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[-] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

One characteristic of the European politics is that it’s slow. Painfully slow.

The glacial pace of European politics helps prove my point. The fact that the pace is slightly quickening may or may not be because of Trump - like I said, I certainly wouldn't argue against his undeniable increasing of the already rapidly deteriorating global image of the US as being trustworthy, but the whole point is that that deterioration was already happening when he got into office. Your original position is that it was not, that the Europeans feeling that the US cannot be trusted anymore and that the image of the dollar's supremacy was waning, that all of that rests entirely on the shoulder of the Republicans when that is just demonstrably not true.

That said, you are free to think that with Biden it was all the same (or even worse).

You're shifting the goalposts a bit there, since I never claimed it was "the same" only that it was already clearly well underway, which I have maintained throughout. Yes, I am free to recognize the objective reality of the situation, just as you are free to, for whatever odd reason, push against it to mistakenly insist that Trump is some sudden and unique outlier in the collapse of US image and power projection when that has demonstrably been going on since before him and will continue after, even if he is ramping up the rate of deterioration.

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[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

you imply that mine is totally wrong.

As opposed to fucking what? Implying their own opinion is wrong? Implying that two mutually exclusive things are simultaneously true? The very definition of having an opinion means you think opposing opinions are wrong!

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