Anytime I talk about these things to folks outside the US, it’s always some reply about “your country chose this!” And how, regardless of how I voted, I still somehow let this happen. It’s super frustrating and disheartening.
The way i see it, the current disasters unfolding were predictable as far back as the 1960s. Unhinged greed is a disease, and letting it run free and calling it “progress”, “economic liberalism”, and channeling it to make it your main way of doing economy, is a disease. What’s angering me personally is that it seems to me that Americans are so extremely short-sighted, that as long as it worked for them, everything was ok in their eyes, and now that they’re hitting the wall, they suddenly want to get off the vehicle. Good planning takes a long time, and even if we wanted to help you, we couldn’t, because there’s not enough preparation time.
Now, it is the cool thing to be super anti-American.
This isn’t news. Different than what americans might think, they’re not necessarily looked at as the “big heroes” everywhere. There’s a lot of countries who have made a lot of bad experiences because of them, and really, the USA isn’t popular, on average, world-wide.
The hero thing is not a mindset of most Americans. It seems like you’re considering everyone in the US is an ignorant conservative. While there is definitely a large group that is very ignorant and naive, there is a different large population that do not live in a fantasy world and understand what their country has done on a world stage.
This is a really flimsy talking point I’m so sick of.
We refer to you as Americans because that’s what you told us to call you. We are judging the actions and system of government you set up, and are paying for… Are you somehow now suggesting that unless there is 100% internal consensus you are unresponsible for the actions of the government your money pays? Your internal politics are your god-damn problem. I could not care about how you internally identify.
Reality check: The man you all tolds us is in charge of your country now is threatening me and my family now on the international stage.
So own it. You are literally paying your money to keep it going. It is yours. You built it, you are funding it… For decades we’ve listened to you go on and on (and fucking on) about your freedoms. Good. Now is the time to prove you are both brave and free. Stop posting on Lemmy and go get in contact with people doing the actual, real work of defending your country. Stop coming here and defending yourself from me ffs. I’m just your pissed off neighbour. It doesn’t matter what I think. Go do something useful ffs.
As it stands, it seems that Trump represents you feckless cowards perfectly.
The way i see it, the current disasters unfolding were predictable as far back as the 1960s. Unhinged greed is a disease, and letting it run free and calling it “progress”, “economic liberalism”, and channeling it to make it your main way of doing economy, is a disease. What’s angering me personally is that it seems to me that Americans are so extremely short-sighted, that as long as it worked for them, everything was ok in their eyes, and now that they’re hitting the wall, they suddenly want to get off the vehicle. Good planning takes a long time, and even if we wanted to help you, we couldn’t, because there’s not enough preparation time.
This isn’t news. Different than what americans might think, they’re not necessarily looked at as the “big heroes” everywhere. There’s a lot of countries who have made a lot of bad experiences because of them, and really, the USA isn’t popular, on average, world-wide.
The hero thing is not a mindset of most Americans. It seems like you’re considering everyone in the US is an ignorant conservative. While there is definitely a large group that is very ignorant and naive, there is a different large population that do not live in a fantasy world and understand what their country has done on a world stage.
Yeah, this reply is a perfect example. It’s a generalization of over 340 million individuals.
This is a really flimsy talking point I’m so sick of.
We refer to you as Americans because that’s what you told us to call you. We are judging the actions and system of government you set up, and are paying for… Are you somehow now suggesting that unless there is 100% internal consensus you are unresponsible for the actions of the government your money pays? Your internal politics are your god-damn problem. I could not care about how you internally identify.
Reality check: The man you all tolds us is in charge of your country now is threatening me and my family now on the international stage.
So own it. You are literally paying your money to keep it going. It is yours. You built it, you are funding it… For decades we’ve listened to you go on and on (and fucking on) about your freedoms. Good. Now is the time to prove you are both brave and free. Stop posting on Lemmy and go get in contact with people doing the actual, real work of defending your country. Stop coming here and defending yourself from me ffs. I’m just your pissed off neighbour. It doesn’t matter what I think. Go do something useful ffs.
As it stands, it seems that Trump represents you feckless cowards perfectly.