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The amount of damage inflicted by this admin will take over a generation to assess, if circumstances are stable enough to do so.
Unfortunately Americans remain too comfortable to bother with any serious push back. The destruction of democratic traditions in America will continue and the president will keep using the office to legitimise his scams.
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A good proportion of the older generations still disdain or mock Germany as nazis-in-waiting. There may be an end to the damage done to their global reputation, but it's not here yet 80 years down the line.
> There may be an end to the damage done to their global reputation, but it's not here yet 80 years down Let's not forget that in the early part of the 20th century, Germany was the powerhouse of mathematics and sciences such as physics and chemistry, to the extent that top scientists basically had to learn German (1) and/or study in Germany (2). How long did it take Germany to recover that preeminent position? Its a…
That reverberates even toady -- I had a physics professor who who learned German precisely because he wanted to read some original texts written by Boltzmann. Apparently he thought he was missing some nuance in the translations.
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i hope that it is obvious i am not saying that... my point was that a couple generations is usually enough to heal most animosity, assuming the offending events cease certainly in a thousand years, ~no one will remember.
A couple generations plus a flattening of most major cities, and the deaths/imprisonment of the leadership responsible.
Its purpose was not to save money but to disable government regulation of capital.
Last night a jam was canceled in Brazil: "bee-conservation musical". People say it's a waste of US tax payer funds (USAID), but they don't understand the real cost. 600 people are now suffering from PTSD and attending survivor therapy after being deprived of the bee-conservation musical. Our homeless can wait, the "bee-conservation musical" must go on. (Europeans: this is sarcasm)
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The right's platform has devolved into, essentially, "whatever owns the libs"
Eh, I'm not going to dispute the validity of Cleek's Law, but ~everything Trump, et al, are doing has been an extremely popular idea with different segments of the right for thirty, forty years. That goes for DOGE, both the idea of "drowning the government in a bathtub" and the specific cuts they made (eg, wrecking foreign aid), that goes for ICE, even the Iran War, which is widely regarded as the unpopular thing tha…
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I think you'll eventually find that the United States has lost much of its credibility and goodwill forever.
Post WW2, the US set up some fantastic levers of power that let it establish and maintain its hegemony at arms length: the United Nations and the UNSC. NATO. The petrodollar. Pax Americana could've gone on forever. However, those levers of power are subtle enough that once the US voted ignorant jackasses into power, they wrongly thought that's just how the world is, they can do what they like, including -- critically…
At least cynically, there is nothing ignorant about it, it is intentional undermining probably for personal gain.