Post #2155589

2026-01-13 17:24 UTC

You're gonna be ready for a long time then. Thats not how any of this works, pretending away a problem and just magically snapping back to "normal". That doesn't happen in situations like this, go read a history book. "Normal" is gone, never to return, because "normal" was built on too many lies, lies whose contradictions led us to this current moment. This country will literally never be the same, it will be fundamentally different for generations, this Trump era is going to be a ... whole distinct defining subsection of our history, not unlike the way Nazism was/is for the history of modern Germany. There is no pinch me and wake me up from the nightmare. The nightmare is real, and it will take effort, conviction, and courage to try build something better.

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@Dojan@pawb.social 2026-01-13 18:00

I don't mean "normal" for the U.S., I mean normal for the rest of the world. I legitimately don't care how this transition ends up going for the U.S. I just want to be rid of them. The U.S. was never a good country. The colonisers were religious extremists who left Europe because their views were too extremist for us, even way back then. It's built on a foundation of genocide and murder, and it never grew past that. It's never cared for its people. It was always an oligarchy, that was literally the entire point of the U.S. gaining independence from the British crown. Trump being in charge isn't really that different from before. He's unhinged and less political, but he didn't set all of this up. All of the systems that enable him were already in place and used by those before him. The U.S. was always a conniving and manipulative country, it's never really had allies, just tools. It's sad that it took this long for so many to realise, and even now our politicians are hedging their bets that things return to the old status-quo when really they should be severing all ties and leaving the U.S. to collapse in on itself.

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