Grifting.
I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?
Submitted 2 months ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
i’d say only americans that have cause to be proud of themselves are the ones who are actively opposing what is happening to your country.
taygaloocat@leminal.space 2 months ago
Yeah to stand up against blatant fascism is cool. But if Trump has made me realize anything it’s that the US has been an evil country for a long time…
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Indeed
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Nah it’s been a shit hole for centuries, both culturally and politically. Fun fact most of my ancestors were in North America before the United States existed, hasn’t stopped dipshits from trying to “Americanize” us.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The amount of venom in this thread is astounding. I’m close to leaving lemmy. The amount of hate people are spewing for shit that’s not our fault is starting to get old.
boywar3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We cannot hope to improve as a nation while sitting there huffing our own farts. I, for one, see a chance for this mess to be a catalyst for real change in this country.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This sentiment gives me the most hope. I’ve long held the sentiment that a great prolonged pain is what we all needed to break the cycle.
I don’t want it to end so soon or we’ll fall yet again into old habits. Then we would’ve learnt nothing.
Let the modern PedoNazis keep pushing the knife so the right people feel the pain and finally also understand the consequences of stupidity in voting. The conservative voter is incapable of empathy and understands nothing else but personal suffering.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t fix things if we pretend they don’t exist.
fizzle@quokk.au 2 months ago
Things are pretty messed up right now and its not really surprising people are looking for an outlet.
Im grumpy with the US like everyone else.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I am too. But, I don’t need people calling me names for not risking my neck to kill people.
bss03@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The first step is admitting the country
hasis a problem.I know I don’t do enough. It’s not enough to vote for the “right” people about once a year and just keep your head down, with maybe some “digital activism”.
dumbass@piefed.social 2 months ago
Your goverment is making me appreciate my goverment a bit more for just being useless and boring.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As an American, I will never have faith in or be proud of this country again. Simple as that. That ship has sailed.
FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Germany turned around after Hitler. Never say it cannot be fixed, or they actually win.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We do many amazing things every day in the fields of scientific and medical research. Unfortunately those are overshadowed by clickbait news looking for KK’s latest calf implants and Trump’s latest dementia-ism.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 months ago
scientific and medical research
Big pharma, Big oof
sobchak@programming.dev 2 months ago
Seems like more people are getting involved in direct action (against ICE). Starting around the time of Bernie’s primary campaign in 2020, I’ve noticed the amount of people getting involved in mutual-aid-type stuff slowly growing. The US has been “helping” Ukraine with “lethal aid,” though it’s debatable that’s the best way to help, and it’s probably more about enriching arms manufacturers and making sure Ukraine is perpetually indebted to the US.
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 months ago
Yeah, we are about to get served a big slice of humble pie so bring your appetite. The pain we are all experiencing is there to tell us we cannot continue they way we were. We had the option to change in the past but didn’t because it was too hard, now there is no avoiding change.
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
America always was shit. You only felt proud out of, at best, ignorance.
This is a country that was built on slavery, racism, and genocide. None of that changed, it only changed forms.
alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Act like russian. You will be surprised that most of them don’t support this war and their gov.
cheffrey@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Recently, the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, the George Floyd riots, and Minneapolis pushing ICE out are magnificent examples of people coming together.
This isn’t uniquely American. But Americans can create community
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well the good news is that few of us are anywhere close to trumps orbit, there are still plenty of us doing good work making our communities a better place for everyone, even if some of us voted for trump tbh. A lotta bad but a lot of good too. And it’s always good to have your passport up to date
Generica@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AmeriKKKans are excellent at protecting rich pedophiles!!
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Use to be proud of the US? Why? Because of what? The many wars they started all those years, the inequality, mass shootings, crimes against humanity in the incarceration system and with immigrants, still legal slavery (when incarcerated), the corruption, or the abuse of power on the world stage? Because that’s been happening at least since the second World War. You know, when they dropped not just one but two nukes.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I really want to thank you for making it easy to find you and block you.
really appreciate it.
thanks!
IratePirate@feddit.org 2 months ago
Not an American, but I hear you make good blood clots. Bigly good blood clots. Some people say: the best. So let’s put our hope in that. Let’s make the blood clot great again.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d say it has made most Americans stop taking democracy, or even sanity in our leaders, for granted. We’ve always looked out over the oceans at “them” and pitied those countries with crazy leaders and corruption and now it has taken roost here.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There has been an increase interest in NATO and I believe they are working to contribute more to defense because they can no longer expect help from the USA.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The advertising industry.
kepix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
what were you proud of?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hockey, I guess?
kreskin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doing turds dirty framing it like that.
jeffep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Learn from post war Germany. There is no need to be proud of your country. It’s all made up anyway. What do I have to do with 5 basketball players or 11 football players or whatever who just happen to speak my language? How can I be “proud” of their achievements? Doesn’t make sense at all
jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am an American, I’ve never been “proud” of my country, pride is something weird. The United States still generates the most electricity from nuclear power, and we’re starting to build more now, that’s something good.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If the “melting pot” actually does it’s thing and reduces how many differences we see between ourselves and others, then… maybe kinda good?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
I remember as a kid they showed us so many nostalgic images of Ellis Island and talked so much about the American dream. Now they’re so strict on immigration that ICE is killing US Citizens.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The melting pot is no longer fashionable idea. You’re a racist if you suggest immigrants should assimilate by today’s standards.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No
quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Which country are you from?
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was never nieve enough to think we are all equal. But I did think we where making progress in that direction and maybe we still are. But these last few years have been heart breaking