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  • Eh, it’s in our tribalistic nature to be positively voyeuristic to the drama of other tribes. Developed nations are notably the best at it. Heaven forbid anyone step in and help.

    I do my part by leaving obscure messages on obscure ocial medi platforms. Banking up my thoughts and prayers for ,“the big one”.

    Edit: Also, please be aware of my drenching sarcasm, irony, and general defeatism if it weren’t obvious 🤣 It’s all a shame it be like this, ain’t it?


  • Yeah, that’s the concern. But this has happened so much in modern history that the world is starting to put infrastructure onto the possible pathway of life without the US. If it happens, it’ll be fine. If it doesn’t, even better.

    Whatever happens will be read in the history books of developed nations, hichever they may be. Just like it is now for any other of the many empires in hustory—granted, they usually last much longer.

    But we’ll have killed our climate by then and the planet will get a nice little break before the next sga, so doesn’t really matter.


  • It’s honestly not that bad outside the US. (For the developed world and even many places of emerging economies)

    Yeah there’s certainly more shit going on than usual, but it’s not exactly anything strange in consideration to the past 100 years.

    I think it helps waking up feeling “meh” and then seeing a news feed from the US and immediately appreciating life. If it weren’t for that, I’m sure we’d all be collectively complaining a lot harder rather than seeing it as just another cycle of “rough times”. It helps that most other nations work together. There’s division, but nothing like in the US.






  • So are they protesting them because immigration at the current conditions is causing issues? Or is it just the usual, “I hate their culture” rhetoric? It seems like the latter, and that’s something immigration policies will never look at, so seems a pointless protest.

    But the rhetoric worked in the US and now their cripplingly low unemployment rate is getting even lower, offset by businesses shutting down. While the Presidents plans for a boost to domestic manufacturing is short by about 50 million people because they were just never there to begin with.

    Actually, this also seems like a kind of Britain thing to do, to be honest.




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    You directly compared the two of them, but okay.

    Covered this hypothetical in another comment, just didn’t think it’d actually happen…

    “Fruit.”

    “DID YOU JUST COMPARE APPLES AND ORANGES!!! You directly compared the two of them!!!”

    Nah, mate. There was no comparison here.

    There was no consideration of one to the other; which is more, which is less, what the differences are and which one you should pick if you remember to like and subscribe. Perhaps the definition of “compare” changed this week, I don’t know or care.

    Enjoy the day. Just let it go.

    Here’s another meme…




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    Wrong room.

    We can compare apples to oranges because they’re both fruits, but the phrase exists for a reason. This is a predominantly US community of which all are highly strung more than their usual shit right now, and you’re coming in unusually hostile as though you have a stake in the matter of this specific subject.

    Chill out. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but read the room and ask yourself if it’s worth the energy. You wint

    Edit: I mean, fuck. Look at my comment. And I was putting shit on the guy… They don’t know what they want. Give em a few days.