Here’s the thing - we’re at the beginning stages of the war affecting things beyond “it costs more to drive”. Europe have been meeting about how to reopen the strait without the US
I think the strait will open again soon, and whether that happens without the US’s involvement or the US is forced into it in some way, the end result will be the same - there is will be less powerful globally than it was before, and Iran will be much more powerful globally than it was before
Yeah, except neither Europe or any of the other countries are going to open the strait by joining an unjust and illegal war with Iran. Instead, we’ll negotiate with Iran and simply accept the new status quo in the region. One in which Iran controls the strait and the US has effectively backed out the region.
Small? Theres a small chance you’ve been peeking out your basement window.
I guess you shouldn’t have elected the Dynamite Monkey for president. Twice. But man, think how much it will pw3n the libs!
Oh, and you guys who decided to stay home on election day? Fuck YOU, too. You had a clear choice between boring corporatists and 100% Concentrated Evil and you thought it was more important to have your adorable little protest non-vote.
Nah, you elected him twice, that’s not a coincidence
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, I’m probably an idiot.
EDIT for clarity.
Is that some sort of cope?
Hope, cope and dope, only things keeping me going ATP.
We shouldn’t have been doing half the shit we’ve done.
YA THINK?
But the alternative wasn’t pro-Palestine enough! /j
The alternative was just another corporate democrat who couldn’t keep his marbles straight and was switched out at the very last minute to an unpopular corporate democrat. The DNC fucked themselves over on purpose.
But yea, it still boggles me how Trump won (twice)
Tried to read this article but the first two paragraphs were so incredibly stupid that I couldn’t continue.
All I read was sarcasm of the highest order.
Welcome to reality.
This author is a woke libtard and always has been /s
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I ask this every day! “How did it get this far!” Boggles the mind!
Turns out the government actually does stuff, and if we want it to continue to do stuff competently, we might need people in charge who AREN’T lunatics. I had the whole thing backward.
Okay, I got got by the headline 😅
I only loaded the USA today link assuming it was on 4/1. The url was clipped at 4/… in my phone
And I thought they were only talking about his hands.
I heard they are very small. Microscopic even. So small that special small normal objects were built so that they seemed bigger. Some people would say that they were the smallest hands they have ever seen. They say that Trump has hand prosthetics so his hands appear larger. They say that, don’t you know?
Now that I can’t afford hamburger meat or gasoline and America is stuck in another war in the Middle East, I’m starting to think putting some of the worst people in politics in charge was a mistake.
So the Cheeto threatening everyone in the world didn’t do it?
The Cheeto alienating all US allies didn’t do it?
How about people disappearing from the streets with due process?
Didn’t do it either?
How about “grab em by the pussy”?
Neither?
The support for and outright cocksucking of dictators like putin?
Trump stealing tip secret government documents to sell them for his own gains?
All the fraud?
The support for the Gaza genocide?
All the extrajudicial executions of innocent fishermen?
All the people that have died due to Trump’s actions?
Nothing?
The fascism?
Nada?
Okay, okay, I got it…
EPSTEIN, PEDOPHILE, RAPING UNDERAGED GIRLS! THAT WILL DO IT, RIGHT?
Wut?
Still nothing?
My hamburger got expensive, and NOW I AM PISSED!
so this is literally the epitome of USA culture and values. Most Americans don’t give a shit about anything or anyone, Americans don’t care about the environment, they don’t care about poverty or suffering
Americans care about me, myself, and I
THAT is America in a nutshell.
If you feel personally attacked on this, as an American, then I’m so sorry, not sorry, this behavior is what I see all day, every day from Americans. When they finally start caring, it’s because finally they were affected themselves.
… it’s… satirical. The headline is sarcastic, along with the hamburger meat bit.
And I am not. I know the article is satirical, but its making the exact same point as I am making, Americans are mostly a bunch of self obsessed hobos with a shotgun
I think statistically it’s something like 60-75 percent of the whole country hate trump. of that only like 1/3 are chronically following things enough to always BE upset and have pretty much the daily collection of all the things he’s done. Then of that group, maybe half actually protest about it while the rest kind of just do this, chat online and look around at people that agree with them to blow off steam. It sucks but yeah.
Numbers will change as gen alpha and gent z get brought up in an internet that distracts them and brainwashes them to the right but yeah. That’s kind of the picture. A small group of activists are out there doing stuff trying to put out the house fire and the rest of us are online complaining that it’s getting hot.
It’s never been about what’s right or even what’s popular. It’s always been about what the people in power think they can get away with. Right now the people in power are increasingly seeing that they can get away with anything and they seem to have learned from recent history how to make sure they always will.
If so many people hate him, then why the F did he win twice? Why did it take him getting into office twice, which wasn’t enough, to him fucking over the US economy, which wasn’t enough, to him being a pedophile which definitely wasn’t enough, to him making gas expensive, and NOW I’m starting to hear even from the right that this may not be a good thing…
Why wasn’t him being a pedophile enough for people to get off their asses and vote? Or even fucking protest? Those no king protests were jokes, all of them. All those “But its the biggest protest in the US, ever!” comments ignore the “It didn’t do shit” part of that equation. Americans have done little to nothing to stop trump. People are disappearing in the streets, nothing happens.
