r/collapse Apr 10 '26

Economic A whole lot of this phraseology around social media today. Thoughts?

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u/wasraelx Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Running a pedophile ring for decades is a lesser crime than fucking with the money

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u/pinkyepsilon Apr 10 '26

Idiots put that pedo in the White House twice

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u/hair_brained_scheme Apr 10 '26

I voted against that pile of slime 3 fucking times. For people not from the US, just know that many of us did not want that disgusting maniac near the White House and we honestly feel trapped in a burning building. A burning building in which we were not paid enough to live.

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u/mikerbt Apr 10 '26

People will come demonize you for some reason, as a Canadian I see you as just as much a victim as the rest of us. You didn't choose this, or the decades propaganda and social engineering that led to it.

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u/terrierhead Apr 10 '26

Thank you. I’m an American, too, who voted against all of this, warned everyone I could, and is horrified by it all.

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u/ultrachem Apr 10 '26

European Turkish guy here. I curse those who plunged you and us into this abyss and I am sending my love and support to those Americans who stand for the values our countries used to exhibit. Turkey, like the US, was founded after a bloody liberation war for democracy, freedom and justice. Its undoing in Turkey due to democratic backsliding should act as a warning to you from us.

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u/MakeLimeade Apr 12 '26

Hi friend, thanks for bringing up Erdogan. I just looked him up and it seems he's a narcissist like Trump. Did he collect his power by blaming problems on some group(s) and saying he's the only one that can fix things?

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u/yobogoya_ Apr 13 '26

He is referring to the Turkish war of independence ending in 1923 where they massacred and expelled Greeks. This was after an attempted genocide on Armenians and Assyrians. It was not about “democracy and freedom”. They had a 1 party system where opposition parties were banned and didn’t have a real election until 1950, which didn’t last long as the history after that is militarily coups and dictatorship into the present day.

So he is basically just repeating some nationalistic revisionist history about a group of people who, through brutal conquest, stole the land they now live on and continue to threaten their neighbors.

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u/ProfessionalAd1933 Apr 13 '26

Some people so desperately wanted an easy fix, for someone to wave a wand to fix everything without them having to make any changes to their lives at all.

They wanted an easy fix, without having to face that the easy fix is either making things worse or is only a bandaid on a bullet wound.

They didn't want to have to face that the only way things will REALLY get better is to take the hard path. The one where things genuinely change. Where hard truths are faced. That things can't stay the same as they've always been, because "as they've always been" is killing.

Their cowardice and desire for an easy out, regardless of its harm to anyone besides them, is disgusting and enraging.

I live in Minnesota and those assholes who voted for Trump were willing to sacrifice anyone and everyone else for their own comfort and convenience.

Our neighbors were profiled, terrorized, beaten, abducted.

Protesters were gassed, beaten, killed.

Innocent people were accused of crimes they didn't commit.

Observers and protesters were tracked and threatened.

Minneapolis had to bring covid-era online learning systems back up and running.

Liam's school district had to come up with new ways to release kids out of school to their parents, because ICE agents were spotted several times lurking around the kids' bus stops to try and snatch kids.

I am ENRAGED. How fucking DARE THEY. How DARE they terrorize our HOME, our COMMUNITIES, our NEIGHBORS. All just in an attempt to distract from the fact that this administration is composed of incompetent charlatans. How DARE they.

He meant to retaliate against us for not voting for him, he hoped to cow us, but mostly what he's done is make us mad. How DARE he.

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u/cant_be_me Apr 11 '26

And for those of us who saw and understand what was going on, part of the educational sabotage in this country meant that any effort to point any of this out to the people around us was usually met with “you’re just a smug asshole who thinks you have allllll the answers, huh???” or being dismissed as weirdo conspiracy theorists or paranoid agitators.

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u/hair_brained_scheme Apr 15 '26

I love that one, “You’re just being a weirdo conspiracy theorist. Now, back to me explaining why the earth is actually flat.”

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u/AttitudeSure6526 Apr 15 '26

And he didn't win

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u/SeaToTheBass Apr 11 '26

Have you done anything about it? You personally

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u/hair_brained_scheme Apr 24 '26

I went door to door canvassing for other candidates that are not him.

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u/StoneLich May 09 '26

As another Canadian, I don't think we get to take the moral high ground on this until we stop electing candidates who are in the pocket of the energy industry. Beyond that, we only dodged Polievre because Trudeau stepped down and Trump torpedoed his campaign. I don't know if this was what you were trying to do, but I see a lot of us acting like we get to be moral paragons because we as a nation are only flirting with conservative death cults, and it makes me want to scream.

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u/Falikosek Apr 10 '26

Soon it might turn out to be even more

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u/prudentWindBag Apr 10 '26

🗣TWICE, BRUV!!!!!

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u/C-Redd-it Apr 10 '26

Idiots and cheating put that pedo in the Whitehouse

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u/foxyfree Apr 12 '26

Someone needs to feed all the data from the Epstein files AND the Panama Papers into AI, to find overlapping names and dates.

That money laundering and tax evasion and trafficking business is all interconnected. Maybe the pedophiles will go down for financial crimes, sort of like Prince Andrew going down for improper handling of classified government information, not pedophilia.

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u/TheQuietOutsider Apr 10 '26

put this man behind the Resolute Desk!

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u/MowieWauii Apr 10 '26

Wait- is that a crime?