That boat is probably sitting on the bottom. America still has farther to fall, believe it or not.
You get used to it when it’s been sinking since before you were born.
It’s disingenuous to equate pre-trump with post-trump.
Bruh.
Reagan.
Bruh, Nixon.
Dude, Wilson.
Bruh.
Trump is the worst it’s been, but I can’t remember a time when things were good. It’s been one crisis to the next.
I think there’s been maybe a 5 year period where the US wasn’t in a major conflict, and even then we were bombing random countries. After 08 the economy has basically always felt on the brink of collapse. Wages stagnate, housing is unaffordable, and basically every “ladder” to a better life it gone. Sprinkle in the impending climate collapse and yeah that’s been basically life.
It’s disingenuous to act like anything was even okay before Trump. He’s just the final stage of a decades long collapse
What, in your mind, changed? To an outsider, the only real difference is that the mask is off now.
We were generally pretty smart about what we were doing. Even Iraq, I think the idea was to overthrow a brutal dictator (we all agree he was, right?) and liberate a country in the middle east that would be friendly and allow us to be less dependent on Israel and the Saudis.
I protested against that war, but it was certainly a hell of a lot smarter than threatening Greenland or Mexico.
Despite all the memes, compared to the average person, W was reasonably smart. Maybe not on the scale of presidents. And evil or not, the people in his cabinet were pretty smart. Dick Cheney might have been evil, but he wasn’t a fucking idiot.
We’ve had our issues and we’ve had our strengths, but we’ve never been this fucking dumb on a federal level. We’re literally taking advice from Putin.
This is the first time we’ve had a president who doesn’t realize that he’s in the same boat as the rest of us. Might have a better cabin on that boat, but if he sinks it… and Putin is whispering in his ear that it’d be fun to sink the boat.
I went to a concert last night and it was surreal. We’re just going to sit here and let the train hit us and the world. Mass delusion.
Bread and circuses.
Television affects people’s thinking.
Oh come on, TV is so 60’s-90’s complaints. These days it’s TikTok and YouTube rotting minds.
Certainly. Nobody listened in the 60s-90s either.
I … We’re
So you believe you’re part of the problem then? Or is it just everyone else who is delusional?
I’m absolutely part of the problem
It’s not accurate, there’s not enough dead brown people and guns and the water’s not covered in oil and there’s not a giant yacht zooming in the other direction, away from this disaster.
The water is a metaphor for many things including but not limited to dead brown people, guns, pollution, and billionaires.
Thank you for explaining this to me, I understand now.
that’s fair
The women also need to be reaching 300lbs
Edit: Hey the average weight of American women is 170.8 lbs. Sure 300lb is exaggerating but that means there are a lot much heavier.
Downvote away, that’s what people think of us for good reason
Body shaming is pretty unpopular on Lemmy.
I thought we were American shaming
There’s better ways to do it.
Like using Facebook and Reddit and Fox News and podcaster propaganda to get a bumbling idiot elected.
it was my initial thought at least
Wait I think I know this boat. I am pretty sure it is a sunk boat in miami that was there for a really long time. A lot of people used to go canoe over to it and take pictures.
Kind of like all the people who comment on the state of the world but never really do anything about it.
there was a similar situation near Beaufort SC where a decently large catamaran from the 80s was anchored out in the bay for years.
old empty boat. big enough for a large galley and other rooms
i hopped up on it in the daytime a few times. it was crazy
Yup. I’ve been there. There was an older nastier one in Palm Beach too. But not nearly the tourist trap as this one
no captain, accurate
That captain is sleeping. No, don’t wake him up! That’s when he messes up the least.
The captain is coming down from coke and aggresively steering the ship in ajy way that will get him more
All of the captains that there ever were are war criminals and should be tried and hanged at the Hague.
can’t even afford clothes
Epstein holding the camera
They look like adults.
You ever been just sitting in the living room watching TV with your friends/family and look around and notice we’re all just staring at screens like zombies? Just day after day of staring at screens, thinking you’re doing something but you’re not really doing anything? TVs, phones, tablets, monitors. Just screen after screen after screen…
That’s what they want.
speak for yourself, I’m hoarding all the data I can store for the inevitable collapse of the internet.
reminds me, I need to buy more bluray discs.
…that’s fair
In for a penny, in for a pound
Please add 50lbs each to make this more believable lievable as “Americans”
