TheCriticalMember

How does it feel, Americans? Not only have you finally lost the cold war, but now you're an extension of Russia's invasion efforts.

So, I guess in light of this new information, it would be appropriate to add trump to the monument after all???

Because in capitalist America, you only get financial help if you don't need it.

I made a gmail account back when you needed an invite and got my real name and have spent the last 20 years being very selective about where I type it, unsubscribing from crap I don't want, and reporting spam, and it's still pretty clean. I get maybe 10-15 emails a day, and mostly ones I'm at least occasionally interested in!

I'm not an America hater. My wife is American, our kids were born in America, and I lived there for 10 years and have many fond memories. But I'm absolutely disgusted by what it's become, and by everyone who supports it. I'll never set foot there again and neither will my wife, by her own vow.

I'd love to see a higher level of cooperation between all world leaders to the specific exclusion of the US, to make it clear that putting this repugnant imbecile in a position to bully smaller countries to the advantage of his oligarch friends is unacceptable. The US wants to punish the world with trump, the rest of the world needs to punish the US for trump.

So the man is only left with 22 cents??? 😯

I'll see myself out...

Sounds like a 13 year old edge lord with a lot to learn about the world. Pretty normal and hopefully he will grow out of it in the next 5 years or so.

Don't mean to sound insulting, but sounds like you have a lot to learn too if you're hung up on someone like this.

We all think stupid things at that age. Getting out into the real world cures a lot of people. Some are sufficiently privileged that they never get out into the real world - those ones become CEOs and senators, some are incurable - they become some version of maga.

Just try to remember that everyone has their own history, hangups, and demons. We've all got our own battles to fight, and most people just want to live their lives and be left alone.

Anything that starts with "backed by the US" isn't anything you want to put your money on right now. We're a long way from either Europe or the US, and with the US a failed state and Europe dealing with Russia's bullshit I wouldn't rely on massive amounts of help from either if we needed it. I'm sure Australia's war gamers are taking that into account.

Well duh. Right now the cracks are spreading, but the US as a state is still holding. Once those cracks spread far enough it'll all come down, and quickly.

Fuck this headline and all reporting that shelters trump from responsibility for his constant failures. It didn't turn to chaos, trump and vance shit all over it because they're weak, stupid cowards pretending to be what they think an alpha is.