• cmeu@lemmy.world
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    It’s funny that in the effort to make America great “again” we’re doing things completely differently than we’ve ever done.

    The old greatness, but through a dictatorship this time.

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    I wouldn’t mind the stock market exploding if the economy didn’t also follow suit

    It’s absolutely bull that the entire country has to deal with this shit when the stock market drops while only the rich benefits when the stock market does good.

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    Pretty sure he’s a closet accelerationist, they’re trying to bring the country to it’s knees so they can reshape it in their image.

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    A damn shame what he is doing to the States. It’s up to us europeans to defend freedom and democracy now

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      If you’re gonna start “defending freedom and democracy” the way the US does it, I’ll ask to please keep that shit to yourselves this time around.

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        Oh absolutely, I don’t mean in the way they invaded other countries for ‘democracy’ but rather in the way they acted as a shield for europe etc against Ussr/russia

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          See, that’s the problem, last time they acted as a shield against the USSR, here they organized a coup against a democratically elected president, and funded the following dictatorship for 20 years or so. And honestly that was nothing compared to what they did in, say, Cambodia and Vietnam (France, I’m looking at you too).

          But tbh it’s not like I expect them to stop doing this kinda shit once the hegemony is shattered, so I’m rambling for nothing

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            Fair enough. May I ask where here is? I guess what I’m saying is that europe has to defend their own freedom now. American Democracy was outdated anyway. And I agree, I don’t see an authoritarian USA being less imperialistic than they have been until now. I suppose it’s a good thing we won’t be helping them with it anymore

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      Like how EU did in Romania after they pressured Romania to invalidate the election and bar Călin Georgescu despite him winning the first round of elections and him polling at 40% per opposing parties’ polling companies?

      Now Romania looks like this.

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          As opposed to anti-democratic EU stooges? They are literally having Romania redo the elections and bar the winner until desired result is achieved.

          Perhaps if they don’t want this guy in office, they can do it democratically by actually appealing to their constituents.

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            The Constitutional Court annulled the results due to Russian Election interference. So he didn’t win shit

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              Except he did, even opposing parties’ polling companies placed him at 40%.

              If they let a little alleged social media campaign hurt their prospects of winning the election, perhaps they should actually appeal to their constituents.

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    He never once said who he was maki g islt great for…and it’s no any of you americans. It currently costs 5m for those that wish it to be great again.

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      He did though. He specified that America was the greatest in 1870-1890. That was the Gilded Age, when a small group of people known as the Robber Barons owned all of the wealth and means of production. The oppression of the working class ended with unification, strikes, and the creation of unions.

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    It seems like little d is doing everything possible to break America.

    I wonder what all those supposedly leftists that were constantly saying in the run-up to the election, “but economy so bad, neocon capitalist Republican lite genocide Joe and Kamala need to stop saying it’s good” are going to be saying if he “succeeds” in his plans…

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        But they did say “undoing its greatness”, which implies there was greatness to begin with.

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          Same greatness there as you find with “great bowel movement” or possibly “great white shark” - referencing it’s massiveness, not it’s quality.

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            The MAGA movement (often referred to simply as MAGA, or Make America Great Again), was founded on the belief that the United States was once a “great” country but has lost this status owing to foreign influence, both within its borders (via immigration and multiculturalism) and without (via globalization, or the increased integration of multiple national economies). MAGA members think that this fall from grace can be reversed through “America first” policies that would provide a greater degree of economic protectionism, greatly reduce immigration, particularly from developing countries, and encourage or enforce what MAGA members consider to be traditional American values.

            https://www.britannica.com/topic/MAGA-movement

            Why are you whitewashing this?

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              Why are you thinking I’m whitewashing MAGA?

              I’m saying the Australian paper intentionally didn’t add the “Again” in their headline as a pointed barb, while still using the word “great” in their headline byline in its non-MAGA form, thus doubling the irony.