Why are you using the “Spaceball dollar” for most international trade?
Why are you buying your weapons from the Spaceball?
Why do you make deals conceding power to the Spaceball?
Why does the Spaceball get a UN veto?
WHY
I’m surrounded by assholes.
I would just say don’t do Spaceballs wrong like that… But no.
The actions of the US government have been so destructive that they are comparable to the empire in the dumbest way possible.
Yes and no. Unfortunately, they are not entirely incompetent in the crimes they are commiting, which is why they still inflict a tremendous amount of damage and suffering.
US citizen here. We hate it. Fuck Trump and his pedo defenders. Burn it all down and start over.
Pretty sure there actually the second picture.
2013 international Gallup poll: “Which country is the biggest threat to world peace”
What about Libya, Yemen, Serbia, Colombia… Canada? Actually, scratch that, the below is before Trump. After it should all be in red.
Most Americans hate trump now too
Can confirm. American. I hate Trump.
You have to deny so many American atrocities to make a map like this.
This implies the global south enjoyed imperialism before Trump. The global south should be far more against the US Empire in the top image.
You’re forgetting the large amount of Americans who also hate America
Even Antarctica!
Since the Trump tariffs
Canada hated them before Trump.
Is Israel green in the bottom map or not? 🧐
I assume at this point, the world sees us as the 3rd picture.
Always as stupid Rednecks with too much money and a big Dunner-Kruger Syndrom.
Actually the Avengers from Age Of Ultron is appropriate because they destroyed a country fighting an enemy of their own creation and expected everyone to congratulate them for it.
Also they started a Civil War after that, given the domestic political situation that’s not too far off either.
Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?
fuck it do look like him tho 🤣
We don’t think the world sees us as the Avengers anymore. At this point things are so bad here we’ve stopped thinking (which is different than not caring) about how the world thinks of us. For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking. It’s like riding in a bus the size of a football field being driven by a drunk, that’s what living in America is like.
For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking.
But you’d be fine with it if he did it while you were looking, of course
My point is that we’re so inundated with terrible news and horrific policy we can’t start to mount an opposition to a specific change before the next horror arises. We had military occupations in our cities which have been forgotten because that was half a dozen scandals ago.
Personally I’ve been in panic mode for a year because I was a government contractor before Trump let Elon Musk lay me off. Due to the economy Trump is directly responsible for the only job I could find pays 1/4 of what I was making with no benefits.
Now there is a war. I’m going hungry.
My point is that we’re so inundated with terrible news and horrific policy we can’t start to mount an opposition to a specific change before the next horror arises.
You didn’t do that under previous presidents either.
Personally I’ve been in panic mode for a year because I was a government contractor before Trump let Elon Musk lay me off. Due to the economy Trump is directly responsible for the only job I could find pays 1/4 of what I was making with no benefits.
Damn, truly nobody has been more mistreated by the US Empire than you. I’m sure the people Gaza would be horrified if they only knew.
Now there is a war.
And apparently it would be ok if it wasn’t started behind your back?
He’s not asking for your pity, or mine. He’s explaining why he and many other Americans are feeling helpless and are finding it difficult to mount a resistance, eventhough they know they should.
Interstingly sanctions had this same effect on the Iranian middle class. No way to revolt and replace the government when your rent is double your income.
He’s trying to pretend that the US was any better before Trump was elected
finding it difficult to mount a resistance, eventhough they know they should.
A major part of it is because those who do mount any kind of actual resistance that has any potential for being effective, they get murdered and disappeared. E.g. Black Panthers, or the original leadership of BLM before it was coopted by liberals. Any genuine leftism in the US has been effectively eradicated by outright murder, intense anticommunist propaganda campaigns (targeting every segment of society from elementary schools to popular media control to even workers unions themselves), and direct infiltration and dismantling of leftist organizations of any size. This society is practically built around a pathological individualism that neuters any potential for mass action. Our culture has been cultivated to only accept rightward expressions of political dissatisfaction, with no room for or even basic understanding of leftwing organization.
Ahh yes. Quantification of suffering to dismiss it as invalid. The ol’ .ml classic.
That comment was not about “quantification of suffering,” it was pointing out that untold suffering was already being caused by the US and its war criminal presidents before the most recent one was in office. Yet so many only seemed to notice when it started effecting them personally. Which isn’t surprising, but when Americans who previously just went about their privileged lives up until Trump came along talk as if this juggernaut of misery, cruelty, and death is only a recent thing, that’s very demeaning to the millions who have bore the brunt of that cruelty for decades. It is also frankly chauvanistic. It is very inappropriate to write that off as “quantification of suffering” but it sounds like you just have a beef with the .ml instance.
