• deathbird@mander.xyz
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    Um… So by further embarassing ourselves on the international stage, showing ourselves to be erratic and irrational, we discourage international brain drain and future “free trade” agreements, reducing our outsized influence on the world, and thereby encouraging multipolarity, which in the the long term will probably benefit all of humanity, of which we are a part.

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    I tell my right-wing American friends it is political correctness. Changing names is expensive. I remember having the USSR on maps in school because changing them out is expensive.

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    9 hours ago

    Americans get nothing. The president gets another distraction from whatever batch of crimes he’s committing today.

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    A distraction from things that matter.

    Btw, what happened to those Epstein Files? The ones that didn’t get released like the law said they had to be? What’s the point of laws again?

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    Distraction. From what, I couldn’t say exactly. Actually, yes I can. High prices, family members being killed in foreign conflicts, political grifting, Epstein files…

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      11 hours ago

      I heard that there’s a picture of Orange man’s willie in the Epstein files, but it wasn’t released because it was labelled as CP. Because it was so tiny.

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    I’m into it.

    If he can throw symbolic red meat to his base without actually hurting anyone, he should do more of that. Rename the whole damn country dumbfuckistan. I don’t care.

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      Did you know it costs millions of dollars for our educational system to change maps to make sure every reprint of the billions of maps it provides to our kids conforms to the federal guidelines?

      Same for our every government organization. This bullshit is intended to divide the country over inconsequential bullshit and bankrupt the government itself.

      The billionaires intentionally push for bullshit so they can say the system is broken. This is just another exhibit of that fact

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    It’s just culture war bullshit. Trump gets to distinguish himself from other politicians and pretend he’s doing something for the nationalists without actually spending any money or improving their lives in any way. It also means people talk about this instead of the Iran War or the Epstein files or the masked thugs raiding workplaces and hunting down minorities.

    Keep an eye out for the other side of this which will be establishment politicians running on “restoring sanity” by changing it back to Lake Ontario, because they don’t want to run on abolishing ICE or anything that actually matters.