• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Can’t trust Americans or can’t trust the United States because those are two inherently different groups.

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      both… after electing a convicted felon and rapist to the presidency for a SECOND time, Americans cannot escape responsability in my books

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        Sorta… But only about 65% of us voted in the last election and of that only 50% voted for these douchebags. And of those, most of them voted that way because of a single R. So I’d guess around 75% of the people don’t agree with what is going on.

        So as a concrete example, I’m an American and I’d go out of my way to help most anyone but I am not the United States.

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          Sorry but the 35% who didn’t vote, knowing the threat of Trump becoming president again was looming, are no different than those who voted Republican.

          The whole world remember his first presidential term. And we all saw the Project 2025 playbook. The US is in a mess of its own creation.

          As a Brit, I too have lost trust in Americans unless proved otherwise.

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            Oh I know, I don’t blame you in the least. I’m losing trust in my fellow Americans. The whole process was just a major fustercluck. I woke up the morning after with a serious case of dread of what was about to happen. The apathy in this country is a major issue no doubt. I’m hopeful that as shit gets worse and worse, the apathy goes away. If it doesn’t, then Handmaid’s Tale becomes more of a playbook and less a work of fiction.

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          okay so you’re saying that we should be safe and play the odds and not trust any americans since the grand majority did nothing to stop this

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          Sure not everyone is on board, especially how it’s going lately, but you do spell it out kind of. Only 65% voted, that’s 35% who just decided to like give up or something. A third of you. Then a third voted MAGA, a thorn other.

          That’s the danger of the stupid third.

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          Americans always tell themselves these lies. Yes, only 65% voted, but the ones who didn’t vote weren’t all non-voting democrats. About half would have voted Trump if they’d voted. It’s not some small minority that supported Trump, it was a majority.