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> I can understand why people don’t want to see this discussion here, especially users who aren’t American and thus aren’t directly affected TBH from Europe I
by thefz 2y ago
> I can understand why people don’t want to see this discussion here, especially users who aren’t American and thus aren’t directly affected
TBH from Europe I can sense already some news fatigue. US defaultism is palpable, especially considering that the US is perceived not as the biggest or most important - we are talking about 300mil people - but rather as the loudest, noisiest kid in the back of the room, which honestly isn't even that funny, interesting or brilliant.
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, honestly, if this was happening where I live, I might well respond by withdrawing from the news, too. It's really fairly stunning. I live in Ireland, and when I was a kid, the Taoiseach (PM), Charlie Haughey, who at the time was paid what would now be worth maybe 100k per year, mysteriously had his own island (turned out he was taking millions in corrupt payments, because of course). Over the next couple of decades, Ireland largely cleaned up the corruption, though Haughey himself largely escaped justice while he was alive (he spent much of his last decade in front of tribunals but kicked the bucket before they ended), suffering a sort of damnatio memoriae instead. I'd always kind of thought of Haughey as the absolute epitome of modern developed world corruption, just comically blatant. Anyway, looks like this lot very much have him beat.