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      There is a lot more than just America, in the hemisphere… This is a thread to half of the world and a seed to use as an excuse to attack anybody and any country that don’t align with that

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          The vast majority of the world’s populations lives in the northern hemisphere. Trump just threatened 87% of the worlds population

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            He’s referring to the Western Hemisphere, not the Northern, per the “Monroe Doctrine” that they’ve been going on about lately. It’s some of that manifest destiny kind of bullshit that insists that the entire Americas, Greenland, etc. must be under the US sphere of influence.

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              Whoever combined the words “western” and “hemisphere” was a moron of epic proportions with no understanding for spherical geometry.

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                Spheres can only be sliced one way?? Is that some geometrical definition previously unknown to maths? It’s quite obvious what is meant when western hemisphere is said, you’re either stupid or being deliberately obtuse.

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                  The problem isn’t the spheres, the problem is the use of a relative direction with a hemisphere. Even though I have since learned that someone actually came up with a generally valid definition of the “western” hemisphere, the definition of longitude 0 (prime meridian) is completely arbitrary. From fascist 'murica p.o.v., Russia is “the west”

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              You can leave it all behind, and sail to Lahaina just like the missionaries did so many years ago…

              They even brought a neon sign, “Jesus is coming.” They brought the white man’s burden down, they brought the white man’s reign…

              And you can see them there, on Sunday morning, stand up and sing about, what it’s like up there. They call it Paradise, I don’t know why! Call some place paradise, kiss it good-byyyyyeee…

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        They mean the western hemisphere, as another user said down the thread, this is because of the Monroe doctrine. But yeah, maybe implicitly they also mean the northern as well.

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      Because they “do”. They literally just proved it.

      And Europe/EU and the UN let them as shown by the lack of consequences they faced. Heck, they didn’t even get a “strong condemnation” by a bunch of people in power. They actually got PRAISE for what they did

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    He is absolutely determined to accelerate the opening salvo of WW3 to happen within his term so he can declare martial law and suspend elections. Hail Caesar.

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      I’ve said this about Musk before, and I wonder if Trump is going there too.

      Essentially, you are an egomaniacal psychopath with unlimited resources, yet you have come to accept that you cannot have everything your little heart desires. Especially being immortal.

      So since you are already one of the most important and noteworthy people on earth, history needs to accurately document the magnitude of your presence. Obviously!

      But now is not the time to get all touchy-feely. You know damn well that destruction and chaos are quicker and more efficient ways to make your mark than creation and harmony. It is difficult to make history for curing cancer, and it is way easier to do it by telling somebody else to tell their people to go do some war crimes.

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        It’s definitely a community in Reddit. At first I didn’t take them seriously but now I realise it isn’t a joke. It may have been run by Heritage Foundation.

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    I always find it funny that they think Trump looks like a badass or something. No, he looks like a cowardly geriatric asshole who shits his pants.

    The trump mugshot that people put in shirts must’ve been the 25th shot they took. What a vain asshole.

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    Can someone please ask Trump to define what a hemisphere is? Please, for the love of God. We all need a good laugh.

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        It’s named after the marketing logo on the back and sides of some unreliable “stellantis” vehicles.

        I know all about the combustion chamber shape, but this hemi thing has become purely a marketing tool at this point.

        Like “TRD”. What seller would brand their products with the word “turd”?

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          Oh I forgot they still made hemis. I meant the 60/ and 70s stuff. That actually had hemispherical chambers.

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    Most countries are the dog sitting in the house that is on fire meme. These countries are all going “This is fine”.

    Fuck, this isn’t fine. Political leaders need to start calling all this out yesterday.

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        I’m worried that in contrast to the UK and France in the 30s we don’t have anywhere near the power to stop them even if we tried to.

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            How exactly are you going to stall them once they’re in full conquest mode? Both Germany and Japan conquered areas multiple times as large as their own country, they were suicidally determined about it and they completely brutalized many of the areas they conquered. I don’t see that suicidal determination in the US right now, but the US military can conquer a lot of countries before the US population even notices a difference.

