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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha This guy just discredit any future movie involving an FBI agent for the next 75 years. We knew america had a under-education problem, but man you guys are something.
pls get me out of here
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Germany just had a sweeping far right election, and Argentina has had a libertarian at the helms for a bit now. A ton of south Asian countries have had hardcore conservative views for a while now, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada shifts right next election. There are basically few corners of the earth where populism/right wing ideology isn’t growing and expanding. This isn’t an American education system problem, it’s world wide. The political elites in your country just have you convinced that it’s America that’s now the problem, which then creates a new wave of populism in your country. It’s a self eating snake.
Not that I’m disagreeing that our slapping of allies isn’t problematic. This is just something that is clearly growing everywhere and the people of Lemmy love saying “America bad” as the same exact shit is happening in your country. If you’re an American expand your news beyond our shores. The grass is unfortunately turning to shit everywhere. We’re in for a rough decade together.
Let’s be clear here, the right extremist party got over 20% which is really bad for sure, but the mid-right party rules out working with them in a coalition no matter what. That’s rather different from where the rest of the republicans and many democrats fall over themselves to do whatever the lunatic fringe says. Further, the American billionaires are strong influencers of these trends in other countries. The core of the disease is the USA even when there are symptoms everywhere.
The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the
SDPCDU broke that and started working with AfD. Maybe it’s just me being cynical.I’m not going to disagree that our power projection from the US isn’t a power boost to other right wing governments. I just think that to claim this is solely a result of poor US education when we can see this happening elsewhere in so called better educated countries means it isn’t really the predictor they’re claiming it to be.
The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the
SDPCDU broke that and started working with AfD.I’m also very worried about that, but it’s another point of difference - there were historically enormous protests (tens to hundreds of thousands per city, well over a million total, more than a percent of Germany’s total population) several times recently because CDU looked like it was slightly cooperating with them with an informal and unbinding agreement about immigration. These protests had the support of the churches, the sports leagues. Various senior government figures support outright banning the AfD. It would not be as easy for them as in the USA, where everyone immediately capitulates.
But yeah I agree it’s a political difference and not just about “education”, you’re totally right about that.
The Swedish mid-right also ruled out working with the far-right. Until they had to to gain government control.
I agree it’s a huge concern and I also absolutely don’t trust the CDU, and especially Merz, as far as I can throw them. However I’m just saying that the situation is not identical to the USA, there are some points of difference.
Didn’t the German election end well? AfD isn’t in charge, and the winner is pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia, and pro-EU independence of the US.
AfD walked away in second, but jumped by nearly 9% over the last federal election. That’s a huge gain in momentum.
It depends on the coalition that gets formed, does the conservative party go with the center left party for 4 years of stagnation or break their word and work with the fat right.
They have done the later already on emigration, passing a non-binding resolution (with only one conservative vote against) and narrowly losing on the second round because their own members of parlament didn’t show up to vote.
The US is literally in control of fascist now, it’s not nearly as bad in Germany, not that it’s good but there is a big difference
If we’re saying things are “not that it’s good” then it sounds like there is a rightward shift. Which was my point. America isn’t alone in this trend. To act like it is due to some lack of education was the original OPs point and I simply disagree with that based on the current trends of countries around the world.
I mean that is a fair point, but AfD got 20% of the vote and are likely not getting in the coalition, proportional representation and all that
Thanks, I’m hopeful for Germany that they can keep the AfD at bay. I’m hopeful that Americas former allies make enough of a turn on us that the people here realize we messed up and I’m hopeful if we return to decency here that we didn’t burn up all of our credibility. A lot of Americans aren’t Trump supporters, but certainly there is a decent amount that is and it disgusts me.
Germany just had a sweeping far right election
you can’t say 20% a ‘sweeping’. The situation is worse at other places. And thanks to true multi party democracy, AfD probably won’t be in government anyway.
I hope so for Germanys sake. A 9% increase from the last election, for a party that’s 12 years old… that’s pretty sweeping to me. Not to mention that it’s more so the southern parts of Germany that have an even stronger percentage of AfD support.
Again, I’m not wanting a right shift for these countries, but it’s become clear that things are. We could stick our head in the dirt and say it’s only America, but that wouldn’t be true, and that’s what I was getting at with my comment.
Party is new, ideology is old.
At the height of its power, the Nazi party made up less than that percentage of the population of Germany. It doesn’t take much to ruin it for everyone.
Case in point: US President Donald Trump, whose approval rating has historically hovered around 30%.
Those of us with front row seats to the shitshow hope you’re right, because even just last week, my dad was saying, “It could never happen here!” when I brought up how the playbook Trump is using is the exact same one that Hitler used.
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Argentina has had a libertarian at the helms for a bit now.
milei is not a libertarian, he’s a generic hard right conservative.
