Comment by choppypoofart

4 days ago

As an American I'm rooting for everyone else these days. Good for Canada. I hope the EU builds stronger trade with China too and America gets left in the cold to whither and die. Trump, Vance, Miller, Noem, Musk, Bezos all of them just forgotten about and completely irrelevant to the rest of the world.

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insane_dreamer  4 days ago

I feel the same way about the US, but China is even worse. It’s basically what the US is becoming but still further down the road of authoritarianism. So I’m not rooting for it. EU, Canada, Japan etc are a better allay this point.

  • gdilla  3 days ago

    life isn't easy in china, necessarily, but there's a better, accessible path to become middle class. not in the US. the US is so stratified with wealth inequality and systems to keep people down. People in HN are oblivious with thier $1MM TC.

    • seanmcdirmid  3 days ago

      Ok, so you are a poor peasant (erm farmer) in rural China with a 9th grade education (the compulsory minimum in China) in say a poor province like Jiangxi, there are around 500 million of you, what’s your easier path to the middle class than if you were in the USA?

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  • joquarky  4 days ago

    The US just has better propaganda.

    • AnimalMuppet  4 days ago

      When the Chinese press criticizes Xi in the way that the non-Fox press criticize Trump, I'll start listening to such claims. Until then, you're showing either massive ignorance or reckless disregard of the truth.

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freedomben  4 days ago

You realize there are a lot people (who aren't in the administration and didn't vote for them) that would be significantly hurt if all that happened. These people are your family, your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers. You hate Trump so much that you'd prefer to see all those people suffer than have him succeed?

I strongly disagree with most of what Trump says and does, but I can't root for an outcome that would make my kids' quality of life be much worse. I'd much rather see us right the ship.

  • estimator7292  3 days ago

    We're already at the point where the president's secret police are throwing flashbang grenades into cars full of kids.

    You have already lost. We are far past the problems you're worried about. The worst case is already here. It's happening now.

mathgradthrow  4 days ago

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  • NicoJuicy  4 days ago

    As a Belgian, I don't think there is much point in creating a fake account.

    We know the US is different than Trump. But yet, here we are, a wannabe dictator is in control now of the US.

    We realized that we have way too much dependencies on the US in a very short time.

    It's not going to be easy to unbuckle a >70 year old partnership, but not being prepared if he succeeds will be worse, just ask your Canadian friends.

    This guy is willing to sacrifice the entire US for quick personal gain. Luckily it seems he still needs the votes end of November.

    Good luck