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          I think we’d see a legitimate secession / civil war moment if Trump started invading countries for real without authorization from congress. The fear of that might also help a midterm move … I’m more and more afraid he’ll find a way to cancel / stop / postpone the elections

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            It’s much easier to just manipulate the election, even Putin does it like that. He already bragged that his people literally did that during the last presidential election - now that he’s president, who is going to stop him?

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      Movies led me to believe that other countries’ governments have elite assassins to stop people like Trump. Either they don’t want to use them, or movies lied to me!

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          That would be an extremely bad idea considering that the UK’s nuclear weapons arsenal is not land-based. The US actually ordered those troops to do anything within 15 minutes missiles could be headed to the US. Although the smarter option would be to have the subs manoeuvre to just off the US coast and then launch. Very little time to respond then.

          I’m not saying that would definitely be the response but it’s a hell of a risk for the US to take. I would hope that someone in the US military has enough brains to countermand that order.

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        Wife and I were talking about this last night. If he is assassinated by another country, then that is “just cause” for war to be declared which could just allow him to impose ungodly more insane policies. If someone internal to the US kills him, media spin will be its left vs. right. We are generally in a pretty fucked situation we “let ourselves” get into.

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          Problem with that line of thinking is that it presumes they won’t do those things anyway. If they want just cause, they just declare it. If anyone to the left in any way does anything, it’s a seditious partisan act by the extreme left and very likely a justifiable use for the insurrection act.

          Concerning ourselves with how they’ll take things is putting our actions under their review. Preemptively bending to their will before they even express it out of fear of how they might react.

          If they’re going to call you radical and extreme, you may as well enjoy the benefits rather than try to appease them.

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    can we like… go back to subtle fascism please?

    it obliterates my faith in humanity that if this was a fictional story it’d be described as “worldbuidling but the only tool you have is a sledgehammer” and yet that guy still has people that support him???

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      Can we go back to yanks killing fascists please? They were so good at that.

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        i just want to have hope again :(

        i thought that once trump eventually gets exposed as a vile monster, people would turn away from him… and though some have, it’s nowhere near as big of paradigm shift as i imagined would happen :(

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          That was never going to happen because Trump isn’t some random fluke, but rather a symptom of a much greater disease. “Subtle fascism” is not a stable, sustainable state, it naturally produced Trump and even if it were somehow possible to reverse time and go back to that, it would simply produce another Trump-like figure.

          There are only two possibilities: either conditions will continue to decline and we will get increasingly overt fascism, or we make radical changes to fix those conditions. Socialism or barbarism. Maintaining or returning to the status quo is not viable.

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            don’t get me wrong, i don’t want the status quo back, i just want to feel hopeful for the future again :(

            don’t mind me either way tbf, i’m romanticising the past when the world was barely any better than now, i was simply more ignorant of what was going on around me. i’m aware of this, i don’t indulge in that feeing too often, but sometimes i do

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              Hey. I feel it, too. I’ve been grieving for the last year, especially seeing the atrocities of ICE grabbing people in our street. I really thought Trump was the low point and we’d be able to move forward as a nation and catch up with the rest of the world, especially after the Jan 6th Insurrection.

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            honestly, i don’t really do hate, it’s not an emotion that gets invoked in me easily, nor does it last long. instead of hate i feel a mixture of pity, sadness, fear, and hope for a better tomorrow, and sometimes i run dangerously low on hope

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              You are still valid in pointing out that even if the world sucked before and they did what they do now, that it was easier to excuse people due to ignorance

              That’s not the case anymore when Trump proudly admits they invaded Venezuela for their oil and people still praise him and what happened

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              I try to remain optimistic, but then the US does something evil again and I despair.

              Hate and spite keep me alive when the hope runs out.

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    No, it’s mine. Fuck you. I go to war with you. Come meet me in the supermarket parking lot if you’re not a coward, orange turd.