You mean a libertarian? Yeah we know. The dude is currently wrapped up in a memecoin scandal is oeak libertarian dude
If you mean US flavor “libertarian”, you’re going to need to specify that
Idk what else you would mean by libertarian. The original (marxist) meaning is long gone and all the right-wing larpers are just as bad as Milei if not worse. There exists no libertarian who isn’t just an authoritarian fascist.
Idk, a quick search shows that the President of Chile, apparently, is a left wing libertarian. Unless he’s also secretly an authoritarian fascist?
I guess nowadays every political ideology ever is just a facade for yet another right wing authoritarian shithole.
No, libertarians are on the right, assholes etc but we need to be fair to them to expose milei’s lies.
He’s anti abortion and is not going to be introducing any new freedoms to Argentina. The libertarians claim they are pro abortions, drugs and anything else… For a price. And anything…
Last I saw (as in, a few mins ago), all the major players were refusing to talk to AfD.
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The cope is strong with this one. “There’s other people being dumb too!”
Yup, and the source of this is disinformation from adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran being laundered through US social media companies to made to appear legitimate. Well I guess TikTok isn’t American (yet) so I guess China somehow got into the game of laundering disinformation too.
And the trend is actually incumbents losing power, not necessarily a right wing shift. You see the disinformation can be a blunt tool so it just results in people hating their own governments. The UK had an election where the Conservative party lost… as they were the incumbent.
But nowhere has the government been turned over to greedy businessmen to the degree the US has been. Argentina has their President briefly promoting a memecoin, sure, but he may face a lot of repercussions for doing that. Fun Fact: the Argentinian memecoin was launched by the same people that launched $MELANIA, and no one in the US cares about it nor do they care about the $TRUMP memecoin. It’s open season for grifting Americans, because it’s the gritters that are now in charge of everything in the US.
But go on making excuses for why it’s all ok. I’m sure that will result in fixing the problems in your country.
The incumbents are losing to whom? Certainly not their own parties. You bring up the UK which is an outlier of recent events, but was a predicator of the future with Brexit during their right wing shift. Brazil could be another, but Bolsanaro is still an active threat as are his supporters.
But sure, just say “cope” and it automatically makes my comment wrong and yours right!
What word describes what you’re doing better than cope? You’re coping with the embarrassment of what your country’s becoming. Which would be fine, but trying to make it be about other countries rather than facing up to it, that just makes you part of the embarrassing state your country is in.
And yeah incumbents losing is a well known thing… here’s a link to the first article on the results from a simple search: https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-incumbent-parties-lost-elections-world/story?id=115972068
Also here in Canada, the Conservative poll numbers are dropping like a rock. The Conservative are now running a ridiculous number of adds to try to claim Carney is the same as Trudeau because they got nothing other than the incumbent disadvantage that’s become the global norm. The US idiocy is serving as a cautionary tale and making people turn away from anything resemblance of it.
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I don’t get your point here… Russia China Iran are behind this mess and incumbents are losing elections (to…?), but it’s only the US that’s bad right now? And it’s the US fault? And USiams are coping for being worried about other countries?
Is that your point? Because that really doesn’t make any sense.
The centre right in Germany won, the afd came in second
The CDU has also made it very clear they’re not going to work with the AfD
The CxU has claimed they won’t work with the AfD but…. Link
Living in the twenties.
Although you have to admit, it is near impossible to get such a perfect dream team of scammers elsewhere.
Oh 100%. I’m not ignorant to our complete takeover by morons and the allowing of it that people have here in the states. I’m just saying we’re not the only ones. Especially since it’s happening in countries with “better education” than us. Which means Americas crappy education system isn’t the real problem like the original comment was saying
I guarantee he doesn’t actually believe this shit. He’s just a grifter grifting just like the rest of the Whitehouse circus cast. The only exception might be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.
Word is when he was trying to get appointed he went around telling congress he doesnt actually believe that shit but the rubes eat it up
Looked at the site. It is vitamins, salt, food extracts, and Spermidine. Spermidine is a polyamine. I remember the first time I resuspended some in lab, it became clear from the smell why it is called SPERMidine. Wonder if the customers know there is a cheaper way to get a daily oral dose of Spermidine.
Trump’s dreamteam got an infinite supply of it from sucking eachother off.
Sure, it’s cheaper, but I’m on that 24/7 grind to make money for billionaires man, I ain’t got time for the real deal! But just one of these pills gives me enough shame and self-hatred to last for the day!
If anyone is calling you a warrior they’re scamming you. It’s bizarre to me how many people don’t get that.
This guy should be, at the very least, removed from office. I don’t care if it’s handcuffs or a body bag.
Fuck. I just want to thanos snap away all the republicans. The absolute worst people.
Vaccines are evolution at work. So long as they work, you live longer and have a higher chance of reproducing. This is not a difficult concept. My genetic line is going on as long as I can throw it.
We’re fucked. This guy is now in charge of the FBI and now has the power to investigate and charge people with federal crimes.
But more important, the power not to investigate people. Wink wink
“you believed my medical lies once. you’ll fall for it again!”
