to realize the consequences of what would happen when they stayed home instead of voting or supported the orange Putin stooge that’s made of turds.
      Republicans have been attacking and damaging the public education system ever since I was born.

    • @MilitantAtheist
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      1922 hours ago

      The problem is also that the us has proven it can’t be trusted. 50% of the population can at anytime vote a complete nutcase into office.

      There is no way back from this even if by a miracle, there is another election and democrats win.

      The world is moving on from the us.

      • @Maggoty
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        414 hours ago

        Yeah, even if we elected rational center left leadership for the next few decades, it would take 30 years to be trusted again and we’ll still never recover our previous position of responsibility.

    • FundMECFSOP
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      2323 hours ago

      *think they want

      Which american politicians get elected has almost nothing to do with the policy preferences of the american electorate. It’s such a propagandised celebrity contest with billions in dark money astroturfing in various ways, I doubt the average voter is making an informed decision.

      • @[email protected]
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        923 hours ago

        Can confirm. Currently living inside the disinformation sphere. It’s hard to think over all the noise.

    • @[email protected]
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      1224 hours ago

      And even if their bumbling idiot is gone, I have no trust that the US will keep allies and not alienate them by the next election. Even if the most charismatic democrat would take over the office, I would always have in the back of my mind how that idiot crashed every thing we built together.

      • @Kaput
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        823 hours ago

        To the US public made a clear demonstration that they don’t give a duck about international relations. It will take a century to rebuild trust.