I find myself contemplating this exact same sentiment at least once a day at this point. I just have to wonder how representative I am of the general populace here. Am I some weird outlier, or is this common? If this is common, I just don’t know how the country can sustain itself, or if it even should.

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So, webcomics? Is this just webcomics?

How does our society expect anyone to have any allegiance or any semblance of cultural investment in it, when it expects us to just accept and even contribute to this level of inhuman violence? I feel like I’m locked in an asylum.

Oh, yea. Burn that fascist shithole to the ground.

I hope I live to see Israel, in its current form, entirely destroyed. I want to believe that there are consequences to being this evil.

That’s wonderful. Israel will just blow it up, because.

I hope other countries realize that entering into trade agreements with the United States is a meaningless endeavor given that we don’t believe we have any responsibility to abide by agreements that we make anymore. We are an entirely unreliable partner.

“If he does impose the additional 50%, US companies would pay a total rate of 104% on Chinese imports.”

This was the bit of information I was confused about before reading this article. I was under the impression that we were already charging over 50%, and for some reason I didn’t realize that we can charge more than a 100% tariff.

As others have already said, JFC we are cooked.

It’s probably a downstream effect of the souring mood in the United States as the consequences of the current administration and our slide into fascism become increasingly apparent. Can’t speak for the rest of the world, but it’s hard to believe things are getting better out there.

I hope that people outside the US are aware of how quickly the rhetoric is shifting within the US. The right wing machine is rapidly spinning up a normalization of the ideas that: the US doesn’t need allies at all, the US has zero obligation to abide by international treaties, and the rest of the world is available for us to take. By ‘take’ I mean utter economic dominion and/or military conquest and/or territorial annexation.

The speed at which things are deteriorating here is shocking. An imperial US is a terrifying prospect. This deranged, entitled joke of a country has both an effectively endless supply of armaments and a depraved indifference to the suffering of people abroad and here at home.

The world has a metastasizing US problem.

There’s nothing redeemable about Russia’s oligarchic regime. People who do support it are either excited about doing right wing bigotry, or providing peasant-brained support for the idea of having feudal lords that will supposedly protect them.

As much as I hate the authoritarian regime in China, at least they have achieved meaningful outcomes for many of their people and seem to be investing in a long-term plan to continue that momentum.

As others have expressed on this thread, it’s important to apply your righteous sense of justice to the US as well. When you do, you will start to realize that we’ve been an unspeakably damaging force for both the wellbeing of our own people, and people globally. As an American, I can tell you that it’s quite a shock to wake up from decades of programming and realize the scale of violence my own country has perpetuated.

I hope that’s true and I hope it happens. I’m concerned because I see examples like the administration successfully exerting pressure on other states to relax their law enforcement in cases like Romania’s prosecution of the Tate brothers.

You think that things like ‘laws’ and ‘contracts’ mean anything here in the US anymore? How cute.

This little nation’s ability to fund and conduct war on so many simultaneous fronts on such a sustained basis without consequence is remarkable. It’s almost like they’re really just a front for the largest military machine in the history of the world.

I would just like to point out that this is entirely correct, but it’s the Democrats that always shit the bed on opportunities like this, not the left. The democrats have very little to do with ‘the left’ these days. Just sayin’.

“Israel says it has conducted extensive air attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza, the largest since the ceasefire began.”

This heading sounds like something out of The Onion. Israel’s got some real talent there, simultaneously doing a ceasefire AND repeatedly attacking Hamas.

That might be the most titan-looking expression that I’ve ever seen in a photo of a human.

What do you call a dozen burned teslas?

A good start.

I’ll be here all week. Tip your waiter.

Continuing to never hold Democrats accountable for their terrible decisions will surely improve the party this time, I suppose.