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  • If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?

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  • Honestly I wanna do an expedition to the North Pole and see the sun do weird shit. Then treck to the South Pole so I can see the sun do weird shit but backwards. Like I know that sun is a weird freak when it doesn't think you're looking, that's why it does it at the poles. Then along the way from North to south I'll tell people how weird the sun is, and they'll have to believe me because I've been there, and they'll have to say "damn the sun is weird". Sun's going to be so embarrassed when everyone finds out how weird it is.

    That or like go to Cancun or something. Anywhere that I can keep track of the sun that twisted freak you aren't fooling me.

  • Do you identify with your country of origin/ citizenship or with another subregion? Why?

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  • The country of "Disabled Retro Computer Nerd Land" sounds rad as hell, (the DRCN for short)

  • Non-americans, in what ways is your country better than america?

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  • I'm on board except for the food variety, but I live in Chicago which attracts an amazing foodie scene. In bumbfuck Iowa you're probably more likely to have trouble getting some good Thai food.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • I wouldn't call the last ~150 years a civil war at all. Civil wars are much worse than that.

    But your observation that the split was never fully healed is fully correct.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • I live in Chicago now and I'm proud of our city for resisting so hard.

    With the ICE raids, Trump's immigration thugs complained that Chicago is near impossible to work with because they are met with such fierce resistance. We've been prepped for how to deal with ICE, and Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson have been helpful with that.

    The main complaint is that we all know our rights and ICE can't just bulldoze through our city. Guess we're the town of law and order 🤷

    Sorry NYC, your mayor is a chicken shit who would tattle on Anne Frank before the Nazis got to the door.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • Should he allow for elections again he will be given the same reverence as Regan. I only found out about how much of a monster he was in Junior/ Senior year of highschool and I grew up in Lefty Godless Seattle.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • Are you my neighbor? She always looks for any excuse to say "shoved it up my ass"

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • Oh 100%.

    Fuck I'm so addicted to social media though. Damn I feel so check mate'd.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • Federal abortion ban

    Gay marriage ban

    Derecognizing trans people, oh wait that happened

    Reviving the war on drugs by forcing states to criminalize weed

    Ending the ACA

    Ending any and every environmental protection entity

    Ending the two term limit for the president

    Banning protests and strikes

    Criminalize being homeless, oh wait that happened

    From this (my sad, sad, crystal ball)

    Protests erupt, at first peaceful until live ammunition is used as a suppressant. From this radical groups will likely work with established gangs to create an insurgency. Governors will be forced to either comply with the federal government, or may choose to unite with other governors to defy the federal forces as they see the writing on the wall. It will be a legal battle at first, but then there will likely be an inciting event that will create an interstate crisis. This crisis will either divide state governments, force them under trump, or they will collapse altogether. The battle lines won't be drawn on state lines, but rather between rural and urban territories. It will be more ethereal much like what happened in Syria.

    From an international perspective, the new Bloc of resistance (Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea) will use this chance to advance their agendas. Russia will absolutely support the Trump government, while China will invade Taiwan easily, and then try to keep America slightly stable but still as weak as possible. North Korea and Iran will likely send aid to the other members but not engage directly.

    Canada and the EU will have likely close their borders long before this as our alliance deteriorated due to Trump's intense isolationism.

    If you thought Brexit was a shot in the foot, we just straight up pulled a pin on a grenade and put it in our pocket.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • Very fair take.

    That said he's not a full on idiot. MAGAts are useful tools for him, so he is more likely to try and make them happy, in some way. Currently the way to make them happy is to punish the left. In our post 9/11 USA, rage is what flips seats.

    W Bush won his second term because we were blind with rage after the attacks, and John Kerry didn't run a counter rage campaign.

    Obama won because the financial crash enraged the left.

    Obama won his second term because Romney wasn't able to stir up the needed rage.

    Trump won because he was the embodiment of rage.

    Biden won by the rage we had for Trump in the summer of 2020.

    Trump won again by running a campaign of rage vs Kamala who ran a "campaign of joy".

