• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think Europe had their time. They are nodding knowingly and pitifully at America at how hard it will be to climb out of it.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That was my belief for quite a while. There’s certainly no shortage of stupidity, but the real problem is that people do understand the evil shit they vote for, and they fucking love it.

        Look at the Trump admin: he didn’t trick us into voting for him by giving some ‘on paper’ bs about why the things he does is somehow good; he just got on stage and started shitting on veterans, disabled people, women, immigrants, etc. The majority of voters looked at that and said “YUP! THAT’S MY GUY!!”

        We’re (collectively) just fucking evil. Idk if there’s a fix for that.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The US is going to take gold in every event. Mostly because other countries won’t be allowed to compete or won’t want to.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.

      The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified

      The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it

      The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can’t be caught.

  • PotatoLibre@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    European grown up with that.

    Don’t buy american wine for example (not only cause is unbearably sweet), cause of pesticides allowed.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They use fungicides on vineyards in Europe though. In France there are more people diagnosed with Parkinson’s around vineyards than anywhere else in the country