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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

dude shut up im gonna get them to give us shit then we can nuke them

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit, uh, yes please help us

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seriously you two? Again? Now you gotta go see the boss, again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who's the boss, though? Tony Danza? Bruce Springsteen? The ghost of Boss Tweed?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm the boss man now. Status report! I'll cross reference everything you say with what the top-mid manager says the mid-mid manager heard from the low-mid manager about y'all

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Status: gotta pee.

Update: successfully peed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Russia and NK are the ones sending daily Nuke threats

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (19 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

With every fiber of my being, please.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (22 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (26 children)

Guess I’m the only one who is happy living in the US. We have our fair share of problems but so does everywhere. I’ve lived in 4 different countries over the past 40 years and I’m good here. Lemmy is so hateful toward Americans

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Our government fucking sucks and has a HUGE influence on the world. People need to separate their hated of a country's government and its people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It also sucks to live in the US. A lot of Americans repeat the same "best country on Earth" line without ever having left or only having been out of country as a soldier. You know what other countries make children do some kind of allegiance pledge? North Korea... China has something similar. Good luck naming another one. Oh yeah, and that salute? Go google the "Bellamy Salute." My dad was forced to do that shit in the 50's like they were still doing that shit after the Nazis lost the war.

I left after I got shot by a fascist terrorist for protesting a Nazi collaborating transphobe. A few months before I left there was a shoot out with the cops across the street. I lived in the nice neighborhood. The US is fucked. If you're a cis white man, you still have opportunities. If you're not, you probably live in fear every day. The average income is higher than most of the world, but the income disparity is like the developing world. There are massive houseless camps because rents keep going up. Fascists regularly talk about rounding up houseless people and murdering them.

The US is rapidly becoming like Brazil or Costa Rica, where rich people drive around in armored SUVs and poor people get run over by those SUVs and shot. Some people still have opportunities, but a lot of people are legitimately fleeing for their lives and should be accepted as refugees. The fact that countries issue travel warnings for their citizens to avoid parts of the US should give you a hint that things are not OK. And migration among middle and upper class folks is reversing. Europeans and Canadians used to want to come to the US, now they're going back and Americans are moving out.

The American dream is dead for most people. It's been dead for almost everyone born after gen X for a long time. People used to come to the US for a better life, now they're leaving it. The only people who want to be in the US are people escaping climate crisis and political instability (often created by the US), people who are well enough off to take advantage of the collapse, and people who still believe the propaganda.

I don't expect the US to still exist in 20 or maybe even 10 years. This is just the beginning. I just wish those who can't escape didn't have to suffer though what's happening now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's always "____ is hateful towards americans". I remember people saying the same in:

9GAG (before it went to shit)
Twitter (before it went to shit)
Reddit (before it went to shit)

Maybe it's not about the social media? Maybe "Americans" (specifically US) has done so many terrible things, and continue do do them, is the problem?

I don't see people being "hateful" towards Canada...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Canadian government is so nice but fucking complicit in some bullshit. Sure our society isn't as fucked as the US but we shouldn't be free from criticism either. Our track record on indigenous issues is shameful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'm aware, sadly. But those are more internal issues, that don't really affect the outer cuntries much. You also don't go about shouting that Canada is the best country in the world and everyone else is a commie socialist lib etc. That the Canadian way of living is the only right way of living... I could go on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It's not perfect, and it's far from perfect for a lot of people. Some times, we're doing alright. But there are many moments where we resemble a tire fire with the best PR department on the planet. The optics don't line up with the data, and that's frustrating. That doesn't mean that we're all unhappy, but rather we're wrestling with the dissonance around knowing it could/should be better, especially for those worse off than ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Agreed. Leaving should be a last resort. This is my fucking country and I'll be damned if I won't stay here and put up a fight for what I know it could be if we were more true to what we say we believe in. There are many hundreds of thousands of others like me, and maybe we lose in the end, but by God the fascists are going to know they were in a fight. Figuratively I mean. I don't see actual violence as playing any real role in guiding the future of the US.

Also, I live in the Pacific Northwest which is unlike anyplace else on the planet. I don't want to live anywhere else. I guess I could move to BC , but they probably don't want me and besides, I have an ex up there who I'd rather avoid.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't compare my country to developing nations. They are measured by a different metric.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

We measure in chicken nuggets here

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

America should just let Texas secede from the union. The biggest group of morons are offering to take themselves out of the equation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Let them secede, and then invade, make it a territory. See how they like losing their votes in congress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They can't legally secede, the case law is clear, that's why we need to kick them out instead.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I'm one of them. That's why I'm complaining.

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