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If he destroys the DoE, tuition rates will fall because there's no more student loans and universities will have to compete on price

When we rebuild government, maybe it will actually improve service as we prioritize what is important now vs what was important historically

it means that the us empire is definetly going away soon.

He seems to have united the world... regrettably against us.

Also the word "bigly." I use it all the time.

He brought defeat to the Canadian conservatives from the jaws of victory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election#Opinion_polls

Look at that comeback 🤣

I've picked up the gardening hobby and actually seem to be keeping up with it.

Nothing like a crisis where food is looking to be a concern to get ones ass in gear.

Canada was watching, pulled a 180 and didn't elect their own Trump Wannabee.

From my European perspective:

• Countries are finally starting to push for independence from the US when it comes to defence etc
• The UK and Canada moving closer to the EU, increasing political and economic cooperation
• Brain drain from the US leading to American academics moving to Europe, bolstering our economy and research
• Hopefully seeing how fucked up the US is will eventually lead some people to reconsider voting for the far-right in Europe

The ever-accelerating demise of the American empire will remove their fingers from every political and economic pie in the world, creating a small chance that something even worse doesn't fill the gap.

The way I console myself is by saying that likely, the only way the US elects a true socialist democrat (AKA Bernie Sanders / AOC) that can bring about a Brand New Deal, is by having the pendulum of American politics first swing so far to the right, that everyone with a conscience is forced to get out and vote in retaliation.

But the idea that we could simply vote our way out of a rising fascist dictatorship seems a fleeting fantasy.

The Canadian people are united like they have never been before. Canadian dollar as been rising. Canada is getting more doctors and high level professionals as some flee the U.S. Canada has been expanding trade ties around the world (exception is U.S.). Traveling Canadians are welcomed around the world.

I'm secretly hoping for another housing crash so I can afford a larger house and have my dad move in with me. Donald Trump seems to be my best chance at that

It's an accelerationist's wet dream. Things are gonna get real bad here soon, and the best we can hope for is the when the backlash comes it will be swift and lasting.

The removal of DEI related protections at large corporations show who really was LGBTQIA+ supportive and who was just riding the trends.

We're getting a heavy dose of "You don't know what you've got till it's gone".

It's become apparent to even people that normally don't pay attention that, despite being less than we want, a lot of our tax money actually does go toward things that help the citizens.

Other than that, I got nothing. These policies, decisions, and the people making them are all a disaster that are going to take decades to repair.

People will feel the economic impact like a freight train here pretty soon, and hopefully that pisses off the idiot cult enough to make them turn on the republican party. They might not ever turn on trump, but I think his base will turn on the party quick once they start to really struggle. Then maybe we can rebuild some of this madness, invest in science and education, and have a reasonably well educated populas; and then maybe fascism will die.

Most likely wishful thinking. I've lived long enough to see my political efforts fall completely flat or get reversed outright. The people who share my viewpoints either can't be bothered, for some fucking crazy reason, or insist to "play by the rules". Fuck the rules, they don't play by the rules. It's time to get a fucking spine and fight back, but we've been given too much bread and too many circuses, so much that at least half of us would rather collapse society than share or take less.

We are vain, narcissistic, horrible little parasites that feel entitled to impose our will how we see fit. Yes, at the moment I mean this strongly about Myself and fellow Americans, but this disaster is far from unique to us. Countless species extinct, counteless lives taken, countless pain inflicted. Human beings are the apex invasive species, and there is no one at all to put us into check. It's hard to feel like any of this is undeserved, and it's foolish to think we deserve anything at all.

I generally try to be positive, and you can save your fingers from debating with me. I just don't care anymore. We could kill ourselves tomorrow and I would only feel relief for the life that will thrive without us fucking it all up. Fuck every last one of us.

It has radicalized my previously centrist brother-in-law to the left and continues to do so.

One silver lining that I'm hoping for is that the collapse of American global influence might result in a rollback of the insane intellectual property regime they've been pushing on the rest of the world for generations. There were already hints of this sort of thing happening back during Trump's first term; the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty originally included a bunch of clauses protecting American IP but when Trump withdrew the rest of the signatories redesigned the treaty to remove those clauses.

The withdrawal of American foreign aid sucks, but likewise may end up removing roadblocks to various good things like family planning, sex ed, and so forth being offered. A lot of America's foreign influence was a mixed bag due to their puritanical demands.

i appreciate the BuyEU and BuyCanada movements.

also uniting both canada and eu in terms of defense is a good move, imo.

the amount of incompetency people didn't think would exist, we now have a good example of~! maybe it is not incompetency, but retrograde thinking~.

I’m a US citizen looking for a way out and it’s probably not going to happen because I’m not rich and I’m not important.

The good news is I will likely be killed over this horseshit soon enough so I won’t have to suffer that long with it.

He will reduce mindless consumerism of cheap garbage, so there is that.

We're seeing the beginnings of further European integration. Who knows, there may even be an EU military in the future.

The people that didn't vote against this shit are going to suffer for it.

Other contries can use it as a fire against far right forces in their own countries. (That is, if the left is compenent to use it properly).

The USA is losing it's soft power on many countries making them more independed from the US.

When someone shoots him in the fucking face, I won't feel even a little bad about it.

Well it hasn't happened yet but if house prices collapse, it will be good as long as we can keep our jobs. So many people I know work here but can't buy a house. I bought my first in a market crash in the 1990s. He's been so bad for the economy, I am hoping the house values crash.

I never stopped doing organizing work since Trump 1, during the Biden regime a lot of people went back to brunch, it was harder to find volunteers. Now they're all back and ready to be mad at the government and do work.

By crashing the US economy, he is teaching a better lesson about fascism than any history professor.