On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times.
Oh? Tell me about your country then.
There have always been issues. There was a lot of precursor to this. But there has never been anything this bad.
America was a beacon for the world, despite our violations and blemishes. Relative to the rest of history, we were leading the world ina better direction,.
Nixon was out after Watergate. You don’t have to bribe our doctors or our cops during traffic stops. While we’re having issues with LGBTQ, we were a leader in treating people with respect for a few decades. That’s our norm.
This is Idiocracy.
No you fucking weren’t, this chauvinistic bullshit is no better than MAGA fascism
The CIA planted crack in black neighborhoods, the fbi killed all the civil rights leaders, our government injected black men with syphillis to see what happens,the end of Jim Crow just morphed into mass incarceration for black Americans, we committed a genocide on Native Americans, we have pedophiles running our government, we’ve destabilized hundreds of governments to plunder assets ……I could go on and on we’ve always been a fascist nation. For a moment I thought we might be improving but nope all hope is lost
Sounds like the UK.
and South america has mostly dictatorships thanks to the CIA.
I imagine if you compile a list of the worst any country has done that it’d look a lot like this.
That doesn’t excuse anything, but all those things don’t add up to Nazi Germany or 2026 Israel.
We’re working on showing you what fascism really is.
Yeah of course you do; because you start from a position of American exceptionalism and then just imagine backwards.
Oh yeah? What’s your beacon of a country? England? France? China? Russia?
The fact is we were generally dragging the world (in hand with Europe) towards better ideals, like equal rights for all, democracy, and eliminating low level corruption.
It wasn’t always the case, and was certainly in fits and starts. But in our absence I don’t see China or India having that generally positive influence on the world.
Yes, there’s room for improvement. But if we’re at a C while most other countries are content with an F, well…
USAID has done a lot of good around the world.
Jesus, Americans really are the most propagandized people on earth
True. Thanks for that, .ml.
“He’s from the bad instance, therefore he’s wrong!”
“I made a pithy platitude without addressing any points, and then the guy just pointed out my instance as to why I’m wrong!”
bro i agree with you, but if you’re gonna post a derogatory non-sequitur instead of actually giving thought to responding, you should expect the same.
Woah guys, we got someone who fell hard for the propaganda.
The US spread fascism around the world in the form of the most destructive industry man ever invented the military industrial complex. The US has only been without conflict for a very short time in all its history.
We have committed and assisted in multiple genocides and our destruction to the environment through our proliferation of polluting technology has poisoned every single human on the planet. By my estimates we have lost close to a billion people from pollution in the last 50 years.
While I will admit the current administration of outright thieves is shocking, this type of back room dealing had always been a part of our extremely corrupt nation.
Most of what you praise is literally propaganda and very little can be attributed to reality. Sure the US has had more decorum in the past, but that ain’t saying much.
Treating people with respect, but also letting people die because they can’t afford medicine or health care. Intelligence services selling cocaine and drugging their own citizens with LSD. Privatized prisons. Invading countries for their oil. Overthrowing democratically elected governments and fucking up regions all over the world.
Yeah sure
not haveing universal healthcare while bad is nothing like the crazyness of trump. As for the rest. Pia Vesta. Operation Condor. Private prisons showed up during reagan and is part of the downward spiral that got us to current and same with invading oil rich countries. Proxy shenanigans are also very prevelant outside of the us. So what im saying is the things you list in some cases are just common in the world not just the us and in other case were fought against and is part of what lead to trump. This is different mainly because the constitution is just being flaughted outright rather than being chipped at and scotus is not defending the constitution and half of congress is derelict in their duty to impeach him for flagrantly breaking the laws of the nation.
Operation condor started in the 70s… Pre-operation condor in the 60s under JFK
All your heroes are monsters, and that says more about you than them
im sorry. where did I list my heroes in this conversation? Yeah us was involved with that along with many other countries. again not just a us thing. europe, russia, asia, south america have all had things like you try to pretend is just the us. now I did address the uniquely us things but much improvement post ww2 came out of the us response to the depression. Anyway the point is what happening under trump is different. is worse. and is not business as usual as folks like you want to make it out. I honestly just assume its right wing shillery to normalize what they do but maybe you legit think this way.
You tried to wave away condor (and pretty much all of the US’ evils) to post Reagan. My point was that you were either ignorant or lying
no. post reagan was specifically about privage prisons.
Obviously nothing comes close to what is happening in the US right now, and I do hope it’s not to late to turn things around.
Slavery? Internment camps? Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia? Iraq? Torture? Genocide?
Americans are disgusting
When was that?
When??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade
somebody opened wide for the koolaid
It was Grape Flavo-Aid, if you’re gonna talk smack at least do it right…