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It's funny and whatever they call him, it's still true that Trump has been wonderful for China.

Well yes there's a lot less interest in going to the US now.

It is genuinely so heartbreaking seeing the US destroying itself in this way. It’s like a real feeling of grief whenever I see there’s a new article about the US betraying us, it’s like finding out your best friend is fucking your wife.

Well done for setting up a fake conversation which makes you look smart and your opponents stupid. Master class in redditing.

Yes, and they won. Cruelty won.

Americans have just seemingly become a rather cruel people.

Well my original claim was regarding parliamentary democracy, and France is not a parliamentary democracy, so I shan't go to any great lengths defending them over something I know nothing about. But yes, these countries are not perfect anyway and I did not suggest otherwise. Only that many of them seem to be fundamentally more stable and successful than the USA. And tbh, what other country has done well with a presidential system besides South Korea?

Anyway we are witnessing the sudden collapse of the American Empire and it is fascinating and tragic to watch. You guys, you really have fucked it all up! A country not more than 30 years from the absolute peak of its global power, decided to abandon all claims to global power and influence by voting for Trump a second time. Incredible, just, incredible. Americans, everybody!

Well, yes, many of them appear to be. Mostly not as rich as the USA, of course, though, but if wealth was all that mattered then Monaco would be the greatest country on hte planet. And I should remind you also that not all countries in Europe have parliamentary systems anyway. France and Russia don't, for example, and there are also parliamentary democracies outside of Europe, like Canada and Australia.

I wonder how they will talk about this decline and fall of this American Empire in the future. Ultimately I think it will become clear that the constitution failed, as one of its primary purposes was to stop such populist enemies of the Enlightenment from coming to power. Well, 250 years was quite good, but eternity is a long time! Maybe parliamentary democracy has finally proven superior to presidential systems.

Has such a dominant power collapsed in this way before? Just arbitrarily decided one day to betray all its allies and start fellating its enemies? Think of the last hegemon, the British Empire, fundamentally that was unsustainable because it's a small island off the coast of Europe, but still it fought two world wars before it finally had to pass the torch. Meanwhile the USA has collapsed in on itself completely foregoing such a glorious end.

To you sure, but lots of people enjoy food. And Americans enjoy eating complete dogshit, being among the most obese and revolting (to the eyes and to the nose) people on the planet. Maybe it'd be a pretty cool thing if they at more like the Italians.

Well, nor is food, you see.

London's fine. Trump and his supporters love to lose their shit over a Muslim mayor though.

I mean sometimes it's really that binary. It's not always complex. Sorry if your feelings are hurt by that fact.

No, you are the hegemon, and that costs money. It was the same when the British Empire ruled 1/4 of the Earth. You don't blame your colonies for costing you money or "freeloading", nobody is forcing to be the global superpower. Just retreat from the world into your small little world of domestic politics, which is admittedly what you're doing, but don't blame us for it.

I find comment such as yours rather pathetic, for reasons I can't quite put into words. It's like you want to make excuses for Trump but you're not really willing to actually commit to it.

Political corruption was not invented by Trump. We know. But that's really not the point at all.

No, the parent did.

Tyranny of the majority may be undesirable but tyranny of the minority is even worse. At least the majority, are, you know, the majority.

All that may be true, but the frontline hasn't shifted. That's the crux, so Russia aren't winning, whereas Ukraine just has to survive to win. Extrapolate the rate of progress and it's decades not years until Russia conquers the rest of Ukraine, assuming nothing happens in the meantime. Which it will.

> talk to anyone born in an Authoritarian regime and they’ll tell you what the absence of freedom means like

You mean like Ai Weiwei, born in Beijing in 1957?

Ok since i can already tell that you’re going to argue all numbers are western propaganda, let’s do something you can at least not argue with: the frontline has barely moved in three years. At this rate it will take decades for Russia to conquer Ukraine.

Well done for using fewer exclamation marks. Stil not able to avoid using them entirely though. They’re considered terrible style you know that right?

The frontline has barely shifted in 3 years, meanwhile Russia has taken a million casualties. Russia has already lost the war.

Also you shouldn't write with so many exclamation marks, besides the already unhinged content of your post, your choice of punctuation makes you look doubly so.

But I'm not saying half the population of your country are morons because I'm bigoted or hate Americans, indeed I have spent almost my entire life respecting and admiring your country and its people. I'm saying half your population are morons because half your population voted for Trump. That's perfectly logical.

And yes I can talk about these things because your country remains the global hegemon, the USA is unavoidable. It's not as if I'm expressing some hot takes on South Sudanese politics, is it? So if we are to be ruled by you please don't be surprised if we have some opinions of you too. That's a fair deal, isn't it?

The payment is that the USA got to make the rules for the whole world, most importantly regarding trade, and we follow them. Now you have decided to elect someone who is destroying the very world order you built that you specifically designed to benefit you! It certainly wasn't out the kindness of your own hearts that you had such a disproportionately strong military, that must be clear to you.

I guess I feel sorry for you because the British Empire had to fight two extremely destructive world wars against militarism and fascism in order to lose its role as superpower. The USA on the other hand has decided to lose its role as global hegemon because, why exactly, trans people and abortion??? Quite pathetic! In the long list of empires the American one will be remembered as having the most pathetic and stupid collapse of all, and that's very sad!

Literally never happened. You just are way too online if you believe that. Try visiting the UK sometime, you clearly never been and it’s a great country.

There's nothing wrong with being stupid at all. I just don't understand why you have such strong opinions on something you clearly know nothing about. So: you don't like Europe, USA's oldest and most important allies because they're socialists. OK but Europe is not even socialist, literally all European countries are capitalist (objectively, it's an undeniable fact). Now what? Any reflection, reevaluation? No, you just get offended and tell me once again that you don't like me because I'm European and that's it.

The enlightenment is dead in the USA, knowledge and facts no longer matter. Feelings over facts really won.

The UK is nowhere near as authoritarian as the USA currently is so I don't understand your criticism. If anything it could bring us together!

You stated something objectively wrong (that European countries are socialist) and then get called out and your reply is just to get upset, literally no information content whatsoever. It's very on brand, I suppose, reminds me a lot of that fraudster, convicted rapist and known paedophile currently in the White House.

Regardless, I agree we are going in separate directions, indeed the USA is no longer even a Western country. We had some good times, the American Empire was pretty great whilst it lasted, I wish you all the best.

This is just American nonsense. Literally every single country in Europe is capitalist. Socialism is the democratic ownership of the means of production. Nowhere do we have that in Europe. Frankly this is the real problem with America, about half the population are extremely poorly educated and yet extremely arrogant. A deadly combination, clearly, as it’s led to the very sudden decline and fall of the American Empire.

It's putting the cart before the horse. An elite university matters in so far as it may indicate a strong intellect and strong drive. Trump went to an elite university and presumably is a hard worker but has some level of mental disability. There are many such people like that I would assume.

The status quo is that the universities themselves decide. That is clearly more neutral than the government dictating to them.