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Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
- ceejayoz 6mo agoI am tired of winning.
- calvinmorrison 6mo ago[flagged]
- jazzpush2 6mo agoWould you qualify complaining about starting an unnecessary war as "whining"? Why? What about ICE agents killing American citizens? Adding unprecedented numbers to the federal deficit, etc.? How nice it must be to be able to just dismiss these things.
- SanjayMehta 6mo ago> How nice it must be to be able to just dismiss these things. I don't know anyone in the US in real life who is happy with the current situation, including people who voted for Trump. The cheer leaders are only visible online. The people who voted for Harris are saying "we told you so," and the others are saying "he conned us."
- stavros 6mo agoI don't understand the "he conned us" stance. He was literally saying all these things before getting elected. He wasn't being coy about it, we all knew it would be terrible, and here we are. What was the con exactly? If there's one thing you can't accuse Trump of, it's ever masking how utterly nonsensical he is.
- SanjayMehta 6mo agoDon't know why you're getting downvoted, but I believe the con was the "no wars" line. He was supposed to stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours, remember but he seemed to just lose interest in it.
- pasquinelli 6mo agoi thought he was more anti-war
- SanjayMehta 6mo agoHe was never anti-war. There are videos of him ranting about Kharg Island dating back to the 1980s. (I wonder if he had friends/relatives in the hostage crisis.)
- beedeebeedee 6mo agoSaying “he conned us” is easier for people to accept than being introspective, taking responsibility and experiencing ego dissolution.
- mindslight 6mo agoGrump said all of these things before getting elected, but he also said their exact opposites as well. That he can say blatant lies while having a "charisma" such that people hear what they want to hear is exactly how a con man operates. Hence, they were conned. However, the responsibility still arises as half of their fellow citizens were telling them that they were being conned. But rather than listening to the critics they actively remained ignorant while gloating about "liberal tears" and so on.
- cogman10 6mo agoFor the people I know, it's mostly just been quiet silence, they don't really want to talk about it (and I don't force it). I know this is uncomfortable for them. Outside that, what I've noticed in my area is a whole lot less trucks driving around with cartoonishly large American flags and pro-trump bumper stickers. Even homes that proudly flew the "Trump 2024" flags and flew the 2020 flags for a long time have taken those down. Republicans here (Idaho) have been gleefully touching every 3rd rail (Medicaid, public school funding, public lands). I don't really have hope that the electorate will do anything about it, but who knows. I've never really seen such bold actions against the citizenry.
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- calvinmorrison 6mo agoThere are petty peevish folks too, to quote myself lately October 2025 "I believe Trumps gutting of institutions of learning, culture, democracy, law is punishment for the Branch Covidians. I believe this punishment must continue for some time until the lesson is learned about abuse of power" Should we reconcile this great nation, not balkanize, not be in an antebellum period, not be a Weimar republic, and walk back the rubicon and cross into more quiet waters, we must turn our attention to what made this country great. What has made it unique? That our constitution is explicit about what freedoms and rights are reserved for the people and are not to be trampled, touched, or looked at by the government. State, Local, or Federal. Our founding fathers and great men who preceded us recognized government as a necessary evil, one that must be kept at bay, not used as a violent tool to achieve outcomes. All of these institutions must walk back their power, give the rights back to the people, to be truly afraid of the populace. Each tax collector must shiver when he goes to work, and each police officer be fully aware that a single parking ticket is an act of violence. All said, I am afraid, we have lost that. And now we must face the future hoping that someday, another group of smart men can realize something so unique, so right, so innately just and moral was achieved by the signing of the constitution that it must be tried again. Calvin - 2022
- mindslight 6mo ago"Branch Covidians" is just buying into more Trumpist reality-rejecting nonsense. A president is supposed to lead us all through a crisis, not turn it into a needlessly divisive issue as if he doesn't know how to do anything but campaign. Less than half the states had stay at home orders with the force of law ("lockdowns"). The states with the most authoritarian overreactions were red states full of social-media-addled nutters rebelling against reality - when citizens actively work to help spread a pandemic, is it any wonder that the bureaucrats respond even stronger in the only way they know how? What reconciliation actually requires is for the maggots to take some responsibility and realize this is exactly where reactionary media has been leading them by the nose for the past four decades - destruction of the Constitutionally-limited government in favor of rule by unaccountable corporations. Signed, a libertarian who actually believes in those lofty ideals you're fallaciously invoking.
