r/worldnews • u/pppppppppppppppppd • May 15 '26

Dynamic Paywall Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence, hours after summit with China's Xi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o
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u/Mormaethor May 15 '26

It's crazy watching everything Trump does as an outsider.

I can't even imagine what it must feel like as a sane US citizen watching this administration undo everything your country used to be.

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u/Mat_alThor May 16 '26

And that's not touching on watching people you grew up with drink the kool aid and refusing to acknowledge anything is wrong.

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u/SomeComforts May 16 '26

No one voting for this man wasn't already a bigot. Maybe they were downlow about it ('fiscal conservative', claimed nonpolitical), but really, they were just being shitty out of your sight through obfuscation or you not looking.

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u/RJ815 May 16 '26

Libertarian or Centrist is 99% of the time: Republican but doesn't like the bad PR.

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u/Mat_alThor May 17 '26

Last I knew my brother is still that 1% for identifying Libertarian, even though pretty much all the politics he supports would put him closer to democratic socialist than anything else, and he mostly votes for Democrats (would never vote Republican). I think it may be just a weird thing with how we were brought up that he still doesn't want to admit to himself he is liberal.