Our number one export is our brain rot. Soon :tm:
Nothing as funny as Americans tell us how we are parasites, and how they don’t want us there. WE DON’T WANT TO GO THERE.
Imagine if this said “How I sleep knowing I don’t live in Palestine, and never will.”
The difference is Americans actively voted for their current situation
All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes…
Remember, it’s Americans that are stupid.
To be fair, a lot of Americans are very stupid. Living here is extremely frustrating at times…
The larger issue is that many Americans are selfish and cruel, though. That’s why getting sick once can ruin our lives, and why working in this country can often be inhumane and awful.
The pervasive lie here is that everyone makes it if they work hard. Good people believe this, and it’s a big part of what’s destroying us as a country.
This is your defence? LOL
Only 29.8% of Americans cared enough to stop a known criminal with an authoritarian bent become the last president you’ll ever have.
31% wanted it.
1.1% voted for someone they knew wouldn’t win.
38.1% don’t give a shit what happens. Possibly these people were purged from voter rolls and had their vote stolen. But knowing Americans, I’d happen to guess that percent is well below .5% of the non-voter segment.
Pathetic.
No one said all. Don’t accuse others of ignorance when your reading comprehension is this bad. When people say Americans voted for this, it’s because they don’t let the 38% of non-voters off the hook for their passivity. Voting is a duty and their negligence led to this outcome.
About 30% of Americans did, and that’s the segment least representative of what average people actually want.
This isn’t an “America bad” situation as much as an “Oh fuck, capitalism just took down America, who is it coming for next?” situation.
Capitalism isn’t coming for anyone else because of limitations that have been put on it by the peoples governments in other countries.
We had many of those same limitations after the great depression. Do not overestimate your ability to manage capitalism
lol.
60% of americans voted for this. Because deciding not to show up to the polls to vote against fascism is voting for it.
I see this misconception all over the place and I can only assume it stems from not understanding the electoral college.
You overestimate how many people live in swing states.
Every non-voter who lives in California voted for Kamala. All of the state’s EC votes went to her.
The electoral college made 10 million voters who voted for biden in the 2020 elections sit home in 2024?
It’s not that 60% was “okay with fascism.”
It’s that “60% of people have embraced toxic nihilism.” Shaped from years of scrolling, overdosing on dopamine, reading and participating in contentious debates on the internet that never lead to an outcome, reading clickbait headlines that stopped making sense years ago, going home and sitting in front of a monitor instead of going out with friends to hang out and just talk about life, of eating the most addictive foods and getting all manner of drugs over the counter to alter their moods, their feelings, their perceptions.
We have everything to placate us and make us happy and it’s killing everyone.
Many years ago I once sat with a local captain (like a constable) of a village in Southeast Asia. We were drinking gin and looking at the stars and he said “You know why gin here is cheap? And sold on every corner? Because as long as everyone makes their number one priority at the end of the day to come home and get drunk, you won’t get people coming together and forming groups, of protesting the injustices, of changing the system” he said with a smile as he tossed back another shot.
Since then I’ve actually pursued this and have found evidence over and over how capital uses numbing agents to keep populations subdued, from the overt tactics well recorded and planned like the use of Opium in China, all the way through more modern places like Russia and vodka. And it works. And we have a lot more numbing agents around us now than just ingestible substances.
In places with fewer numbing agents, people are still having kids, still throwing parties and looking forward to poker every night with their grown siblings, of building a new barn or getting together to open a new store, or instead of spending 12 hours a day getting better at Marvel Rivals, they’re playing basketball. Sure it happens here still, but it’s in such radical decline that we have a dictator in charge and nobody cares. This is manufactured nihilism and don’t mistake it for something else because that’s exactly what the numbing agents want you to do.
Are you aware of how difficult/impossible it is for many Americans to vote? The GOP has dedicated decades to disenfranchising voters, and rigging elections via gerrymandering.
That’s why this wasn’t even close… He won by a landslide, despite the popular vote being razor-thin. He also won the last election in 2016 despite the popular vote being lost.
