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That's great if it's true -- but if it IS true, then why is everyone in this thread all upset by me being fine with it? Why are people trying to sell me so hard on keeping the status quo, telling me about "trusted partnerships," using vague and awkward hypotheticals like "punched in the face" and even pulling out the ad hominems when I say let's accept what it is?
It appears that a great many of you are deeply, deeply upset that we Americans did in fact beat the odds and do the impossible and you do NOT actually want to accept that the old world order is gone.
Whatever this new day is, I am perfectly fine with moving forward into. I don't care what other countries trust and don't trust, because it no longer matters: the orange chancre has destroyed everything that once did. I am not for resurrecting it.
So why are you all so upset? Why do you need me, specifically, one American guy, to want your trust? Why do you need me to pretend like I don't like the status quo?
You're all telling me that you're doing great without the US, and that's the best response that could be hoped for. You're all telling me you don't trust the US, and that's perfect too: rebuild yourselves without us. You're all telling me that the US has nothing to do with funding the security of other countries: great! You can't miss what you never had, then.
And your own entire comment. Clearly, it is intended to trigger some visceral response in me, because healthcare does that to a lot of people, and your response was crude and ugly. But the question is, and remains, why? Why is that such a threat to you personally that you have to come back with something you thought would personally discomfit me?
So why all the long faces? What is it you all REALLY want from me that you're not getting? What's all the bad attempts at sophistry in aid of? When the other day everyone was insisting "Fix your shit!" and we pulled off a miracle, and you're all happy as clams exactly the way you are, and you don't need the US and you don't trust us and you never will again if even then, WHY do you need me to give a shit about your trust?
Because I honestly cannot be bothered. Find someone else to mirror your hypocrisy to. You got the wrong guy.
You replied to me. And you're the one replying to everyone with a novella's worth of words.