- encrypted_bird 6mo agoI'm not sure where you live, but try going to some of the super-small towns in the Midwest. I unfortunately still see people openly wearing MAGA hats and have MAGA flags on the flag poles in their yards. Trust me, as sad as it is, those people still exist.
- SanjayMehta 6mo agoNot in the US, just reporting what I'm seeing on signal/WA groups consisting of mostly former classmates and colleagues. A sample size in the low hundreds. These are CA, OR and WA centric with exactly one guy in TN.
- encrypted_bird 6mo agoOkay, but to be fair you did say "in real life", which implies not on Signal or WhatsApp.
- fouc 6mo agowinning what?
- toomuchtodo 6mo agoOne of President Donald Trump’s lines during the 2016 presidential campaign was his promise that, “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’” https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2016/user-clip-too-much-winning/5080017 https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2016/user-clip-too-much... Trump says US is 'winning so much' in longest ever State of the Union - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQUGjRtq-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQUGjRtq-M - February 25th, 2026 Hence the joke, "I am tired of winning." as the situation continues to rapidly degrade through policy choices. So much winning, it's too much.
- fouc 6mo agoOh jeez, that makes sense now. Thanks for filling in the blanks
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- cdrnsf 6mo agoIndeed, particularly given that ICE agents are going to be deployed to airports. Their penchant for killing civilians and otherwise violating civil rights only to lie about their actions hardly seems like a good fit for airport security duties they haven’t been trained to perform.
- encrypted_bird 6mo ago> duties they haven't been trained to perform Which implies they've been trained?
- cdrnsf 6mo agoFair, they haven’t. I wonder how long it will take them to use tear gas when the line at a Starbucks kiosk gets a little too long.
- encrypted_bird 6mo agoI fear the day when that happens.
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- cogman10 6mo agoIs this an orange, purple, or magenta threat level?
- SlightlyLeftPad 6mo agoApproaching ultraviolet, invisible to the naked eye but still very much a threat. “there is no war, only excursions.”
- refulgentis 6mo agolol. The current situation has been giving me so many flashbacks. Here, my GWB-era teens had the terror threat level, and now we're lazily reimagining State Department traveling warnings as a dark slapstick version (be afraid everywhere, American!)
- morkalork 6mo agohttps://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296/ https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi... https://theonion.com/no-blood-for-oil-vs-exactly-how-much-oil-are-we-talkin-1819594284/ https://theonion.com/no-blood-for-oil-vs-exactly-how-much-oi...
- cmdrmac 6mo agoMy first thought: You don't say?
- agnishom 6mo agoRight? What kind of person does not follow the news but subscribes to the State Department notifications?
- nandomrumber 6mo agoAll the people who decided to stay in the Middle East even when the second carrier group was en route, and then thought they were news worth enough to get on camera and comment about there being no commercial flights out of there.
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- readitalready 6mo agoWhen do we expect Iranians to actually attack US military bases outside the middle east? I heard there were already drones flying over bases in the US: https://wjla.com/news/local/unidentified-drones-fly-over-fort-mcnair-expert-calls-it-security-concern https://wjla.com/news/local/unidentified-drones-fly-over-for...
- cj 6mo agoThey technically have: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-fires-missiles-remote-uk-us-base-claiming-long-range-capabilities-rcna264547 https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-fires-missiles-remot...
- readitalready 6mo agoNATO says they can't confirm this Israeli claim: https://aje.news/ohi6b8?update=4425189 https://aje.news/ohi6b8?update=4425189 And Iran denies it as well: https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2035477318055985648 https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2035477318055985648 Makes you wonder who really did launch those missiles?
- throwaway290 6mo agoIran's source is the one who said they did it in the first place :facepalm: and it was confirmed by UK As soon as they felt like denying it would be better for them they did and took down https://en.mehrnews.com/ https://en.mehrnews.com/ where it was published. Unless you say mehr was defaced and the news were planted by Mossad
- mrbombastic 6mo agoCrazy how effective at making everything worse this admin has been.
- stackghost 6mo agoTrump is but a symptom of an underlying sickness. Things won't magically go back to normal after he dies.
- malfist 6mo agoDid someone say they would?
