MAGA - make America grovel again
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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of course we won't The US won't be a dominant anything ever again once this is over
I’m so tired of morons (that aren’t me) having the power to royally fuck up my way of life.
Right? As if I needed any fucking help doing that.
Isn't it fun to live during the downfall of an empire? I'll bet the Brits loved it.
It’s completely done, yank losers. It only took yank dumbfucks electing a gameshow host twice to your highest office for the rest of the world to realize you are full of shit. Enjoy being sidelined by the rest of the world for eternity. Oh and we can all look forward to some other currency being the reserve currency.
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Americans no longer have the resolve to be world police, if it was right to do so in the first place. Unfortunately, that vacuum looks like it will be filled by a modern nation conducting ethnic cleansing within their borders and maybe using prisoners for organs.
We defended our economic and geopolitical influence. I really don’t know how much “policing” we did from any truly moral or ethical standpoint. it’s almost all been about keeping rivals at bay in some way or another. We delivered democracy…or whatever puppet government that promised the do what we wanted…at the point of a gun more often than not. China will likely move into the US’s economic role and has been pushing that way for quite some time. As far as military intervention, we won’t be able to afford it anymore with the loss of favorable trade or other agreements. Where the US may have felt like a necessary evil to some countries allowing us to have bases or other dominant presence, those countries are probably going to start looking elsewhere or solve those issues internally and hold the US at arm’s length.
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It's not just the police. They had a lot of soft power. Just wait till countries tell them to remove their bases.
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I guess it's better when the ethnic cleansing is conducted outside the country? How much money and weapons has the US supplied to Israel?
Both China and the US are horrible in their own ways. Though I guess World Police is an apt term since the police are usually corrupt and oppress the weak.
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But hey, at least a handful of already filthy rich people made a little extra money off of the shenanigans and China got pwned!
Can't wait for the inevitable companion pieces: one from Conor Friedersdorf entitled Actually You Are Wrong And I Am Very Smart and the other from Jeffery Goldberg, with the headline This Will Be Catastrophic For Israel's Capacity To Bomb Palestinians.
Now ask yourself what countries does this "defeat/isolationism" benefit the most. What country would wine and dine on the grave that was the USA. What countries went out of their way to ensure this bumbling idiot got elected, what countries can't this idiot talk negatively about. Welp my aluminum hat is melting gotta go buy some more from the company store.
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They aren't even beginning a comeback until their Overton Window shifts closer to reality. Otherwise nobody isn't going to recognize them as anything but descending uncontrollably into backwater hermit state as every nation scrambles to cut ties.
At most 30% of the voting age population understood the assignment trying to prevent all this. That's certainly an indictment. The majority of the population has departed from reality. Perhaps many were never with it on account of being born too deep into the mythology of America.
The internet was supposed to expand peoples minds offering an antidote to such things as this. Instead it dug them deeper. It's crazy. Sometimes I wonder what if all this is in no small part due simply to a consequence of reactionaries getting online and seeing too much of the world. Seeing 7 billion kinds of diversity of humanity around the world beaming through their smartphone caused their brains to short circuit. Deciding that being a paranoid hermit state is better than being a nation of the world.
I think a lack of media literacy.
Many don't ask why they're being shown what they are on TV and social media.
It's Fox News... That's the elephant in the room. You can't make progress when they are propoganda masquerading as news.
The very fact that they haven't been sued into the ground or curtailed at all by the government lends them legitimacy. People believe what they see on the TV, especially if it makes them feel good.
This right here why I plan for the very real possibility of the downfall of Canada eventually too, unless Carney foes something to deal with our USA media consumption and get them out of our news media corps.
There's a lot of bravado and patriotic feelings being projected outwardly right now sure, but Maple MAGA would've been in charge if the USA didn't have their election first.
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The world needs to be more resilient to the policies of any one country. Therefore, the American economy must shrink, for the good of all.
There are some examples of this too.
Billionaires don't care. They'll be fine, we're the ones that have to suffer.
Thanks to republican/conservative voters.
It ain't just maga. I work with non-maga republican voters who didn't vote trump, but also didn't vote kamala, because they "just couldn't do it". These people's only issues they talk about currently, is that people steal by taking advantage of food stamps when they have expensive jewelry and iPhones, and they think Mexicans are taking jobs all over. I've heard these verbatim arguments over and over. They think dems give "too many handouts". They're stuck in there ways and can't be convinced otherwise.
They have no clue that it's Republicans who are the ones to "give handouts" to billionaires and themselves, and they're not willing to hear it.
It's not entirely that they're dumb. They ARE ignorant, but that's by design. The elites have been executing this for decades and have done a great job, in the form of propaganda, indoctrination, and shitty education.
It's hard not to think that we're just doomed.
They're still blaming the system for not presenting an ideal choice. I seem to recall adults take ownership of their fucking problems.
Wage theft is bigger than all other theft combined, but your coworkers probably aren't nearly so upset about that.
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Why STUPID People Are a Greater Threat to Society Than Criminals
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Noooooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
This is why plenty of us tried to warn people against voting for this dipshit motherfucker (not that people in a cult will listen). It's part of why it was the media's fucking job to report on how stupid his ideas were before he got fucking elected. Not necessarily The Atlantic specifically, but a lot of the media just fucking treated every insane thing he promised during the election as normal, valid, and like it could work. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility.
Don't forget the morons who didn't vote for the dipshit because of their virtue signaling about ONE war happening across the world while completely ignoring the impact the orange doofus had on the OTHER one.
Who, aside from the MAGA media (Fox, Sinclair, OAN, etc) and CNBC dumbasses hoping for tax cuts, reported on his policies being sane?
The New York Times jerked milquetoast over the whole nation. For one.
I generally listen to their audio stuff pretty religiously, and podcasts like The Daily were fairly reliably reporting on Trump’s March toward fascism. They would even straight up use the work “fascism.”
That said, the NYT makes a lot of stuff, so maybe I missed out on something. I feel like their content adequately spooked me about what Trump’s plans were, and they motivated me to travel to a swing state to door knock.
I listen to the daily and even now they still use euphemisms for Trump's lies instead of calling them lies. I understand it's because you can't know intent but it's still annoying.
That actually reminds me, my point should be expanded. Only a bit though it’s weed o clock.
What was most amazing to me was the freedom they seem to have given to opinion columnists that did call things out. Just watching rss feeds on Lemmy every day and night on Lemmy showed a crazy contrast between opinion and the edited/published bulk. Which is kinda good and normal, the surprise is they weren’t washing opinion too maybe like WaPo.
A lot of those media journalists you suggest don't have an obligation to journalistic responsibility .... they have a corporate responsibility to the company share holders
I don't get how people don't understand the role the media should play.
It should simply shine light on the truth and report the facts.
Instead they play politics, and abdicate that duty in favor of shock and schlock pieces.
If the media simply reported on Trump's policy discussions factually, everyone would have seen this coming, to add to your point.
This is why news outlets should belong to us, not to billionaires. Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post, John Henry owning The Boston Globe, Stanley Hubbard owning multiple local news outlets, Lee Enterprises owning 75 local newspapers, these are all HUGE problems.
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While "the media" certainly has its issues, it's more of a convenient scapegoat than the root of the problem. Enough of us have access to all the information we could ever need to know this man was bad news and we decided it wasn't worth the effort. You can blame the media for not making it easier but ultimately we didn't do our jobs and become educated voters. That is our collective fault and no one else's.
Oh it's a problem, but not THE problem, that is a statement I can agree with
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