Most Americans don’t live in America.
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Submitted 13 hours ago by Trex202@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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the_q@lemm.ee 52 minutes ago
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Imagine if this said “How I sleep knowing I don’t live in Palestine, and never will.”
meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The difference is Americans actively voted for their current situation
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes…
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
Godllyra@lemmy.world 58 minutes ago
I live in latam
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Right now, wherever you are, there are people paid by the USA trying their best to make your life worse in order to
- Align your country’s foreign policy closer to the goals of that of the USA
- Shape your economy so that American corporations can enrich themselves by extracting the maximum value out of your country.
So yeah, there is no escape from America. That’s the whole point of being the global hegemon.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 10 hours 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 6 hours 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.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 7 hours 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.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
Obnomus@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Wait wait wait why this sounds like my country, I think I’m coocked
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You shouldn’t be sleeping soundly. Most of you are only a few steps behind us on the same path.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Octavusss@lemm.ee 8 hours 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 7 hours ago
We’ll see if that shifts, perhaps the usd stability is coming to an end.
tiddy@sh.itjust.works 6 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours ago
This is a very ignorant view.
Zink@programming.dev 5 hours 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.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Thats what i thought before 2 pro-Trump fascists almost won the election in my country
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 hours 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.
syreus@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
cobysev@lemmy.world 12 hours 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 11 hours 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, …
Mac@mander.xyz 1 hour 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.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours 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 11 hours 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.
dan00@lemm.ee 5 hours 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 3 hours 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 hours ago
You know most of the US is rural, yeah?
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours 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 hours ago
Same. And most of us are kept too broke to be able to feasibly move away anyways.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 9 hours 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
oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I like living in the USA.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Like…even right now?
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
No, not right now but its still not the worst place to live. The administration is doing their best to make it the worst place though.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I do most of the time… just not when captain fuckface is running the show
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Nothing as funny as Americans tell us how we are parasites, and how they don’t want us there. WE DON’T WANT TO GO THERE.
VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 12 hours 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 12 hours 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.
Placebonickname@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I am actually moving away in Aug…
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours 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.
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Yes
indigoviolet@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Lucky duck.
insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 13 hours ago
The opposite: “I remember as a child: I used to sleep. … But not anymore. In fact, I don’t even dream. What am I talking about‽ I don’t even sleep!”
(Magmamamus, from Dial M For Monkey)
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 12 hours ago
I haven’t “dreamed” in so many years ( close to 7 now ) it must b£ unhealth, doesn’t matter if I sleep 3 hoursor 12, no dreams ( atleast one’s I can remember )
insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
Similar here. I rarely dream (and typically not very vividly even when so). It could be because my sleep quality is poor (sleep stages likely impacted due to autonomic issues, and it’s possible that I need something like CPAP) then again I also have aphantasia.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Rammstein disagrees
tauren@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
My social media feeds too.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Eh, at least the USA has agency - we get to choose which stupid direction to take half the world in, while most other countries are just along for the ride.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The delusion, awesome.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 11 hours ago
What about this did you choose in particular?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Well, I have the option of leaving. It’s not purely hypothetical for me because I’m not originally from the USA - I was just a kid when I came here, so it wasn’t my decision but it was a decision and I can see myself making a similar decision to go somewhere else. Maybe I will need to leave if things in the USA get a lot worse but for now living in a blue state still seems like a better option.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Oh, you must be one of those techno-pharaohs out there.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Obviously the average American isn’t directly participating in making the major decisions, but what the average American wants still generally has far more influence on the future of the world than what the average citizen of any other country wants.
NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Me when I cook eggs
Trex202@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
No Egg Substitutions?
plyth@feddit.org 36 minutes ago
If you don’t come to America, America comes to you.