In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    fair enough, but then you would actually be experiencing what people claim is currently happening, even though practically nothing has changed in day to day life, federally it might be a fucking mess, but you can suffer a lot of harm before things actually start getting bad, especially as a bureaucratic body.

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      6 days ago

      what we have here is a failure of imagination.

      (and a lack of basic understanding of historical trends and long term forecasting)

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        4 days ago

        i assure you, my imagination works just fine, i tend to rely on reality, and facts, when talking about uh, real world things that actually happen, rather than made up statements and vibes, so.

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      5 days ago

      The US is big enough that it will take a long time for things to change drastically. Even when a large company gets a new president, it can take months before low level employees feel the changes. I really hope that it’ll be slow enough that most will be spared any suffering, and perhaps the next administration could start to reverse the tide.

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        4 days ago

        that’s literally what im saying lmao, it’s only been one month, we literally have no time for any significant change to set in, come back in a year, when people are starving and dying (if they are) and tell me then.

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            3 days ago

            look man, i will be the first to admit that this is going downhill fast when it starts happening, my problem is that it hasnt yet happened, this is all speculative.

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                17 hours ago

                you are also welcome to speculate about what’s going to happen, however you aren’t you’re forecasting the future as if you know exactly what’s going to happen.

                Unlike me, who will admit i’m wrong, and change my message, you won’t admit you’re wrong, and you’ll pivot to the next talking point because it’s the only thing that consumes your waking life.