• deathbird@mander.xyz
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    Um… So by further embarassing ourselves on the international stage, showing ourselves to be erratic and irrational, we discourage international brain drain and future “free trade” agreements, reducing our outsized influence on the world, and thereby encouraging multipolarity, which in the the long term will probably benefit all of humanity, of which we are a part.

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    I tell my right-wing American friends it is political correctness. Changing names is expensive. I remember having the USSR on maps in school because changing them out is expensive.

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    We don’t get anything. DJT signed this executive order on about the same day that a report came out saying the USA’s defense missiles in Europe are critically low and unable to repel a serious Russian attack because the missiles have been moved to the middle east and/or used against Iran.

    Now we’re talking about Lake Ontario instead of our inability to defend our European interests and positions.

    It was always intended to wag the dog.

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    He’s only doing it to elicit anger. He’s just a petty little bully. While it might distract from the Epstein files or the domestic policy dumpster fire, i don’t think he’s doing it for any other reason than it amuses him to piss people off.

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      And its base of idiots LOVE it… they think it is a strong capable leader that gets shit done… meanwhile they’re paying a considerable amount more for everything than they were mearly 2.5 years ago and do not see any correlation about WHO caused this mess. They say “ah we gotta take the hit for a little while till he makes things better!”

      They don’t understand their lives were better economically before the pedophile, but they couldn’t be openly racist and misogynistic. That’s the part they love.

  • chillpanzee@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Americans get nothing. The president gets another distraction from whatever batch of crimes he’s committing today.

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      Yeah too many people are talking about things like data centers, flock cameras, digital id, central bank digital currency, so starting meaningless fights about what a lakes name is serves to get people off the important topics.