Chances are that whatever country you are from also has an alt-right problem. Seeing the .ca instance, if you are from Canada, you weren’t far from electing your own lite version of Trump. Thankfully our mistake amplified so much bullshit that the Canadian’s didn’t repeat what we did.
My response was that this is becoming a global problem, and all the smug “I’ve been saying it for 30 years” bullshit is just dumb. Perhaps with all that precognition they should have retired by now with their foreknowledge of the global markets.
I know, it’s always the same responses from Americans:
Everywhere else is bad too!
American exceptionalism never dies - even when the country goes to shit that just means they’re going to shit better and faster than everyone else.
Deflection - vague statements about other countries having an a right wing is irrelevant to how shitty America has become.
Defeatism - “this is a global problem”. No, it’s not. There are many countries that haven’t turned their leaders into Kings with nothing to check their power or prevent them from chasing their every whim. You mentioned Canada, Canada has not invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader. Canada is not insisting it needs to Annex an allied nation. South Korea is actually holding a political leader accountable for trying to have a coup and taking them to trial. We should just change the logo of America from “Land of the Free” to “Nothing can be done to stop this.”
Why haven’t you / Aren’t you doing something to stop this?
See above - “Nothing can be done to stop this” / “Can’t somebody else to this for us?” Anything to avoid dealing with the actual shitshow they are living in themselves.
FFS, a leader of a supposedly democratic country has invaded another country, is openly talking about annexing another, openly stating human life has no value, and your response to that is “but but Canada has a Conservative party that lost their last election!”
Yes, we have an alt-right problem thanks to you allowing a house fire to start on our street after three decades of responding like assholes when we told you not to let your kids play with matches.
“Your child’s going to start a fire and it’s going to spread.”
Chances are that whatever country you are from also has an alt-right problem. Seeing the .ca instance, if you are from Canada, you weren’t far from electing your own lite version of Trump. Thankfully our mistake amplified so much bullshit that the Canadian’s didn’t repeat what we did.
America is burning itself down right now and your response is “well there’s smoke in Canada!”
My response was that this is becoming a global problem, and all the smug “I’ve been saying it for 30 years” bullshit is just dumb. Perhaps with all that precognition they should have retired by now with their foreknowledge of the global markets.
I know, it’s always the same responses from Americans:
Everywhere else is bad too!
American exceptionalism never dies - even when the country goes to shit that just means they’re going to shit better and faster than everyone else.
Deflection - vague statements about other countries having an a right wing is irrelevant to how shitty America has become.
Defeatism - “this is a global problem”. No, it’s not. There are many countries that haven’t turned their leaders into Kings with nothing to check their power or prevent them from chasing their every whim. You mentioned Canada, Canada has not invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader. Canada is not insisting it needs to Annex an allied nation. South Korea is actually holding a political leader accountable for trying to have a coup and taking them to trial. We should just change the logo of America from “Land of the Free” to “Nothing can be done to stop this.”
Why haven’t you / Aren’t you doing something to stop this?
See above - “Nothing can be done to stop this” / “Can’t somebody else to this for us?” Anything to avoid dealing with the actual shitshow they are living in themselves.
FFS, a leader of a supposedly democratic country has invaded another country, is openly talking about annexing another, openly stating human life has no value, and your response to that is “but but Canada has a Conservative party that lost their last election!”
Yes, we have an alt-right problem thanks to you allowing a house fire to start on our street after three decades of responding like assholes when we told you not to let your kids play with matches.
“Your child’s going to start a fire and it’s going to spread.”
“Shut up, you’re America’s hat.”