Ohhhhh. Fair enough. Trump 2028!
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He sure got Europe up from its torpor, watch us get back in business after this unforeseen short break since 1945.
Would you guys be revenents or lichs at this point?
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He’s trying to save his own ass by destroying the world.
… and we’ve now discovered the unironic logic of the most horse-shoe theory’d tankie.
There was a time when the alternatives to the US were pretty fucking worse, and that was saying something even back then. Now, not even that for a lot of cases.
“Why do you care what happens to America?”
“Because I’m one of the idiots who lives in it!”
I’ll sooner take to the hills than flee this place. Too much blood has been spilt to give up on a better future.
I’m one of the idiots living in the area that will be hit by the blast when America implodes or explodes
But i live in America and I dont want to be blown up!
Well you should have thought of that before being in America.
Moves back to my home country, China
“Comrade, you are in posession of illegal counter revolutionary memes”
🙃
(Is Canada taking refugees yet?)
Canada is one of the countries the US exploding might hit. Choose a farther nation.
Australia I guess… (Cuz I don’t wanna be on “terf Island” lol, they withdrew from EU so no more schengen access, pointless to go there)
I really want a English speaking country since I don’t really wanna learn another language, I had a advantage of being 8 when I learned English, and I no longer have that advantage.
terf Island
Me personally, I’d choose NZ
NZ Kinda small isn’t it?
I don’t think there’s a lot of Chinese diaspora in NZ, so Australia would fit me better.
Now the problem is, how do I even get an immigration visa there? Impossible lol
I’m honestly only "lucky"¹ to leave China because I have aunts in the US so they petitioned for my father (aka: their brother) for immigration visa… took like 10-20 years for it to process. They filed the application before I was even born.
¹I mean, if you consider moving from an authoritarian regime to a… now declining-democracy/hybrid-regime to be “lucky”
No idea how I’d even go to Australia.
I was very technically born outside of US soil. I was born on the medical deck of The USS Enterprise (CVN-65). Since that was The Flagship of The Navy at the time, the patch of international waters I was born in was definitely US territory, at the time, but not US soil. I can run for president just fine as I am a natural born US citizen, born to a veteran, in an unbroken chain of veterans, and families that were here in 1670 and 1720. I’m as US citizen as you can get. I also have German citizenship thanks to my great-great-great-geandfather who immigrated from Bavaria.
All that is to say that I don’t have any ill feelings towards you, for wanting to flee a place that has become unsafe for you and yours.
I’m staying and fighting because it is unsafe for you and yours.
I honestly don’t know where “home” is.
I have a very pro-democracy view that most Mainland Chinese will reject me for.
I mean, I don’t wanna live there and hear all the BS about how supposedly the CCP is “so great” and they have a firewall blocking everything.
Simultaneously, althought I do identify with certain elements of “being an American” such as the core priciples of Constitution, Democracy, Freedom, Separation of Powers, Rule of Law…, but then again 1/3 of the US is like infested with xenophobes and so called “patriots” that are actually just anti-constitution. And these anti-constitutional people has already infiltrated the government as we’ve evidently seen.
Honestly, I hightly doubt there is a democratic country that is just open arms accepting refugees like me… because I don’t think I’d really be considered a refugee yet, there are no real evidence I can provide that I’m being persecuted.
So… for now, I’m just stuck here in the US lol.
This is the only citizenship I have anyways.
I understand the concept of not knowing where home is.
Where did I grow up? I was born in Virginia, kind of, in international waters with a huge contingency, called the USS Enterprise CVN-65, and promptly left the state not of my own volition. 5 years of my childhood, until the age of 5, in California. 5 years of my childhood in Indiana. The other 6 years before I went to university were spent in Alaska, New York, Washington/ Vancouver, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota.
My “Home” is The Earth. I firmly believe that fighting the current regimes worldwide will result in The Earth being one People, and humanity being the first unified family that makes up that people before I am allowed to die.
that’s a small price that Europeans are willing to pay
This take assumes President Trump cares about the world though
#thatsthejoke
The best hope for the rest of the world now is the Untied States imploding
I was saying this to some buddies. Hopefully the US will erupt into full scale civil war before they take Greenland and we can stop worrying about it so much.
After 25 years, Mercosul and EU finally have a free commerce agreement. Lula have been meeting all EU leaders and trying to get it done, but I don’t think he would have done it without Trump fucking the EU relations with the USA.
“What would it take for someone’s actions to be justified.” My kind of question, hopeful and reasonable rather than nonconstructive doomsaying.
long live jdpon don 🫡 /j
I don’t think he’s Leeto II … No. He would never be that selfless, or even take an action considered selfless and improvement for anything but his freedom and bank account. Any sort of other impact would not have been considered in his decisions unless it changed his net worth or perhaps made lots of people adore him.
For those that don’t know you have to make it to book 4 of Dune for full explanation. Though explained in book 3 by the end, you see it properly in book 4. Not for everyone with a lot of philosophy in it.
Fuck. I need to get to book 4.
Accidentally replied to the person who replied to you. Has my thoughts on favourites of the series, guess maybe light spoilers. If you enjoy some philosophy it’s a great book otherwise slow but still intrigue that others had plus possibly an origin of God Emperor or at least one where other stories have taken hints from.
For me, God Emperor was a great ending for Dune.
Unfortunately there were two more books afterwards.
It took me awhile to enjoy the last two books at least for me to say I enjoy them similarly even if not as much as the originals. I love the lore (which often gets forgotten or unheard if it’s one of those single sentance bits) and the philosophy so I kept listening to them in rotation. In the end they grew on me, but I personally prefer 1 and 4, I’m not even sure I could pick a 3rd the rest gave their ups and downs. Probably Children of Dune now that I think of it, the introduction of the twins has some better stuff than the rest to me.
Though in the last two there’s more interesting Bene Gesserit stuff as well as Tleilaxu, I was so hoping to read more on IX, I sort of think something would have come up there like secret research for human machine minds being worked on to make the scattering people fleeing and Duncan’s visions visions understood, well somewhat clearly.
Also I am not sure even reading our minds can really comprehend thousands of years between books 3-4 is 3500 years, 4-5 is another 1500 I think. Just trying to understand changes seems odd but thankfully that universe is more stagnet it seems but there are comments on it.
I just think the God Emperor kinda ended it. Nobody would ever go to the extremes Leto II did, and even if they tried, precognition would no longer be a thing. Humanity spreading out into the universe means there wouldn’t ever be a single emperor ruling over all of humanity ever again and thinking machines would never be able to kill all of humanity.
So all of the big things that made Dune what it is were all wrapped up in God Emperor. So to me, it was the ending of the Dune story.
Please don’t. I’m sure they’re all good books even if they’re half as good as the writing of the previous three that I’ve read so far.
Yes, actually.
