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We are too dumb and poor. Bomb us or something.
I wonder if people outside the US grasp the size and scale of America. You’re talking like 300 million people spread across massive geographical, cultural, political, and social scales. There is little that connects most Americans to their neighbors and the Epstein Class that runs things works 24/7 to degrade that and turn neighbor against neighbor. It’s a dysfunctional system where people are trapped by runaway capitalism with no escape.
Do not expect progress overnight.
You’d have to be quite the optimist to expect a positive change from the US at this point. The same points you cite works against any form of improvement to the point where it’s a borderline impossibility.
You should’ve taken Russia seriously instead of letting them slowly wear you down until they got exactly what they wanted. Dugin wrote a fucking book yet nobody took it seriously.
You should’ve taken care of your healthcare and educational institutions. The state of your school system is so bad I don’t even have words for it. It’ll take generations to rebuild it.
You should’ve worked on the systematic racism that never truly went away. Instead it became the perfect vehicle for discord while simultaneously masking the class warfare that truly fucked everything up
You definitely should’ve made sure money wasn’t the deciding factor in politics and while you were at it you should’ve taxed those assholes that are destroying the planet right now. Instead they took over and now they’re running things.
It’s a little late to change things in any sort of civilised way now, and we’re all going to suffer for it.
And also don’t forget that half of us are sitting here as disgusted and outraged as the rest of the world, or moreso because it’s happening to our country. When I come on Lemmy and see people lobbing bricks at us it just makes me hate them. I guarantee the half of Americans who put us in this mess are not the half who are present on Lemmy. The last thing I need is to come in here and be their whipping boy for the emotional catharsis of smug Europeans.
Those bricks are a message, we need to use those bricks. Forward them to you local oligarch or congressperson. Build something out of it or else we just have a bunch of bricks weighing us down.
When I come on Lemmy and see people lobbing bricks at us it just makes me hate them.
Strong words from someone who thinks 15 year olds are “superstars at giving birth”. You’re American alright.
But you feel the need to hate people who judge your country for being an ass-backwards shitshow that makes the rest of the planet worse off on a daily basis.
The entire world is in the process of learning to hate you.
It’s not something anybody in any other place can fix, if you don’t throw those bricks in the right direction they will just keep getting heavier and pointer.
And yes, that’s a messed-up thing.
I think most reasonably educated people around the world are fully aware of all of this.
I mention the Epstein case in one of my comments just because I assume that the vast majority of the population despises pedophiles and wants to see them punished for their monsterous crimes - to me, this seems more like a unifying factor that could be used to bridge political divides. I mean, with Massie, there’s even among today’s conservatives someone who doesn’t bow to pressure from within his own ranks. So it really should be possible to agree with your neighbor that a regime so obviously entangled in these crimes must be overthrown.
But hey, this is just one starting point - there are many more, given all the rampant corruption, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in the U.S. itself.
I’m afraid that U.S. citizens will have to get used to posts like this one, because the actions of the U.S. regime unfortunately affect the entire world, which is why the propaganda narrative of the friendly superpower spreading freedom is increasingly being recognized for the farce it has always been.
I love how this blames a group of people for inaction while also itself being another form of inaction.
Embargo the shit out of us, stop buying our gas and oil, pirate our movies and software.
We want them out of power too, but most of us are so vulnerable to job loss, home loss, healthcare loss and food instability that there isn’t much we can do until we are properly organized across 50 states, 100 million people spread across 3.12million square miles (8,081,000 million square km). That’s the scale of the situation.
Also we know national politics aren’t democratic. The senate is intentionally disproportionate representation, but the house isn’t really any better, because the minimum is 1 representatives per state, even when one of the states has 1.5% of the population of another. So Wyoming has 1 rep per 500,000 people, while California has 1 rep per 750,000 people. And in the senate it’s roughly one senator for 250,000 in WY and 1 for 19,000,000 in CA. That means people in densely populated cities (who tend to be higher educated left leaning voters) are way under represented.
Do you seriously believe that most people outside the U.S. aren’t aware that the U.S. is, by virtue of its Constitution alone, merely a sham democracy? That they don’t know the U.S. has actually been an oligarchy for a long time? Or do you really believe that ordinary people in other countries aren’t boycotting U.S. products and urging their governments to do the same? And the most important question: Do you seriously believe that any other country of the world would or could come to America’s rescue?
If you think all the countries of the world can’t do anything, what do you expect your average Joe in America to be able to do? What are you, and your country, specifically doing?
You’ll find the answers to most of your questions in this thread.
Fuck that.
Amerikans are complicit entirely, making excuses and pushing the blame on others while doing the exact same thing you did last week while being defensive is how we got here. Take action. Get involved, burn something down, manipulate your taxes, pirate your subscriptions, resist in any way you can.
First we’d need about 75 million of my countrymen to care more about brown kids being blown to smithereens than they do about having brunch in peace, and know that’s an impossibility.
Based on what facts?
Dems lost in part because of their support of genocide, and Donald’s candidates have lost almost every election in 2025 and 2026, with most of those losses occurring in districts he won by double digits in 2024 regardless of whether it’s a red or blue state.
Seems to me there’s ample evidence out here that Americans care about those brown kids and are exercising the only realistic power they have to stop it: voting. And even better, AIPAC affiliation is becoming a litmus test for the 2026 elections.
The best thing they’ll offer you is a, “sorry”
My state made it illegal for me to purchase any firearm other than a shotgun or musket so yeah, sorry will have to do.
Sorry, still not to the point where my children growing up without a father is the better option.
Well then, I wish you all the best.
