You shouldn’t be sleeping soundly. Most of you are only a few steps behind us on the same path.
Comfy cozy
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Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Octavusss@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yeah since everything is tied to the fucking dollar and whatever America does affects us all it’s not really surprising.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
We’ll see if that shifts, perhaps the usd stability is coming to an end.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
tiddy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lol. Lmao even.
Your country has been a joke for at least the past decade, only thing america is doing these days is ensuring others independence from it (honestly the sole source of the countries value so we’ll see how that goes long term).
But have fun with your facists!
Youre right it should be everyone else’s problem but poor, suffering america
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
There is a rope tied between our currency and the rest of the western world’s ankle. Laughing at our drowning nation is ignoring that you’re running out of rope.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a very ignorant view.
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Not much that I can do about it, so might as well not worry about it. Also my country is a few steps ahead of America
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The are encouraging you and all other non-Americans to not fall asleep at the wheel like we have. The system that allowed this shit show to develop has been building for decades and we allowed it to happen.
Do not allow it to happen where you live, because the oligarchy is coming for you too.
cobysev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I live in America. It’s 2 AM and I just awoke from a nightmare wherein I was running from the govt. My wife, dog, and I were in hiding at my home, with friends occupying the place to help us stay hidden. But a drone spotted me. I shot it down, but we had 10 minutes to pack what I could into a short yellow schoolbus (which quickly became a British double-decker) and take off before agents showed up to capture or kill us.
By the way, I’m a white male, married to a white woman, and by all outside appearances, cis and “normal”. Probably one of the most protected classes in America right now. And even I’m having nightmares about where our country is headed and when it’ll be “my turn.”
I woke up, picked up my tablet, and this was the top post in my feed. 😣
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Small, probably stupid tip, but what the hell. There is an almost surefire way to kill drones without needing a firearm. Buy a high-powered laser (>5W). It obviously won’t be enough to take the drone down, but just a fraction of a second of that beam is enough to permanently destroy the camera. The downside is that the beam is very visible so you’d also be giving away your location. Also works on static cameras like traffic cams, number plate readers, …
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
This would be a trash way to take down a drone. You would have to now where the camera is exactly on the drone and then manage to shine the laser directly into that camera long enough to damage it. As distance grows between you and the drone, that time to damage the lenses will grow longer.
The currently most common drone takedown methods implemented are radio signal jammers, counterattack drones with nets, and shotguns filled with an intermediate shot size between bird shot and buck shot. The first two are fairly expensive options which take know-how to create, where as the latter is a shotgun, which are abundant and fairly cheap in comparison to the other two.
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
But the trick is you have to manage to point it directly into the camera lense. May the odds be ever in your favor.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yeah and this way if you’re imperfect in aiming the FBI will show up at your door for lasering any aircraft in the background.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve found the USA to have some of the nicest, most welcoming people I’ve ever met. Probably some of these people have been lead down dark voting paths, against their own, and the world’s, best interests. All we can really hope for is enough people speak sense persuasively enough for them to hear it. And that means being understanding, empathetic and tolerant.
syreus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This comment is a breath of fresh air in this doomer echo chamber. Somewhere along the line people stopped wanting to fix things and now the people we need to save this country are leaving in droves. We need to remain positive and organized.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Every month I am reminded that this isn’t my country. It’s my landlords country, and I just rent a basement temporarily.
Why doesn’t my landlord fix his country?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We’re trying to convince them, and so far none of them are listening.
Families all over the US and Canada are being torn apart. I’ve never seen anything like this in my lifetime, and I’m not a young man…
I fear greatly not just for my own country, but for the damage that will be done to the entire world if we can’t stop this.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
TBH, I think there’s something wrong with Americans.
PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yes, some of us are still out there at anti-regime protests. The media in the country is suppressing news of any opposition to Trump. We had big protests on May Day, now the next big one will be No Kings Day on June 14th. Check this out
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Thats what i thought before 2 pro-Trump fascists almost won the election in my country
Emotional@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The xenophobic “haha americans are so stupid/evil” attitude I’ve been seeing as of years ago all over Reddit and now even more intensly on Lemmy is making me very worried that people aren’t gonna recognize the same disinformation that led to all this when its served to them…
I don’t believe Americans and Europeans are as different as a lot of people seem to think. Or maybe I got dumber and more naive since my teenage years.
threeduck@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Luckily in my country, the vaguely trump style politician not only lost the election, but didn’t get enough votes in his own district and is no longer a politician. Same thing happened in Canada.
batman0730@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
but now Alberta allegedly wants to secede…
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I didn’t choose to be born here and wish I was born somewhere where I wasn’t constantly fearing for what tomorrow could bring. But since I was born here I have to figure out a way to navigate this shit show of a country till I can flee
fleebleneeble@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Same. And most of us are kept too broke to be able to feasibly move away anyways.
coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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 2 weeks ago
As if Europe didn’t have one demented moron routinely threatening everyone with nukes for years now. 🌚
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Try sleeping just north of them.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
mlg@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Reasonable_Guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
nthavoc@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Whoa now! Can’t be chugging tariff-enriched coffee down like that.
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry, it’s Italian blend \s
Zetta@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Lmao this hits home, my caffeine intake has slowly been creeping up on me cause of my job and commute and I have like five or so double shot Americanos a day now.
Placebonickname@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am actually moving away in Aug…
VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I would like to visit the USA. There’s still a lot of good people there and I’m sure lots of things to do & enjoy. Preferably at a time when that orange bastard isn’t around trying to burn everything to the ground.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ignoring the policial.climate, it really is a lovely country with diverse subcultures, multitudinous biomes, and regional cuisines & local delicacies in every corner.
But for the time being, please stay safe and don’t take the risk.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Imagine if this said “How I sleep knowing I don’t live in Palestine, and never will.”
meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The difference is Americans actively voted for their current situation
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes…
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
About 30% of Americans did.
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.
dan00@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
When I was a dumb kid, I really wanted to come and live in the US. I managed to visit it twice.
I will never ever go again. 🤞
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bro, man visited NY less than a day, after I flew over to Toronto as a yute, genuinely the worst place I’ve ever been to, in so many ways, it was as bad as I thought it would be, calling it a concrete jungle is genuinely an insult to jungles wallahi.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know most of the US is rural, yeah?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Last time I visited, I didn’t even need identification. I just went to get some peeps at the big store, and then went back home. I think I’ll leave it on that high note. US scares me too much now–I worry I could get trapped there somehow.
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The problem is that so many of us INSIDE the US still sleep like that, especially the ones who match homer’s kind of “dopey white middle aged boomer dad who raised a family on a single factory job” demographic.
I match some of those demographics, like the dopey white middle aged USAmerican dad raising a family with his one income. I don’t match him in other areas because I am an over-educated tech worker living in an old cheap blue collar neighborhood to make it happen in current day.
I am extremely unhappy and embarrassed about just about every single thing that has my country is in the news, to say the least. It makes me sad and worried for the entire world. Giving a shit about other people while evil morons are grabbing power will do that to you.
But for people who look like me and don’t follow what’s going on in the world or care about other people? My day to day real life in my local physical environment is comfortable and privileged as hell, and so is a lot of theirs.
Combine that with our culture where a “successful” life is constant stress over the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses, so that you are worried about making the payments on your luxury SUV rather than whether your government is destroying people you don’t know while funneling your resources to people who already have 1000x more than you.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Thinking about the USA right now too much doesn’t lead to any good sleep for me at all right now. Because there’s bad things happening to good people there. I feel awful for the actual decent people that share a country with cruel and dogmatic clowns. People who probably live next door to someone who voted to ensure their rights get taken away and their lives become even more miserable.
I honestly struggle to come to terms with the fact so many people are still so cruel and backwards. It’s not the stupidity that’s the main problem, it’s the malicious intent and desire to turn everyone into a goose stepping clone. And how easily people are turned into goose stepping clones. Conned by reality stars and drug addicted tech bros, what a joke. I think it’s part stupidity and part the fact that these people really are just malicious assholes, so they could’ve been convinced into this by a talking toilet brush mascot.
I feel sorry for the intelligent and empathic, and the people who dare to live lives that are true to themselves without dogma who have to live in a country with the stupid and selfish, and the people who want to impose their narrow minded puritanical views onto everyone else with force and cruelty.
