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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 136 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Germany should do the same, why haven't they already?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gold-german-economists-advise-withdrawal-from-us-vaults

USA no longer deserves to be the financial center of the world they've been for many years.
Gold reserves, petro dollar, global reserve currency, and as collateral damage, the continued flood of brain power coming from around the world will stop. It will all collapse because the American population is too stupid to elect an even somewhat sensible government.

It's kind of sad, because the ideals USA claimed to protect were fine, it just turned out to be a lie. And now they are not even protected but are falling apart inside USA too.

USA no longer deserves our trust, and not even our respect anymore.

[–] postcapitalism@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

It's kind of sad, because the ideals USA claimed to protect were fine

Claimed is doing a lot of work here. For many / most periods in U.S. history those claims were clearly demonstrably lies and lip service - as the U.S. continually committed atrocities to its citizens and those abroad in the name of capital power.

Reminds me a bit of the US evangelicals who profusely worship the bible as, but are blatantly and guiltlessly committing mortal sins - see Secretary Pete “Kegs Breath” for a nice example.

It’s a very American phenomenon

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 45 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As an American I feel like I should be disputing this but all of your points are quite good.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 13 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I were going to make a list here of just the most outrageous offenses the US has done to US allies in just the last months. But the list kept getting too long for the short witty response I wanted to make...

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

They’re doing it to most Americans too. Just not the rich ones.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What if you focus on stuff the US didn’t used to do? Because they used to do all the imperialist stuff too, just with more excuses to try justifying it (or, better secrecy).

[–] speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Exactly. What’s new here is not the anti-democratic imperialism, that’s for sure.