Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama)

endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This along with the upcoming damage to Canadian trade is why you’re seeing a lot more Canadians talking shit. Of course we’re pissed: Trump opening his dumb shit-eating mouth caused our dollar to lose 10-15 cents on the US dollar.

  Also it’s pretty funny that some Americans (like OP) think Europeans are jealous of them and that’s why they shitpost about America. Americans need to actually talk to Europeans about this, because they will find out America is viewed as a deeply immoral and unequal country, stuck in a backward way of life because Americans think it’s the greatest nation on Earth.

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• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  First, I think OP is making a big deal where it’s not necessary. And the US as a nation has done many fucked up things.

  That said, thinking about people not nations, I’m American and I didn’t elect a felon. Yes, 77 million voters picked Trump, which is shitty and doesn’t make sense. 75 million voters chose Kamala. And around 110 million people of voting age didn’t vote at all. (Which also doesn’t make sense to me)

  But you can imagine for those 75 million people it’s not going to feel good to be painted with the same brush, and it’s not kind to do so.

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Americans do deserve a bit of shit for that.

  Are we gonna blame the average Russian for Putin? Blame the average Chinese person for Xi Jingping?

  trump only got “elected” because the Citizen’s United ruling that allowed the rich to spend unlimited money to buy propaganda to push their agenda. So we are blaming "Americans’ as a whole? The average American is an underpaid worker who barely have any time to understand politics, and is stuggling to survive in ultra-corporatist oligarchic capitalism. This shouldn’t be a European vs American thing. Its always been the 99% of us, worldwide, vs the 1% rich that controls the world.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t know about the Chinese, but for russia yeah they’re all for the war and only complains when they are somehow affected by it. The usa-ians? Yeah that too, he didn’t win with 20 votes but tens of millions. Who is responsible in a democracy according to you?

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    • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Who is responsible in a democracy according to you?

      If it were 100% a democracy, then sure, you can blame the majority of the people. But is the US really democratic. Sure there are elections, but are elections really free and fair. The rich can just spend unlimited amount of money to spread lies to people, can you really blame the people for not knowing better? If the people doesn’t have easy access to unbiased information, and the most prominent news are constantly blaming democrats, and sane-washing trump, portrays his neo-fascist policies as somehow even comparible to the democratic status quo, that’s not really a true democracy, at best its a hybrid regime with with somewhat democratic features.

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jep. You always have a choice.

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