Welcome to conservative America.
Who knew giving a group of people with a notably low IQ and an absence of morality power would lead to what we’re seeing?
Who knew, right?
Meanwhile, Presidents have been ignoring the Constitution since at least Reagan, they’ve repeatedly murdered people around the world and bombed half of Africa, the Middle East, and South America… and not one of them ever declared war.
Democrats won’t save you, they are sitting at the table with Nazis so they are Nazis and so on
Its not Whataboutism if those two parties are basically the same entity(two headed ogre) and you just get to “pick” which head is in charge for the term and they are reminding people of this so you avoid the entire tumor not just the part floating above water. Are they wrong to say all the President’s for a long time have ignored the Constitution? If they aren’t its rather valuable information to be aware of, unless that doesn’t fit your political narrative? But saying that, I get where you are coming from, different people and situations create different interpretations and language isn’t always perfect at communicating what we intend.
My own opinion/perspective is that Trump is partly symptom of how much our Democracy has become a farce, on the other hand Kamala wouldn’t have been half as bad, but I also don’t like how little respect the “Left” has for individual rights except the ones they cherry pick (“whataboutism”)but Republican Party is also super guilty of that. They want a big benevolent blob of a government that will do much better than you at running your life, their solution to any problem is make a bigger more powerful government and force conformity to that central authority. Now I will admit I don’t think they would outright abuse all that power I cannot say the same about hm… for example Trump and the since Republican leaning factions in the country won’t just magically disappear so you have to accept that centralizing government power is not something you get to decide if it will be abused or not. For example if Trump decided to create a “Universal Healthcare System,” would that be a completely corrupt cash grab for Private Equity and Big Pharma and would that be a forever tax like the military budget, theft literally legislated into law.
Who said Democrats are on our side
Truly dystopic, Jesus christ
His name must be Mike Wazowski. Seriously though its not like anyone up there cares about anyone down here.
Looks like his name is Dow Jones to me.
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The us GOVERNMENT. The us is the rest of us who disagree with that GOVERNMENT.
Thank god you disagree. Otherwise they would bomb schools and terrorize the whole world.
There’s no pleasing some people…
Unfortunately a majority of Americans voted for this. The “rest of us” is actually a minority group. Maybe we are the majority now with this war, but a little over a year ago we were not.
The majority absolutely did not vote for this. Not only did a massive chunk of the population not even vote, but among those who did vote, Trump got less than 50% of those votes
chunk of the population not even vote
This is also a choice. And in 2024 it was absolutely obvious that it’s a choice for Trump.
Majority, supermajority even, either wanted Trump to be an absolute leader, or was OK with it.This is also a choice.
You need to get out more. Or educate yourself on the issue. Believe it or not, it’s not always a choice. That’s just a fact of life here in the US that getting out or self-education will help you realize.
77M voted for Trump against 75M for Harris. So the majority voted for Trump, despite everyone telling them what a shitshow it would be. Which we can now witness on a daily basis.
The left: war is bad, because it hurts people. The right: we died enough for foreign issues. The rulling parties: did you say…more war?
That really makes the rest of us in the world happy to hear that the country bombing everyone and trying to intimidate allies is full of citizens who are utterly fucking useless.
Ya’ll would do well to remember that, unless you actually do something, we don’t give a shit about how upset you are. You are a citizen of the US and I have some sympathy for that but when try to deflect like this that sympathy quickly evaporates. It reads loud and clear like you care more for your personal reputation than anything else.
Well, we do murder and assault each other at rates about 5x that of our European allies, and our cops kill us sometimes 20x the rate of our allies. We don’t just export violence, we have a thriving domestic trade in it as well. And it’s becoming increasingly politically motivated. My neighborhood has a squad of paramilitary Proud Boy wannabes that goes jogging every morning in their tactical gear and ARs. They’re not cops, not military, not ICE, just dudes drilling for the war. While the left didn’t ever not own guns, it’s surging. We’ve got LGBTQ gun groups, women only gun groups, socialist gun groups, and mutual aid networks on both sides kicking into high gear for the hunker down. I get that it’s frustrating to watch American leadership sow chaos globally, but internally our fight isn’t just with them, it’s with every one of our neighbors that supports it. Remove Trump and they’ll just move on to the next strong man. It’s the legacy of letting the Confederacy stew in its loss generation after generation and failure to prevent them from seeking power. There’s still a sliver of hope we can vote our way out of this when elections come, though I doubt that will work. It’ll be interesting to see what goes down when that fails and the regime declares itself dictator for life. You’ll either see the US decline into Russian style authoritarianism or a bloody shitshow as the most heavily armed populace in world history revenges itself on itself.