    We are a country of 50 mini countries. All you need to do to win is generate enough rage to pit purple states against the states who won't vote for you. So long as this country stands as it is, this is just how it's going to be. Sadly any diplomatic fixes for this are pipe dreams now.

    The only way this will end is when the fire of rage consumes the whole system and burns it down. After that... I don't know.

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  • I hate to say it, but yes. Everything we've predicted from trump has come true thus far.

    The insurrection was predicted

    The migrant camps were predicted

    The ice raids were predicted

    Roe v Wade was predicted

    ~Selling~ Giving Ukraine to Russia was predicted

    Banning DEI was predicted

    The list goes on but more importantly these were all seen as hypothetical worst case scenarios. We should stop treating the next steps like they are hypothetical. America has fallen, and civil war is next.

    Former presidents at least recognized they had the responsibility to take care of both the people who voted for them and the people who didn't. Trump only sees the people who voted for him and the people he needs to make an example of.

    I hate to say it, but the DNC is weak and won't help us anymore. I supported Kamala like hell and believed that they could figure it out but they just don't and won't.

    I'm not a violent person. I hate the thought that I'd ever be forced into a situation where I need to either learn how to fight or die (because right now I'm SOL). I never wanted to find myself rooting for assassins and feeling like the world would be better off of certain people were dead. I'd rather believe the world would be better off if certain people were alive.

    But all I see in the future is a federal coup backed by sycophants in the Senate and supreme Court that then collides with the governors of blue states who won't bend the knee.

    TL;Dr if we don't go full dictator, we are going to civil war, and we deserve it.

  • Europeans of Lemmy, is American beer really that bad?

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  • Going out on a limb and saying "Midwesterner spotted"

    Chicagoan checking in- I love that beer

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  • New Belgium is amazing.

    1554 is one of my favorites, and I introduced my friend to the Voodoo ranger series and that's how he left the land of domestic beers.

    Thank you for your service. 🫡

  • Europeans of Lemmy, is American beer really that bad?

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  • Ooooh I want to get into home brewing! I joined the Lemmy community a few weeks ago.

    I moved the Chicago for the entertainment industry, and I was pleasantly surprised by the beer here. I would say the difference between PNW and Midwest beers are that PNW likes to go big and bold- high ABV and IBUs. The Midwest likes to make beers that you can drink a lot of (Alagash White is a good one)

  • Europeans of Lemmy, is American beer really that bad?

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  • There should be a beer equivalent to the movie "Bottle Shock"

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  • 75% in fact!

    Full disclosure, I'm a Seattle born beer enjoyed so I mainly drink microbrews, or what some folks have told me is "fancy beer".

    My parents moved to the PNW from California in the 80s, and they were amazed at the sheer amount of options. Back then it really was just Bud, Coors, and PBR, but even back then the microbrew scene was budding in Portland and Seattle. My dad would tell me how when they would go back to visit old friends in California, it was either amazing wine of shit beer. People's minds were blown when they would bring some stuff down from up north to the party.

  • Europeans of Lemmy, is American beer really that bad?

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  • I think this brings up another good point- some states do MUCH better than others. From what I've seen, the best beers come from the West Coast (especially the Northwest), the Mountain West, Midwest, and Northeast.

    Someone here said they hated the beers in Texas and yea, like don't expect a great authentic taco scene in North Dakota. The worst beer I've ever had was from Florida.

  • Is the fediverse the only fediverse?

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  • In multi-fediverse theory, there are infinite fediverses where any and every possibility of fediverse exists.

  • If China becomes democratic, would you be okay with China replacing the US as a global superpower?

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  • I think the point was to have it as a mental exercise. Personally I'd be fine with it. My main issue with China is the entire genocidal surveillance ethnostate with little to no civil liberties and full restricted speech. If it opened up to allow criticism of the government, protests, protection of LGBTQ folks and legal marriage, I'd be more on board.

    But yes, that's not the China we see today and likely never going to see in our lifetimes.