45 lines
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45 lines
2.6 KiB
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id: lag
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title: Let America Go
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previous: ct
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date: 2025-01-22
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<h2>Let America Go</h2>
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With Trump now solidly re-installed as the president of America, what so many of us have feared has come to pass.
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In his first days he took the country back years by rolling back all sorts of human rights, regulations, and protections.
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He has not hit Canada with tariffs yet, though has still expressed that he plans to.
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America has been central to the lives of so many people in so many countries.
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Even if you can avoid thinking about the country itself for a day, so much of what we do has to pass through their economy.
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Silicon valley owns most large methods of communication, investments all pass through wall street, payments through Visa and Mastercard.
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The US is the largest buyer of so much of what other countries export.
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So we have no choice but to pay attention, and have a lot of our lives and economies dictated by what is going on in the US.
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I think that is a failing on all of our parts for allowing it to get to this point.
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Now we rely on an unstable and unpredictable country for international stability.
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Well I guess that we can predict that things will probably go against any sort of human rights, climate action, worker protections, human rights.
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So it will likely only get worse.
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Whether tariffs are enforced or not the rest of the world needs to let America go as the center of every transaction, policy, or infrastructure.
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Build stronger ties between the rest of us.
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Infrastructure and businesses that don't rely on the US.
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They are not going to make anything better.
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More CO2 will get put into the atmosphere, the tech companies will make their experiences worse, I suspect the beautiful natural world in the US is done for.
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So we all need to be the bigger people in the room.
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Do better to try and offset the horrible effect that it will have on our planet and our economies.
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Help each other and the natural world to be as stable as possible through this time.
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Open our doors and arms to the wonderful people of the US that are persecuted, or just don't agree with the government and want to leave.
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Ignore their government's raging and complaining if trade slows or their businesses suffer because we don't use them.
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In some ways this seems like a tantrum, and sometimes we just need to let it play out and do our best to take care of ourselves and eachother.
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I don't have suggestions for exactly what to do, but for the last few days (the first of this new presidency) this is what has been on my mind.
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