• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      Unfortunately we outside the US see mostly impotent hand-wringing coming from there. That’s why we’re so frustrated.

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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        10 hours ago

        The best you can do is to make the bad parts of America face bad consequences for their malice, while supporting the good parts of the nation. You have different tools from my people, and should make good use of them.

        Back in the 1st American Civil War, the Union had retained their international trade partners throughout the war, while the Confederacy was cut off. That starved the serpent, and made it much easier to tread upon as the years went by.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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        14 hours ago

        I get it. But just like the UK isn’t Boris Johnson, China isn’t Xi Jinping, and Italy isn’t Giorgia Meloni, no country is going to show the reality and complexity from headlines generated by a handful of people.

        What is happening here seems to be everyone taking out their frustrations on the exact people most likely to help.