If only there was a way to know he’d be a useless, disgusting, idiotic, and corrupt piece of shit at running a country as he is at being a human…
Yeah! The first term was not really enough to tell for sure
… in a decade?
Uh, no, more like 3 to 9 months.
Things are about to get very bad, very fast.
grammar pls
New 9/11 is being far too kind. We all know who he is the reincarnation of.
I was going to guess Nero, but he was taught to play music. If 47 tried to do the same he would be playing a plastic recorder on the roof while the east wing keeps getting demolished.
Don’t forget demanding a Grammy, which Kanye West would then give him.
The Nero was fiddling while Rome burned isn’t exactly true, but 3 out of the 6 historical accounts agree Nero was performing while Rome burned.
Oh, yall got that im invoking the psudo-history to make a point.
To add to it, it would have to be a very small recorder.
There’s a typo in your headline; you probably mean “a world when… were still valid” rather than “before”.
I was in the shower… sorry!
Iirc you can edit titles of Lemmy posts.
It’s not like international law really meant anything before Trump. It has been broken many times before with no real consequences, also by the US. The UN really doesn’t have the power to enforce anything.
If anything this post is more so upset that now its wealthy nations that have to deal with violated international law.
Poor nations have basically constantly had offense committed against them by wealthy nations regardless of international law
International rules?
flips history book to annexation of Crimea
flips history book to US-involvement in regime change
yeah, blame all of it on Trump. These americans never even try to see how big a terrorism nation the US is lol
Two things can be true at once.
Trump is a consequence before being a cause
Likewise 9/11 is also a result of many events leading up to it
He’s a symptom of the sickness that is the alt-right fascist-nazi movement which sadly wasn’t snuffed out proper when we had the chance.
Its been a decade since Trump’s first term and people are already doing that
They never were.
I blame COVID more
Indeed. COVID showed that the populace would defer to the government and do as they were told. Before lockdown there was a general feeling that only a country like China could lockdown it’s population. In the west, freedom and liberty were too precious.
And then they went and locked us down showing the government had far more power than it realised.
Literally no one thought of medical lockdowns in any way prior to COVID. There was no general feeling as it wasn’t on anyone’s radar.
Many many Americans think this way and its turned them all against government and into the arms of our benevolent billionaires like never before.
Its pretty sad.
There have been policy discussions about lock down quarantines for decades. Though many assumed it would be some form of rabid TB. It never gets into any serious policy until there’s already something horrible going on.
Bro, entire states were ignoring lockdowns. The reason so many people died was because people weren’t following the restrictions the government put in place.
This is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve read in a long time
I remember seeing China building hospitals within 48 hours and thinking we were screwed because here we would never manage that. Turns out we did something similar although with existing buildings.
The UK, people generally respect the law via a norm called “policing by consent”.
Also interesting that in China, it was where serious riots happened, which probably did the opposite for them showing them they had less power
“Lockdown” in quotes, because it wasn’t a full lockdown. They started, but then realized that the economy would really tank, so they loosened it up a bit and made some nice PR (“6 feet” and “15 days”) to convince us that things were fine and under control.