I know that the whole thing is more nuanced and I know of the stuff that you’re speaking about, but what I’m saying is that, right now, people from the US are guilty until proven innocent.
Let me put it this way: Saying “it’s just the government” is the same thing as saying “not all men”, but somehow even dumber than that since the government overwhelmingly holds way more power. As a man, I understand my part in the latter and do not expect women to trust me because I think I’m safe, and as US citizens people need to understand that no one cares what they think of the former if our interaction with the United States is done at the end of their threats and through the smoke left behind by their bombs.
If Americans want to exonerate themselves they can either suffer the indignity of being complicit to the violence inflicted abroad and at home while waiting for the next election to maybe, possibly, thread of hope change its course. Or they can throw caution to the wind, put their lives and livelihood on the line, and attempt to wrest control back through force. Doing the latter will be a mess, cause more bloodshed, and is up against a powerful machine better equipped to crush it. But no one outside of America is going to save it from itself. The people in power have a world class military, relative geographic isolation, and the nuclear option to keep them at bay. Other states could sanction, isolate, deny trade, but they won’t fight the fight for us. If you want absolution, earn it. Destroy what destroys you and countless others. You don’t have to fight alone, in fact I highly recommend not doing that.
And really, I would just like to see the US working class band together. There is nothing without workers, and people can only be forced so much. Maybe it’s the privileged AuDHD talking but I’m always so shocked with the amount of crap people put up with and how much they’d rather tell their coworkers to chill out than tell their bosses to pay up.
We completely lost control of “our” two political parties, we are a lot more like China and Russian than people want to admit, we can talk shit about the government but we have about as much control over it as the Chinese and Russians have over theirs. Anything Military gets rubber stamped by congress with like maybe 10% of them voting against any of it, even what passes for Left. Democratic Party goes along with it all while whining, basically a mistreated housewife, but Democratic Party won’t actually leave their abuser. Rather than try and make themselves attractive to progressive voters they instead try and lean “Conservative.”(Corrupt) The can’t lean progressive because the progressives want to tax the rich and regulate Big Business, etc, but those are their sugar daddies.
They have to take “Lobby and Campaign Finance money”(bribes) to buy advertisements on Corpo-Media, also if they don’t kiss the ring(turns their back on Progressives) the media shadow bans them and all the other “politicians” outcry how unqualified for the job they are and how they will ruin “America.” To be fair If those other politicians didn’t take bribes they wouldn’t have gotten elected, therefor it’s hard to keep out the type who are threatened by progressives. We are just a lot more sophisticated in having a rigged system, internally our propaganda is subtler, externally I bet we look like malignant idiots, we kind of are but we were somewhat turned into it. A blend of Russia problems and Chinese Problems, we call it USA, the social progress is non existent or at least I haven’t seen any in 30 years.
Of course if Democracy/society had two brain cells to rub together than would notice they could vote for the opposite minor party, drawing away votes from the The Republicans and the Democratic Party inversely while also doing cultural exchange(divisiveness immunization), Pressuring their hated blob of choice to up their game lose or get replaced. Shifting power away from the two big blobs and create two more options to vote for but they only know how to wave the flag of Lesser Evil. To be fair Politicians are supposed to guide them into those kind of cleverness, but maybe they are too busy making $1000 plate fund raising dinners and rubbing shoulders with the rich somewhere. Or if they are different they are someone we never heard or of heard of because they didn’t spend lots of money trying to compete for our attention with the Corpo-slop-trough.
These days I’m still so surprised that we need corpo media to run a campaign. And honestly, we saw Mamdani win so I’m not sure why we have such a hard time everywhere else.
We have a similar problem to the last thing you mentioned here in Canada. We keep voting for the “esser of two evils”, never for the actually progressive party, and have done so to the point where the centrist party has simply become the conservative party from a decade ago. We did nothing with our “strategic voting” except the kick the can ever-so-slightly down the road while, in a sense, attacking the party many of us claim to actually want. The centrist party was elected in 2015 largely because they promised electoral reform and, when a non-partisan committee found that much more democratic systems would lead to them probably never winning again, they quickly threw the whole thing out because it was apparently going to be “too hard.” Then we elected them a few more times because we are stupid. I’ve always voted for the progressive party and refuse to ever engage in this useless, short-sighted, “strategic” voting nonsense. It’s never truly worked in our two countries and we can see it so painfully clearly.
