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[–] Reasonable_Guy@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

Meanwhile there's those of us in the US

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

Sleep in a house you own? Can't relate

[–] Flashbulb8464@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Bobby, if those kids could read, they’d be very upset.

[–] Ickabod@lemm.ee 9 points 4 hours ago

I wouldn't get too cozy over there. We'll just end up bringing America to you :) Sleep soundly

[–] coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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!

[–] mgnome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

As if Europe didn't have one demented moron routinely threatening everyone with nukes for years now. 🌚

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Try sleeping just north of them.

(edit: also the "launch codes" for most of the time they existed where just set to all zeros.)

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lucky bastard, can you like abduct me or something?

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Your government will do that for you

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Yeah no shit.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

I would be thrilled for the USG to deport me. Like where would they even send me? At least before New England finally secedes that is.

[–] MistressMaiden@pawb.social 11 points 10 hours ago

I wish I could be all of you rn

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago
[–] plyth@feddit.org 14 points 11 hours ago

If you don't come to America, America comes to you.

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Most Americans don't live in America.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They mean live vs just existing.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

We call that surviving in burgertown

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine if this said "How I sleep knowing I don't live in Palestine, and never will."

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The difference is Americans actively voted for their current situation

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 13 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

60% of americans voted for this. Because deciding not to show up to the polls to vote against fascism is voting for it.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes...

A graph showing razor-tgin margins for Trump's 2024 victory

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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.

[–] rylock@lemm.ee 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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.

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