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[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 195 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month 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.

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[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 116 points 1 month ago (12 children)

You shouldn't be sleeping soundly. Most of you are only a few steps behind us on the same path.

[–] Octavusss@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah since everything is tied to the fucking dollar and whatever America does affects us all it's not really surprising.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We'll see if that shifts, perhaps the usd stability is coming to an end.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] syreus@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month 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.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month 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.

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month 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. 😣

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 59 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thats what i thought before 2 pro-Trump fascists almost won the election in my country

[–] Emotional@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn’t choose to be born here and wish I was born somewhere where I wasn’t constantly fearing for what tomorrow could bring. But since I was born here I have to figure out a way to navigate this shit show of a country till I can flee

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[–] coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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!

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[–] Reasonable_Guy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Meanwhile there's those of us in the US

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[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

I am actually moving away in Aug…

[–] dan00@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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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[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 month 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 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Flashbulb8464@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Bobby, if those kids could read, they’d be very upset.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 18 points 1 month ago

If you don't come to America, America comes to you.

[–] Ickabod@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wouldn't get too cozy over there. We'll just end up bringing America to you :) Sleep soundly

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[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lucky bastard, can you like abduct me or something?

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Your government will do that for you

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah no shit.

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[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I dream of the day that we make America a place that OP would like to visit.

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It doesnt matter, america affects every one on the planet.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Today? Yeah sure. Next year? The way things are going…

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[–] the_q@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most Americans don't live in America.

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[–] MistressMaiden@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

I wish I could be all of you rn

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine if this said "How I sleep knowing I don't live in Palestine, and never will."

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The difference is Americans actively voted for their current situation

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

60% of americans voted for this. Because deciding not to show up to the polls to vote against fascism is voting for it.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes...

A graph showing razor-tgin margins for Trump's 2024 victory

[–] rylock@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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