Fair, not the instance in general, but certain bad actors among you. I still see it as dismissial of suffering through comparison. Not a valid play in my book.
Not a valid play in my book.
This isn’t debate club, nobody cares what’s in your book
Go back to Reddit
Nah
Edit: plus, we already had this discussion elsewhere in the thread.
You’d be happier among your own kind
You people are obsessed
?
🙄
“when we weren’t looking” sounds like a cop out
We were looking, just not there. There was literally no preamble to this war, Iran wasn’t even in the news.
Graham senator guy has been goading for a war with Iran since 2010 or even earlier
I believe the preamble was when we elected a pedo, and then news came out that, SURRPISE! He’s a pedo.
Not like every other administration was harassing them and trying to goad them into war.
What do you mean anymore? Have a look at Wikipedia. They are the asshole neighbours for many decades.
For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking
Russians be like: wow that never happened and here we go again…
More of you could have gone out to vote against him. More of you could go to more than a one day protest once every few months.
Make May 1st your general nationwide strike with more people than the pitiful efforts that have been seen at this point.
We’ve been protesting weekly here in MN.
Every day, all day, clog the arteries of industry.
Let’s go! 55 weeks in a row now here.
the us has been doing shit like this for decades. trump simply just made it obvious.
I think something most of the outside world doesn’t understand about the USA, there are very few “us” unless you’re conservative. It’s a hyper individualistic society in an extremely large geographic area. The idea of collective anything is a foreign concept to me and I’m literally in a work union for the first time in my life for the worst job I’ve ever had. Unless my current Union is ok with the strike I can’t afford to skip work. If I didn’t have a union then the striking would be completely out of the question. I’ve been let go from jobs at the drop of a hat growing up in a “right to work state”. There isn’t a social safety net and my neighbors are completely ok with me becoming homeless. People who get to protest I’ve viewed as being privileged beyond my means. Community here is for the privileged and I’m scraping by to survive.
Then you have nothing to lose, except what little freedom you have left to continue this endless suffering of hand to mouth bullshit.
I can lose my life. I can lose my health. I can lose my freedom. All those things could happen with a high chance of failure without anything changing. In fact I could make the situation worse. The failed assassination attempt on Trump boosted his poll numbers and contributed to his victory and his paranoia.
It’s very easy for people like you to tell me to sacrifice, but people like you will never help me.
Make a sacrifice for me first. Do anything to make my life tolerable. Put your money where your mouth is. Then we will discuss what I’m freed up to do to help the world.
Make a sacrifice for me first. Do anything to make my life tolerable.
Not beating the stereotype
How can I help, not being a US citizen?
Get someone over here to give me a full time job. Or sponsor me to move wherever you are. Have a job ready for me when I get there. I got PMP, PMI-ACP, and PSM I certifications along with AWS certifications. I need either a source of income that can support me without firing me for protesting or a way out after I do whatever you want done.
Or I will do my best to divest myself from anything that involves the American economy. By starving your economy, it has less money to make military equipment, and therefore to enforce evil wars.
You say this like it was any better before Trump
Most of the people commenting here were probably children before trump. What did you want the children to do?
Realise that it wasn’t better before Trump
It was more important to teach the democrats a lesson than stop literal fascism for a non-zero portion of us, unfortunately.
democrats
literal fascism
For the democrats, it was more important to continue literal fascism and teach the left a lesson than to win.
What did kamala mean when she swore to make the military the most lethal force on the planet and every democrat in the room cheered?
The Democrats were literal fascism, genocide apologist
Define fascism
Go back to Reddit
Need Frank Castle in the top photo. Bottom picture should replace center photo, and bottom photo should be replaced by the video of that orangutan driving a golf cart or a photo of a group monkeys, some masterbating and some flinging excrement.
I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes!
Major Asshole!
“the americans can be relied upon to do the right thing, once all other options have been exhausted” --paraphrasing winston churchill
I think we’ve stopped at the “wrong things” part and just refuse to move on.
Yeah unfortunately the current admin is so stupid they think the wrong things ARE the right thing
I’m surprised nobody in the 2nd or 3rd pics are morbidly obese
In space, you’re weightless.
