Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

• XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Always has been. Just with a lot of facade and flag waving. Facade is getting trashed and you’re starting to see what flags really stand for.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  USA already has widespread poverty, lacks free healthcare and education, has the lowest life expectancy among economically comparable countries.

  So USA is already a shit-hole country, and among shit hole countries, totalitarian countries are the absolute worst.
  If you think people have it bad now, especially below middle class, you just wait and see what it will be like if USA becomes a totalitarian country!

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That was a decade ago. With trump and Biden at the helm, we hit that point already. Between trump showing that there is no bottom to the depths that conservatives will sink to and *Biden showing that there’s no consequences for openly breaking the law, we are a fucking joke at best.

  • Yes, I know congress stopped a lot that. But Biden could have pushed harder against the Republicans or even just not rolled over and go back to business as usual with the weakest of weak sauce attempts at accountability. I mean, Merrick fucking Garland?!?! The failed compromise pick from a decade prior as the head of the investigation?

  I hate that the Democrats are the best national response we have to this shit. Local community organization helps, but goddamn if this situation isn’t disheartening.

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