- greenavocado 6mo agoMost people think Trump is the lynchpin, when in fact, its his masters that decide what happens next.
- stuaxo 6mo agoIt would delay things, he has a "charisma" that his followers look like. But it's true he is a symptom.
- greenavocado 6mo agoHe is not a symptom he is an actor that is playing a part in a script. He is manipulated, bullied, and blackmailed into submission.
- andrewflnr 6mo agoEven if he was, a lot of things have been destroyed that will take a lot longer to rebuild. Notably, trust.
- lyu07282 6mo agoMany liberal people think he is an abberation, they would gladly return back to "normal". The point is, he is a symptom of a larger unaddressed sickness, there is no return to business as usual, it will only return far worse. To prompt with something more specific: there is a possibility of a Gavin Newsom vs. Tucker Carlson in 2028, it's crucial to understand why Tucker might win and why he would be ten times worse than Trump.
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- jazzpush2 6mo agoHas there been any official WH note on the need for this war, yet? Or objectives?
- bdangubic 6mo ago20 or so far, there is a new one each day
- giwook 6mo agoAnd all of them different from the last and/or contradicting each other at times. It's like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
- cogman10 6mo agoAll I know is we are accomplishing them and we'll be done in 3 weeks to 3 years. Also, this isn't a woke war, which I was worried about.
- nandomrumber 6mo agoProbably spaghetti.
- nclin_ 6mo agoYes, they are flooding the zone with many alternative explanations so that they're both all deniable, and all accessible to anyone who finds just one of them convincing. This is a strategy.
- mememememememo 6mo agoThis war is not a war. Not a.war war. Just a "war". No war has been declared.
- briantakita 6mo agoWe already won. Are you tired of winning yet?
- bdangubic 6mo agoI got jumped in Italy couple of weeks ago. I was wearing a "volleyball dad" hoodie my kid bought for me but did not realize that the "volleyball dad" is etched in the middle of a large American flag covering my entire back. Luckily (for him, not me :) ) three police officers were 10 meters away walking the area dealing with apre ski drunks and restrained him. fun times
- kylehotchkiss 6mo agooof I would not wear an American flag outside the country. We've hurt too many feelings. Like any good American though, a Canadian flag works.
- stackghost 6mo ago>Like any good American though, a Canadian flag works. Please don't do this.
- nclin_ 6mo agopeople*
- bdangubic 6mo agodidn’t even know I was wearing it (honestly never even noticed anything other that “volleyball dad”) but rest assured I wore it every day for the rest of the trip
- genthree 6mo agoI find avoiding legible and most "graphic" clothing, period, works great. Plus it usually looks better. Not sure why you need any flag on you.
- razodactyl 6mo agoCrazy does and crazy do. Be vigilant and try not to set these people off. There's no rhyme or reason, some people are just faulty in the head.
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- beloch 6mo agoThe U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye. No thankyou. [1]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o
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- ohyoutravel 6mo agoTSA is mostly people who want a job and act pretty professionally in the hundreds or thousand times I’ve encountered them. ICE encourages people with anger issues who hate brown people to apply. These are not the same.
- bdangubic 6mo agoit isn’t about people and which group is mostly this or that. Americans have long accepted to have their Constitutional Rights violated at the airports so it really doesn’t matter if it is TSA or ICE or whatever three-letter gang runs it
- andrewflnr 6mo agoThis is binary thinking that has no place in predicting the real world. In practice, the specific person violating your constitutional rights makes a big difference in how badly your rights are violated.
- bdangubic 6mo agooh I love this… so good! like OK to violate me a little but don’t but know where to draw the line. this is like an excuse of a chronic domestic abuser, “I slapped her/him around a little but did not slam/her against a wall”
- dzonga 6mo agowhy are common people paying for the incompetence of a gvt. to not be political this lies at the heart of principles, morals, meritocracy values that the current gvt lacks & things that drove america forward.
- tremon 6mo agoThat's because the common people voted for the incompetent. Not being political either, of course.
- dotancohen 6mo agoIn what part of the world does the populace not suffer for the incompetence of their leaders? St. Petersburg? Ramallah? Port Au Prince?
- tremon 6mo agoThe obvious and flippant answer to that would be "the parts of the world that do not have incompetent leaders". But that will only lead to the incredulous claiming that all governments are equally incompetent (yet some are more incompetent than others) and that's not a discussion I'm inclined to entertain.
