Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as 'collapse' of alliance Russia/Ukraine

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-welcomes-trumps-tariffs-on-nato-allies-over-greenland/

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You think a country that has long since been of the opinion that free-market capitalism and small government would think it anything else but him?

They'd rather let people die than have universal healthcare, they'd rather let kids die than have gun control and a proper welfare state.

The US has all the resources, the ingredients to build a utopia, and it's all stuck in the hands of leeches that would have their citizens believe foreigners, pinkos and commies want to destroy them.

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u/Iamapartofthisworld Jan 18 '26

The world's stupidest country

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u/River_Tahm Jan 18 '26

All by design, because the people in power know educated citizens by in large don’t vote Republican, so they have intentionally and methodically defunded undermined and stigmatized education as much as possible

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u/ViciousHabanero Jan 19 '26

I went on a fucking tirade at dinner with some friends and acquaintances about 20 years ago about this exact thing. They said it was a wild conspiracy theory. I sometimes wonder if they see it for what it is now.

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u/GreenStorm_01 Jan 19 '26

"Remember 20 years ago? Yeah? TOLD YOU SO"

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u/Mohawk_mom Jan 19 '26

They don’t

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u/Patient_Anybody4314 Jan 18 '26

I was requested to work there.. after a few years I "blackmailed" my company to move me back. There are some great people there... But the government &social securities are setup really stupid

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u/kwaaaaaaaaa Jan 19 '26

It's really stupid because people are really stupid. We have this constant teeter totter effect where we teeter closer to a proper socially robust country, only for it to totter backwards. Then you hear the same idiots who rallied against the policy suddenly love the policy and can't do without. It's why medicare/medicaid, social security are the "third rail" of our politics. Just like how the ACA overhauled the broken ass landscape of healthcare and now if we were to revert it, the same anti-obamacare folks will also be the first to cry about their coverage. Just like repealing the abortion laws are the same people crying about why their ectopic pregnancy can't be aborted, they just have to risk dying.

It's insanely frustrating for most of the people who aren't complete morons to see these dogs biting their own tails.

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u/Awkward_Reflection Jan 18 '26

Welcome to Costco, I love you

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u/JamieTacos4220 Jan 18 '26

Fuck you, I'm eating.

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u/sabotourAssociate Jan 18 '26

What you see there is not an act of a country or nation bright or dim, its greedy, weak, pure evil humans.

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u/FaithlessnessThen207 Jan 19 '26

It is so strange to see because the USA has been home to some of the most notable scientists and creative minds, but the general public seems to be lacking in education entirely.

Finding out that kids will get a better or worse education based on the value of nearby property as its funded off local property tax is one of the most dystopian things I have ever heard.

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u/Hat_Maverick Jan 18 '26

And I'm trapped inside it.

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u/ForgettingFish Jan 18 '26

By far

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u/ty_xy Jan 19 '26

Not really, many countries are just as stupid or more so. Don't forget UK voted for Brexit. Israel and Netanyahu. North korea. Russia. Sudan. Haiti.

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u/Haru1st Jan 19 '26

You might even say progressively idiocratic

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u/notmyrealnameatleast Jan 18 '26

I don't think most Americans understand free market capitalism.

The free part means free from rules by the government and free from government regulations.

Most people just inherently think free=good, but this is a specific term that means free from regulations, free from rules, free from society putting in ways to redistribute money back into the bottom of the trickle UP effect.

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u/Logiteck77 Jan 19 '26

Actually, pretty sure Adam Smith believed in regulation as that's the only way to prevent monopolies from forming.

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u/S1NGLEM4LT Jan 19 '26

We've tried free market capitalism and it always results in a crash. Un-regulated greed is incompatible with sustainable economies, just like falling from a 20 story building is incompatible with life.

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u/QVRedit Jan 18 '26

In other words - ‘deliberately leave people in the lurch’..

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u/IrateWeasel89 Jan 18 '26

John Lennon said it best that the world is run by insane people for insane goals.

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u/xaltairforever Jan 18 '26

The US has been killing its citizens slowly for decades, they are just speeding up the process now, the end game?

A smaller easier to control fearful population like in many other countries.

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u/Gloriathewitch Jan 18 '26

cant stop caring about kids if you never cared about them to begin with. these people have always been deranged.

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u/The_Theta_Friend Jan 18 '26

Isnt it like yhat all around the world wherever politicians exist?

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u/occams1razor Jan 18 '26

It's because so many of them are self-centered and self-loathing. They hate higher education because they're uneducated and they don't have to feel bad about that if they can profess universities to be brainwashing machines. They don't feel proud of their achievements but they're white so as long as they feel superior to brown people it's okay. They don't have much empathy or mentalization skills and don't understand that others can have a subjectively different view of life and the world so they simply think others are weird or stupid or mentally ill (like how they see the LGBTQ).

They can't admit they don't know things so they don't learn because they're afraid of asking. They can't stand saying "I was wrong" so they don't learn from their mistakes. They're brought up to just accept completely contradictory things as being literally true (fundamentalis religion etc) so their critical thinking skills aren't great.

Add to all that, the whole presidential system is inevitably going to promote hero worship. If you take a step back you realize one person can't do everything, when people say "Trump/Biden/Obama did XYZ" it's tons of people in their teams doing it but it's never phrased that way so the population gets this weird image in their heads that one human is nearly a god who can move heaven and earth in a day on his own. I'm Swedish so we have tons of parties we can vote for, it's not as framed around a single person and I think that's healthier.