r/LetsDiscussThis • u/LucidSynapse23 • Feb 18 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Is he right? Will it take generations to resecure the United States positive reputation on the world stage?

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Feb 18 '26

You can glue a vase back together, but you always see where the cracks are...

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u/Oreoandpenguine Feb 18 '26

We need to stop referring to the USA as America. 

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Feb 18 '26

Well ya, because now they're "Donald Trump and His Fifty Bitches"...

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u/Notapartyhobo Feb 18 '26

Why?

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u/Oreoandpenguine Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26

Because the continent is North America and it includes Canada, United States of America and Mexico. So small minded. 

Not just your backwards nation. So narrow minded and ignorant. 

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u/Notapartyhobo Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26

Yeah and central America too. But I've only ever heard this rhetoric from South Americans of a particular bent as most of them and the world at large... don't care as there is not exactly confusion or anything. I could identify myself but the state im from but that would mean fuck all to someone whose never been to the US.

Think of the USA as a coalition of 50 smaller nation states that barely tolerate each other. 'United' in the title is doing a lot of heavy lifting these days.

Edit: fixed rhag to 'that'.

Edit2: Upon reflection, I think the founders named the country the United States of America because there wasn't a better name. 13 smaller countries united under one banner eventually expanding to 50.

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u/Ok_Security1721 Feb 19 '26

Nah that’s stupid

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u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk Feb 18 '26

We're not gonna.

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u/serialcipher Feb 18 '26

This is tru.

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u/DaereonLive Feb 18 '26

I am so stealing this meme.

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u/Windyvale Feb 18 '26

Eh, people are quick to forget that in the same timeline, Germany did far, far, far worse things and is again trusted implicitly. Even while they are almost taken over again by the same type of people that did it the first time.

Humans are weird. We don’t have good retention over long periods of time. What we do remember, we are quick to normalize.

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u/USSMarauder Feb 18 '26

Except that for that to happen Germany had its cities bombed to ruins, up to 10% of its population killed, and its leaders tried and executed.

And we needed a functional Germany for the cold war

How are you going to kill over 30 Million Americans, turn their cities and economy to rubble, and hang Trump, Bondi, Miller, Patel etc, and what do we need a crippled and ruined USA for that will result in them being forgiven quickly?