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minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up24·6 days agoIt will come back eventually. The Germans were Nazis for a while and we like them now.
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·6 days agoYea, but they were fixed by military, economic and political means. Nobody is big enough to fix the US.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·6 days agoThe US is big enough to stop the US, we’ve done it before and I’m fairly certain Georgia is still flammable.
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·6 days agoIt would be nice to avoid a civil war (that would be more useful to enemies), but if you go to war with allies, it starts to become less unthinkable.
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoUnless “fix” means “into a totalitarian neo-Maoist state”. If anyone defeats the US, they’re not imposing liberal democracy.
minus-squareThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days ago Nobody is big enough to fix the US. Time to split the US then? East US gets to keep Washington DC, West US creates new capital city in Oregon?
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoLet’s go with a compromise nobody will be happy with and say Fresno.
It will come back eventually. The Germans were Nazis for a while and we like them now.
Yea, but they were fixed by military, economic and political means. Nobody is big enough to fix the US.
The US is big enough to stop the US, we’ve done it before and I’m fairly certain Georgia is still flammable.
It would be nice to avoid a civil war (that would be more useful to enemies), but if you go to war with allies, it starts to become less unthinkable.
Unless “fix” means “into a totalitarian neo-Maoist state”. If anyone defeats the US, they’re not imposing liberal democracy.
Time to split the US then? East US gets to keep Washington DC, West US creates new capital city in Oregon?
Let’s go with a compromise nobody will be happy with and say Fresno.