I think being so fucking desperate to be distracted is actually our primary problem as a country. Stop avoiding reality, it’s time to grow up
Agree
Please send us Americans your best “you don’t have healthcare but too many school shootings” memes
Americans… The people who go to work every day and get paid shit for their work…enough to not complain too much but not enough to get a head. The people who get fixed incomed at 64 and then inflationed until the bank gets the house back. These people did not bomb Iran.
Orange turd and his team of evil fucks did.
Now, I’m actually neutral on this particular action. Nobody wants Iran with nukes. However please then do the same in NK and ruzzia.
If any of this does backfire, I just want you all to know that we just woke up to this shit just like everyone else. Just like when the orange turd invaded LA. We just woke up to this shit. Is it gonna be over in 3.5 more years?..god I so fucking hope so. The guy in coocoo unstable. Just like Kim and Putin, he should go to a retirement home and leave the rest of us alone.
Nobody wants Iran with nukes.
Frankly, I do want Iran with nukes. Iran hasn’t declared war on anyone for over 200 years. They’re stuck in the same neighborhood as a rogue nuclear state that engages in frequent wars of expansionist conquest. The region is incredibly unstable precisely because there is no military counterbalance to Israel. Iran getting nuclear weapons would be an immense boon to peace and stability in the Middle East. I trust the Ayatollahs with nukes a lot more than I do the Israelis with them. At least the Iranians don’t believe that their deity gave them the right to annex entire nations.
It will be like Russia, where they make nuclear threats on a weekly basis, but know they would be obliterated if they ever actually used them.
Having said that, you’re right about Israel having nukes being nothing to cheer about.
A huge chunk of Americans enthusiastically support extensive warring with Iran (or will, soon). We are culpable.
Is it because so many of use glued to feeds and TV news? Yeah. But those are our products, and we basically elected Big Tech and Newscorp to the presidency, so… Yeah. It’s not gonna be over in 3.5 years.
Sorry this doesn’t really help forget about the situation but it’s a very good possibility.
A Wild Matt-o appeared!
I am wondering when Americans are finally going to come to the inevitable conclusion that conservatives have to be utterly destroyed by any means necessary in the most extreme prejudicial manner possible. These people are absolute pure f****** evil.
No fucking on Lemmy?
Voice-to-text automod. I hate it but dont know where the off switch is
I’m only in Paris because they promised you’ll be here too.
Where are you freakinsteve le
Je suis un USian
First we need to endlessly debate whether or not Kamala Harris would’ve done the same thing. Since we can never know we can all just assume posting shitty memes is more important than voting. We’ll tell each other it’s late stage capitalism so we can feel smart for doing nothing because it’s all going to collapse anyway, nothing we can do! Committed to being uncommitted! Apathy to the end!
The people who vote conservative will probably never come to that conclusion.
We have to let the older generations die off until there isn’t enough support or physically stop them from voting to stop the conservative support.
Maybe starting a third party that genuinely wants to disrupt the status quo would fix some stuff.
3rd party…yes! Possible, not really. The two parties have a spot on the ballot, built in, automatically given. All others have to jump through each state’s requirements to get on the state ballot. The most effective at this lately is the libertarian party. In the election before last, Jo Jorgenson was on the ballot in all 50, GO JO! Sadly, her media coverage was paltry at best. Most Americans didn’t even know she was a realistic option. Finally, most Americans think that a vote for a 3rd party increases the chance of their less desirable major party winning. What they fail to realize is that, red or blue, the boot on your neck is the same boot, different shine.
This same conversation happened in 2016.
It will keep happening until the Duopoly is no longer in control.
Lets get something REAALLY FUGHIN STRAIGHT:
Conservatism DOES NOT DIE OFF.
AAAALLLLLL of the radical fascist right wing Nazi pundits and influencers are Millennials and younger, with a few GenXers scattered about.
Everyone SWORE that conservatism would die off with the Boomers, but that was 15 years ago. Its not gonna happen.
Every new generation votes more progressive leaning than the last.
So once the boomers are all gone, the Republican Party loses a shit load of control.
Regressives have tried to appeal to the incels their ideology creates, but it isn’t enough to outpace the above trends.
A law was passed 30 years ago to ensure that the politically motivated only hear one ideology. The platforms have changed since then but the same people are in control of the messaging and censorship.
Liberals dont want change. Until the left accepts that libs gotta go in the ground too, nothing will happen.
I agree, but the enablers arent as big of a problem as the perps right now. I feel like they would fall in line pretty quickly upon seeing the consequences of their actions.
Um… Enduring? If thought Iranians are the ones enduring stuff… like, bombs…
How are Americans enduring anything for a war halfway around the world? The defense sector is hiring.
“Defense” sector
Those JLTVs and THAADs won’t 3D print themselves
me last night reading the news as i’m trying to go to sleep
Seriously, Americans need to stop acting so helpless. GOP. Trump. NAZIs. They’re not us.
and i’m certain you have a detailed plan that involves you staying put behind your keyboard.
Here’s the thing, Brohard: every time someone says we should do something they’re ALWAYS met with those kinds of shit comments from cattle car fodder such as yourself. “You first!!” is not the fucking flex you think it is, and only shows that YOU are the coward armchair warrior.
I dunno dude. Seems you wouldn’t be getting this upset if my original comment weren’t right on the mark. Also, you too ≠ you first.
Such animosity towards someone saying we strictly shouldn’t do just that. Probably just telling on yourself.
Correct!
if you need a translation for how everyone reads this conversation:
“all these people (not me) need to go do something about it!”
“which includes you”
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stop projecting"uhhhhhh sure dude
Oh, so its just me. Im the lone soldier. You’re right, your way makes the most sense.
Troops assemble! Hear my detailed plan! Meet you all in the town square at sun down. Leave it to me, anon!
We’re going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they created
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How very American to worry about the nightmare you’re enduring.
Nope, just worried there wont be enough memes to keep the people complacent.
We need memes for the people on the receiving end so they can forget about getting bombed for a second.
distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring
I assure you the nightmare is being experienced more acutely and directly by the people being actively bombed.
was about to say lmfao
good old american exceptionalism. couldnt believe i was reading that right.
It’s “lemmyshitpost” not “lemmybetakenseriously.”
Yeah, but do they have memes to distract them?
Yes but this is .world, so only Americans and the protocols of the elders of Zion larp group count as people.
Yeah, how do I get off of this shitlib “instance”?
Make an account elsewhere.
Make your posts elsewhere.
De-prioritize ‘people’ with .world suffixes.
