• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Gods, this is so accurate. A part of me wish we could just isolate the U.S. for a bit, because I’d be curious to see how that’d affect the discourse in the rest of the world. The rise of the far right and Trump legitimately being voted in as president legitimised the far-right movements in my country as well. Last election people were literally pushing for the stop-and-frisk BS to become a thing here.

    I hate that I know what stop-and-frisk even is.

    • NecessaryWeevil@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Every time I mentioned Trump on Reddit’s world news sub, I got shouted down for talking about “irrelevant” US politics. I tried to explain his potential impact on the politics of other countries, but they didn’t want to hear it.

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        1 year ago

        Trump was important for the rest of the world when he was… you know… the president of the US… now it’s just a little mediocre guy and I understand that all the little advances in bringing him to justice are pretty important to you guys, but I couldn’t care less.

        If he ever gets elected again for some reason, then we will see the potential impact, but for now he is pretty irrelevant im afraid.

    • nuxetcrux@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      By the gods, were it to be so!

      I would too so enjoy if, as if from some casement unseen, a pair of disembodied, godly hands were to reach down shoo away those br-r-rown masses from Albion and her sisters, to keep them pure!

      It is a crime against Balthūre that they invented fascism in 2016!

      In the meantime, I will be feasting for this day!

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      1 year ago

      If that happened, the rest of the world would still find a way to talk about the US the whole time.