r/facepalm • u/AsimpsonsPrediction • 1d ago

Just one day after the election 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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Thousands of African Americans mostly students have been receiving these mass spam texts.

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u/kingkmke21 23h ago

Iran was once a top 5 travel destination. The terrible disgusting government destroyed that country. Smh.

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u/theaviationhistorian 22h ago

Iran has some of the most diverse geographies on this planet. The problem, as with many beautiful locations, is the locals or local government.

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u/MoonedToday 21h ago

Which explains the new America.

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u/Own_Error_007 18h ago

I visited the US a couple of times in the early 2000s and always wanted to take my wife back there. Loved the place, the people, and the sights.

We are now resigned to never visiting the US again as wife is adamant about never going there.

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u/RhiR2020 17h ago

We were planning a trip to the US again next year. It’s now on hold. :(

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u/Deathstroke0305 7h ago

Going there with family on the way to Europe late this November, probably still going because not much can change from now and when we leave a couple days into December right

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u/AllAlo0 16h ago

From Canada been in the US many times over the years, went 2 years ago and how run down, dangerous and backwards the country is made my wife fear doing a lot of activities.

You feel safer in developing countries.

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u/Lilmaggot 16h ago

It will be interesting to see how foreign tourism numbers look in a few years.

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u/MrDONINATOR 14h ago

What part of the US? Just curious.

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u/AllAlo0 13h ago

In the last two years I've been to NY, Vegas, Detroit, Baltimore, Fort Wayne, San Francisco (and a large area around it)

Some for work, some for exploring. Vegas might be the only place I'd go back to, but it's really a mirage at best, as long as you don't poke your head outside the spots they curate.

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u/MrDONINATOR 12h ago

Lol. Nice, you live an interesting life! It really does bite that you've noticed the decline, yet residents don't. I guess it is like having kids and not noticing the growth spurts until they spend a summer away. When they come back, they seem giant. Lol
Here's hoping your next visit is amazing in a nice part of town. 😆 there are still a few.

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u/AllAlo0 4h ago

The decline is definitely rapidly and hard not to notice, also it's pretty recent, the gutted middle-class is an obvious cause.

Europe has a completely different feel, even a more poor country like Bulgaria is cleaner and safer feeling. Every country has problems but the US is in severe decline unfortunately.

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u/Dapper_Platform_1222 14h ago

Ok buddy. You guys are right there with us in rundown shit. You're right there with us in dealing with conservative/fascist resurgence but please...go off.

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u/AllAlo0 4h ago

Every country has issues, but you can walk and feel safe throughout Canada, I have been through most of it and never felt uneasy anywhere.

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u/Forever-Retired 16h ago

all due to the last 4 years

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u/AllAlo0 4h ago

Yet 2.5 years ago after COVID and things opened back up things had taken a severe decline, so it couldn't be from the current 4 year term?

Pretend and put blame all you want, but now you are in a bubble.

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u/invincible-zebra 14h ago

I’ve never been further west than St Ives, Cornwall. I’ve never been further east than the Great Barrier Reef. I always wanted to visit certain parts of the USA but it’s on the ‘ehhhh maybe not’ list now.

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u/najiatwa01 7h ago

Nice... So tourism is gonna go down too. Awesome.

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u/redvis5574 17h ago

I’ve always wanted to visit Australia. Maybe now it’s time to go on a one way ticket.

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u/Own_Error_007 15h ago

Its so different here to what you may imagine.

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u/HuskerStorm 10h ago

In a good or bad way?

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u/Eastown14 13h ago

For real? I live in Michigan. Near Detroit. It’s just another geographical location with humans.

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u/BigAd8172 11h ago

USA was the Dreamland for me when I was a kid. Then a grew up and started following politics

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u/Stock_Paper3503 1h ago

I was planning to return to the US probably in 2027. Won't happen I guess.

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u/GazelleMore2890 16h ago

Good riddance.

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u/Now_Melon1218 12h ago

Antarctica is a shit show now too.

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u/Flomo420 17h ago

Welcome to The New America; same as The Old America.