My country is severely fucked up at a governmental level.
And over decades, many of you didn’t care enough to vote those stains out. Here you reap the harvest of decades of apathy, laziness, performative “patriotism” and religion. Trump was an entirely predictable circumstance.
How do you explain the ten million voters who had no problem voting for 2020 election but disappeared for 2024?
Because voting got harder for those people in that time. Because you know, the government usually does something in the span of four years
So voting got harder for democrats in the four years a democrat was president.
Dont worry if you dont live in the USA the USA will come to you…
Or so the new native american saying goes.
I live in America. It’s 2 AM and I just awoke from a nightmare wherein I was running from the govt. My wife, dog, and I were in hiding at my home, with friends occupying the place to help us stay hidden. But a drone spotted me. I shot it down, but we had 10 minutes to pack what I could into a short yellow schoolbus (which quickly became a British double-decker) and take off before agents showed up to capture or kill us.
By the way, I’m a white male, married to a white woman, and by all outside appearances, cis and “normal”. Probably one of the most protected classes in America right now. And even I’m having nightmares about where our country is headed and when it’ll be “my turn.”
I woke up, picked up my tablet, and this was the top post in my feed. 😣
Small, probably stupid tip, but what the hell. There is an almost surefire way to kill drones without needing a firearm. Buy a high-powered laser (>5W). It obviously won’t be enough to take the drone down, but just a fraction of a second of that beam is enough to permanently destroy the camera. The downside is that the beam is very visible so you’d also be giving away your location. Also works on static cameras like traffic cams, number plate readers, …
Yeah and this way if you’re imperfect in aiming the FBI will show up at your door for lasering any aircraft in the background.
But the trick is you have to manage to point it directly into the camera lense. May the odds be ever in your favor.
High-powered lasers have a very wide beam ;)
If the beam is wide enough to make hitting the camera easy, it probably doesn’t have a high enough power density to cause serious damage. And even if it does, from what I’ve seen the damage is usually limited to dead pixels on the parts of the sensor directly exposed to the laser. I think a shotgun would be much more effective since all you have to do is clip a propeller or an important part of the internals and the drone is going down.
It definitely would be, but you can’t just order a shotgun online and have it delivered to you in a day like you can with a laser.
Why wait for shipping? Just take a trip to the Walmart and pick one up today. (The shotgun)
This would be a trash way to take down a drone. You would have to know where the camera is exactly on the drone and then manage to shine the laser directly into that camera long enough to damage it. As distance grows between you and the drone, that time to damage the lenses will grow longer.
The currently most common drone takedown methods implemented are radio signal jammers, counterattack drones with nets, and shotguns filled with an intermediate shot size between bird shot and buck shot. The first two are fairly expensive options which take know-how to create, where as the latter is a shotgun, which are abundant and fairly cheap in comparison to the other two.
I didn’t choose to be born here and wish I was born somewhere where I wasn’t constantly fearing for what tomorrow could bring. But since I was born here I have to figure out a way to navigate this shit show of a country till I can flee
Same. And most of us are kept too broke to be able to feasibly move away anyways.
The only difference between the US and Canada is how far along the path you are. There’s a reason your government gives standing ovations to literal Nazis
Me when I cook eggs
Meanwhile there’s those of us in the US
Whoa now! Can’t be chugging tariff-enriched coffee down like that.
It’s all fun and games watching the crazy people do crazy things across the pond until you remember the crazy people have nukes and the biggest idiot of them all has the launch codes. Sleep well tonight!
As if Europe didn’t have one demented moron routinely threatening everyone with nukes for years now. 🌚
The funny thing is that statistically, there’s a 43% chance that you’re living in one of the other 8 countries with nuclear warheads lol.
Try sleeping just north of them.
(edit: also the “launch codes” for most of the time they existed where just set to all zeros.)
I live in latam
better than living in North Mexico/South Canada
Bobby, if those kids could read, they’d be very upset.
Eh, pretty much all countries has their own problems not just America.
If you don’t come to America, America comes to you.
