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[–] Gowozilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Our number one export is our brain rot. Soon :tm:

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 23 hours ago

Dont worry if you dont live in the USA the USA will come to you..

Or so the new native american saying goes.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I dream of the day that we make America a place that OP would like to visit.

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It doesnt matter, america affects every one on the planet.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Today? Yeah sure. Next year? The way things are going…

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The US may affect the whole world less next year if everyone else works hard to find alternate markets, but it's going to take longer than that for the rest of the world to totally detangle themselves from our mess.

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Negatively. By stealing and hoarding resources? By destabilizing world politics? By driving and supporting war across the globe? Most earthlings are unaffected by these things directly. America is not that important.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The negative impact is real and very important. And in the future it can be even worse.

[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The states is a 3rd world country man, been one for a while if it even is one

[–] Elastigirl@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Eh, pretty much all countries has their own problems not just America.

[–] Reasonable_Guy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Meanwhile there's those of us in the US

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoa now! Can't be chugging tariff-enriched coffee down like that.

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[–] Flashbulb8464@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Bobby, if those kids could read, they’d be very upset.

[–] Ickabod@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't get too cozy over there. We'll just end up bringing America to you :) Sleep soundly

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I get it, is the joke colonialism?

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

America's best export is suffering. Right now we call them tarrifs.

Thanks to closing down USAid, we gave up soft power.

A coalition of the willing, ready to make the world safe for Democracy, like 80 years ago.
Swap the beaches of Normandy for Chesapeake Bay.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’ve thought about moving out of America but global warming seems primed to kill us all by slowly pressuring us to death or near death without aliens coming down here to lay down the law in a way we can’t ignore. We’re all fucked, whether sooner or later. As much as I would want to live in Europe or Southeast Asia, I would feel about Russia or China like I did about Trump in 2022, that the peace is only temporary.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Sleep in a house you own? Can't relate

[–] coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's all fun and games watching the crazy people do crazy things across the pond until you remember the crazy people have nukes and the biggest idiot of them all has the launch codes. Sleep well tonight!

[–] mgnome@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

As if Europe didn't have one demented moron routinely threatening everyone with nukes for years now. 🌚

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago
[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 205 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Right now, wherever you are, there are people paid by the USA trying their best to make your life worse in order to

  • Align your country's foreign policy closer to the goals to that of the USA
  • Shape your economy so that American corporations can enrich themselves by extracting the maximum value out of your country.

So yeah, there is no escape from America. That's the whole point of being the global hegemon.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 90 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don't think enough people noticed the Trump regime's demands that EU destroy their own healthcare just so theirs could look, well, not better but less terrible by comparison.

This is not a joke. These people will absolutely do everything they can to rob the few nations on this Earth that manage to take care of their citizens to the point they're all beholden to the same crime lord family.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

Here only had public universities. Only. Well, until they found a hole in the rules of our Constitution and the first private universities are going to open this year.

I think this is a pretty good example of the aforementioned policy of the USA.

[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Yeah, do not even for a second entertain the notion that European companies wouldn't love it if your health insurance were held hostage by your employment like it is in the USA.

The truth of the matter is European quality of life has been coasting on the gains made in the past by the blood and sweat of the unions and the concessions made by the governments to stave off the specter of communism. Billionaires in the US are seeing this slice of wealth and are coming for it via the populist right-wing parties in every country. If anyone can get this fact through the thick skull of anti-immigrant voters, let me know.

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[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 119 points 2 days ago (15 children)

You shouldn't be sleeping soundly. Most of you are only a few steps behind us on the same path.

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I’ve found the USA to have some of the nicest, most welcoming people I’ve ever met. Probably some of these people have been lead down dark voting paths, against their own, and the world’s, best interests. All we can really hope for is enough people speak sense persuasively enough for them to hear it. And that means being understanding, empathetic and tolerant.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 66 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Thats what i thought before 2 pro-Trump fascists almost won the election in my country

[–] Emotional@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

The xenophobic "haha americans are so stupid/evil" attitude I've been seeing as of years ago all over Reddit and now even more intensly on Lemmy is making me very worried that people aren't gonna recognize the same disinformation that led to all this when its served to them...

I don't believe Americans and Europeans are as different as a lot of people seem to think. Or maybe I got dumber and more naive since my teenage years.

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[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lucky bastard, can you like abduct me or something?

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Your government will do that for you

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I live in America. It's 2 AM and I just awoke from a nightmare wherein I was running from the govt. My wife, dog, and I were in hiding at my home, with friends occupying the place to help us stay hidden. But a drone spotted me. I shot it down, but we had 10 minutes to pack what I could into a short yellow schoolbus (which quickly became a British double-decker) and take off before agents showed up to capture or kill us.

By the way, I'm a white male, married to a white woman, and by all outside appearances, cis and "normal". Probably one of the most protected classes in America right now. And even I'm having nightmares about where our country is headed and when it'll be "my turn."

I woke up, picked up my tablet, and this was the top post in my feed. 😣

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago

If you don't come to America, America comes to you.

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