StinkyFingerItchyBum

You didn’t read or understand anything I said. Every country is well fucking aware of the risks. It’s always been on the public debate record. My point is that only the US has terms like “American Exceptionalism.” Methinks thou dost protest too much.

You’re in a house with a fire in the kitchen laughing at your neighbor for being so utterly stupid to let their entire house catch on fire.

No one is laughing.

Edit: Your country is no longer a joke, its a tragedy.

We were able to get away with all of that because we toot our own horn so hard for so long about being the bastion of democracy, and the world largely agreed with us.

Not really. All democratic countries understood the fragility and flaws of their systems. Only the US went around tooting their own horn and dared call themselves a “bastion of democracy”. “End of history”, “Leader of the Free World” and all similar bullshit. Pride before the fall. At best, the rest of the world tolerated it as aspirational. Like when a low IQ child says they want to be an astronaut when they grow up. The adults don’t want to crush a kid’s dreams. We hope you guys would believe it enough to make it mostly true.

To Mark Carney’s Davos speech - The rest of the world pretended it was sorta true, even when we knew it wasn’t. We hoped maybe your shit would get better but it was just apathy, convenience and momentum on our parts. A great many around the world were calling the US out as psychotically fucked and terminally corrupt long before Trump.

You make an excellent point about all the neofascist groups and maga type morons around the world. But everyone has long acknowledged these risks and your point has been in the public debate since forever. Most other western democracies have held them back to date, and they deserve credit for that. Even when right wing parties win, they are still largely constrained in what they can do. The US doesn’t anymore.

I turn my nose up at you, because you let the patients take over the insane asylum. The US is now the premiere threat to my country. I don’t take vacations or jobs in Russia, Israel, China, North Korea, Iran and the like either. I talk shit about all of them at every opportunity too and none of them want to annex us. That you feel singled out like you are being treated as “uniquely ridiculous” just smacks of american hubris.

I already turned down a very lucrative job because they needed someone with a specific skillset to travel to the US. I said no. They offered more. I shut them down. There is no money that will make me set foot in the US ever again. Not only are my vacation plans done forever, you literally can’t ever pay me to go.

There are a lot of wonderful people I will miss. Perhaps, in time, our peoples can heal. But not me, not in my lifetime. Betrayal is neither forgiven, nor forgotten. If you can fix your shit, maybe my children can call you friend. I’m fucking done with you all.

What a shithole country. It’s clearly a no-go zone.

Articles are like this are weird where they warn of what China can do with this data, but somehow the Fascists States of Assholia can be trusted.

The whole world needs to abandon surveilance tech.