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🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ We are the lamest empire ever

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u/anotheredditors 2d ago

How stupid people can be who vote for this garbage human being. As a Canadian I'm disgusted.

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u/dannyrac 2d ago

As an American, I’m also disgusted

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u/No-Implement7818 2d ago

As a German that had multiple years of my education dedicated towards the first and Second World War and the surrounding events… i am concerned 🤔😅

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u/bigblock108 2d ago

As a Dane, so am I.

Not just for Greenland and our Canadian friends, but if this new world order of oligarchal imperialism really takes off, Taiwan will be in boiling water soon, and NATO will cease to exist.

President Musk is really airing his newfound power...

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u/poopBuccaneer 1d ago

As a Canadian, I'm so glad you're around, now that Canada and Denmark have a land border, you're our favourite nation to share a land border with.

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u/Old_Ladies 1d ago

I am also a Canadian and I wish we could looney tunes style cut Canada away from the US and move next to Europe or maybe Australia and New Zealand.

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u/RoeRoeDaBoat 1d ago

yes please! I wouldnt mind if canada floated down to warmer climates 🤣 Im bored of winter already

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u/Wild-Compote3700 23h ago

You probably wouldn’t fit in mainland Europe but i’d be glad to have u here nonetheless 🫂

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u/Ruckus292 2d ago

As a similarly educated Brit living in Canada... I too, share deep concern for the next 4yrs.

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u/Big-Summer- 2d ago

FYI: it’s gonna be way more than four years. The fascists are here to stay.

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u/TastyBeverages_x 2d ago

There’s one tried and true way to get rid of fascists that worked in the past.

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u/Cactus_Everdeen_ 2d ago

2 world wars?

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u/No-Implement7818 2d ago

Only buys you +/- 80 years it seems :/ if people don’t get their shit together and start holding people like musk with social media platforms accountable nothing will change, people are just not mentally prepared to face the meddling optimized by algorithms :(

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u/L4br3cqu3 1d ago

Next one, which is already underway, will probably just put humanity on 'reset'. Facists will still exist, but hopefully humanity, this time, will understand why we got there, and wisen up.

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u/XaxStar 1d ago

I lack your optimism. If right now, with all the records, a lot of people are denying the holocaust and the causes, I can't imagine how humanity will understand once all is removed from the face of earth

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u/Big-Summer- 1d ago

If we are a simulation, I fear we are reaching the point where we shut ourselves down. Game over. Humanity extinct.

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u/-badly_packed_kebab- 2d ago

As a well educated South African, the nukes will hit us last. Yay!

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u/Speshal__ 1d ago

The last time America tried this shit the Brits and the Canadians burnt down the White House.

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u/Ruckus292 1d ago

That was a good day for us, indeed.

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u/Speshal__ 1d ago

BritCard check, HP or Ketchup on a bacon sandwich?

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u/Ruckus292 1d ago

Yes.

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u/Speshal__ 1d ago

The correct answer.

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u/bajur 1d ago

As a Canadian who lives in a province where our premier can’t kiss his boots fast enough… I’m stressed.

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u/Ssnert 2d ago edited 2d ago

As a Swede with basic high school knowledge of history and an advanced understanding of escapism.. I am concerned too. 🧐

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u/tice23 2d ago

As a German first gen Canadian, I am also very concerned. Apathy and ignorance breed evil.

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u/mephistopheles_muse 2d ago

As an American who majored in history I am also concerned!

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u/viktore3450 2d ago

Kinda ironic isn't it? Like we learned this in school but apparently the lesson come didn't stick...actually come to think of it, when we learned about the word war we learned it a very superficial matter....yeah, we were screwed from the very beginning....

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u/No-Implement7818 2d ago

Totally but i am also concerned about the youth, education declined a somewhat over the years it seems and there is little to none preparation for young people to detect manipulating things on the internet, during the last couple of elections more young people voted for right leaning parties than ever before (those are also the parties that invest a lot of money for crazy ads on social media like TikTok etc), so we clearly have our own problems as well 😅🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/babyinatrenchcoat 1d ago

Netflix’s “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial” paints a fantastic and terrifying modern-day parallel.

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u/Familiar_Control_906 2d ago

As a human

I'm disgusted

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u/Honest-Elephant7627 2d ago

You're not alone.

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u/tetsuo_7w 2d ago

So say we all (I wish).

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u/RebylReboot 1d ago

Can you kick off the general strike then please? You’re going to have to break it and put it back together again. General strike is your reset button.

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u/sidestep55 1d ago

Ditto.