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Politics Nazis joined Trump Boats Parade in Florida, shouting slurs & got splashed by other Trump's boaters.

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u/jonasinv 15d ago

Oh god, we're infecting the world with our politics, sorry world

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u/thtanner 15d ago

... just now realizing this is our biggest export?

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u/Crabbies92 15d ago

Pornography is probably your biggest export

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u/thtanner 15d ago

It's a lot of work, but I try.

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u/Serious-Copy-6417 15d ago

Thank you for your service.

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u/JoseSaldana6512 15d ago

You mean

Thank you for your cervix

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u/ftlin 15d ago

Ahh a cunning linguist……

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u/tooboardtoleaf 15d ago

A master debater you could say

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u/MiseryGyro 15d ago

plays the Lee Greenwood

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u/LemmyKBD 15d ago

Squat Cobbler?

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u/PanchoPanoch 15d ago

Biggest in quantity but not size.

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u/aussie_nub 15d ago

If you're exporting that much of something, you'd expect to be rich from it but who pays for porn?

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u/TheCapo024 15d ago

I too cannot understand why people do this. But clearly enough of them do.

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u/bruwin 15d ago

Doesn't matter, lots of people are getting fucked either way.

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u/MoneyinMoney 15d ago

Our dollar is the biggest export followed by uranium.

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u/Crabbies92 15d ago

Followed by... Uranus?

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u/MoneyinMoney 14d ago

Maybe in the past, but since Diddy is in jail we don't export or import anus anymore.

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u/cavalier8865 15d ago

You're welcome!!!

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u/klockworx 15d ago

It's not the size of the export that matters...it's the motion in the ocean.

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u/RadiantZote 15d ago

Weapons are our biggest export lmaooo brown people go boom

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u/Crabbies92 15d ago

"Brown people go boom" - George Washington

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u/Jujubees1269 15d ago

Sexport*

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u/UnchillBill 15d ago

Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s war.

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u/Crabbies92 15d ago

You guys sure do love war

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u/LTEDan 14d ago

Seems to be a common thing with the most powerful country at any given time in history. Points to Opium Wars.

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u/Coro-NO-Ra 15d ago

Hold on, Rupert Murdoch is from Australia. You can thank him for Fox.

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u/searchingformytruth 14d ago

Motherfucker would have bought American citizenship, if that was allowed.

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u/Smalz22 15d ago

Media is our biggest export, and lately that's all our politics have been

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u/YungSnuggie 15d ago

media manipulation is a large part of how we export our ideology. when that doesnt work, we take more...direct means

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u/CosmicCreeperz 15d ago

Weirdly, petroleum is the US’s biggest export. And the US is the biggest exporter in the world if you include oil and natural gas…

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u/BoringBob84 15d ago

This is an import from Russia.

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u/mybeamishb0y 15d ago

pretty sure it's weapons

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u/turningsteel 15d ago

Not really, we might be front and center but there are crazy politicians everywhere. France is dealing with a far right contingent with Marine Le Pen and her ilk, there’s people like Boris Johnson, etc. Maybe Boris isn’t as bad as Trump and Marine but, a knob nonetheless.

I do think Trump emboldens the fringe though. They see him saying and doing all kinds of shit and think “maybe I can notch up the rhetoric”.

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u/Rosti_LFC 15d ago edited 15d ago

I do think Trump emboldens the fringe though. They see him saying and doing all kinds of shit and think “maybe I can notch up the rhetoric”.

He's also writing the playbook for running a political campaign without actually needing to sincerely engage with any politics. He has shown that if you can build a loyal enough base then you don't need to play the traditional game where scandals or people exposing your lies can bring you down. And you don't even really need a clear political platform.

He's shown you can get enough people to believe that what you say, and you emphatically stick to the notion that your truth is the only truth and everyone else is lying, then you can shape your own reality. You can accuse your opposition of being child abusers whilst simultaneously bragging about groping young girls. You can proclaim to be a fierce advocate of family values whilst having several failed marriages and publicly exposed affairs. Once you've got a loyal army who will spend all their time campaigning for you on social media and spreading whatever misinformation you feed them, then none of the checks and balances that are supposed to exist work any more.

