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,

• 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We’re doing the disaster speedrun.

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    • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Every country is unique. I don’t see the need to compare nor do I think op had any desire to compare

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