Post #588824

2026-03-01 10:08 UTC

The democratic, liberal, dependable USA that I have known and respected for most of my adult life is dead and will not be revived even after the orange clown stops pretending to be king. It cannot, because the concept of the USA in the world outside its own borders very much depended on soft power, which requires trust. That trust is gone, completely, and probably irrevocably for at least a generation. It saddens me deeply that all the value, all the good that this long-term stability and trust brought to the USA and the world at large is gone as well. My only hope is that others will accept the responsibility and step up to become the new center of trust in international relations. The EU has the potential for that, but not (yet?) the political will to transcend national interests and rhetoric. China has the economic and military potential, but doesn&#39;t share the liberal values (yet?). The world is going to change.

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@TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt 2026-03-01 10:49

@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange the picture of the "good" USA was always an Illusion. Just there marketing was good enough for the "liberal" minded. All Trump and his Red Caps did was unmasking the Empire for what it always was a racist sexist imperial force that exists to serve the greed of the few. People always ask when it started to go downhill well the big one was not prosecuting and imprisioning Richard Milhous Nixon. 2ned was Ronald Reagan who was never prosecuted for his deliberate "mishandling" of the "AIDS Crisis" market deregulation etc. 3ed was Bush One's illegal war. 4th was Dumb Bushs illegal Wars and of coures the "PATRIOT Act" 5th was Obama failing to end the "PATRIOT Act" and Thanking Snowden 6th. Was Biden for not prosecuting and imprisioning Trump last but not least each and every single American that allowed Trump a second turn knowing fully well what would happen.

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