I assume at this point, the world sees us as the 3rd picture.
Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?
fuck it do look like him tho 🤣
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.
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.
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.
Ahh yes. Quantification of suffering to dismiss it as invalid. The ol’ .ml classic.
“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.
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.
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.
Let’s go! 55 weeks in a row now here.
Every day, all day, clog the arteries of industry.
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.
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?
the us has been doing shit like this for decades. trump simply just made it obvious.
It was more important to teach the democrats a lesson than stop literal fascism for a non-zero portion of us, unfortunately.
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
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…
“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.
I’m surprised nobody in the 2nd or 3rd pics are morbidly obese
In space, you’re weightless.
I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes!
Major Asshole!
It used to be that I hated government, not the people. Now even with people I have to consider there are openly fascist ones supporting Trump.
I KNEW IT. I’M SURROUNDED BY ASSHOLES!
SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK
Don’t need ya drugs, and we don’t ? ya grandma
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The US only joined the war opportunistically and because Japan was stupid enough to drag them into it.
Ever heard of the guy named Harry Truman (I’m sure he wasn’t anyone too important)? That’s what he had to say about WW2:
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.
The Soviets did the majority of the fighting against the Nazis and the Chinese againt Japan.
I’m so sorry that you got your education at a clown school.
America was isolationist until they were dragged kicking and screaming into the war. Churchill was regularly crossing the Atlantic to beg Roosevelt to try to garner enough support to join the war. The American people did not care. The majority were against joining the war.
All the same today, The majority of Americans either support MAGA or are indifferent. Short of some great personal injury such as a Pearl Harbor type event, Americans will continue to be as they are.
The idea that Americans were anti-fascist heroes is propaganda. They were only angry that they got got by Japan.
you did nothing loser, it was the soviets and the chinese who did that, you piece of shit
The soviets saved the world from fascism, 4/5ths of Nazi deaths were on the Eastern Front. The US took advantage of its new privledged position after World War II to become the world hegemonic empire, which leads us to today. Before World War II, it was and still is to this day a genocidal settler colony.
My grandfather served in the same Americanmilitary who thought it was inappropriate for him to die in the same trench as a black man or for women to wear pants. I’m not really interested in fluffing their generation - they’re perfectly happy doing it themselves.
Look up operation paperclip
Who’s “us”, asshole? America has been a genocidal settler colony for centuries
I want to note that the grandparents of the modern day Americans saved us from oppression and fascism
If you’re talking about WW2 then you’re wrong
