But, USA is winning at soccer right now, wooooo! 🥖🤡
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.
Trump is only accelerating what Reagan started and if you want to be cynical it’s been going on since Nixon.
I take your point, but Trump is the culmination of 40 years of austerity, wealth inequality, and dog whistling. To extend the visual metaphor, we first noticed the ship listing during Trump, but we’d been taking on water since Reagan.
It was all about shifting the Overton window. The establishment, corporate Republicans realized that if they just go a little farther and pull from the full on Nazi side that the middle would be very close to what they actually want.
The thing about creating a movement like that is that you bring on True Believers, and it becomes hard to tell the difference. They didn’t intend for that contingent to actually drive, but they paved the path and all :shocked Pikachu: when he grabbed the wheel.
I still hold that he gets absolutely nowhere without Putin’s help. I watched r/the_donald from the start. It was a brilliant demonstration of the mix of humor and censorship as propaganda.
Bruh.
Reagan.
Bruh, Nixon.
Bruh. The Native Genocide.
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
Lol someone doesn’t know American history.
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.
Iraq was about oil and the fact that that Iraq was going to switch away from the dollar to the Euro. You protested but never bothered to learn the real reasons why it happened. The fact that Saddam was a POS is not relevent since the same can be said about most of the despots in the region. All thats changed now is that they are saying the quiet parts out loud.
Jesus christ, lol. No man, you massacred millions of middle easterners, before that you genocided Korea, and did ethnic cleansing in Vietnam. Let’s not forget Cambodia, Laos, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Currently Lebanon and Iran. Gaza. Millions of innocent dead civilians. Tens of millions. Fuck your fascist state and the propaganda you rode in on.
That boat is probably sitting on the bottom. America still has farther to fall, believe it or not.
Oh we just gettin started baby
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.
if you are bothered you should be doing something about it.
I’ve been overruled for now
Bread and circuses.
Television affects people’s thinking.
the algorithm
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
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.
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.
that’s fair
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.
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.
Yup. I’ve been there. There was an older nastier one in Palm Beach too. But not nearly the tourist trap as this one
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
can’t even afford clothes
Epstein holding the camera
They look like adults.
…that’s fair
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.
In for a penny, in for a pound
Please add 50lbs each to make this more believable lievable as “Americans”
