Meanwhile there's those of us in the US
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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It's all fun and games watching the crazy people do crazy things across the pond until you remember the crazy people have nukes and the biggest idiot of them all has the launch codes. Sleep well tonight!
As if Europe didn't have one demented moron routinely threatening everyone with nukes for years now. 🌚
Try sleeping just north of them.
(edit: also the "launch codes" for most of the time they existed where just set to all zeros.)
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I dream of the day that we make America a place that OP would like to visit.
Bobby, if those kids could read, they’d be very upset.
It doesnt matter, america affects every one on the planet.
Today? Yeah sure. Next year? The way things are going…
The US may affect the whole world less next year if everyone else works hard to find alternate markets, but it's going to take longer than that for the rest of the world to totally detangle themselves from our mess.
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I wouldn't get too cozy over there. We'll just end up bringing America to you :) Sleep soundly
I'm not sure I get it, is the joke colonialism?
America's best export is suffering. Right now we call them tarrifs.
Thanks to closing down USAid, we gave up soft power.
A coalition of the willing, ready to make the world safe for Democracy, like 80 years ago.
Swap the beaches of Normandy for Chesapeake Bay.
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. 🤞
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Sleep in a house you own? Can't relate
The problem is that so many of us INSIDE the US still sleep like that, especially the ones who match homer’s kind of “dopey white middle aged boomer dad who raised a family on a single factory job” demographic.
I match some of those demographics, like the dopey white middle aged USAmerican dad raising a family with his one income. I don’t match him in other areas because I am an over-educated tech worker living in an old cheap blue collar neighborhood to make it happen in current day.
I am extremely unhappy and embarrassed about just about every single thing that has my country is in the news, to say the least. It makes me sad and worried for the entire world. Giving a shit about other people while evil morons are grabbing power will do that to you.
But for people who look like me and don’t follow what’s going on in the world or care about other people? My day to day real life in my local physical environment is comfortable and privileged as hell, and so is a lot of theirs.
Combine that with our culture where a “successful” life is constant stress over the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses, so that you are worried about making the payments on your luxury SUV rather than whether your government is destroying people you don’t know while funneling your resources to people who already have 1000x more than you.
Dont worry if you dont live in the USA the USA will come to you..
Or so the new native american saying goes.
If you don't come to America, America comes to you.
Lucky bastard, can you like abduct me or something?
The states is a 3rd world country man, been one for a while if it even is one
I wish I could be all of you rn
Our number one export is our brain rot. Soon :tm:
Imagine if this said "How I sleep knowing I don't live in Palestine, and never will."
The difference is Americans actively voted for their current situation
About 30% of Americans did, and that's the segment least representative of what average people actually want.
This isn't an "America bad" situation as much as an "Oh fuck, capitalism just took down America, who is it coming for next?" situation.
60% of americans voted for this. Because deciding not to show up to the polls to vote against fascism is voting for it.
Are you aware of how difficult/impossible it is for many Americans to vote? The GOP has dedicated decades to disenfranchising voters, and rigging elections via gerrymandering.
That's why this wasn't even close... He won by a landslide, despite the popular vote being razor-thin. He also won the last election in 2016 despite the popular vote being lost.
My country is severely fucked up at a governmental level.
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All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes...
No one said all. Don't accuse others of ignorance when your reading comprehension is this bad. When people say Americans voted for this, it's because they don't let the 38% of non-voters off the hook for their passivity. Voting is a duty and their negligence led to this outcome.
This is your defence? LOL
Only 29.8% of Americans cared enough to stop a known criminal with an authoritarian bent become the last president you'll ever have.
31% wanted it.
1.1% voted for someone they knew wouldn't win.
38.1% don't give a shit what happens. Possibly these people were purged from voter rolls and had their vote stolen. But knowing Americans, I'd happen to guess that percent is well below .5% of the non-voter segment.
Pathetic.
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