The curse of being even margainally intelligent, I suppose. I ain’t a genius but boy-howdy the bar just gets lower every passing day.
Iranians are dying for their country, Americans are dying for their bankers.
Wait until you figure out those bankers are INTERNATIONAL, and the cash pipeline for war across the globe.
Their capital used to be the UK, now it is the USA; the same banks have been around since the 1800s and financing every war through DEBT; they control the FED and the US dollar, which is used in over 50% of all international trade.
It’s not hidden, check out JP Morgan, Deutsch Bank, Goldman Sachs, and so on.
Our country is run by bankers. There is no stretch of the imagination in which someone who works for us would vote to bail out the banks and not bail out the people.
I mean, a very similar story was told when George W. Bush was in office. Someone had some oil that needed some American Freedom… I mean, WMDs! They had WMDs…
To be fair, the stock prices are the biggest casualty for them.
To paraphrase a famous draft dodger
They’re not war heroes. They were a war heroes because they was killed. I like people who weren’t killed.
DOW isn’t even at 50k either. Perfect storm
May they rest in 46,495
Wait. It’s below 50k?
why are you laughing?!
His name is Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien
Clearly his name is Dow Jones.
His name is Maj. Sucker.
Maybe let’s make fun of the administration instead of its victims
The King’s men are all volunteers, and I used the King’s own description of them.
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The worst? Gonna ignore Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the rape and slaughter of the civilian population? Gonna ignore China’s concentration camps for Uyghurs? The only reason you get to trash talk the US so bad is because (for now) we still have a press that can widely report (mostly) the truth about events and actions by this administration. Those other countries keep that shit under wraps so we don’t get any info better than limited second hand at best. I’m sure there’s even smaller countries doing BS to their own and other people, but they’re probably too small for you to soapbox and virtue signal about.
Russia did some pretty bad stuff in Ukraine (including some war crimes) but nowhere near the hell on earth unleashed by the US every few years. The civilian death toll in Ukraine war in 3 years is way less than any single year of the Gaza genocide.
China did overreact to uighur nationalist terror groups with unnecessary searches, arrests, and reeducation camps, but it’s not even closely comparable to the other two. The closest widely-known comparison is perhaps the Japanese internment camps the US did during WW2, but less widespread.
US is by far the shittiest most evil country on this planet, and until you come to terms with this and internalize it, you’re (a small) part of the problem.
trash talk the US so bad is because (for now) we still have a press that can widely report (mostly) the truth about events and actions
Oh dear God, where to even start?
I give up
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LOL idiot
Blocked.
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There’s like 2 groups in this country that are generally treated as sacred: “Little white GURHLS” and soldiers.
Literally not that hard to fuck it up. Is it a little white girl that died or disappeared? Then treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face. Did a soldier just die in war? Then also treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face.
This is clearly a violation of the “treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face” criteria but obviously we know that the media is focused on preserving power for the ownership class over the working class, so not terribly surprising.
I mean, the number of violent childhoods (physical violence, but also psychological and of course the poverty, hunger, the stress of those situations, the neglect, etc.) in your country, plus the pederasty and pedophilia club running the government and corporations make me think children (in the second case it’s mainly ‘little girls’) are not that important either in current years. Yes, we make fun of the “think of the children!” discourse in the U.S., but those are just words. At least from the distance, I don’t think you’re protecting children enough (and the same is true for a lot of countries, but that’s beyond the point).
Our soldiers are only sacred until they need healthcare or protest something, then fuck 'em.
A correction, dead soldiers are only sacred for about 30 seconds of the broadcast, after that it’s the “idea” of soldiers and not the messy reality. Always phased as “our brave men and women”.
Anything more than that and people might start questioning why those soldiers were there in the first place.
And children are only sacred until they’re born.
“The troops” is a nebulous idea you always wholeheartedly support, but any particular vet who goes to the VA becomes a drain on the system to be discarded asap.
TBF most people and politicians can’t name the dead no matter the war.
I got my Combat Infantry Badge in the spring of 2002, my division commander was there, HRC was there, neither could name any of us let alone the casualties.
Slaughterers at abbatoirs don’t name and get to know their meat before the slaughter.
Lol, may they all rest in piss.
11 angry muricans saw your comment 😁
Maybe people being killed is bad?
Yes, of course.
But being murdered while being hired as a murderer makes it
A) expected B) natural selection C) less impactful to my life
Oh no wait, it’s soldiers, so it’s no murder, but a simple job. My bad, sorry 😁
And if your country forces you to die for some capital gains for your owners: leave that shit hole.
