Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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War is a game to Americans because it's a far away concept, since they always invade. What America needs is to have war come to their land, when it's their homes on fire and their streets are battlegrounds, maybe they'll stop being such war loving trash. This is the fault of every American, from MAGA dirtbags to leftists infighting while the fascists win. You and your garbage society led us to this.
I just hope America suffers, the way they've made everyone else suffer through the decades
This is my theory, europe saw the devastation of ww2, they saw how it killed and maimed millions of people of all classes, and really by necessity they built a progressive society out of the ashes. They needed universal healthcare because everyone's job got bombed, they needed workers rights to vacation because there weren't enough regular jobs for people.
US never had that, we went from wild west to wealthiest country in the world with little transition and the same wild west economics of 150 years ago still runs the country today.
I'm an American and fuck it sure feels like actually getting bombed would help people see what war really fucking is. I don't think it'd end well, but it might be a lesson we actually need.
Add to that the constant American exceptionalism that is pushed to us Americans. We're constantly told that our military is by far the best and can handle any adversary easily. When you think you have that much power, you want to use it. As Trump's dementia continues to set in, he has less and less filter on using that power.
Americans were steeped in “we’re number 1!” At what exactly? I just saw a video of homeless children living in tents in American inner cities. So I don’t know what this “best country in the world” talk is all about.
American media is so corrupting, it teaches them to love war and violence and to always see themselves as the good guys no matter what conflict or war. Same with policing, where American tv and movie heroes are the cops who break the rules, abuse suspects and murder just to “get the job done”. So the whole culture is hammering you with this “Americans can do no wrong” mentality.
When you look at it from the outside it’s maddening, it’s like talking to a drug addict who insists he isn’t. But I can see why Americans living in America don’t see how messed up their views are, and this includes the American left which is very different than the left elsewhere. Nobody seems to be left enough to anyone and every other leftists is “fake”, nobody is good enough to be an ally. I honestly don’t get how America can survive with so much brain rot.
#1 most billionaires that's what it all boils down to. High gdp per capita, highest gdp, and it's all just corrolaries of catering the economy to billionaires.
I'm not sure I care for you lumping all of us in the same boat. I am not my government and I've done my best to prevent this. In the end many of us are just cogs with little power. And some of us are indeed suffering.
i respect their opinion cause as a whole americans also need to account for their neighbors. At the same time it's near impossible cause America is huge and not everyone travels. It took bernie's fighting oligarchy tour an entire year to pass a foreign concept of democracy to some areas.
And yet the french will riot in the streets when they try to raise the retirement age and we just bitch on the internet when trump kills people by the thousands on a whim. We have exactly the government we deserve.
Some of us are out and about trying to make waves. What the fuck else are we to do?
Yes we're less than 10% of the population. The other 90% does not give a fuck if you die, they just want cheaper gas.
One would think the corpses of veterans would be enough for that.