- dotancohen 6mo agoI happen to agree with you on that point.
- hsbauauvhabzb 6mo agoPeople vote for the current government. I’m not sure why you would expect others’ to pay for americas internal messes, we’re already busy dealing with the external ones.
- refurb 6mo agoThe federal government hasn't passed a budget because the Democrats are blocking it. They feel it's worth the political gamble to cause Americans pain and that it'll turn on Trump. There you go - mystery solved.
- UltraSane 6mo agoTrump wrecks everything he touches.
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- bradleyankrom 6mo agoBankrupting a casino is a literal thing he did and also a pretty decent metaphor for what he's doing now.
- softwaredoug 6mo agoThis is so non-specific to be meaningless. Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety.
- alephnerd 6mo ago> Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety "Americans abroad should follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate."
- chneu 6mo agoThis is just more victim fear being pushed so (mostly Christian) conservatives can claim to be the victims, once again, as they colonize another people/land.
- drgo 6mo agoA small price for demonstrating that our El-Douche is always right and a stable genius.
- tombert 6mo agoWhat the fuck was even the intended purpose of starting this war in Iran? Like in their mind, what was the best case scenario?
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- macintux 6mo agoMaybe ripping up the international plan to keep Iran from gaining nuclear weapons during his first term wasn’t the best idea.
- dotancohen 6mo agoThat plan would have expired ten years after January 2016. In other words, already excited two months ago. It was a ten year plan, not a permanent plan.
- macintux 6mo agoThat's still ten years of collaboration that could have built greater trust, led to a new agreement, or worst case provided enough evidence to take a more precise military action instead of bombing girls schools.
- dotancohen 6mo agoBuild greater trust? The Iranian regime's identity is based on anti-American rhetoric. They fund Hamas and Hezbollah because Israel is an American ally. They say this in their marches and their speeches and their rallies. You are suggesting that these people change their entire identity to suit your notion that the world should be peaceful. Would you suggest that a metalhead not wear leather because you don't like loud music? Would you suggest that a gay man "be normal" because "God doesn't like gays"? Identity is not something you change in other people. Unless you're some colonial conquerer forcing your culture on others.
- ggm 6mo agoWould the current state of affairs qualify for cancelling the mid-terms? Is that overly cynical? Not in the US, not a US citizen or voter. My suspicion is the answer is "no, but it is not a given that a competent supreme court which looks likely to overturn the WH exists, if they say they want to do this"
- atq2119 6mo agoAFAIUI, elections in the US are not run by the federal government but by the states. Trying to cancel elections seems like it'd be a lot harder than in other countries.
- ggm 6mo agoHopefully that is reassuring. Worryingly I would like some sense of confirmation but in any case I expect a declaration it's not a valid real result because that's what happened before, counts not withstanding.
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- zzrrt 6mo ago> Texas or Arizona or North Carolina or Florida All Red states. So if you roll over and let the federal government trample your state's sovereignty, they won't murder people in your state? Somehow I don't think that's what federalism was supposed to mean. Trump nearly passed out with glee when he was talking to the Ukrainian president and found out elections are canceled, by their law, due to martial law because of the war. I would not so casually assume he won't try it here.
- anon7000 6mo agoSeriously, it’s totally fair to think that there’s no way they’ll be cancelled. There are some checks and balances left. But if you voted for Trump, you should be DEEPLY concerned about how much he loves toying with the idea. It’s frankly more impeachable than nearly anything I’ve heard of, since it’d be fucking treasonous to cancel elections. Demand better from your representatives and officials, and stop voting MAGA so we can get out of this mess.
- marysminefnuf 6mo agoSo the presidents personal law enforcement that is tasked with racially profiling people who overwhelmingly do not pose a threat are going to now be conducting security directly from the source where millions of foreign travelers come through…hmmm…ridiculous
- flowerthoughts 6mo agoOn the flip side, I _think_ there's actually less and less about Epstein visible, so I think WH is winning that war. Or at least successfully postponing battles.
- nisiddharth 6mo ago"Americans", do they own the entire American continent?
- padjo 6mo agoThey certainly behave as if they do.
- metalman 6mo agoThere is a worldwide consensus that the American State should exercise increased caution.
- geenkeuse 6mo ago[dead]