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• plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When someone says American, they mean a USA resident. I don’t know anyone who would assume they mean a Canadian or Mexican, since you use those terms for them.

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  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for being sane.

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    • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude feels like a flat earther about this.

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  • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why? You have North Americans and South Americans to cover the others?

      What else would you need to include in the term Americans?

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      • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your point being you are making up a new definition and calling everyone else wrong?

      Bold move cotton.

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  American (read by the entire world as USA) culture is the problem.

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wasn’t the CNN just conducting a poll about the Iran invasion and around 100% of maga was for it, and like 35% of democrats too?

  Like insane numbers (am home w bad cold might write errors).

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• Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  America, where there is an actively sitting known pedophile president protecting a group of elite pedophiles

  Well, we’re not trying that hard. Seriously, it takes one person to put an end to all this misery and yet we don’t. Until there’s real progress in the US, it’s safe to say that each and every American supports our presidents actions if nothing else through refusal to stop him.

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gonna take a lot more than one person to end it. The president is just the cream of the crap. It’ll take dismantling the power of his cronies, their wealth/businesses, and their supporters. From the billionaires to the paycheck-to-paycheckaires that scream bloody murder when you suggest taxing their heroes to fund the welfare they think they’re entitled to but is a theft when someone else receives it, the problem isn’t just in high offices. It’s living next door to you and will vote this hate in again even if the current regime is removed.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then it would take one more at that point. Solve enough problems and eventually people will realize they need to stop creating them. Or solve your neighbors. As long as someone is ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING against the biggest problem, the rest of them can wait until someone is ready to solve them. When the biggest issue is dealt with, then we can start solving the smaller ones.

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      • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Define biggest problem. Is it the figurehead that has been empowered or the culture of hate that empowered it? Removing the head might lessen the impact short term, but not addressing the real issue that is the culture of hate will just send it to ground, breed a sense of victimhood and lost cause, and pass it on until it surfaces again. On the flipside, start killing your MAGA neighbors (which are more easily accessible than the office holders) and you’re just an unhinged lone wolf that won’t get very far before you’re killed or arrested, plus you’re just adding to the narrative that “these are dangerous people that must be eliminated”. It risks everything, gains little, and strengthens them. Scale that up to thousands of people the ing on their neighbors and you’ve moved on to genocide, which even if you win isn’t going to impress the global community. Great, America’s no longer a Christo-fascist oligarchy, all it took was half of them liquidating the other half… And what do you do with the kids? Kill them along with the parents? Send them off to be reindoctrinated? I have a hard time believing someone who watched their parents get murdered over political beliefs is going to have an easy time growing up compliant in the system where their parent’s killers won.

        It’s going to be a mix of fighting, lives and livelihoods getting lost, and consequences like being stripped of the rights to hold offices, own businesses, and vote- things that should have happened to those who participated in the Confederacy- to win. A lot more than one person is going to have to get their hands dirty with the knowledge they might not live to see it through, and it even then what they’ve done will be on their conscience for the remainder of their lives. You ever killed anyone? Ever beaten someone so savagely they had to go to the ER? Even if you can live comfortably with having done it because you feel morally justified, still weighs on you when you consider “goddamn, I beat the ever loving fuck out of that person and don’t feel bad”.

        I’ve found most people aren’t as comfortable with committing violence as they are talking about it or empowering others to do it for them, so I’m not at all surprised we don’t have a lot of lone wolves murdering their MAGA neighbors, just packs of state sanctioned thugs called cops doing it on behalf of their handlers.

        Whatever we do, however we fight back, not one of us alive today is going to get to live in a decent world. We’re here to duke it out for the foundation of what kind of society our grandkids and great grandkids get to live in, and even then they’re going to have to work to preserve their version of it because hate, intolerance, greed, and entitlement always reinvent themselves.

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