You shouldn’t be sleeping soundly. Most of you are only a few steps behind us on the same path.
Not much that I can do about it, so might as well not worry about it. Also my country is a few steps ahead of America
The are encouraging you and all other non-Americans to not fall asleep at the wheel like we have. The system that allowed this shit show to develop has been building for decades and we allowed it to happen.
Do not allow it to happen where you live, because the oligarchy is coming for you too.
This is a very ignorant view.
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
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.
Except Trump has finally made every other country in the world question why we don’t just cut the rope. I think the rope will be cut if Trump continues to stay in office.
Definitely, but it takes a while to chop through a thick rope like that. If we sink too fast, a lot of other countries are screwed.
I love how Americans can always see themselves as a victim.
Yes you have handcuffs around every wrist you’ve had access to in the past century, but in this day and age even your handcuffs are outsourced.
Honestly America doesnt actually produce anything but IP laws these days.
And ya know other countries might not share your lack of education and realise its 1000% cheaper to simply just bypass the bully in the room.
I never said the word victim, but since you brought it up, 50% of the US are victims to this. A large number of us were actively fighting against this outcome and lost. We have been deciding what to do next, and many educated people are in the process of leaving the country. Those without that ability are stuck to suffer under the current conditions.
I tell all my friends and family to use less USAian services and products. !buyeuropean@feddit.uk
It’s a necessary step. Using more opensource stuff and consuming less USAian media will help at least a bit with the propaganda coming from there.
Yeah since everything is tied to the fucking dollar and whatever America does affects us all it’s not really surprising.
We’ll see if that shifts, perhaps the usd stability is coming to an end.
A lot of deep pockets people are shifting to the Euro already.
I am actually moving away in Aug…
I live in latam
better than living in North Mexico/South Canada
I wish I could be all of you rn
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!”
(Magmanamus, from Dial M For Monkey)
* How I sleep knowing I live in America and I never won’t
I haven’t “dreamed” in so many years ( close to 7 now ) it must be unhealthy, doesn’t matter if I sleep 3 hoursor 12, no dreams ( atleast one’s I can remember )
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.
aphantasia likely has something to do with that. Found this bit from the article: “a 2020 study found that individuals with aphantasia experience less control and fewer sensory emotions during dreams compared to those with a strong ability to generate voluntary mental images while awake.”
Lucky bastard, can you like abduct me or something?
Your government will do that for you
I would be thrilled for the USG to deport me. Like where would they even send me? At least before New England finally secedes that is.
Yeah no shit.
Lucky duck.
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 to 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.
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.
Wait wait wait why this sounds like my country, I think I’m coocked
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 sent 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.
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.
Yeah, do not even for a second entertain the notion 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.
Yeah I’ve been in a few places around Europe, and it really seems that in Western Europe, labour movements made big gains in like the 1970s and neolib governments have been squandering that ever since, and we are nearing the point where it all turns fash.
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.
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.
The US is no longer the number 1. China is way ahead in global influence now.
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. Nowhere else except maybe China is like that, and I prefer even Trump to Xi.
The delusion, awesome.
Oh, you must be one of those techno-pharaohs out there.
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 entire world than what the average citizen of any other country wants.
Um… I’m Australian and we just kicked out all the pro-Trump candidates. We also get to pick from a really long list of parties and even get to pick exactly who in the party we want. Voting is compulsory and because of that, voting has to be made accessible: it’s on a Saturday, you can vote early and polling stations are set up literally everywhere, even in the most remote locations.
America has more agency than a dictatorship. That’s a very low bar.
Edit: also Trump vs Xi.
One has no goal for the country except to line his own pockets and the other has very strong goals for the country (involving actually making their country an economic powerhouse).
One sees himself as a strict father of his country and the other sees himself as king.
If it was a decision between Trump and Xi, I’d pick Xi any day of the week. It’s a shit choice but I’d rather a leader than a puppet.
I think you are being naive. Sure, Americans may have more influence than most people in the world, but their electoral and political systems invalidate that privilege. Most people in the world expect nothing from Americans, we know better. Potentially, Americans could be far more influential in the world in a good sense, but they maintain a government that is toxic for the planet and seemingly, they just can’t get rid of it.
Thats what i thought before 2 pro-Trump fascists almost won the election in my country
Luckily in my country, the vaguely trump style politician not only lost the election, but didn’t get enough votes in his own district and is no longer a politician. Same thing happened in Canada.
but now Alberta allegedly wants to secede…
They have wanted to secede officially for over 50 years. Alberta was right on board with the Western Canada Concept party in the early 80’s.
The xenophobic “haha americans are so stupid/evil” attitude I’ve been seeing as of years ago all over Reddit and now even more intensly on Lemmy is making me very worried that people aren’t gonna recognize the same disinformation that led to all this when its served to them…
I don’t believe Americans and Europeans are as different as a lot of people seem to think. Or maybe I got dumber and more naive since my teenage years.
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.
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.
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. 🤞
Last time I visited, I didn’t even need identification. I just went to get some peeps at the big store, and then went back home. I think I’ll leave it on that high note. US scares me too much now–I worry I could get trapped there somehow.
Bro, man visited NY for less than a day during my visit to Toronto as a child, 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 lowkey an insult to jungles wallahi.
This has to be satire right?
Or a highly subjective snap judgement based on a tiny sample size. Like I thought I hated Toronto for years, but it turns out I just hated the financial district, because that was the only place I visited. There are still real people and communities in there – you’ve just to go looking for them.
Same thing with a big country like the US. If you just stepped off of an airplane in New York and went for a walk, you’d probably be disappointed too.
My comment was abt NY, my bad if I made it seem like I meant Toronto, the NY visit was a stopover cuz of their proximities, I edited it to make it more clear. I loved Canada, especially Toronto, been Canada multiple times now, trynna fly back there sometime soon 🖤 🇨🇦
You know most of the US is rural, yeah?
One time I heard music, it was Hanson; fucking hate music now.
Yes
How I sleep knowing that 90% of my genuine reddit opinions result in fire that can melt steel beams in world trade center.
Meanwhile my mere presence at the holy sites of Jerusalem or even in means of transportation has similar effect. Honestly maybe I would trade this talent away for something more useful because no-one even wants to pay me for it.
It takes zero conscious effort on my part too. So I would be getting some good passive income like this. If you want someone pissed off hire me and I will push all the right buttons
The fuck does this word salad mean?
I think its a bot. Been seeing more posts that look like llms trying to comment but failing
He got lost from one of those schizo Reddit subs.
See? I am fucking perfect at this
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