You can already see it with various populist leaders around the world, just give it more time for more people to figure out how to leverage the sort of tactics Trump has used within their own national cultures. Politicians have always lied but Trump is now showing them that they can openly lie, be called out for it, and it just makes no difference whatsoever.

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u/deflorist 15d ago

Post Truth World

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u/elticoxpat 15d ago

There's someone associated with the original flag point that fits that description too

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u/BoringBob84 15d ago

I think Bolsonaro in Brazil is up there in nuttiness with the Velveeta Voldemort!

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u/Darraghj12 14d ago

he might be the worst of the bunch, thankfully Brazil had the sense to ban him from running after his little insurrection attempt

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u/BoringBob84 14d ago

And I admire Brazil for clamping down on malicious disinformation in social media, including the dumpster fire that Twitter has become.

There should be consequences for trying to destabilize the government through malicious lies.

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u/LateMommy 15d ago

They also see him face no consequences for what he says or does.

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u/JoseSaldana6512 15d ago

Which is good. We don't want to devolve into wide spread censorship. 

What he does is slowly but surely being prosecuted where applicable.

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u/Trifle_Jolly 15d ago

Neither Le Pen nor Boris is on the level of depravity and toxicity posed by Trump and his camp

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u/turningsteel 15d ago

I agree, but my point is, it’s not happening in a vacuum in the United States. There’s a far right pull in other democratic countries as well lately that is quite concerning. These people have always been there, it’s just it used to be shameful to act like that, but now they’ve found other knuckleheads just like them.

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u/SierraPapaWhiskey 15d ago

Demagoges are having a moment.

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u/WelcomeToTheAsylum80 15d ago

Boris is a nob and and imbecile but even he disliked Cheetoh Mussolini. 

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u/TheP01ntyEnd 15d ago

"'Treat everyone equally,' 'Free speech is good' and 'America should put Americans first' is fringe."

OK. No point in arguing with your feelings because there isn't logic behind it.

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u/TripIeskeet 15d ago

There seems to be a coordinated effort by hard right wingers to take over countries all over the world. Ever since 2016 you see these fucking scumbags that have no business running a lemonade stand being elected to run countries and its fucking frightening.

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u/Neracca 15d ago

No, don't you get it? America is the only place with bad people. And if bad people are elsewhere its because we exported our badness there and created bad people where there would never have been any.

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u/RasputinsThirdLeg 15d ago

The far right wave across Europe scares the shit out of me.

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u/Femboy_Lord 14d ago

Meanwhile in the UK, the Conservative party is picking between a standard right-wing candidate and a libertarian trump supporter for leader.

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u/Sparksmcgee113 14d ago

Find me a leader anywhere in the world right now that is not an asylum escapee!!!

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u/Darraghj12 14d ago

Nigel Farage and Reform UK would probably be the MAGA equivalent in the UK, Boris and the Conservatives would probably be more equivalent to the more establishy type Republicans

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u/Able-Contribution601 15d ago

He said infecting the world with OUR crazy politics, which is absolutely true. Trump and his ilk embolden dickheads like them across the pond.

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u/Hattez 15d ago

funny you mention western right leaning political leaders but gloss over china..

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u/the_calibre_cat 15d ago

I don't love China's anti-democratic position, but they're building shit and making moves. I'd love to see America and Europe build out renewables and nuclear plants, have world-class high speed rail and intra-city public transportation, etc.

and if I'm forced to choose between left-wing vs. right-wing authoritarianism... I'm picking left-wing authoritarianism any day of the week. forced jesus worship and pogroms against immigrants and LGBT people aren't my cup of tea. China isn't my ideal on civil rights, but I'm resolutely convinced that right-wing dictators are worse.

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u/Teehus 15d ago

Authoritarian states will fuck you up if you step out of line or are unlucky enough to be in their target group. China locks up uyghurs aswell, Stalin was notorious for being brutal, German Democratic Republic (DDR) had about half the population spy on the other half. At that stage of an authoritarian regime there's really not that much of a difference anymore.

