I keep thinking back to this article:

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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why did you immediately jump to the conclusion that the country being referred to was the US?

Probably because there’s really only one nationality of people who do this lol

I worked in (Canadian) government for a while and we used our desktops as thin clients in a way. That wasn’t the intended use of our desktops but the office internet was just so insanely locked down that nearly every site was blocked. Like trying to watch a YouTube tutorial? Blocked. Trying to read a forum thread to debug something? Blocked. It was stupid.

We all just ended up RPCing into Azure VMs because we’d actually be able to do our work that way.

Not super related but something I think about sometimes lol

Not really directed at you specifically, it’s just that it seems like the top response to Trump doing anything is that it’s just a distraction. I can’t really put my finger on exactly what it is about it that bugs me, but I think it just comes across as dismissive

Edit: I think it bothers me the most when it’s something in relation to a country other than the USA. Like fine, write off the stuff that only affects the US, but to hear things just shrugged off as “it’s only a distraction” from a citizen of the country where said things are really screwing us over is just irritating.

It’s like if someone just threw a handful of shit at you and someone else says “oh yeah that’s just a distraction 🤷”

Not everything is a distraction and your country needs to stop dismissing everything as one

Agreed. I don’t think Americans appreciate how much the rest of the world hates (and has hated) American defaultism and exceptionalism.

I would love to see the USA balkanize into smaller countries

What’s that? Oh he just decided that he’s pulling the US into the Commonwealth now. The most stablest genius

I don’t know if I trust the people either when Trump has a nearly 50% approval rating

I wonder if those who believe in TDS would also believe in Trudeau Derangement Syndrome where one feels compelled to put “F🍁CK TRUDEAU” flags on everything. Realistically these people probably know nothing about Canadian politics though

Have the teams been decided? Are the USA, China and Russia playing the Axis this time around then?

inb4 “American settlers” in Canada, Denmark and Panama

I thought the US didn’t need anything from anyone else? Isn’t that what you said?

Cuba (full ban on travel)

Christ will the US just leave Cuba alone already. You won the Cold War (ignoring recent events), just let them be

“Why won’t he just hear the concerns of the people calling for his death!!”

Not to mention all the restrictions they were complaining about were put in place by the provinces. Ironically it was a Conservative premier in Ontario’s case.

*three years ago. I live downtown Ottawa and remember the convoy distinctly (unfortunately) but you made me feel like time was passing even quicker than it already is lol

… does Ukraine even get anything out of that? It doesn’t sound like Ukraine benefits in any way.

It’s like “here’s the deal: you just give me $1 million”

Does the term “legally” even matter in US politics anymore?

The USA isn’t a real country

The operation, conducted alongside allies from the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden and Finland

Why don’t we just conduct the operation alongside Russia at this point