the hands of a citizenry that can’t be bothered to make sure it all stays on the rails
I don’t understand how we can survive.
Every day now I think about leaving. I want to be here but I can’t see how it will survive.
The US is unique because it was able to constantly absorb in all this new blood from outside to wash off the stagnation, keep things solid and strong, but now that’s cut off. [emphasis added]
Arguably, it is this sort of superficial, exceptionalist rhetoric is at the root cause of the situation
If you keep parroting, “freedom this, freedom that”, your not going to be able to make a true evaluation of the price and nature of freedoms when push comes to shove.
My brother I think you need to reread what I actually wrote.
My country is trying to die, there are monsters in the streets and it’s hard for me to see how we can win the fight that is coming for us. From my side you’re not going to bother me too much with any negativity you type in a Lemmy comment.
Interesting. You haven’t read “more” in the singular with that meaning (definitely not in formal language, if you did see it it would be because of someone trying to be fancy but making a mistake). “Mores” is from Latin, the singular is “mos” which isn’t used in English. “Mores” is a very very unusual word for a non native speaker to use, that’s just what made me curious.
For future reference I don’t think I would describe almost any common person in America as “centre-right” politically right now. Almost everyone is either MAGA, or at-least-center-left (on the American version of the spectrum at least), or apolitical-or-pretending-to-be. And almost no one anywhere on the right knows what the gilded age was. IDK, maybe it’s an issue of translating their politics into your terminology and then back into English.
Also it was a little bit strange that you seemed to almost totally ignore my “my country is dying I hate this” comment and somehow take the opposite meaning from it. Your reply was kind of boilerplate, just something you could say to any American who made a reply to your comment, with a few fitting quotes from my message taken out of context up at the top. Then there are sort of weirdly formal structures to it (the bulleted list breaking down components of your argument like an essay, and “consider novel approaches” and “cultural mores” and things like that). I would say it sounds like LLM text, except that there are also in it minor grammar mistakes (which is fine honestly, I’m a native speaker and I make plenty of those.)
I was just curious, just prodding a little bit, that is all, hope you do not take offense. Maybe you did some academic work in English, and so that’s just become the way you write when you’re writing English and so it’s unlike a lot of Lemmy comments as a result.
My brother I think you need to reread what I actually wrote.
Look man, I genuinely don’t want steer things in an even more negative direction.
Perhaps I misread things. Honestly, I regret writing my OP in such a negative tone and I should have been more constructive.
I was just sharing things that came to mind.
My country is trying to die, there are monsters in the streets and it’s hard for me to see how we can win the fight that is coming for us. From my side you’re not going to bother me too much with any negativity you type in a Lemmy comment.
Also, what’s a cultural more? Just curious.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/mores
It seems that the singular form of mores is non-standad, although I could have sworn I read it in more formal works.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/mores
Interesting. You haven’t read “more” in the singular with that meaning (definitely not in formal language, if you did see it it would be because of someone trying to be fancy but making a mistake). “Mores” is from Latin, the singular is “mos” which isn’t used in English. “Mores” is a very very unusual word for a non native speaker to use, that’s just what made me curious.
For future reference I don’t think I would describe almost any common person in America as “centre-right” politically right now. Almost everyone is either MAGA, or at-least-center-left (on the American version of the spectrum at least), or apolitical-or-pretending-to-be. And almost no one anywhere on the right knows what the gilded age was. IDK, maybe it’s an issue of translating their politics into your terminology and then back into English.
Also it was a little bit strange that you seemed to almost totally ignore my “my country is dying I hate this” comment and somehow take the opposite meaning from it. Your reply was kind of boilerplate, just something you could say to any American who made a reply to your comment, with a few fitting quotes from my message taken out of context up at the top. Then there are sort of weirdly formal structures to it (the bulleted list breaking down components of your argument like an essay, and “consider novel approaches” and “cultural mores” and things like that). I would say it sounds like LLM text, except that there are also in it minor grammar mistakes (which is fine honestly, I’m a native speaker and I make plenty of those.)
I was just curious, just prodding a little bit, that is all, hope you do not take offense. Maybe you did some academic work in English, and so that’s just become the way you write when you’re writing English and so it’s unlike a lot of Lemmy comments as a result.