2020 US Election Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Agreed!

Congratulations to the U.S.!!

Thank you for choosing not to be such a giant douchebag anymore. The rest of the world is very grateful.

Hopefully Biden will work to reverse some of the damage that orange asshole has done.

I mean I'm all for cutting Trump's head off but America has been a colonial/imperial oppressor and murderer for well over 100 years at this point and is no less of one without Trump so congratulating us on not being giant douchebags anymore is ludicrous. We haven't walked back a single thing we did under Bush Jr. that made us a country of imperialist war criminals and I'm pretty sure we won't now.

[adidasss]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I mean I'm all for cutting Trump's head off but America has been a colonial/imperial oppressor and murderer for well over 100 years at this point and is no less of one without Trump so congratulating us on not being giant douchebags anymore is ludicrous. We haven't walked back a single thing we did under Bush Jr. that made us a country of imperialist war criminals and I'm pretty sure we won't now.

I agree with you. The U.S. will continue to be a giant douchebag, as is the tradition, just not quite so toxic (and orange).

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I mean I'm all for cutting Trump's head off but America has been a colonial/imperial oppressor and murderer for well over 100 years at this point and is no less of one without Trump so congratulating us on not being giant douchebags anymore is ludicrous.

This I guess, is one element of labelling a country a giant douche-bag, but there are plenty of others. In the last 4 years the US opted out of the Paris Accord and the WHO, they implemented a policy of turning kids into orphans, they elected Trump, they turned the US into one of the most covid-toxic places on the planet, etc, etc.

Those are all douchebag things to do imo, and I hope that starting in January, some of that may be undone. In the meantime I think adidasss is right: 74 million US citizens have said they don't want to be douchebags anymore.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by TheBig3

Oh right, I forgot you hardliners know the future.

I know to follow the money rather than trusting old guys with money to do the right thing. If the Democratic Party is getting Chamber of Commerce money now then the people they're lobbying for (big business) are probably going to get the better end of the stick.

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

This I guess, is one element of labelling a country a giant douche-bag, but there are plenty of others. In the last 4 years the US opted out of the Paris Accord and the WHO, they implemented a policy or turning kids into orphans, they elected Trump, they turned the US into one of the most covid-toxic places on the planet, etc, etc.

Those are all douchebag things to do imo, and I hope that starting in January, some of that may be undone. In the meantime I think adidasss is right: 74 million US citizens have said they don't want to be douchebags anymore.

We were an oppressor lording over the 3rd world with aircraft carriers and unfair trade relations for a hundred years before Trump took office. Why don't you ask the Philippines if they think we'll all of a sudden turn out to be good people seeing as they were the first people to see how we dealt with international power and influence and then spent half a century being massacred by us.