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"A toast to one's own downfall". A guest post by Timothy Snyder in the german newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung", May 23, 2026
May 24, 2026 7:45 AM
MisterLuminous
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"A toast to one's own downfall". A guest post by Timothy Snyder in the german newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung", May 23, 2026
PlancksKonstant
We've got some drooling, room-temp IQ backwater idiots to flog for a half century, then we'll be like every other post-peak empire.
theduckening
what a great time for American exceptionalism
friendsofsandwiches
And the fuckers in congress are all complicit
Dannoboyo
Great Britain hasn't been a superpower since WW1, but there are still plenty of rich people there. Oligarchs don't care about anything but themselves and their status relative to other megalomaniacs.
AyatollahBahloni
Ironically, the original article is in English, but behind a paywall. Here's a link: https://archive.ph/VLz2P
Sebastopol140
Good job, Krasnov.
usingYourMomAsAHat
I hope this inevitable results in the Nazi party imploding out of existence and ofcourse that drumpf dies by uncontrollable diarrhea
Shoutrr
yeah, but that won't happen without a little civil war
KleptoKea
For generations, the world will remind the Americans of this. Good luck with ever again trying those WW2-era delusional propaganda points about Americans being "The most free, most democratic, most brave and most superior People on Earth". We will not be sure whether to laugh or feel sorry for you.
alcamar
Laugh at those who claim the above. They deserve the ridicule and need to know they are wrong in very bad ways. Silence helps the oppressors
CrumpetsWithHoneyAreCrumpetsWithBeeVomit
WW2? You're kidding right? The greatest democracy in the world crap still goes on. It's laughable.
Wuz314159
Greenlanders: "If not for us, you'd all be speaking American."
CitrusyGarlic
America is not simply its most conservative people. There are many tens of millions of us who have never used that kind of language and never will.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Many of you have been influenced by it regardless. The point of propaganda is not that every word is believed, it's that it is heard over and over again.
CitrusyGarlic
WTF and a half? Many of us are directly fighting against it - https://the.levernews.com/master-plan/
Keep your ignorant pessimism to yourself
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
You (assuming you're American) really think you're immune to however many decades of propaganda you've been subjected to? That's...unlikely. it's better to realize and acknowledge it, that's superior insulation against it than denial.
CitrusyGarlic
Do you think every home has a machine that forces its occupants to sit down and watch a few hours of Fox News every day?
You seriously have no idea what you're talking about. Yes many millions of us tune into the propaganda but many more millions don't. You can't get influenced by a thing you don't consume.
AyatollahBahloni
Hey, we did a lot of good during and after WWII. That doesn't mitigate the decades of economic terrorism and self-centered regime change, but it was something. Now Trump and Company have even thrown that onto the dunghill of history.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
Alot of self interested "good".
Volunteering millions of citizens for death is hardly good...
AyatollahBahloni
The death toll of WWII was over 50 million people, mostly civilians. You can lay that at the feet of fascism - Germany, Italy, and Japan. The USA and free nations sacrificed much to defeat the Axis - those deaths are not on their account. Your revisionist comment is invalid.
Eyeetsass
Real ignorant piece of shit right here.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
A Brave confession. But indicative of my opinion.
Eyeetsass
Nope. Just plain old run of the mill stupid, and wrong. Thanks for playing.
KleptoKea
KleptoKea
And I'm sure I'll wake up to one or two or three or more new fake accounts from this psychopath who can't cope with being muted. It's funny how they accuse me of making a fake account to boost my votes, when all my comments get a blanket downvote bombing from this person and all their many fake accounts, which they then mass upvote their own abusive comments with. I hope they get the therapy they need. I wonder how they react IRL if someone asks them to leave them alone. Absolute psycho stalker.
KleptoKea
And to you, my stalker with all your extra accounts. If you're so convinced you're doing god's work by spending your days making new troll accounts to harass and mass downvote an internet stranger every day, why do you hide in the shadows? If you're right and I'm wrong, why don't you just speak from your main account like I do from mine? It's because you know you're the bad guy in this equation, and you're shit scared of having your main account banned as they've repeatedly been before.
Woogyface
are you ok?
KleptoKea
I'd be more ok if the person here who keeps making new accounts to spam me with abuse each day would stop it. I muted them a year ago and they haven't left me alone since, despite me repeatedly telling them to leave me alone.
KleptoKea
KleptoKea
Here's just a slice of my mute list. All those accounts belong to the same person who keeps spamming me