Leon

Freebies? Like, freeloaders? Like all of the people who don’t get healthcare or medicine in the U.S. so they cross the border to get it from Canada?

Nazis don’t tend to be very productive. Broken clocks, and all that.

The U.S. has never been a democracy, never mind within our lifetimes. If voting is all that’s required to be a democracy then so are both China and Russia.

Gerrymandering, the practise of drawing funky voting districts to skew the results has been a practise since the early 1800s. Even so, votes don’t count on an individual basis.

In essence, politicians can manipulate districts to ensure that they come out as a majority despite having a minority base. If your vote loses in a district, it essentially doesn’t count. Further, if you win, it doesn’t go towards a presidential candidate, it goes to a some dipshit electorate who is meant to represent your voice in a separate vote, but they could decide to vote against your interests anyway. Then there’s the whole two party system aspect.

I get why people don’t vote. It’s entirely pointless because the system is a sham. The only winning move is to break it down and build something new.

Given how they enjoy diddling kids you’d think they’d be on board with the current guy.

I’d be okay with the rest of the world freezing out the U.S. No one needs them anyway.

Honestly it’s not Trump. It’s the U.S. If Trump wasn’t president the U.S. would be up to the same bullshit just more quietly.

That’s exactly the case. Trump is just doing in the open what the U.S. has always been doing. “Returning to normal” ultimately doesn’t change anything.

Denmark has a long-standing tradition of brown-nosing the U.S, and in the past they’ve happily spied on other European members for the sake of the U.S.

It’s the “we need to know and judge everything you think, do, and say” kind.

Orion is great. You can install Firefox extensions on it, and use the full desktop version of uBlock Origin if you’d like. Hell you can install Chromium extensions as well, if you for whatever reason feel the need to have those gutted useless things.

We can’t opt out of the system either because too much of it is necessary. Can anyone truly say they don’t need google? ever?

Yes. I switched to Qwant some years ago, and about a year back I switched to Kagi. Haven’t seen the Google Search page in years at this point.

The only thing I use from Google still is YouTube. There are also alternatives, I’ve spent some time with PeerTube and found things I enjoy, and I don’t mind supporting Nebula, which is also a nice platform. That said, I could probably just cut it all off. It frees up time to do something else.

Probably because the NATO didn’t anticipate infighting I’d guess. I’m Swedish though, so the Nordic Defence Cooperation still applies.

We’ve all been all “I got you!” at one another these past few years so if we now don’t follow up. Well… yikes!

This is a good idea. Give them a taste of the good life, and overthrow the American fascist state from within.

Start? Ukraine is in Europe.

If the U.S. ends up attacking Greenland, that’s going to open up a whole can of fucked worms to deal with. Presumably the rest of NATO would have to step in. What of all the American soldiers that are stationed in our countries? Will they be taken as prisoners? Do we send them home? In body bags?

Oh, absolutely. I’m not saying that American exceptionalism is the root of all fascism, but it is certainly an excellent lubricant for it in the U.S.; you can get away with a lot if the populace believes that their actions are just, and much of the west has viewed the U.S. as the arbiter of justice.

The problem with American exceptionalism is more that the U.S. has held immense soft power for a very long time now. For example, it’s not just Americans that believe that they won WWII, people here in Europe believe that as well. Reality is obviously more complicated than that, yet people get utterly shocked when you bring up just how important the Russians were in WWII, and what a massive sacrifice of life they put down. Never mind that of India.

I bought a Flint 2 last year. I’m very happy with it.

It’s more complicated than that. They live in an informational dystopia where they’re taught from childhood that they are some kind of supreme nation to stand above all others. That they are the epitome of freedom and goodness. That their version of freedom is the pinnacle of what it means to be free. You know rather like what North Korea does. They even have their own version of history, where they believe that they stepped in and solved WWII, despite coming in on the butt-end of things. A version of history where they don’t commit all the atrocities they’ve been committing since before their country’s inception. Again like North Korea.

They only have two parties, both are absolute dogshit, and there’s no logical sense behind how their voting works because you can just draw up arbitrary districts to favour one party or another, meaning that whoever votes for the underdog in said district might as well stay home because their vote won’t count anyway.

The U.S. has always been a budding fascist dictatorship, with their exceptionalist self-view and idea that they should be the world police. It’s only in recent years that they’ve really let their civilised façade crumble enough that people can help but see that the emperor is in fact stark naked, and raping children.

TLDR: It doesn’t matter how many people vote correctly because they’re a fascist far-right dictatorship and all votes will lead to hell anyway.

I’m talking more on an individual basis. Countries I get.

I don’t quite understand how there are people that ever thought the U.S. was good. How could anyone look at their zealotous imperial superiority masturbation and not just be struck with revulsion is beyond me. It’s like the west collectively drank their kool aid and is only now slowly, and tentatively starting to wake up to how fucking insane that country is.

I’m 100% certain that they could invade and occupy Greenland and the rest of Europe would still be like “yeah but like… they’re the good guys?”