I’ll be sleeping like a baby when the goose stepping clowns are all dying of some easily preventable disease that they could’ve vaccinated for but right now there’s nothing comforting about what’s going on there.
Flashbulb8464@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bobby, if those kids could read, they’d be very upset.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The only difference between the US and Canada is how far along the path you are. There’s a reason your government gives standing ovations to literal Nazis
Ickabod@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t get too cozy over there. We’ll just end up bringing America to you :) Sleep soundly
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure I get it, is the joke colonialism?
Veneroso@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
America’s best export is suffering. Right now we call them tarrifs.
Thanks to closing down USAid, we gave up soft power.
A coalition of the willing, ready to make the world safe for Democracy, like 80 years ago.
Swap the beaches of Normandy for Chesapeake Bay.
indepndnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I dream of the day that we make America a place that OP would like to visit.
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lucky bastard, can you like abduct me or something?
Trex202@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your government will do that for you
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah no shit.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
clot27@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It doesnt matter, america affects every one on the planet.
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
If you don’t come to America, America comes to you.
the_q@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Most Americans don’t live in America.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Sleep in a house you own? Can’t relate
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yes
MistressMaiden@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I wish I could be all of you rn
oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like living in the USA.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Dont worry if you dont live in the USA the USA will come to you…
Or so the new native american saying goes.
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The states is a 3rd world country man, been one for a while if it even is one
Godllyra@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I live in latam
JulieLemming@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
How I sleep knowing that 99% of my opinions result in fire able to melt steel beams in World Trade Center
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Right now, wherever you are, there are people paid by the USA trying their best to make your life worse in order to
So yeah, there is no escape from America. That’s the whole point of being the global hegemon.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think enough people noticed the Trump regime’s demands that EU destroy their own healthcare just so theirs could look, well, not better but less terrible by comparison.
This is not a joke. These people will absolutely do everything they can to rob the few nations on this Earth that manage to take care of their citizens to the point they’re all beholden to the same crime lord family.
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, do not even for a second entertain the fact that European companies wouldn’t love it if your health insurance were held hostage by your employment like it is in the USA.
The truth of the matter is European quality of life has been coasting on the gains made in the past by the blood and sweat of the unions and the concessions made by the governments to stave off the specter of communism. Billionaires in the US are seeing this slice of wealth and are coming for it via the populist right-wing parties in every country. If anyone can get this fact through the thick skull of anti-immigrant voters, let me know.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Trump administration is way too incompetent to actually achieve anything. They want that from the EU but they are also throwing away their own good cards to apply any pressure.
If the US pull out their NATO troops from Europe, have their statements leaked that they hate to help Europe, and impose insane tariffs on Europe no matter what, they have nothing to pressure Europe with.
European nations cancel F-35 orders and order Rafaele, Eurofighter, and Gripen instead and there is nothing the US can do about it now. It’s the same with healthcare. The US have nothing to pressure the EU with.
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Here only had public universities. Only. Well, until they found a hole in the rules of our Constitution and the first private universities are going to open this year.
I think this is a pretty good example of the aforementioned policy of the USA.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good thing Trump’s absolutely destroyed any kind of international leverage the United States had. That’s the one silver lining to all of this: The USA has been on a steady path to fascism for a while, accelerating under Republicans and slowing down under Democrats but never reversing. However, now that you’ve gone fully mask-off you did it under the leadership of an outright moron, who’s making it much harder for Americans to drag the rest of the world down with them.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Mexican here, and absolutely. The USA is menacing with tariffs each month even with a treaty signed by the POTUS himself. Who, btw, has a boner for sending troops to “help” us combat drug cartels that are somehow related to the DEA, the CIA, the FBI, or the WTFK. Recently, they send a green-beret warhawk as ambassador. The US embassy in Mexico is the biggest in the world and it had participated in magnicides and coups. So, yeah, the classic American state is dying, but its death will be an authentic superbowl of a shitshow.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The US is no longer the number 1. China is way ahead in global influence now.
Obnomus@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Wait wait wait why this sounds like my country, I think I’m coocked
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah but we still have free health care and strong unions/labour laws, so it’s not that bad
katkit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.