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This is a rhetorical question. Of course we are. Time to start an underground railroad I suppose.

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I just hope us Canadians don’t do what we did during the Underground Railroad. Letting the slaves in to be free, then also letting in the slavers who were pissed about losing the war

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 hours ago

My comrade in christ the US has literally been openly committing a genocide for 2 years now

[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Guantanamo Bay. Abu Ghraib. Proved to me that we were the baddies back in 2002. This is not a revelation.

[–] TheTurner@lemm.ee 21 points 10 hours ago

Don't forget about Operation Condor, Loas, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. Hopefully Kissinger's burning .

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

we've been the baddies for a looooong time.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 hours ago

Always have been.

[–] Nanowith@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's crazy seeing you guys finally clock on to this from over here in Europe. We've been trying to tell you for well over a decade!

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It's been obvious since the 2008 election that we never actually improved. People just sort of hid it for a while, but it was always there and it's all out in the open now. We're the shithole country.

[–] Nanowith@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Nobody was ever punished for 2008, in fact they were instead rewarded with ever-increasing protections. That and decades of defunding/redlining education and this is the result.

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 61 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 42 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Why? To keep foreign resource markets open to our profiteer's exploitation.

Social tolerance of Greed\avarice is a blight that is ending the world by several vectors.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 hours ago

Can you imagine the US reaction if China had the number of troops we have in Japan right off our coast?

[–] Denjin@lemmings.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Except for that brief period where you turned up 2 years late to the party and proceeded to take all of the credit. Yes.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 21 points 16 hours ago
[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 31 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Past two days? Past 5 decades

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, we've just been Weekend at Bernieing this "democracy" for awhile now and it's starting to really really stink.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 37 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Time to start an underground railroad I suppose.

Speaking of, everyone should be aware of the rainbow railroad:

https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/

As far as I'm aware, they don't help get queer people out of the U.S., but it is only a mater of time with how things are headed. Donate if you can.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

Sad we need this, glad it's there.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 15 hours ago

It makes me laugh that that skit is the first skit you see from that show, like it's skit one of the pilot.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

more people voted for this than the alternative, which is the worse part, it was by choice

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And the alternative was also evil

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ok. But the alternative was also evil

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Which was more evil though?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

About the same, either way, my point was that Americans voted for evil.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Less than 25% of the US population voted for him. Of the people that voted, a majority voted for him, but an overwhelming majority of Americans did not vote for him.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

elegible people that didn't vote, allowed it, so was their choice as well

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 6 points 17 hours ago

In all fairness a pretty large Google search like right around the election was "did Biden drop out?"

I think the vast majority of the non-voters are completely blissfully ignorant and just do this all day:

I suppose they "allow" it in that they can't even be bothered to give a shit. :/

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And the opposition party is gaslighting them into believing that most Americans are on board with all of it to make their job easier

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Most Americans are.

This is America. This is the official entry. Chosen.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 points 20 hours ago

No, our politicians and the dummies that follow and support them blindly are the baddies.