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💥 An absolute must-read for muricans.

Just read it. Don't allow my musings below deter you.

Although with apparently HALF of the US population having the reading (and thus comprehension?) level of a fifth-grader or lower — including their Ruler — any reasoned writings will struggle against "freedom-to-lie" soundbites served by MAGA radicalization propaganda bubbles owned by naturalized white supremacist immigrants-turned-citizens like Murdoch and Musk...

And another personal anecdote: For reasons unknown I caught a documentary about the *swindles* of one inconsequential NY property mogul years before that sociopathic crook set his sights to gold-plating the Oval Office... The gist of that documentary was that no matter how slimy and overtly criminal *Trump's* actions were he never had to face any tangible consequences for his criminal actions.

It was truly mind-boggling, but as someone of European sensibility I presumed his pathological deceitfulness would certainly catch up with him when he decided to play in politics and run for the highest office, no less. Right?

It was a brutal awakening to realize that his case merely parallelled that of *American Exceptionalism*.

Even under Democratic administrations the USA has held itself above global rules set by such pesky institutions as the United Nations or the International Court of Justice.

No accountability or consequences for breaking globally agreed rules, ever. "Whacha gonna do about it?"

Trump's rise was enabled by this "One rule for the priviledged and consequences are only for the suckers" exceptionalist mentality.

I don't know how many billions of non-murican earthlings agree with me here, but while I grew up appreciating America's *IDEALS* and the efforts of popular movements towards reaching them, I will have very little respect for that collective until it drops its exceptionalism — internally and externally — and finally becomes of regular country again.

Unfortunately the world, indeed democracy itself, is running out of time with the network of hostile autocrats growing more powerful and emboldened by the day. 🤐

"Might is right" isn't a concept compatible with democracy, justice and human rights. It is the key concept of despots.

Also, Europe by and large is *not* a shithole because it has for most of the last century run by democratic *liberals* (incl. consensus-minded moderate right). Experience and map also tells that the more liberal the government, the happier the population.

#Murica #maga #trump #accountability #consequences #exceptionalism

thenation.com/article/politics

The Nation · Lock Them All Up!It’s high time we created accountability for the Trump 2.0 criminal syndicate.
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Day 24 cont ⚕️💉💊

“But speaking of gambling, #gambling is a behaviour where #people don’t think of the #consequences. And what this (#Labor) #government has done is gambled the #taxpayers’ money of Australia”

“We understand that the other side has a good heart, that they want to make #medicines cheaper. But to recklessly, recklessly cut the profits of small business owners, the #pharmacies working extremely hard, some of them have told me they’ve gone down to 30-40%. That gambling-like behaviour is simply not on.” — #ScottYung

Piss off Scotty, leave our Pharma alone.

#AusPol / #Medicare / #pharmaceuticals / #PBS / #Liberal / #Bennalong / #LNP / #Nationals / #CCP / #LiberalPartyChineseYouthCouncil / #JohnHoward / #XiongmingXie <theguardian.com/australia-news>

the Guardian · Greens campaign signs defaced with offensive graffiti – as it happenedThis blog is now closed
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I just think #TheEconomist is #discrediting itself by #platforming #MAGA #bullshit that even 5th graders can callout as #Kindergarten-esque #mobbing.

It's pretty much absurd to do so without seriously interrogating whether the #Trump regime actually knows the shit it does or whether this is just a #dismantling operation by #AgentKrasnov to enshure #Putin gets what he wants.

Tho in the meantime it only resulted in the #EU coming closer together and #Europe finding resolve against #Russia, with both #NATO and EU becoming stronger than before...

  • Granted the #USA already lost it's credibility in 2012 when Putin invaded #Crimea and the #BudapestMemorandum was violated #consequences-free instead of #BootsOnTheGround by the #US, #UK and #France and the current support for #Kyiv is the absolute bare minimum to avoid the political suicide that are flagged coffins returning home since in #Europe - unlike the USA - going to war isn't guaranteed to get elected, but rather will tank ratings (as it should be)!

Again: #REFORUSA is an act of self- and mutual defense at this point!

Except THIS is not how any of this works!....

#Trump literally lashing out against friends and neighbours will only backfire hard, and I expect @EUCommission and @europarl_en to enact #PrizeFreezes for #US #products & #services whilst forcing #Retaliatory #Tariffs on all US #products and espechally #services, demanding 100%+ in all #fees, and #revenue of #GAFAMs' services and products to the point that they'll effectively cancel half their revenue that flows back.

  • Plus forcing all products and services to be processed and sold via a #EU-based #corporation and adding a 30% "#AlienTax" as the #USA already does for i.e. #App #developers that ain't from the US even if they never sold a single license to a US customer.

Not to mention cancelling any #DataProtection agreements that only stalled the foreseeable court decision that #CloudAct is incompatible with #GDPR, thus banning #Office365 / #Microsoft365, #iCloud et. al. from the EU!

Given #Trump can't be assed to even fake any #loyality or #allied status even for the cameras, this is a #ForeseeableConsequence.

Unless we want to end up #downgraded into the state of a US-occupied overseas possession without statehood, like #Guam, #PuertoRico or #AVI...

We seemingly recognise the threats posed by climate change which will include mass migration (for survival's sake) - but this ‘study' recognises a large number will suffer - and of course it will be the poorer members of our society. Large numbers of poor dispossesed people - I can't wait!

theguardian.com/environment/20

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

The Guardian · Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research showsBy Graham Readfearn