Native American here: we have been trying and failing for 400 years now and could really use some help from everyone.
Yeah you guys got a really shit deal, and the really unforgivable part is that you’re still getting more shit deals even today. I’m a descendant of the colonizers, but I’m willing to help get rid of any of the ones who perpetuate these shit deals and don’t think you guys absolutely deserve to be in charge around here. I mean, I’ll go too, if you want, but I’m just putting it out there that I’d also be delighted to try to learn from and live in a society run by potentially actually wise elders instead of greedy old white men. Maybe someday we’ll get to give it a try.
Dances with wolves me bro, I’ll help.
What is crazy is this was actually a huge problem for frontier settlements. Tonnes of people would meet the indigenous population, be exposed to their society, learn enough of their language to communicate, and then go “fuck this” to all the European culture and just move in with the locals. They brought whatever skills they had including metalworking and so on and joined up and for the most part it went really really well for them, until the westerners came and killed everyone. Behind The Bastards had a great episode a few years ago about it, through the lens of one particular bastard, and yeah, faced with a culture where individuals were not exploited for every last shilling of value to the shareholders people wanted out.
Yo same.
A full on economic embargo on the US would be a nice push, but the EU is too damn dependent (and swerving to the right as of late).
The Greenlanders and Danes should export those hats into the USA.
We in the US do not wear red hats anymore… Excepting those who are completely fucked in the head.
My dad got a red ballcap, and I told him he probably shouldn’t wear it outside lest people think the wrong thing about him. Nobody wants to encourage the loonies.
On the plus side, I’ve haven’t seen a red hat in well over a year in a county he slightly won.
Canada too
I honestly can’t even stand ironic non-maga hats.
Wear them around maga assholes and you’ll love them
Perhaps!
Can, or can’t?
Can’t (typo - now fixed)
let me look up how to say “make greenland great again” in west greenlandic
Kalaallit Nunaat angerlaneqarpoq ajunnginnersaatitaasarlugu
that might be hard to fit on a hat
Hmm, maybe try east greenlandic?
Klaatu veratu niktu
Luigi would have a hell of a time in Greenland.
This is great, but maga idiots can’t read. They are gonna think you’re on their side.
American here. Those of us with more than 2 brain cells are sorry that the Dunning-Krueger effect which elected and fuels the Orange Jackass is bringing our insanity to your doorstep. Almost nobody here wants your country but there’s literally nothing we can do because the Orange Jackass controls all the tanks.
You guys are going to have to do something in order to take care of your problem.
We aren’t going to do anything. The US will just need to burn itself out.
It’s already a shithole country that’s at rock bottom and lashing out because of it.
Oh honey, this is nowhere near the bottom ;)
That comes if dems win big on midterms and the orange boy has a tantrum.
There will not be a fair midterm election. There will be no blue wave. Trump is testing the waters for martial law (or a similar type thing) for October. He will prevent people from going to polls. He also took off incoming timestamps from USPS mail. That includes votes. So those will be “late” in blue areas.
This administration will not be stopped any time soon. The best you can do is get out of the country if you can in the next few months.
there’s literally nothing we can do
I wouldn’t say “literally” though.
Here’s a tip: start with ICE.
Can I buy one and ship it to the US? Only a small fraction of us actually like Trump. The rest of the numbers are blown up by the media to seem bigger than they are, then another chunk didn’t even vote at all.
Can I buy one and ship it to the US?
Those who didn’t vote in the 2024 election are equally culpable to the Trumpoids in my eyes. It was very clear what Trump stood for, yet they didn’t bother to go out and vote against fascism.
My favorites are the ones who claimed they couldn’t vote for a genocide.
Now they have three genocides and two invasions.
i feel like the ones that dint vote, and voted for rfk or stein are republicans that dont are "embarrsed’ the other group is the totally “this has no effect on me now”
I guess they didn’t pay heed to what John Morley stated more than 100 years ago:
“Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.”It’s not make-a-wish. Most of the time, you have to vote for the lesser evil.
Especially when Harris, as VP, supported investigating Israel so they could shut down the rule forcing them to supply arms to Israel.
It’s my opinion that she only reversed course to get campaign donations. Looking at her voting history she was the closest to Sanders out of everyone.
Seems to me very likely that Harris would have been an above average president.
But sadly Americans chose the fascist psycho over Harris, because they didn’t think Harris was left wing enough, or that she didn’t support the Palestinians enough.The logic being: I’d rather be killed by a fascist psycho than not be helped as much as I want by a way more moderate person, that isn’t actively supporting killing me.
the real reason is “sexism, and racism” even those that dont initially support voting republicans they have those biases in them, but arnt as flagrant about it, because of where they live is unacceptable. as a poc you can tell when people are changed thier body language over a POC vs a white person when interacting with them.
