Oh yeah that’s definitely representative of the majority of us, got us figured out you have
Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Invading other contries to kidnapp head of states?
morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 days ago
Alright, here's another one. Americans bragging about their democracy until all of a sudden it's more convenient to blame the politicians for bad behaviour rather than the electorate that put them in power.
Take some responsibility for your government, does it represent you or not?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Schrodinger’s American Citizenship
*If its successful, I’m an American. If it’s falling apart, I’m digging through my ancestry."
rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Do you understand how voting works? Each person gets one vote. Do you think I, or anyone else, could have somehow forced the 30% who didn’t vote to vote, and not only that but to vote the way we wanted them to? How am I responsible for the choices of people 2,000 miles across the country that I’ve never interacted with? Do I have any control over the propaganda these people are exposed to?
At any given time, only 30-40% of the US is actually represented by the government. At least 30% of us directly voted against all this. Comments like yours make me feel like you’re trying to erase our existence… but I’m sure that’s helpful for somebody.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They said QUIETLY annoying. Things you wouldn’t speak up about. I feel like kidnapping world leaders doesn’t qualify as that. I’m American, and it’s been about a full day now, and it’s just now setting in just how insane it is that we just kidnapped a world leader. Just…took him. Meanwhile, here in the states, we’re also kidnapping random people off the street in unmarked cars for committing the crime of being not white.
These are things that should be screamed about, not silent.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Some people are screaming. Most are not. And the words, from those screaming, are cheap. The silence of actions continues to be, and likely will continue to be, deafening.