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We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do (lemmy.autism.place)

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These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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[–] yrmp 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like the Germans are the only ones who understand this. Very few of the Americans in my life understand they just lost their “democracy”. I’m a dual German/US national, so it’s been hard to watch the US backslide. I’ll come to Germany next year, but I swear to god if you fuckers elect AfD I’m gonna lose my shit.

[–] CitizenKong 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our current government literally just collapsed today so... yeah.

[–] yrmp 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes but the mechanisms behind your electoral process are still there, and it isn’t one party rule for optimistically the next four years. USA might not be having anymore elections. The German situation is serious but it’s more of a fender bender than the all out full head on collision without seat belts that is the USA.

[–] CitizenKong 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, that's way worse! But it doesn't make me very optimistic about Germany's future either, even without the Trump tragedy.