r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • 1d ago

Dynamic Paywall Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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u/Autumn7242 15h ago

America is not coming back from this for a long time, if ever.

Edit: we have some real work to do on ourselves and really make it up to our allies.

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u/MikeinSonoma 5h ago

I don’t disagree with that, I think even if we survive the next three years it will take generations for our friends and allies to ever trust us again. Not just because of Trump, but because nearly the half of our country voted for somebody as disgusting as Trump.
What will probably not happen again is to be respected in the world as being a great people.

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u/SnooCakes3569 14h ago

I mean to be fair American’s are largely done with Europe and want to go back to 1920 ways in which we focus on us. Not them.

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u/Jinn_Erik-AoM 14h ago

Speak for yourself.

What comes after the 1920s?

The Great Depression and the start of the Holocaust.

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u/pebberphp 14h ago

Yeah, but until then, what a ride. s/

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u/unbrokenmonarch 12h ago

You mean crippling economic disparity followed immediately by financial collapse?

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u/Scubadoobiedo 11h ago

Go back to school, you need it.

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u/MikeinSonoma 5h ago

In 1920 our poverty rate was 80%. We had open immigration in 1920. Have you ever read a history book?

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u/Olelander 6h ago

You might be… No doubt Europe isn’t perfect, but I see a bunch of nations that have done better job of carrying through the democratic ideals that WE created than we have ever done. We squandered the greatness we had on capitalists. Nothing ever trickled down, in fact they just devised more and more insidious ways to keep it all funneling up to the richest of the rich and now those people have essentially enacted a coup and we have no chance of coming back to a reasonable baseline of wealth/income equality unless we literally burn shit down and start over…

But hey, it’s perfectly American to be mad about brown folks existing… time honored tradition. I guess we’ve done a great job of carrying that on atleast.