Have you ever watched these American movies? You know the ones, where some lone hero saves us all because he is “An American™” ? Fuuuuuccckkk that is some bullshit. Americans are pussies who are not willing to sacrifice anything. All those “Thank you for your sacrifice” for military officers is bullshit, most guys are out there because they were too poor or they were happy to play GI-Joe. I see no american heroes anywhere
If so many people hate trump, then why are we here having this discussion in the first place?
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Most Americans don’t give a shit about anything or anyone, Americans don’t care about the environment, they don’t care about poverty or suffering
well, nothing new here, that great american. philosopher, Lou Reed, wrote about this back in the '90s.
Well, Americans don’t care for much of anything Land and water the least And animal life is low on the totem pole With human life not worth more than infected yeast
Americans don’t care too much for beauty They’ll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream They’ll watch dead rats wash up on the beach Complain if they can’t swim
Most people in the middle deciding this stuff don’t follow the news at all so random headlines or sound bites are the entirety of what they get, so chances that directly affect them or are big enough to be noticed like Iran bombing.
America is very much “FUCK YOU, I GOT MINE”. None of this is a surprise. They’re all “WOO TRUMP IS GOD TRUMP IS NUMBA 1” until it affects them. Who gives a fuck if people are disappeared and sent to some fucking gulag. Who gives a fuck if other people pay more for groceries. Just don’t let it affect me!
I mean, I’m here for the anger at Americans who support Trump, but did the article need a “/s”? It’s pretty obvious this article is a sarcastic take completely aligned with what you’re saying already, but you seem to be taking it at face value?
I’m not so much responding to this article as this article being article #239087 about how the vast majority of Americans don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves
Still, I get the sentiment, because for the first time it feels like his support is slipping among the core supporters too.
/s or not, the truth is that Americans are so fucking individuals that all they can think and care really is me myself and I.
That was kind of the point…
But we had to elect him: he’s good for business. He said so many times on that stupid “reality” show he funded about himself. Never mind the long history of bankruptcies, tax evasion, and contract breaking
It’s just the gas prices. Conservatives generally lack the ability to appreciate anything that isn’t obviously and directly affecting them.
It’s why they are up their ass about taxes and get upset about social programs. They can’t see the results of the social programs directly effecting them but they can see the taxes come off their pay checks.
Anyway they are upset because filing an f150 just doubled in price and they feel it at the pump.
Still, if Trump can get gas prices down by the election I’m sure they will vote Republican again.
I completely agree with what you’re saying here as someone in the US. To add onto it, a large majority of the problem is due to the complete lack of quality public education, and the option for private schooling / home schooling mostly revolving around Christo-Fascist propaganda and not actual facts. As someone who experienced the public school system, I had no idea MLK JR was a socialist. We were only told about the amazing effects of peaceful protests. The media we consume reenforces individualism, and not community. I’ve been trying to make an effort in my own life to try and be more involved with the community around me, and to participate in local politics, volunteer work, and helping your neighbors. I’m hoping there are others like me who are doing the same, and with any luck, the culture you’re describing will see a slow, painful death as people start realizing the harmfulness of this way of living.
You’ve rightly pointed out how ridiculous it all is, but don’t underestimate the effects of tangible consequences. Hearing about the orange man’s foolish actions is much more abstract than not being able to afford your next meal. You can ignore the former, but even the most extreme ignoramus has a hard time ignoring the latter…
Oh I know. I know that this is sortof a good thing.
I’m just pointing out that I fucking hate the american independence spirit that has been used and abused over and over to just lie, steal, and cheat your way forward and any time there is a consequence, just start screeching “freedom!” or something and you’ll get away with it. Nothing matters but me, myself, and I. The big American morals.
Don’t apologize, Americans as a whole are uncaring and arrogant in their relations to others. They expect us to fix their problems, like a toddler or a noble who has shat their pants.
brutal take. I’m guessing you felt that way about…Russia’s fall to fascism, Hong Kong’s protest failures, Iran’s protesters a few years ago, NK in general, Chinese espionage and destruction of their native minority populations, The Hungarians not saving their democracy etc etc. All those citizens are babies too right? asking for help from the global community in some cases, and being ignored. woah. such toddlers. Not being able to resist the systems of power in their nation states and fixing their problems. All they had to do was rise up! such babies.
I guess my point is…unless your French. stfu.
If you are French, you rock I’m sorry to be a dick.
A deserved take. As for the rest of what you said, I’m not interested in the past, I’m interested in the present.
It has been a truism throughout history that most people just want live their lives in peace. Equally true is that there is always a small group of assholes that can’t be happy for one stupid reason or another and find a way to make it everyone else’s problem.
Then the peace-loving majority must take action to stop the assholes, this is also a truism of history.
As a USian, 100% this right here.
just what America needs to shake things up
That part worked! Not for the better, and they are paying a high price for deccades to come, but … They shook things up!
Yeah, shook them to pieces.
To shreds, you say?
Wrecked’em? Damn near killed them.
