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    2 days ago

    I’ve always wondered in those gray, dystopian movies with smog filled skies, smoke stacks, military forces, and people behind fences: how could they let it get that far?

    I never even considered how quickly it could happen.

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        21 hours ago

        The rest of the world has been watching you walk blindly down this path for three or four decades. We warned you, repeatedly, and received shitty, belligerent flag-waving in response.

        Nobody literate outside the US is at all surprised by where you have found yourself (though we are a little shocked by how easily the decent people among you are rolling over and taking it). Trump is perhaps not the LEAST of your problems, but he’s not the cause, either.

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          Chances are that whatever country you are from also has an alt-right problem. Seeing the .ca instance, if you are from Canada, you weren’t far from electing your own lite version of Trump. Thankfully our mistake amplified so much bullshit that the Canadian’s didn’t repeat what we did.

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            America is burning itself down right now and your response is “well there’s smoke in Canada!”

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              My response was that this is becoming a global problem, and all the smug “I’ve been saying it for 30 years” bullshit is just dumb. Perhaps with all that precognition they should have retired by now with their foreknowledge of the global markets.

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            3 hours ago

            Yes, thanks to you allowing a house fire to start on our street after three decades of acting like assholes when we told you not to let your kids play with matches.

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          god you anti-american losers are so fucking annoying. You are not unique and neither are your countries. They do all the same shit as America. It’s just popular to hate on Americans lmfao. Like can you stop being a fucking loser for just a second? Why are you belittling this person you know nothing about? Because they’re American? They’re literally on your side.

          Fuck America. Fuck an unfathomably large percentage of Americans. But to just lay into someone with some “told you so” smug attitude like your own shit doesn’t stink? Shut the fuck up and do something useful, you useless ineffective twat. Christ.

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            3 hours ago

            Told you so.

            Also, love how white American liberals start sounding like MAGA the moment they get told their good intentions accomplish fuck all on their own.

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            Shut the fuck up and do something useful, you useless ineffective twat. Christ.

            • Someone who claims to be “on your side” and doesn’t understand why someone would have an anti-American attitude.