VeeJan 24

"I think the majority of Americans (including left-wing voters) have not fully grasped the fact that our standing in the world will not recover in our lifetimes.
Even if we elected two full-term Democrats in a row, it wouldn't change the perception of the rest of the world. Because the rest of the world has discovered we do not have a system that prevents our nation from pivoting 180º toward authoritarianism when a madman is elected."

- Tony Rush

Show threadSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸Jan 24
@VeroniqueB99 Collective memory lasts maybe 20 years, but firewalls will be put in place, there will be institional barriers long after we're all dead.
Show threadVeeJan 24
@hakona oh yeah... and then some. Ask the Germans.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKJan 25
@VeroniqueB99 @hakona people in my country were/are still suspicious of the Germans decades after WW2, and this residual mistrust even helped lead to the misguided and counterproductive Brexit (as the EU was still irrationally viewed as a "German project")
Show threadSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸Jan 25
@vfrmedia I went to school near Colchester (6 years old) in 1969/70 . We used to play spitfires vs messerschmidts. @VeroniqueB99
Show threadSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸Jan 25
@vfrmedia Back home in Norway, 1970, it was cowboys and indians.
@VeroniqueB99
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@hakona @VeroniqueB99

we only stopped fighting WW2 in our heads around 1987-1989..

Jan 25 at 2:41amWeb