The logic being: I’d rather be killed by a fascist psycho than not be helped as much as I want by a way more moderate person, that isn’t actively supporting killing me
That’s too much logical thought.
Much closer to “woman not like me bad, man like me good” than anything else.
Non-white and woman surely counted as well in some circles.
Don’t give them logic.
Saw a post denouncing Mamdani and AOC for not being pro-Palestinian enough.
They’d probably denounce Hamas for not being pro-Palestinian enough.
That’s not that hard of a position.
What’s your favorite Obama war?
Only a small fraction of us actually like Trump.
Bullshit, he got half the votes, and those that didn’t vote didn’t dislike him enough to prevent his election.
So Americans like Trump plenty, until he does something that hurts them personally.
If you really believe your own comment, you are delusional.I’m going to go against both grains here:
- There are plenty of older Americans who are “Republican” and don’t care who the candidate is, that’s the party that they feel best aligns with their traditional beliefs and values. They don’t or won’t watch the media because they know most of it is bullshit (true for both sides). So, there are plenty that stay ignorant/naive in a sense.
On the flip side of that coin, I guess I shouldn’t have immediately jumped into this being political, and should really strive to unite both sides bc we all know money buys politics! Aka rich vs everyone else, so it’s a vertical battle, not horizonal!
I don’t care which “side” is which, we need a candidate who’s not bought and paid for!
I’m not a conspiracy tinfoil hat guy, but there’s been enough projection and “holy shit are they actually admitting it?!?!?” ramblings from Trump, Musk and Rogan over this past year that it’s not just myself, but have brought many others to call into question the authenticity of the results.
TLDR: IT WAS RIGGED
I don’t believe you, because there is not a shred of evidence of that.
Occam’s Razor tells us it is much more plausible that Americans are just stupid, and didn’t learn the lesson from 2 periods of Bush Jr. and the first period of Trump.
The American society is sociopathic and hold individual freedom as a religion. And they see Trump being a malignant narcissist as a perfect example of individual freedom, and they don’t recognize the sociopathy because they see it as a virtue.This is to me the way more plausible explanation, that we have seen play out in many presidential elections in USA, Where already Reagan’s uncompromising war mongering campaign won over the much more moral and humane Carter that wanted environmental sustainability. Religious fanatics are fundamentalists, and fundamentalists vote to the right, and psychopaths are fascists and vote to the right. Trump election victory is 100% based in the insanity of the American society.
I am not saying all Americans are insane, there are many good Americans, but just as a person that has terminal cancer has cancer cells in the body that makes the body sick, doesn’t mean that all cells are cancer cells. And in the same way American society is sick, because there are so many “sick” people that behave in ways that are harmful, that the society as a whole is sick.
Seen from a country that is one of the best democracies in the world, there is absolutely no doubt about it. It is very obvious that American society as a whole is very very sick.
American here, and one who grew up in what is now trump country. Well, I guess I still live in a republican area now, but I started out rural.
Your conclusion about how the society as a whole is sick is 100% spot on.
I don’t do much international travel, but I did get to spend a little bit of time in europe in the past couple years. Most of it in scandinavia of all places!
The difference is crazy, even not counting all this recent crazy shit. On the surface things look similar. But being immersed in it let all the little details sink in simultaneously.
There’s an air of dignity and respect that I am just not used to in american society. Even just the instances of “we couldn’t have that, somebody would immediately ruin it” were constant.
Okay buddy, yowza that was a whole fuck ton of a response. Good on ya. I’m not in any way defending the dumbing down and weakening of critical thinking here. No shit, obviously we’re getting dumber in the United States. It’s been embarrassing since my childhood. I’m not going to bat for us.
Anyway, there have been a few instances where there have been slip-ups with Trump saying “Elon is so good with the voting machines in Pennsylvania”, or with Rogan admitting how in awe he was of Elon looking at his phone saying Trump had won just as opening ballots had started.
Also Trump barely winning in swing states (ridiculous ) where it was a bullet ballot only supporting him, but being generally consistent along previous years trends that supported Democrats… like I agree, yes we’re stupid, whip me more Euro Daddy, but the fact that the Dems didn’t immediately demand a recount is so cucked
They always play that card. Somehow, in their minds, they’re the strongest democracy out there, but over the multiple decades of their elected government representatives doing atrocious stuff their answer is always “oh no you see they don’t represent the real americans”
Read up on a thing called ‘The Electoral College.’
The smaller, conservative states have more power than the larger states.
