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[–] DamnGermanKraut@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The US isn't the way it is because of Trump, but Trump is the way he is because of the US.

Bit of column A, bit of column B.

Trump is not a uniquely American invention and he's not the first bumbling dictator to gain power through populist bigotry.

However, there is a significant feedback loop with America outright rewarding craven Nazis, handing them "success" and then allowing them to continue perpetuating and emboldening people just like them.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Stop being lazy assholes and work on fixing your problems yourselves.

The tools of geopolitics aren't all that granular. The only thing an outside country can do is make your cities like the cities of Germany at the end of WWII, or like Gaza is today. If you're asking for other countries to fix your problems for you, that is the result.

Banning the US from the Olympics, World Cup or whatever doesn't change anything, and it probably would just be more fodder for your fascist propaganda.

Ending trade with the US? Yeah that's happening, but it won't be something that'll happen tomorrow. This is something that will happen over the next decade. You might even have a Democrat as President when things get really bad because of the shit Trump is doing today. And then you'll vote in another fascist. The stupidity of Americans has become incredibly predictable. Which is why no one can trust you long term.

You're just stupid, and there's no fixing stupid. And you have nukes. You're the guy that gave a monkey an uzi, and then wants someone else to deal with it. Nah, we're just going to stay away from both the monkey with the uzi and we're also going to stay away from the idiots that gave an uzi to a fucking monkey. You go take the uzi away from the monkey, you're the one that gave it to him.

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[–] enphurgen@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Its your fucking country, how about you do something about it?

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

They're doing all they can! There's, like, three dozen people protesting on the streets daily!

[–] MoreMagic@feddit.org 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can’t see the US flag anymore, without my mind adding piss and shit stains on it.

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[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Nothing will happen and Israel will still be in Eurovision.

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[–] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 days ago

While I do support the world doing all it can to end the U.S. empire, I think it is a case of "you broke it, you fix it". The USA was born out of genocide, grown on slavery, and continued to expand from imperialist exploitation of every county and people they could exploit. The U.S. citizenry has been just fine with supporting (or at least turning a blind eye to) dictatorships and fascism all over the planet, but now that they are getting a taste of it at home it is suddenly a problem.

The world can't mend your problems, USA, YOU need to clean your own fucking house.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

"Change comes from within." - Ghandi or something IDK

[–] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Please won't somebody build a different system for financial transaction?

Toppling MasterCard and Visa would help a lot I think

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Needs to be viable & usesable enough that y'all can put sanctions on the USA and its allies/puppets.

Ain't there yet

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Please won’t somebody build a different system for financial transaction?

Open ledgers have been around for more than a decade. It was developed precisely to disempower the money cartels. But somehow people still prefer capitalist food paper decorated with wacky cult iconography and literal enslavers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Full embargo: no trading of goods and services whatsoever.
Boycott any international events in the US.
Ignore any US patents, royalties, copyright and similar devices.
Invite usonians abroad that only have an US passport to kindly leave.
Seize all murican assets abroad, like company headquarters, factories, etc.
No travel.
No trading in USD.

The small caveat being that some areas are overly dependent on US (like the EU on AWS and Visa/Mastercard), so step 0 would be (re)building local infrastructure.

Edit suggested action to muricans: follow the Luigi way.
Edit2: mention the Epstein files at every chance possible.

[–] Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Just stop recognising US copyrights and make the euro the default currency for international trade should do it nicely.

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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Will people stop buying iPhone? No. Failed at step one.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

The "rest of the world" is running on the exact same capitalist system. No help there.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

dude, the world already hated the usa before trump. clean up your own mess.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sure but please select electable representatives in the Democrat party and stop daydreaming about a communist revolution. You have midterms coming up and democracy in USA still exists as far as I know.

As for political humor

  1. Create the strongest military in the world by far

  2. "Oh help us, we have fallen and we cannot get up"

Sure, we'll get right on that.

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[–] sp3ctre@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago
[–] devedeset@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

FIFA is one of the few major orgs that is on par with the corruption of the current US regime

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Starting to call orange pedo's bluffs would be nice however other governments aren't unfortunately the only players in this game. There are quite influential actors (i.e. tech billionaires) that are probably quite happy with Trump giving them the green light to do whatever the fuck they want.

Tanking his investments with a unified response would be nice too but they couldn't even do it for Putin for which the aesthetics would be much cleaner, so I don't have a grain of hope they will do it when Trump is in power. Maybe only after he leaves office, but even then not sure they would want to "damage the reputation of an ex-president" (as if he has any).

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[–] hatsa122@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (9 children)

"Help"

Nah man, they did that to themselves and now the rest of the world have to face the consequences. Im sorry for them but i have 0 sympathy anymore, they are not the ones who are going die in a cold trench in the middle of the artic or gods know where because they elected a psycho compromised by Russia. Stop crying and do something about it.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 days ago (6 children)

God, you make it sound so easy. I feel so stupid. Why didn't I think about just doing something about it? Don't worry mate. With your brilliant insight I'll have it fixed by Wednesday.

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

best we can do is strongly worded letters

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[–] LeSeiko@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

How about you boycott yourselves? You personally may not be responsible but you still have a responsibility.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

Ban us from the Olympics

Greetings from Los Angeles 2028

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