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?

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• drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• dg2445@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Grifting.

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  • TractorDuffy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ?

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • taygaloocat@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Indeed

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • boywar3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can’t fix things if we pretend they don’t exist.

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I am too. But, I don’t need people calling me names for not risking my neck to kill people.

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  • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The first step is admitting the country has is 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”.

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• dumbass@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your goverment is making me appreciate my goverment a bit more for just being useless and boring.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As an American, I will never have faith in or be proud of this country again. Simple as that. That ship has sailed.

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  • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Germany turned around after Hitler. Never say it cannot be fixed, or they actually win.

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• TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    scientific and medical research

    Big pharma, Big oof

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• sobchak@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• alexquiniou@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Act like russian. You will be surprised that most of them don’t support this war and their gov.

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• cheffrey@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Generica@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  AmeriKKKans are excellent at protecting rich pedophiles!!

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really want to thank you for making it easy to find you and block you.

    really appreciate it.

    thanks!

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• IratePirate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The advertising industry.

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what were you proud of?

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hockey, I guess?

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• kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doing turds dirty framing it like that.

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• jeffep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The melting pot is no longer fashionable idea. You’re a racist if you suggest immigrants should assimilate by today’s standards.

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    • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know. And it blows

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No

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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which country are you from?

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