Mastodawn

mekka okereke

1d ago

There is a reasonable path back. Everything doesn't have to be all existential all the time.

👴🏻"If we even have elections!🤡"

We are having elections.

👴🏻"The GOP is going to try dirty tricks!🤡"

So? The GOP always tries dirty tricks. Always. There has never been a modern election where they didn't.

I won't lie to you and say that making the right choices at midterms and 2028 will completely undo all this damage. Because it won't.

You can never trust Dr. Jekyll again once you've met Mr. Hyde. Everyone knows that the US is always 4 years and some white grievance away from being right back here.

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piebob ✨1d ago

@mekkaokereke ugh it's so true
>> Everyone knows that the US is always 4 years and some white grievance away from being right back here.

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icastico 1d ago

@piebob @mekkaokereke

Back in the early 80s, while researching a paper for my Colonialism course, I read this point over and over again. From Afghanistan, to Africa, to the Americas, countries chose to deal with the consistent (openly exploitive) Soviets, rather than the uncertainties of US political whims, for example. “With the Soviets, you know what you’re getting - with the Americans, you risk them changing their mind half way through”.

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klausfiend

@icastico @piebob @mekkaokereke This has been a truism of American foreign policy for at least my entire life, even growing up in an allied nation; American foreign policy is basically treated as a domestic issue, with obvious and predictable consequences.