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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The Americans could've changed to the metric system if they could afford it. However, changing a country's systems of measurement is a mammoth project of enormous complexity and cost, so I guess no politician want to make space for that in the budget when there are other things to take care of.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe people will forget about the epstein files if he tries changing to metric

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Genuinely, that would be the funniest reason... Maybe we should be inundating Trump with recommendations like this to 'fix' his approval ratings.

    ... and then hang him anyways after the next Nuremberg trials.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    ... and then hang him anyways after the next Nuremberg trials.

    Don't be silly, you lot are going to gold plate his pension and that of his family for decades to come. LOL next Nuremberg trials. Who are you kidding?

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    So you're saying the rest of the world is just going to roll over and let the Holocaust 2.0 happen?

    Your lack of faith in everyone non-American is disturbing...

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    As a non American who lives in the country that was responsible for the Holocaust and is now I think second biggest donor of the Zionist project (second after the US), I'm not too sure people learn from history. "Never again" has always been a lie

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    If I'm honest, yes.

    The US is going to protect him and his family for generations. Nobody... and I mean nobody, is going to challenge that. There'll be no trials, there'll be no reparations, there'll be no apologies, there certainly won't be any hangings. The best we can hope for is a gradual backing down of the extreme "fuck everyone" stance the US is in right now.

    What have you seen to suggest otherwise?

    (Nice star wars reference btw)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    We are not going to go WWII on the US, if that is what you are suggesting. Who would even do that? Russia and China are laughing their asses off about what is happening in the US right now. They never had it better, since the US voluntarily dropped its hegemony and basically joined their side.

    Europe wouldn't even if it could (which it obviously can't).

    The US can't be saved by anyone but their own people. But Americans so far seem to be very easy to bully into submission and accept their country turning fascist.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    People just don't really care enough to. And we already use the metric system in science, engineering, medicine, aerospace, military, and any science class in high school or higher. So what if our road signs and cookbooks are in imperial units.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    Recipes being imperial is the dumbest thing ever and I always convert mine. "Two cups and one tablespoon flour" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. I will defend feet/inches though for very specific cases where you may be dividing something into thirds like sometimes with woodworking

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