call me when people start starving, power utilities stop producing power, and people no longer have water in their taps.
Until then, we're probably fine, rattled, but fine.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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Sorry for being cheeky, but the title is silly and obvious. Of course the world is taking notice at the richest and biggest market because it will affect their livelihood.
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“The empire that defined the last century is falling apart at the seams. People notice.”
It's not "falling apart." It's being intentionally dismantled.
Rubio's statement at his conformation hearing was basically "the Post WWII order isn't working for us, so we're ending it."
Intentionally dismantled by a fascist theocracy.
~~falling apart~~ ➡️actively being destroyed since RBG passed away
If only she had retired when there was a chance to replace her with a progressive instead of hanging in until she died.
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One, she should of retired under Obama, and two, the US has failed as a country since bush stole the 2000 election and nobody did shit about it.
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say what you want about the brits, but they wouldn’t have voted for brexit twice.
They kept voting for the conservatives for a while after Brexit. They kept voting for Boris fucking Johnson.
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Well to be fair, you can’t exit something twice
You might think that, but the United States exited from the Paris agreement on climate change mitigation twice: Trump first withdrew in November of 2020, then Biden rejoined in February of 2021, and now Trump is withdrawing for the second time.
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You underestimate Putin's psyops and overestimate people's intelligence.
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Not fast enough. Look at what it did to Gaza and realize that it can still do that to anywhere else it wants.
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Not falling so much as being torn apart. We are in no way doing this voluntarily
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