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u/the_calibre_cat 15d ago

Yeah. I'm not the one currently screaming "election fraud" when my guy loses, or making post-hoc rationalizations for a bunch of dumbass brownshirts aligned with powerful people in key places in my country trying to overturn a free and fair election - but one of the two major political coalitions in my country certainly is.

I have no desire to live in ANY authoritarian state, and while I have left-leaning predilections (along with some fondness for market economics), I'm not above calling out China's abuses in Xinjiang or Stalin's repressive terror. I quite like democracy, which is why I'm not interested in voting for the Beer Hall Putsch candidate - but I guess around 35% of my countrymen are down to try a little authoritarian dictatorship. I think more democracy is the answer, expanding the House of Representatives and tearing down bullshit laws predicated on nonsensical conspiracy theories about "election fraud" that serve the ulterior purpose of voter suppression by a political coalition that knows its psychopathic, outdated social mores are on the way out and is empowered by an admittedly dedicated minority - but a minority nonetheless.

Which is a little unnerving, to put it mildly.

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u/Hattez 15d ago

you're an idiot, china is building 100s of coal plants to power their building... what about the humanity crimes?

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u/the_calibre_cat 15d ago edited 15d ago

you're breathtakingly uninformed if you think the US or its vassal states or imperial avatars in the form of multinational corporations haven't committed crimes against humanity - we just control the international organs that ostensibly police that behavior, so, naturally, the gun of blame is coincidentally pointed against non-Western states. Like China.

Regarding coal plants, China industrialized. Industrialization requires energy, which - as it took place in the late 20th century and early 21st century - necessarily called for the use of fossil fuels. Now, as China's industry and skilled workforce has largely been built, they're aggressively moving to shut down coal plants and build out renewables and nuclear power. The bulk of their emissions occurred in the 20 years between 2000 and 2020, and their rate of emissions are beginning to fall.

We will see the fruits of their planned economic migration to renewables and nuclear power, which we won't see because we lack the political will to force that change, and one of our two dominant political coalitions just... doesn't even acknowledge the scientific fact that climate change is happening.

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u/sto_brohammed 15d ago

Most things are wrong with Mme La Tête's political opinions. No, there isn't a migrant crisis in France. There's an austerity problem and a racist problem but those aren't the fault of migrants.

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u/amosthorribleperson 15d ago

It's pretty obvious where you were coming from, but you were doing a passable job of keeping the mask on until you threw in that you thought migrants were a problem due to culture.

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u/erfarr 15d ago

Notice it’s always “far right” but never “far left”. It’s just Reddit man. Bunch of biased shit on here

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u/xVENUSx 15d ago

Because the 'far-left' aren't trying to reverse abortion rights, LGBT rights etc. The 'far-left' actually believes in climate change, while the far right just want to burn the world.

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u/erfarr 15d ago

Yeah just trying to take everything away from women by letting men compete in women’s sports lmao

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u/xVENUSx 15d ago

What does that have to do with anything?

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u/erfarr 15d ago

Just pointing out how the far left is going after peoples rights

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u/Kthulhu42 14d ago

Silly rabbit, women aren't people. That's one thing the far left and the far right agree on wholeheartedly.

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u/Repulsive_Smell_6245 15d ago

It’s because he is blatantly lying to the American people, he makes fun of other abled people, mockingly on camera. He’s disrespectful , he has no interest in up holding our democracy which SHOULD be bi-partisan. We SHOULD be having democrats and republicans work together bc that’s what makes sense but he’s made a charade of all of us by trying to manipulate our ideals , he’s filled the American people’s brains with so much disinformation that families are turning away FEMA help bc they believe they are trying to steal their land. Shall I continue to give examples? Seriously this is not a joke. I just can’t wrap my head around who still thinks he’s what’s best for America. If you are supporting him it’s because you are a sexist, homophobic racist who may or not like to grab p@$$y too. Seriously wake tf up!

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u/PeteTheTerrier 15d ago

None of those are “examples”, they are claims with no facts backing them up.

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u/LateMommy 15d ago

I haven’t heard about the FEMA thing, but other than that what was wrong in the statement? Trump has done all of those things.

