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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Conservatives have absolutely destroyed America's soft power. At least for an entire generation. They've made the rest of the world believe their shitstain childlike behavior is how all Americans act. This rapist president has made it clear to the rest of the world that agreements with the U.S. are worth no more than the paper they're written on.

These fucking knuckle draggers are weighing us down and will continue to do so after their rapist idol is dead and buried.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Don't worry it'll for more than a generations. China is already a peer competitor and what America had going for it was incumbency as the global unipolar hegimon. Trump has openly reliquished this position and, regardless of who succeeds him, it's not something that can be easily restablished.

Winning goodwill back is almost certainly not going to happen. Even with assurances, other countries will feel as if they're only one election cycle away from potentially unfair treatment. The only way we go back to American unipolarity is another world war which America somehow gets rich off of like WW2 or achieving artificial general intelligence before anyone else.

I think the leaders of the US understand this which is why they're pushing for higher military spending everywhere and also going hard on AGI, no matter how far fetched it is in the near future at least.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The Democrats were unabashedly supporting genocide in Palestine and ran a candidate who vowed no deviation from that policy. If you think it's just Conservatives, you haven't been paying enough attention.