Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🍹🪭Thursday, November 21, 2024

useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because the US is literally one of the most powerful nations and militaries on Earth, and they have a rapist, treasonous, failed businessman as a president. During a time when Russia has decided to stretch itself into a facsimile of it’s Roman Empire inspiration of conquer and assimilate, Israel and Palestine are going at it really fucking hard, and they all (besides Palestine) have nuclear weapons.

  Yeah, I think we’re allowed to be vocally critical of them.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not one of. The US is the richest and most militarily powerful country in history. They have so many natural resources and such good human resources they can afford to make many mistakes and not really lose any ability or potential.

    The EU comes in second.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would think that question is fairly easy to answer

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• ami@mastodon.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @useless_modern_god
  Because when the US sneezes we get the flu.
  What the US does, or doesn't do, directly impacts out lives.

  They lead the charge and we play lapdog. AUKUS has a very real chance of failing now and we might be subject to sanctions and a trade war.

  They are the ones making abortion and trans rights an issue, they are screwing up the lives of Australians.

  Why do we dump shit on the US? It's warranted. We don't get a vote in their processes but we suffer the consequences.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are the ones making abortion and trans rights an issue, they are screwing up the lives of Australians.

    we have the choice to ignore them and follow our own issues

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    • ami@mastodon.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @Seagoon_
      That's like ignoring the rain. You will still get wet.

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      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No it isn’t. There are choices.

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I do it mostly because I’m a petty bastard, and tend to treat people how I feel they treat me. My experience with most people (in an online form) from the US is that they have such a horrendous habit of US defaulting and a ridiculous superiority complex. Also a bit of tall poppy syndrome happening there

  They’re also basically the very manifestation of capitalism, greed, selfishness, and monopolistic practices, and COVID/gun control issues very much proved that an uncomfortably large portion of their population has zero care or concern for anything resembling the common good, or public benefit. And whilst I realise we have these issues here, too, they’re a lot more pronounced in the US (although I will grant that’s probably because they also have an exponentially higher population than we do).

  And countries are more or less just the sum of their people, particularly in a democracy, no matter how flawed

  (FWIW, I hang pretty much an equal amount of shit on Australia, too, when our pollies make decisions I strongly disagree with, or that don’t align with my moral compass. I think a part of my dislike probably comes from a fear that if left unchecked, we’ll basically end up being mini America, which I think we’re already on the path to becoming)

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck 'em, and everyone else don’t care which country or their horses that they rode in on including everybody without horses I don’t discriminate unless it’s a miniature horse (bit of a soft spot for those little guys).

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Them and Shetland ponies are adorable. 💜

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    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      /rant incoming.

      unpopular opinion

      Shetland ponies are bonsai carthorses. With extra attitude. I’ve had a fair bit to do with them over the years - I have a lot of respect for them but not much affection. Little turds. It’s the floof factor that tolls in the general public, and is highly deceptive as a guide to general character. They’re smarter than most humans and a whole lot stronger. Certainly not suitable as kids’ ponies imo due to general oppositional attitude. I’ve seen so many kids scared out of horsemanship by a ‘cute’ shetland pony who got the wood over the kid from day one.
      Don’t know much about minis but I have a deep distaste for these mutants. Same as for munchkin cats - a human creation that isn’t really viable as a cat but feeds the human preference for neoteny. Like dogs bred for extra ‘cuteness’ at the cost of their health and longevity. Too many spend their lives in constant pain as a result of their human preferred and encouraged disabilities. But they’re cuuuuuute so will continue to exist to feed our human fantasies for pseudohumans that cannot grow up into true adults. Don’t get me started on the whole concept of furbabies. I know this view isn’t shared by a lot of people.
      Commensal animals are NOT human - and we do them a huge disservice by pretending to ourselves that they are human babies. We owe them the respect of treating them in accordance with their species - not trying to force them into a human mould and a pretty horrible and exploitative human mould at that.
      

      /rant over

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are you originally from the United States?

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The press here has been anti usa ever since founding in the early 18th C. It’s so we don’t get ideas about freedom and revolution and breaking ties with the UK. Also why they banned guns in the 1850s, don’t want a repeat of the Eureka Stockade and more, eh.

  Interestingly, accepted public opinion is that the England is ok and America is awful but in real life Aussies don’t like English people and do like Americans. ( generally speaking )

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