I’m interested to hear from people around the world on a few subjects. Answer as many questions as you like.

  1. What country are you from?

  2. In general, what do you think of the USA?

  3. Has this viewpoint changed over the last few years?

  4. On a global scale, how you think the actions of the USA will play out over the next few years.

  5. How has the US actions affected you personally this last year?

  6. Anything else you want to add.

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    What country are you from? USA

    In general, what do you think of the USA? The USA is absolutely fucked. Institutionalized racism has always been a thing, but it was subvert. People used to be openly shamed for saying racist, misogynistic, and homophobic stuff. DEI and other initiatives were making headway. Trump gave all the closet racist and misogynistic people permission to be assholes in public. Good journalism is dead, everything is all about engagement rather than truth.

    Has this viewpoint changed over the last few years? Yeah it’s changed. I always held out hope that if we kept trying we could make real progress and turn things around with respect to education, healthcare, and institutionalized racism.

    On a global scale, how you think the actions of the USA will play out over the next few years. I suspect that many other countries will stop doing business with the US. From a technology standpoint, other countries might move away from mac/windows in favor of linux, which is open source and therefore free. Other countries may ban social media like FB, Snapchat, X, ect. The American dollar is about to be bitch slapped. Other countries are dumping US bonds, which will drive down their value when the market is flooded. Lots of trading for oil is done with US currency. This increases the demand for US currency and inflates it. Other countries are getting tired of America’s bullshit and switching to the petroyuan, which is form of the official Chinese currency, the yuan intended at least initially for oil trading. One of the reasons the petroyuan was created was that Russia, Venezuela and Iran may be able to avoid the United States’ sanctions, so nations such as Saudi Arabia, one of the main oil producers and extractors could avoid dollar hegemony and U.S. pressure. If enough countries switch to the petroyuan it will fuck the economy and the US dollar the way trump rapes little girls.

    How has the US actions affected you personally this last year? I deleted all corporately owned social media. I’m afraid to leave my house because I am brown enough and gay enough to be disappeared. No more travel. Only travel to and from work and the grocery store.

    Anything else you want to add. Pray for those of us that didn’t vote for trump.