12mo ago

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The fact that I know more about US politics than my own country's politics shows what's wrong with US politics and social media.
- I think it's just a side effect to Lemmy doom-scrolling.
  
  It's not just Lemmy doom-scrolling though.
  Here's an article about the upcoming US election in my native country's national publication. There are others, I literally just searched for Trump on the front page.
  This is not a publication trying to sell you doom and gloom either, they're the least biased, most factual publication around these parts. Required by law to not hold a bias and also nationalized so there's no profit motive for ragebait.
  The US election is just considered important in many parts of the world. And to be fair, with the US being extremely important to NATO and Trump wanting to be done with NATO, aaaand many eastern-european countries being very much dependent on NATO to continue existing... You can see how Trump being elected could potentially affect tens if not hundreds of millions of people outside the US too.
  
  Honestly I feel like the U.S. being a bit more isolationist is something most Americans (and a lot of other countries) would be ok with.
  America doesn't need to be the world police anymore, it needs to handle its own obvious internal issues and let NATO/UN have bigger teeth for a few decades. Maybe divert some of the the military budget to schools and healthcare or something.
  edit: for clarity
  
  Honestly I feel like the U.S. being a bit more isolationist is something most Americans (and a lot of other countries) would be ok with.
  Will they really be more isolationist?
  The current President of Brazil (Lula) was intentionally delayed the ability to run as president against the far-right Bolsonaro, with the help of the CIA under Trump's years.[1] Another Coup attempt in 2020 partly by Silvercorp USA, which just happened to provide security for Trump a few years earlier while Trump put a $15 million bounty on the person (Maduro) who was targeted by the Coup.[2]
  I'm not so sure we'll see less political interference in the rest world the world.
  1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash#Leaked_conversations
  2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)
  
  Will they really be more isolationist?
  No of course not but the American public, and most of the the world would probably be ok with America not swinging its dick around.
  To be clear backing coups is the kind of thing America shouldn't be doing when I say "more isolationist."
  
  America doesn’t need to be the world police anymore
  America: ~~Fuck Yeah!~~ No thanks.
  
  Totally.
- i think for me it's "just" that I mostly use English parts of the internet
  ok nvm the problem's still there lol

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