Dumb Trump supporters raise mortgage rates, reduce money for Social Security and Medicare, and Make America A Laughing Stock.

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Who would have thought that people so vehemently against a functioning government would ultimately give the world the impression that America does not have a functioning government

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As an outsider, there are soo many other indicators. All linked to R politics.

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And this is true. Feels like USA politics are an even bigger joke than Italian’s

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Hey! I resemble that comment!

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Be fair OP. America became a laughing stock the moment Trump was elected.

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Mate, we’ve been laughing at you for decades.

At least Trump only really hurt America, unlike the third world countries everyone one of your presidents bombs and murders while you self title yourself defender of the free world or whatever wankery it was.

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Most of us don’t like Trump, most of us don’t like the bombings in other countries, most of us didn’t want to be in Vietnam, most of us didn’t want us to be in Iraq.

I don’t look at every person in the UK and assume you all love the Monarchy and love the current and past two morons you have had running the place. I mean fuck Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, and Boris Johnson and Brexit? Shit isn’t lookin great over that way either but I don’t assume it’s because every single citizen of the UK wanted it that way. Quit looking at America like one big collective individual and take a moment to realize that the system here is rigged to shit from years of political fuckery. We are stuck with a two party system and the past two presidents who did the most damage to our foreign relations and our political system didn’t even win the fucking popular vote.

Oh and if I incorrectly assumed you nationality just fill in the appropriate bullshit that is probably happening in your current country.

Sincerely,

One of the majority of Americans that don’t like what is happening in this country either

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What, come on, everyone knows that having four prime ministers in two years is the sign of a stable government.

The monarchy in charge would probably result in a better political situation to be honest.

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most of us didn’t want to be in Vietnam, most of us isn’t didn’t want us to be in Iraq.

I think change starts by taking an honest assessment of the situation, and the statement above is easily disproven:

It doesn’t matter that public support shifted later - of course people feel bad about doing something bad after the fact. But at the time, most Americans did want you to be in Vietnam and most Americans did want you to be in Iraq.

I’m sure that the people in your social circle do disagree with those wars and do disagree with some of the more recent things which have happened, but you need to understand that sometimes the majority does sadly support some very bad things.

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Most of you vote for this every fucking time.

Stop acting like you’re not responsible for the state of your own country; fucking pathetic.

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‘mate’, ‘wankery’…

I take it your country is totally free of any atrocities and has since Its inception been fair and impartial in all of its international dealings.

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Interesting how this obvious Whataboutism gets upvotes when it’s defending America and not China

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Laughing at me for decades? Or my country. I’m not even American.

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I mean, to be absolutely fair, that doesn’t mean the world doesn’t laugh at you. Maybe you’re French

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Please tell me you’re British. Because that would make your moralizing about Americans go from mildy amusing to outstandingly hilarious.

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I’m not.

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So, the ‘pro-economy’ GOP has done more damage to our economy. Basically.

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^ TL; DR

You also left out “again”.

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Important to remember, in many cases it was a goal, not a side effect. When someone lived out their life and they’re kinda miserable and unfulfilled, they might justifiably hate our world, in a sense. There’s really only one way to take revenge on it, and that’s to perpetuate and worsen the shittiness so that nobody can hope to escape it.

Misery loves company, or so the saying goes.

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Says a lot about the people that absolutely don’t want for student debt to be cleared in the USA because they had to clear it themself.

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The worst part is that the student debt they paid off was a small portion of the debt that people cannot afford to pay off now because the same people defunded universities.

When I was a young kid a summer job at minimum wage could pay for a year of state college. By the time I attended a summer job paid for a semester. Now a summer job at the minimum wage will barely pay for books, since the minimum wage has stagnated and tuition goes up year after year.

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I would be surprised if the people most aggressively against student loan forgiveness had any personal difficulty with student loans themselves at all. The politicians beating the drum were likely wealthy enough for tuition to be an afterthought, and their constituents do not value education enough to have needed the loans in the first place.

If you’re in the second camp you’re probably also bitter that these educated liberal elite, that think their so fancy and embarrass you with their big city talk, want now to get their education, which they lord over you, FOR FREE! You’re probably angry that these young people with their hip culture you don’t understand or have time for, because you’re waking up predawn to drive 45 minutes to your manual labor job which is wrecking your body, “don’t have to work like you do.” In short, you’re probably not very big picture oriented, your self esteem is probably pretty fragile, and you’re probably not the strongest abstract thinker. You’re likely angry to the point of antisocial, and relish any opportunity to leverage your will.

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If those people are over a certain age, they “cleared” it themselves with GI benefits and/or they worked during the summer to pay for tuition.

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Hurt people hurt people. Also, dumb people hurt people.

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