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How many times has your country been to the moon by the way?
For the record a minority of Americans voted for orange hitler, about 23% of the total population.
The majority allowed this to happen. If 77% were against him they should have voted against him
We already have the post election surveys, we have all the data we need, we don't need to wonder anymore. Trump's second election was the American People's rejection of Kamala Harris and the continuation of the Biden administration, not an endorsement of Trump.
The country was already broken, the two fascist parties system was inevitably going to shift far enough right that it becomes a dictatorship, and until people grasp that and stop looking at the fascist-light party to save them, nothing will improve.
Thank you.
Unfortunately a majority of Americans supported him even if they didnt vote for him.
That's not supported by any fact that I'm aware of.
If you had the ability to vote for the only other candidate that would've resulted in Trump losing and you chose not to, you absolutely supported a Trump victory. Not as much as someone that actively voted for him, but support nonetheless. That is a fact.
And you are welcome to pull up election and voter data yourself, it's freely available.
It sounds like you have confused the word "fact" for an opinion or point of view.
Nope, what I stated is absolutely accurate. I can't help if you didn't follow the election or it's results. Have a nice day!
Past glory doesn't pay for today's bill. If you want to compare what other countries have done in the past we can be sitting here for a long time.
I can keep going too. How many Internets, flying vehicles, automobiles, and solid-state electronics have your countries invented before the brains of the USA did?
If you want to call all Americans stupid you're going to have to ignore a huge amount of contributions to the world's status quo.
Sure, and if we’re dragging out historical wins to score points, we can sit here all day trading inventions like baseball cards.
Automobiles? Germany. Jet engines and the WWW? UK. Radio? Italy (and yes, Tesla gets a nod too). Satellites and the first man in space? Soviet Union. Solid-state theory that made electronics possible? Mostly European physics.
China gave us the compass, paper, and gunpowder. India gave us the number zero and early surgery. Japan revolutionized consumer electronics and manufacturing efficiency. France had photography and hot air balloons before the Wright brothers ever left the ground.
Point is: past contributions are global. No one country owns progress. So unless you’re planning to live off 1950s prestige, maybe let's not pretend history is a scoreboard that settles today’s reality.