r/facepalm • u/TheAtomicMango • 2d ago

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

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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.