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Goodguy  6d ago (text post)   Edited 6d ago   10969 thread views

Midterms Megathread

Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.

The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.

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The point is for countries not allied with Trump to make their own case against tolls. Foreign messaging could have sent the message:

  1. Unconditional US surrender doesn't mean that other countries will accept tolls

  2. Other countries will put the pressure that they can on Trump for him not to accept any deal with tolls.

  3. The countries believe in the idea of freedom of navigation and will make efforts to preserve it.

Instead the messaging that 190 countries in the world sent is that they would LOVE to guzzle Iranian cock while paying for whatever tolls they ask. And they are BEGGING Trump to just unleash the Iranian tolls.

And how do you send the message to American president that he can't make a mess without consulting them, then expect them to clean it up for him?

Paying tolls to Iran for the next 100 years is a great way to stick it to Trump.

Countries are sending the message to America that they won't clean up the mess just because America shits the bed. Boomer American ego is a bigger problem right now than Iranian tolls, though that may change.

Ok if other countries want to sleep in shit then they get to sleep in shit.

If someone shit in my bed I would be pissed but I would still clean it up.

So take responsibility and clean it up. At least the midterms have sent the vague message that random wars are bad for Presidents, though I doubt the lesson will stick.

Sorry, 190/190 countries are BEGGING to sleep in shit, so I don't think it's getting cleaned up anytime soon.

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