Why did all the replies get removed?
Probs because the dude legit runs the FBI now?
Is that actually him? Just yesterday I fell for “Kash Patel News” on Twitter, and found his right handle there is Kash_Patel, but this seems to be a different platform.
seems like the platform is called truthsocial, there are links in here:
I would assume if this account was not real he would have sued them for using his name for commercial purposes
I would assume if this account was not real he would have sued them for using his name for commercial purposes
That’s assuming he’s informed and self-aware enough to notice it’s even happening.
Thank you!
With the links I could also scroll though some posts and saw some other people using the handle to congratulate him on his new position. Seems real to me.
Okay, can I die now? I don’t wanna live in this kind of world.
there are much more productive things that can be done than dying, such as [redacted] or [censored]
Forget your troubles with a light-hearted video game!
I am currently playing Persona 5 Royal. Not exactly light hearted, but somehow apt.
Trump’s Shadow would be indistinguishable from the real person.
I understand this a fairly lot. But, I cannot wait to die. In fact, that is my only wish. This world causes a lot more hurt than I can handle. I am lonely and don’t know how to fix that or if I am doomed to be that forever. I cannot stop feeling like a failure. All I can do is keep my emotions regulated, which is hard AF and takes all my effort.
Hey man, I’m sorry you’re feeling that way. I can absolutely relate to all of that. The way things are going in the world is certainly making things feel darker than ever.
If these are of any consolation I’d like to share them; they are a few realizations that I’ve come to over time, and that I try to bring myself back to when I start feeling those feelings:
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I can’t control the world. There are things in motion that I simply won’t be able to affect, set that way long before I ever came along, and that ball will keep rolling long after I’m gone.
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I’m not a failure for not becoming a millionaire, famous musician, successful executive; for not having the relationship I wanted by this point; for not owning a home yet; or whatever high standards I held my future self to. I know more than that person did, and that person, compared to me today, had a very naive outlook on how things will or ought to be.
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You are up against the most advanced technologies we have ever created; the most conniving of villains; the worst pollutions; the greatest wage gap in human history; inflation is skyrocketing and unemployment is too; we are in a great recession; you have to date through apps, and we are more isolated than at any time in our history. You are not a failure for struggling against these pressures!
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I’m going to die one day, but I’m here right now. The ride will end; I don’t need to get off of it early, and I can experience things like awe and wonder while I’m here. And I can help and love people.
I am not a failure for these things. My only fault was ever thinking that I, the world, my life, should be so perfect; and even then, being wrong is expected of us. We are dreamers. Don’t be so hard on yourself, you are doing so great.
You know pretty much all you have typed is something therapist have said to me over the years. So, I really appreciate it. I will try to keep them in my mind. Thank you.
Another thing I should thank you for is that there are no false comforts in your words. I hate people who say “things will be better tomorrow” or something. At least you are not lying about how things are going to be in future.
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Of course the URL has to appeal to the wannabe driving his lifted pickup truck, it has the word warrior in it. You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.
You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.
And are either too stupid or too ashamed to recognize all the thinly veiled homoerotic themes
My dad occasionally bought gay erotica when he was looking for muscle magazines, there’s A LOT of crossover.
And ironically enough they have more in common with the Persian “soldiers” which are just fodder for their God King.
Don’t be silly.
The Persian Empire had basically abolished slavery. Xerxes is noted in particular for being a far kinder conquerer than the Greeks were proven time and again.
Whatever you can say about the fledgling democracy of the slave state Athens, it would be destroyed by Sparta eventually.
The wrong side won at Thermopylae.
Werent they the aggressors though?
All slave states deserve to be destroyed! But in that war at least, yes. How much time do you spend judging Alexander for his conquests though? It’s just what those assholes did to each other in the Iron age.
Personally I’ll root for the imperialist assholes who don’t have slaves.
Wait, didn’t the Greeks famously lose at Thermopylae? They’d turn it around later but that’s one of the most famous “celebrated losses” in history
You’re right, but no one knows what the Battle of Plataea is.
They probably think 300 means 300lbs…
Get ready for the scam economy to go into overdrive to take all that you have left.
I was planning on starting a website that will “use your device’s wifi to purge any 5g nanitesfrom your body” with a “cleansing signal” for only $19.99. (For entertainment purposes only - there are no health benefits guaranteed or claimed by this site)
In musk’s deregulatory hellscape, the disclaimer is likely not even necessary now.
You forgot to mention AI somewhere in there.
Faux (hopefully I don’t get banned like on reddit) news hates AI, so I don’t think that would help
Are they not supporting tech bros, and nvidia line must go up?
Naww… Fux News loves to hate on AI and claim it’s frying our brains
You can also reset your immune system by contracting measles.
C’mon anti-vaxxers, if you really want to get rid of your current immune responses, there are ways of doing that. Just take a trip to West Texas.
(Please don’t though.)
Seems like something the Ninja Turtles would need.
