Even after trumpism is defeated, there’s a lot of trust for the US people to rebuild with their allies.

If the people are so willing to vote in dictator idiot maniacs, then how can other countries trust those same people to not do it again?

It’s the same for European countries at the moment as well. The UK is fairly less trusted right now because they vote idiots like Farage, Hungary is snubbed because Orban is a Russian колбаса sucker - so on and so on.

Those generations that vote these people in will still live a few more decades and as such any goodwill towards them is diminished.

The laaaannddd of the freeeee.

Tempted to just make a bot to start posting this on all the American politics posts right now. 9/10 times it’s going to be relevant.

I’m starting to wonder if this is all a conspiracy along the lines of some major geological event is going to happen, most of the middle and lower class will die or go through extreme upheaval, and there’s a power grab now so that those in power now already have the institutions and resources set up to keep power in that scenario.

Something like global warming/apophis asteroid just completely resetting our game board.

This ties in with the anti LGBTQ+ movement to try and force an increase in population as much as possible so that there can be a larger numbers of foot soldiers for a resource grab.

It’s all very tin foil hat, but it feels more reasonable than it should considering everything else that’s been happening recently.

If the above is a thing, Europe should think about offering intelligent US citizens even nicer visa packages to take advantage of the trump hate.

I assume the other 3rd are “Ukrainian” in the way that they’ve been places in Ukraine by Russ, but remain loyal to Russia, not Ukraine

Jesus Christ Russia have absolutely nailed this part of their geopolitical play.

They’ve basically got 2 members of, if not an entire, US government under their thumb, they’ve corrupted the EU to make one of their major contributors to leave (thinking the US is on their side, idiotically), and they’ve got good relations with the other superpower (china).

Annoyingly, it looks like the EU which is the most, even if not enough, “for the people” political establishment in our world today is going to get screwed over the next decade or so.

I was replying to the other guy, and agreeing with you :)

Isn’t it literally the one who dictates? (Maybe you were skipping that step)

What’s your solution then? It’s a fair enough concern that Putin backed in to a corner is going to become even more unhinged and throw some nukes around, no?

It seems the only option down that path is to accept that the endgame here is having all of Russia, and at least one other country, nuked.

Couldn’t agree what stash you’d each grow for Movember? :D /s

This sounds like a feature music streaming services should introduce with the sync up to your phone’s alarm

Surprised nobody tounge in cheek said this already, maybe it’s too obvious?

Ask an AI.

That’s option 2 or 3, right?

It’s an interesting problem.

Does the EU let Chinese vehicles in, allow the reduction of EU manufacturing, reducing jobs available, possibly imposing further poverty on the poor, and possibly to the point where they can’t afford the Chinese vehicles anyway?

Does the EU add taxes to Chinese vehicles, making them less available to the poor, but possibly protecting jobs within the EU? Perhaps whilst trying to engage EU automakers to make more EVs?

Does the EU add taxes to Chinese vehicles, without pushing the change to EVs, and just not really manage this situation well?

My money is on aspirations for option 2, but in reality option 3.

Yeah mixture of both, wouldn’t you agree?

Sometimes you can get far by just being lucky.

Sometimes you can get far by just working hard.

You’re most likely to get far by working hard and being lucky.

You can still not get anywhere even when you work hard.

Strong economies create more opportunities which means your luck factor doesn’t have to be as high.

Makes sense that there would be some nerves involved then. Even if you’re not feeling them consciously. I’m sure there’s a risk to dating someone you’ve built such a good friendship with.

Good on you for going for it!

Nice. I imagine you have been looking forward to dating a lot?

You’ve known each other for 3 years? Wow that’s cool! How long did you know you liked her?

It’s like the US and Russia’s new competition is who can be more authoritarian.

Can you counter point it rather than just saying ‘not thinking’? From these comments you’re coming off as the not thinking one.

It makes sense that Ukraine would cosy up to USA if USA has something Ukraine needs, no?

It’s not like someone can just pop out 100 children to skew votes

On an individual basis sure, but this still poses two problems:

1. Is there a group of people that typically vote a certain who are prone to having more children than other groups. Due to different cultures, this is likely true.
2. Why should parents of children get an extra vote over those who can’t have children? Personally I feel that having had children should bear no influence on the power of your voice.