Left leaning California has 2 Senators, the same as tiny Rightwing Alabama.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College
Read up on a thing called ‘The Electoral College.’
And that prevents you from getting up your chair and protesting?
Left leaning California has 2 Senators
lol “left leaning”
A large fraction of us like Trump, but not the majority. Still far, far more than is excusable.
Huge difference between a large fraction and a small fraction.
I’m not saying it’s a major8ity anymore, but on election day a majority didn’t dislike him enough to vote to prevent him from winning.
As I wrote, when people are personally hit by his policies, either the sucking job market, or losing ACA and needing healthcare, then they realize it was not a good idea to let him win. But before that, most were fine with it, or didn’t care.Well, most of my state, which is larger than most European countries, cared and didn’t want him. The US is huge - clearly far too huge, since the will of so many people can be ignored.
Your state is one of 50, and not an representative of USA as a whole. I’m writing about USA as 1 country, not as 50 states and territories.
Just as when writing about EU as a whole and not about any particular member state.The problem is not the size, it is the lack of democracy, and lack of respect between the states. For instance US no state can secede if it wants to, while UK was allowed to leave EU. No state can block a law in USA, while all countries of EU has that option.
USA see this level of respect and democracy towards each other as a weakness, but in reality it is a strength, and Europe has developed a society that is way better than USA, despite USA is about twice as rich per capita.
Believe me, I very much wish we could secede! Maybe the US will Balkanize after the empire collapses.
Sorry, but that argument doesn’t hold water anymore. We gave you guys the benefit of the doubt for his first term, but this time you knew exactly what you were getting, and you allowed him back anyway. 32% of the eligibile population voting for him is not just some small minority.
Last time he didn’t win the popular vote, so there was some consolation to be taken. This time we really don’t have an excuse.
you know…elections can be rigged, right?
I wonder how the Germans that fought against fascism felt when people spit on them and called the Nazis?
The vast majority didn’t fight Trump’s return. The vast majority still aren’t fighting.
I’m guessing that the Poles didn’t give a fuck about German feelings after WWII, and no one gives a fuck about your feelings now. Until something more than hand wringing on the internet is done, expect the negativity to continue.
I don’t know exactly who you are talking about, but I did everything I could. Unfortunately I am not a fucking billionaire so my efforts don’t hit as hard. That said, I actually couldn’t believe the results of the election. I think there are a lot of people didn’t expect this outcome. I mean it was hard to imagine re-electing a person who actually lost their reelection bid before, and that person is one of the most caustic and evil people to ever hold office. It was unprecedented.
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You would condemn the 30% that voted against him, the non voters, not to mention the children, just for the crimes of a minority, however multitious?
The children? No.
The dead weight “opposition” that does nothing but complain online? Yes. Blood is in your hands too.
Just to be clear, which do you condemn more? Those who voted for Democrats or third party, or those who refused to vote altogether?
I think this is a pretty pointless distinction, but sure, here’s a convenient nine-year-old ready list for your reference, ordered best to worse:
A person actively protesting, sabotaging and working politically against the current administration > A crusty sock I’ve forgotten I’ve left behind my bed after a gym session > Person voting for a democrat > Person not voting > Person voting for a Republican > Person voting for Donald Trump > Hitler
Is it not possible that the capitalist system we work under makes it very difficult for many people to protest, either through working them so hard that they have no energy, or no time, or makes it harder for them to get work or even keep their jobs to survive if they openly oppose the establishment, eg on social media?
Are these oppressed people truly worse in your eyes than a crusty sock?
Is it not possible that the capitalist system we work under makes it very difficult for many people to protest
When was history ever easy? What exactly did you expect, to induce change by tweeting angrily? Is the difficulty more important than the lives being lost?
Either way, not sure how that’s an answer to my comment. There are a thousand different ways to fight that aren’t simply sharing a perfectly rehearsed AOC rebuttal that is precisely long enough to make for a viral TikTok video designed by a PR team and then feeling like you’re different. You are not. Voting for a party is not the end of your civic duties, nor does it make you opposition if that’s the end of your actions.
Depends on who they voted for.
Depends on their actions now.A worker got fired from Ford for having more courage than most. Hopefully gofundme will unblock all his donations.
2/3 of the country not opposing his policies seems pretty clear cut to me
My over-generalized understanding is that it’s more like 1/3rd, but because of exploited political geography their votes were “more special” than the rest of ours, so suddenly we arrived at:
“The whole country wanted this!”
(Historians’ note: No they didn’t.)
When I last looked at the numbers months ago, the actual number of votes for Republicans was 1/3 of the eligible voting population
Is this really news?
It mocks the US, so that’s exactly the type of news I want
