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.
Comfy cozy
Submitted 11 months ago by Trex202@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Oh, you must be one of those techno-pharaohs out there.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The delusion, awesome.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 11 months ago
What about this did you choose in particular?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Rammstein disagrees
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Now playing Rammstein - Amerika
tauren@lemm.ee 11 months ago
My social media feeds too.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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.
VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 11 months 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 11 months 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.
cobysev@lemmy.world 11 months 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 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 months 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.
indigoviolet@piefed.social 11 months ago
Lucky duck.
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah but we still have free health care and strong unions/labour laws, so it’s not that bad
katkit@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The US is no longer the number 1. China is way ahead in global influence now.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 11 months 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.
Obnomus@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Wait wait wait why this sounds like my country, I think I’m coocked
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 11 months 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.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Me when I cook eggs
Trex202@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No Egg Substitutions?
insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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.
Placebonickname@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am actually moving away in Aug…
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml 11 months 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
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
TBH, I think there’s something wrong with Americans.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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?