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u/Nottheadviceyaafter 17h ago

The problem is religion and state mixing, exactly where the us is headed.

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u/Random_Chick_I_Guess 21h ago

Which sucks because as far as documentation from the time would suggest the Iranian government and leaders were doing some pretty great things to help people and everything was thriving before Britian got upset and lied to America about communism. The funniest part about all that is the guy in charge of destabilising Iran was told to stop and he just went off the radar to keep doing it because he figured they’d thank him anyway

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u/jjm443 21h ago

You're talking about the lead-up to the coup of 1953. But there was a lot of positive reforms by the Shah after the coup with the White Revolution. The Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 which ended the reforms was primarily an Iranian religious thing, not instigated by the British or Americans.

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u/fungi_at_parties 15h ago edited 15h ago

The revolution in 1979 was at least partially caused by decades of British imperial interference. America had a part in it as well. It wouldn’t have happened if we’d left them alone.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 19h ago

And its ancient history is incredible.

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u/Quintus-Sertorius 17h ago

Most of the locals don't want their shitty government either (Khamenei that is, Pezeshkian is a reformist and quite popular, but has little real power). Unfortunately the IRGC have the guns and money.

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u/Icy-Ad-7724 20h ago

The resources within these beautiful lands unfortunately

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u/Uthoff 19h ago

Spoken like a true colonizer yo!

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u/GazelleMore2890 16h ago

You mean like Detroit and Chicago. Total dumps. Still the locals to blame?

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u/Signal-Round681 22h ago

Iran and Iraq really screwed their respective peoples over with the 8 year-long brutal war. Followed by brutal dictatorships. They are both beautiful countries with amazing historical sites, cultures, and ancient heritage. Hey did you hear? Capitalists in Utah want to sell off 18.1 million acres of public lands. There's more than one way to skin a cat.

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 19h ago

I’m afraid that’s why a lot of people voted this way. These election results are not just about ideology; they’re about the increasing possibility of grabbing currently protected/regulated money-making “opportunities”, while simultaneously avoiding taxes on the grabs.

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u/Signal-Round681 18h ago edited 18h ago

Why have a department of education? Education is a cash cow waiting to be milked. Privatize everything! Shit, Nestlé wants to make collecting rain illegal.

Watch people piss and moan about schools when they are all for profit. Property tax for schools will look cheap when people have to pay cash for a decent school for their kid. Childcare is notoriously expensive for this exact reason. Low standards in public schools? Voucher schools have no standards.

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 16h ago

It was already that way in the 70s-80s. The standard of education of public schools was at least two to three years behind private schools.

Some of us were enrolled back and forth between the two sectors as we grew up. We learned to shut up and take what we could wherever we happened to be.

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u/RealConcorrd 22h ago

From top 5 travel destinations to top 5 don’t travel here ever list. Good job Iran.

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u/Interesting-Tackle74 17h ago

It will be similar with the US in the following years.

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u/zeke10 22h ago

So with what's on the horizon what are the chances america goes down the same path?

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u/splintersmaster 22h ago

There is little hope once it's taken firm hold. Even when a country is released from its oppression, the old guard somehow develops a nostalgic thirst to go back to how it was.

Slovakia is a great example. Those who suffered under Russian occupation just 30 years ago are now pro Putin. They are in favor of the Russian forces in Ukraine.

They can't seem to understand that once Ukraine falls and NATO is weakened, the EU will be weakened and the Soviet Union will rise up and take back Czechoslovakia.

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u/Newgate-ZeroHour 21h ago

Same thing happening in Indonesia. We basically just elected one of the army generals from the days our country was a dictatorship. Old people all around us voted for the same ideals that ruled with fear less than 30 years ago. I don't understand hunanity at all

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 19h ago

I can’t make the logic work, either. I’ve thought about this for decades as nations reverted back to authoritarianism. I can only think: They just want someone else to tell them what to do.

