• yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What scares me shitless is the idea that Trump is what the US is and what the US has earned. Who’s ready for that conversation?

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      1 year ago

      100% this. Im German and I feel so strange that americans are choosing this guy for president. Not to be offensive, but damn.

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        1 year ago

        Fellow German and… yeah. People joke about the Hitler comparisons, but you won’t see us laughing. (I mean, in general, but that’s a different topic.)

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        1 year ago

        You should be offensive, we deserve it.

        We picked an absolute trash human as our leader, a sizeable portion of which chose him specifically because they wanted him to hurt people (see: “he’s not hurting the right people” woman.) That same group will often cite their desired outcome for any given thing is “to see liberals cry/get mad.”

        Hillary Clinton made a mistake by saying it out loud, but she was 100% correct when she said a large portion of Trump supporters are “a basket of deplorables.” They absolutely are and are deserving of scorn.

        I just hate how well propaganda works and how much money a random grifting asshole can make by parroting bullshit on YouTube, they boost each other and perpetuate this garbage era we’re going through…

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        Same here. I think this is what happens when education is underfundet. I’m happy we’re back to G9 but we should definitely pay teachers more to counteract the lack of teachers and ensure every teacher has sufficient time to do their job well.

        Otherwise people cannot be taught to think critical, question “why is he saying X?” instead of just weather it is true or not. Often understanding why somebody is saying sometimg at the time they do is much more important after all.

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        1 year ago

        There are a lot of germans voting for idiots which just repeat a few Trump topics a few months later. :(

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        1 year ago

        I was visiting Germany in 2016 during the spring, before the election. Several Europeans, after hearing we were from the US, asked, “What the hell is going on in your country?”

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        1 year ago

        Yep. We have a lot of morons here.

        Unfortunately we have a political system that rewards this shit. And it doesn’t help when the alternative party (democrats) are so damn feckless and spineless that half the time they play along, the other half they meekly ask Republicans to maybe stop.

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      well yeah we have an attempted fascist overthrow of our government about once every 100 years or so because we like to stay just this side of fascism on a normal day