People tend to react first to what hits their daily life—it doesn’t mean bigger issues don’t matter, it just shows how human priorities work.
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I don't think this is accurate. If your only interaction to Americans is the terminally online dipshits, I can see why you'd think that. Americans are just ignorant, especially now with how consolidated mainstream media has become. Fox News is never going to report on the real tragedies the American military creates when it bombs civilians, and for a lot of people Fox, CBS, CNN, etc are their only source of news. They're very effective propagandists.
But try as they might, not even the most adept propagandist can hide the gas prices. It's an inconvenient truth not even Trump can lie his way out of.
so when they finally notice the high gas prices, do they not even wonder why?
if they do, your excuse for them falls apart… if they don't the claim is automatically proven
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
I see your point, but it would have to be something massive and sustained long term. 9-11 was on home turf, and it didn't exactly persuade Americans to chill out and do much internal reflection. Quite the opposite.
The British empire probably experienced the same sort of thing, everything happened somewhere else. When it turned up in France and the beaches of Normandy, shit gets a bit more real.
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.
The shitty thing is we actually were on the path to being on par with European post war countries when it comes universal healthcare. It’s just that anytime FDR or Truman tried to implement it, universal healthcare got shot down by greedy and racist politicians. We also used to have a much more inclusive and well funded welfare state and banking/investing regulations, but Republicans over the last 50 years voted to get rid of them.
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.
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?
You are walking around holding signs. You dont strike, you dont burn government buildings down. You hold signs the fascist in power laughs at.
How the hell do you know what I do? You don’t know me.
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.
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.
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.
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Oddly enough, it actually does seem like Tucker Carlson and other MAGA people are calling for the 25th Amendment today so he doesn’t commit a war crime in Iran.
so he doesn’t commit a war crime in Iran.
You mean another one? on opening day Americans slaughtered 150 little girls in school with a double tap
The one thing I can agree with MAGA is generally they are against wars. That doesn't mean the MAGA leaders are, but that was something their voting base was big on.
I actually agree with the voting base on a fair number of topics. They just keep fucking electing people that are the polar opposite of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)
the payout isnt commensurate with the original story but the logic is the same.
First of all, it's not the gas prices this time
Americans, even MAGAs, have hated this war since day one. Read conservative Reddit and Facebook pages, no one is defending this that isn't being paid to defend it
In that like other blackpilling thoughts it's an incorrect abstraction that confirms you and you alone are the truly good person.
Go be an incel too while you're at it. Everyone I know hates this fucking war.
Everyone I know hates this fucking war.
…because of the rising price of gas
*humans
That is why its so important to teach the values of socialism in context of self identified selfishness.
If we can guarantee that everyone has the means to live healthy and comfortable…
Then you are guaranteed to live healthy and comfortable.
If everyone looks after their neighbours, then your neighbours will look after you.
We are a long way away from a world where human psychology does not contain an ego, first step to mediate that is to accept it and find a way to be at peace where it can no longer cause harm.
I mean, redpill/ blackpill/ hard right wing BS thinking is what got everyone in this mess in the first place. I'm not sure why doubling down on it would help.
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