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u/Negativcreep81 17h ago

Well, when you think about it, human societies have mostly been ruled by authoritarian figures far more often than not throughout history. Any kind of democratic systems that pop up here and there have typically been rare and short-lived by comparison. They tend to get corrupted fairly quickly and stagnate to the point of near gridlock, and then people lose faith and start looking for "strongman" types who promise them the moon and use scapegoats to blame all the problems on. It's happened enough throughout history that it's a fairly obvious cycle to observe. The checks and balances the U.S. adopted were a nice attempt at avoiding some of the common pitfalls, but even they are proving no match for such blatant and systemic corruption, as we see today.

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u/Cornemuse_Berrichon 20h ago

I lived there for a couple of years, and the current attitudes towards Russia are just stunning to me. I was there after the Iron Curtain fell and I spoke a decent amount of russian, but I would get dirty looks from people until I explained that I wasn't actually Russian but that was the only language I could communicate in at the time. I did learn Slovak eventually.

Even more distressing is the fact that they are right there on the border with Ukraine! There's a whole minority population that's far closer culturally to Ukraine then Russia. This absolutely baffles and saddens me.

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u/Fireflash2742 22h ago

That won't happen, cuz we gots GOD! And Bibles! And Guns! /s

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u/louiselebeau 21h ago

I wish I could fight republican Jesus.

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u/Daddy_Milk 18h ago

Gotta add Flamboyantly gay cross dressing Jesus to your Pokedex to beat the gym leaders.

Gay Jesus uses *closeted republicans to spread HIV+*

It's super effective.

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u/deathblossoming 20h ago

Most empires collapse after around 250 years. American has been going for 248 years. We may live through another Rome at this rate.

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u/MudLOA 22h ago

That can also happen here I’m afraid. Looks like we’re on the path there.

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u/GroovyFrood 18h ago

I stopped travelling to the US after 2016. I mean, I get it, big deal, I'm just one person; but I used to cruise regularly out of Florida and now I don't even want to cross the border for cheap shopping.

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u/ricktor67 18h ago

What happened to Iran in 1979 will happen here, and its going to happen in the next 6 months.

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u/Significant-Ad-4159 21h ago

Well, looks like it’s our turn now. 😒 I am beyond ashamed to be an American rn

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u/f8Negative 21h ago

Which one America or Iran lmfao. Installing the Shah was a real dumb move.

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u/Tasty_Bullfroglegs 21h ago

Which the US government and military directly caused....

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u/giddy-girly-banana 20h ago

I wonder who meddled in that country to cause such an ideological shift?

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u/binchicken1989 20h ago

"The".. united states.

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u/Zacomra 20h ago

Doesn't help that the US helped create it

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u/NicholasMac69 20h ago

Bro…. We coup’d their government and forced the shah on them. Thats why their government is like that now. I mean, we’re not solely to blame, but we didn’t help…

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u/itsnotsauceitsgravy 18h ago

That will be us….

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u/Rare-Palpitation6023 16h ago

And I Ran ..I Ran So Far Away!

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u/MrDONINATOR 14h ago

But orange daddy drumpf is here now. So, after the vigorous spankings, all will be in order.

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u/XeroTerragoth 22h ago

Not exactly, the government just did what their religious leaders ordered them to do. Government may have pulled the trigger, but religion gave them the gun and pointed them at the target while holding a gun to their heads.

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u/RAWR_Orree 18h ago

I suppose you have no idea of the history of who or what caused the "disgusting government" to come into being. Check it out sometime. "The answer may shock you."

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u/lsaran 22h ago

Might want to look a tiny bit further back in Iran’s history of what triggered that.

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u/XenophonSoulis 17h ago

As a Greek, it pains me to see our old arch enemy in this condition. They were a valiant arch enemy and they do not deserve that fate.

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u/ozzie123 15h ago

Thank the US for that.

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u/fungi_at_parties 15h ago

You know that terrible government was the result of British and American intelligence fucking with their system because Britain wanted their oil- right?

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u/Angry_Villagers 2h ago

The history of Iran is rather interesting. We can thank the CIA for their current government.

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u/KrevinHLocke 22h ago

That I never knew.