@randahl " the world will keep loving the American people"

Keep?

A lot of people don't differentiate between "american" people and US government. And this time, the majority of US citizens even voted for the republicans, so the distinction is not as sharp as one might thing.

In history, the USA behaved like today Russia. Declaring without any legitimation a "zone of influence", the Monroe Doctrin. They supported torture regimes like in Chile. They payed death squadrons.

They also attacked Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, Libya, soon Venezuela, Vietnam...

*) "american" is almost always wrong. America is a huge continent, host to many different nations. We are culturally insensitive if we just use "America" when we mean "USA".

@randahl Not in all the people.

With respect, Trump is just the icing on the cake 'started' by Reagan. The US has got a few decades of mostly-ignored-by-the-world-and-its-media history to account for. What is happening now is just the "out in the open" stuff that they can't be bothered to hide any more.

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I've never been romantic about America ( but about some Americans ❤️ ).

I hope that Americans will review their situation carefully and consequently #vote .
( I see efforts from @benroyce - and that looks like an uphill battle. But it ain't over 'til it's over! ✊🏻✊🏿)

The rest of the world is actually reframing and it may take at least a generation to get back - to a realistic level.

There's hope - let's keep it up! 🙂

@randahl || We have had 20-25% rabid Christians for as long as I can remember(I'm pushing 80). It's almost a contagious disease when people feel they are abused, this group feels so sorry for themselves it's sickening. The conservatives has been trying to gain/regain control since FDR. Started with McCarthy, then Nixon brought co-opted Xtains, Reagan added the rich and powerful and destroyed the economy. Will we survive, if we do it will take decades to repair. Regain our image ???? Peace.

@randahl you reelected him. Pretending "this is not who we are" is just fantasy at this point.

@randahl Fact is, they did elect him. Twice. Even though there was plenty of info, even the first time, what kind of person he is. So he did and does represent an intellectually lazy, dumb and purposely uninformed people. We know forever America cannot be relied upon as a force for democracy and justice. Which of course we should have known since the seventies, but then only Southeast Asia and Latin America suffered from their antidemocratic tendencies and we didn't.

@randahl The USA is another Venezuela. But with nukes.

@randahl I think that the change is already happening and that there's a lot of damage done now. Trump is trying to invade Greenland and Canada, is stealing oil from Venezuela, is backstabbing the Ukraine and extorting the EU. These are things you cannot fix in a single summit in Mar A Lago......

@randahl I'm afraid that ship has sailed.

@randahl
u.s. elected trump ... twice. i don't think this a random event, it starts to be a pattern.

i don't trust u.s. anymore. even if non-republican replaces trump or vance, u.s. needs to rebuild trust afterwards, may take decades.

short:
for non-americans, it starts to be imperative to build coalition to support democracy and will of the people.

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As far as I’m concerned, it’s broken. I went around (clothes, computer equipment, others). What is paid is still used until obsolescence but everything that is Amerikkkan or an Amerikkkan brand) will be replaced from now by other brands which are not kkk.

I know perfectly well that there are Amerikkkan shareholders in other companies, but I fully intend to do some research before buying new products.

#boycottusa #eu #europe

@randahl I am an American and I don't trust Americans any more. We elected this monster twice. That says everything you need to lnow.