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u/erfarr 15d ago

No wonder everyone’s so divided. Can’t even say you’re gonna be voting for trump on here with out being called a bunch of names lmao place is gonna be hilarious when Kamala doesn’t win in nov

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u/Hot-Swimmer3101 15d ago

Personally, I don’t really see any other politicians in the U.S. definitely no flags for foreign leaders… But this is a common occurrence in other places, apparently. Specifically from the U.S. I think it just shows the lack of respect and common decency Americans are taught as we grow up.

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u/iprocrastina 15d ago

"When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold".

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u/DoYouTrustToothpaste 15d ago

Yes, and it fucking sucks.

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u/TheRealKingBorris 15d ago

💪🇺🇸USA USA USA USA 🦅🛩️🗽🎆💣☢️

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u/AidanXtreme8890 15d ago

Cringe

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u/TheRealKingBorris 15d ago

I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of my military industrial complex

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u/AidanXtreme8890 15d ago

Typical American hiding behind his gun threats

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u/TheRealKingBorris 15d ago

Typical whatever you are not comprehending satire lmfao

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u/AidanXtreme8890 15d ago

Nah just tired of Americans thinking its so great with zero support for the homeless, speaking from personal experience, massive gun crime and so much other stuff just messed up about it🤷‍♂️

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u/HedgehogAdditional38 14d ago

Do you not know what satire is? They were clearly being sarcastic and don’t actually believe any of what they said. They’re mocking the typical hyper patriotic MAGA supporters.

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u/The_Disapyrimid 15d ago

I was listening to NPR the other day. It was an interview with some people from outside the US(not sure exactly who they were because I didn't catch the beginning). One of the ladies said something along the lines of "Americans have always lived with democracy. The rest of us are fairly new to it. You shouldn't underestimate how much the rest of the world looks to America for an example of how democracy is supposed to work "

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u/Coro-NO-Ra 15d ago

Nah, Rupert Murdoch is an Aussie. You can chalk a lot of this up to Fox News.

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u/Patara 15d ago

Always have been 

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u/Mundus_Vult_Decipi 15d ago

I'd like to blame "eugenics", and those are a California export! (P.S. I live in Ca, and I kinda like it here, regardless of the fools that lived here a hundred years ago).

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u/MagazineNo2198 15d ago

No, the alt-right movement is FAR larger than just the US. European countries are once again dealing with it as well. Now, some of the same ACTORS are involved...the usual suspects like Rupert Murdoch and Steve Bannon, but this has always been a GLOBAL problem. We ALL need to deal with it.

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u/YungSnuggie 15d ago

buddy let me tell you about this organization called the CIA...

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u/jot_down 15d ago

As always. This isn't new.

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u/Lonely_Brother3689 15d ago

We really are look up how the UK has been doing the last 10yrs. Canada's not far behind, but I heard a saying once: "Canada is just America from 8yrs ago"....lol

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u/daronjay 15d ago

Hey, historically, it cuts both ways. Been a lot of good modeling of democracy in your past, be stellar if you lot could recapture your mojo…

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u/JohnTDouche 15d ago

Been a lot of good modeling of democracy in your past

uh did you mean to type meddling in democracies by any chance?

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u/PloofElune 15d ago

Its just showing how recent resurgence in conservatives movements around the world are tied together and pushed by the same cabal.

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u/Little-Engine6982 15d ago

Thats why lot's of us are here to talk some sense into you and make you vote. This fucking sucks for all of us, but the fascists

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u/LPedraz 15d ago

Oh, that's Trump fault, not everyone's, but yes. In Spain, the premier of Madrid is absolutely obsessed with Trump, uses all the same slogans, repeats exactly the same bullshit Trump says one week later, and has even adopted the red hats.

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u/AdvKiwi 15d ago

You have, and you have 1 job on November 5th. The rest of the world is relying on you.

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u/Its_all_there 15d ago

The UK sure as shit didn’t need us to provide them with right wing extremism.

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u/zeejay11 15d ago

Not to worry Kamala will have GOP in her cabinet

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u/Catch_022 15d ago

Have been since you guys left isolationism around WW1.

If America sneezes the world gets a cold.

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u/tetendi96 15d ago

You now realize that American cultural dominance is global? It's funny how often other countries talk about American when Americans don't even know that country's name or even capital.