The funny thing is yes 80% may say that we are in a political crisis. But it depends on which side of the aisle you’re on as far as what you consider that political crisis to be. Well yes we may agree there is a political crisis there are many that are calling for stricter controls in many of us that are calling for the leaders to be given the French treatment.
The entire world is fucked and pickering its butthole with ww3 about to start
The US or all of America? The US snobs keep writing “America” as if the US is the only thing that consists of America.
It’s just colloquialism, comrade, it’s not that deep. It’s not as though Canada calls themselves Canada of America, and Mexico is already the United States of Mexico. No other American country even have the continents in their name, northern or southern.
So yeah there’s a difference obviously, and I live in the US so people around me always use it that way.
But when I see somebody in European media refer to the American people, or some country getting aid and/or bombed by “America” or “the Americans” it is almost certainly about the USA.
I think there are similarities with other regions if not single countries. Hopefully this isn’t an American thing too, but when somebody refers to Asian people it often means East Asian, and not somebody from Saudia Arabia or northern Russia.
I’ve noticed recently that our European family and friends have this pattern where they’ll call it America or the USA when they’re saying something positive or hopeful about the country, but then they’ll say “the States” or “the US” when being critical or showing concern. It’s very interesting and I wonder how common that is.
This is such a dumb argument. You know who and what people talk about. Fucking no one is talking about “the Americas” on a regular basis. No one.
Just say US then. If the US is so great and so proud, say US. Latin America exists. It ain’t not there.
the fact that you said Latin America already undercut your point. everyone knows what the title says. language is supposed to be cooperative.
this is no different than if i said “I’m going to Korea next month” and someone was like “um, what do you mean by Korea? are you talking about ROK or DPRK? coz the latter would be tough, and I doubt you’re going all over the entire Korea” like shut up you know what i mean
Best Korea
No one that is talking about Latin America is saying America. Get over it. Not gonna happen.
USAian?
Cooked, deepfried.
On July 4, 2026, the
US Army[REDACTED]On July 4, 2026, nothing happened in Lafayette Square, Washington D.C. Absolutely zero university students died. Its was just a routine military parade with tanks. Anyone spreading false rumors is a foreign agent ANTIFA attempting to destablize our big beautiful democracy, and will therefore be charged with “Subversion of State Power”. GOD BLESS 'MURICA 👊🇺🇸🔥
As designed by the GOP, for the GOP. They are the terrorist organization Donald trump is so worried about, but he keeps mixing it up and calling them “the radical left.”
The dementia is spreading across the entire GOP base. They all forgot what being a conservative was.
An entirely self created one
The beloved Patriot Act 20 years later.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Yet 50% of the 80% won’t actually vote.
It’s 80% of voters so they already took 1/3 of the country out.
that’s too generous, this is closer to 3/4 of the country out
Political Crisis created by billionaires.
By billionaires, by trump, by right wing extremists, by religious idiots, by general idiots, by…
By fascists. Don’t forget them they are the same people you are talking about.
For sure
Can’t talk bad about fascists in America anymore.
I’m not American so I will say it for you. MAGA are fascists, billionaires are supporting it and are thereby fascists, religious groups are all in as well; they view him as a messiah who will lead your nation to greatness, all fascists. Over 25% of your nation is outright fascist at this point.
It’s definitely frightening how one “influencer” being killed seems to have made things worse. They not only didn’t learn from the consequences of stoking the flames of divisiveness, but keep piling on the fuel. How does it not hit them that their own actions are what is causing this crisis, and how do they not think it might have gone too far? How are they so cynically exploiting the situation without the slightest hint of awareness that “this could be me next”?
Kirk was the excuse they pounced on - the escalation was coming regardless.
The voters created this mess. The real argument should be for education.
Mass manipulation by social media is why we are where we are. Stupid voters have been around for all of democracy.
Critical thinking skills and being able to form your own opinion and back it up with evidence should be taught in grade school. Most people don’t get an introduction to this until college.
I’d be pretty happy if elementary logic was a high school requirement.
I mean, half of voters did. But I agree about education
No, really?
Well you people voted for it, or rather, didn’t bother to vote to avoid it.
You’ve got a bunch of weasels in the hen house. Everyone’s eggs are at risk
I am surrounded by engineers and scientists… more than half of them dont vote beacause " this does not affect me". Frustrates me so much. This are educated people, relatively speaking. Maybe because they are still well-off economically? I don’t know. I don’t understand how they are so uninterested.
The engineers and scientists in my neck of the woods are very concerned about the shit that’s going on. The unionized floor techs on the other hand lean far more favorably to the orange dolt.
Do you work at a shooting yourself in the foot factory or something? How the fuck could you be in a union and support Donald fucking trump or anyone associated with him?
This is pretty common in the US unfortunately. Lots of union leadership and membership both lean hard right. Part of it is due to reactionary thinking and constant propaganda, and part is due to lots of people just being fucking stupid and illogical.
This is not how it’s always been.
Unions etc used to be reliably Democratic.
Over time the unions have been hollowed out and the Democratic party has increasing had an image problem.
These lower workers think that the Democrats are only pandering to “woke” problems which that population obviously doesn’t think affect them(and in some cases is actually detrimental).
This is not really true but it is what they think and it’s one of the reasons Trump does so well in that demographic regardless of what he does.
Absolutely. And it extends to more than just democrats. Unions have been brainwashed into thinking all progressive platforms are bad for labor, which is nuts. Have union guys in my city literally pitching about how labor socialists are anti-worker and MAGA candidates are better for them.
Hating minorities more than they hate themselves probably helps. Or naïvety. Or both.
Americans are taught since birth that if they work hard at low wages, they will eventually become billionaires.
Poor education and lack of critical thinking skills; it’s not exactly uncommon. In my neck of the woods, most trades workers support the Conservatives, unionized or not
Show them this video: https://youtu.be/Ame0j8jbMY4
Then tell them voting is exactly the same as discussing politics.
They’ll just show you this https://youtu.be/aPW8AaOuvDs
That’s not even an opinion anymore, it’s just an accurate description of events in the country
Except a third or more of that 80% thinks the crisis is the “violent radical left antifa superpredators.”
Thy aren’t thinking they’re being told. And they ain’t questioning it
I think the one thing both sides are fully aware of, we live in vastly different realities.
Superduper predators, raawr
