Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars,

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• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am literally saying that the present situation is not out of character for the USA.

  We are the Florida of the world.

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  • vala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah it is dawg. This is really completely new territory in almost every way.

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The US as a whole can’t really achieve Florida levels of… Floridaness. You need fewer good paying jobs, higher costs of living, lots more old retired people running things, more drugs - all kinds, sunburn and sweat instead of frostbite and snow to shovel.

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  • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don't see how America is special relative to "the world". Many countries have gone through much more than that.

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    • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We’re doing the disaster speedrun.

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      • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Japan might be the expert:
        Totally decimated in WWII, including two nuclear bombings. Earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, volcanic eruptions. Fukushima diaster. Tokyo Sarin gas attack. Economic crash, ageing population, mass suicides.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s like people who say that you shouldn’t get vaccinated, you should just get the disease so you don’t get the disease.

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  • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is more like saying that if you survived a stroke, you will live forever.

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