• Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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      6 hours ago

      Well 38% of Americans need to get off their asses and vote. Cuz only 22% of Americans voted for him in 2024.

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        A large part of the problem (but not the only problem) is the constant suppression being done by Republicans at every step. If we just had compulsory voting and a day off to vote then they’d never win again. That’s why they keep doing everything they can to prevent people from voting.

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          4 hours ago

          Fully agree. Look at the social-democracies with the highest rates of satisfaction and they all have >90% voter turnouts and sometimes mandatory voting.

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          I’m all for calls to violence against the billionaire class but we could really do without this kind of anti-intellectual bullshit.

          Like if you really want the working class to rise up violently than go easy on this cringey edgelord shit that only appeals to 14 year olds.

  • HrabiaVulpes@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Ashamed to see my country still holding mostly favourable views of USA, but then again many people here don’t have access to more information sources than state TV and perhaps some local press.

  • Gmak2442@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    I think that with all those deal with have with the US, we need to work on it. Price of shipping a truck in the US, 2 bucks, France, 200.

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    8 hours ago

    Funny. When you defend a genocidal regime from justified resistance, people are going to dislike you.

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    7 hours ago

    Funny when boycotting US means: consuming and paying for USA sports, streaming, cars, movies, music, etc, etc. on a regular basis. It’s hypocritical.

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    19 hours ago

    I’m an American and I also have an unfavorable view of the USA

    Don’t get me wrong though, I don’t hate America. I’m not unhappy in America. My day-to-day life in America is not bad at all

    It’s just, there are a lot of idiots here and it’s exhausting being surrounded by them

    Like I turn on my TV and I see a commercial for “Patriot Glasses”. They are, “Tactical Sunglasses” and the advertisement claims that Navy Seals and shit use them so if you’re a real Patriot you need them too. And the commercial is a guy driving his truck through the mud and shit… just idiot shit for idiot people and damn, it sucks there’s enough idiots like that out there that somebody is marketing products like this to them

    The World Cup is on Fox and there are commercials featuring that UFC guy talking about how America is bad ass because we’re loud and say what we want to say because we’re not pansies… it’s absurd. Makes me wonder if people in England turn on the TV and see a guy dressed like a Red Coat talking about how bad ass it is to be Posh before he tries to sell you the Queens Tea Cups or whatever

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      Nope. Mostly gambling adverts. Every other advert, some cuntrag gambling company.

      Why aren’t you gambling? It’s easy, we have an app for it so you can do it on the sly and everything. Do it. Gamble now, all your friends are doing it. Look at all these joyous people gambling, don’t you want to be like them? Gamble now!

      Not interested. Will never be interested. The more I get advertised a thing, the less interested I get; one of the few useful artefacts of my spergness. Advertising genuinely doesn’t have the desired affect on me, it just annoys me and I mentally blacklist any product that advertises at me.

      The entire advertising industry is a cancer on humanity as far as I’m concerned. A net drain of resources that serves no purpose other than to prop up the throwaway consumerism that’s destroying the only place in the universe known for certain to support life.

      Fuck all that shit.

      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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        Seen the one where the guy hears a car alarm chirp and it triggers his gambling impulse? Like, he hadn’t been thinking about it but every day sounds can bring on the urge. That is absolutely advertising an addiction, crazy that this shit is legal, especially given that they get upset with me for using small doses of opiates to get through my day.

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    20 hours ago

    As an Australian, that’s a depressingly high favourability rating :(

    We have US military bases in Australia, we’ve already successfully been invaded.

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    18 hours ago

    “Jewish people actually hate their Netanyahu and Trump”

    Well appearently these jewish aren’t living in Israel.