Political Memes

I think most reasonably educated people around the world are fully aware of all of this.

I mention the Epstein case in one of my comments just because I assume that the vast majority of the population despises pedophiles and wants to see them punished for their monsterous crimes - to me, this seems more like a unifying factor that could be used to bridge political divides. I mean, with Massie, there’s even among today’s conservatives someone who doesn’t bow to pressure from within his own ranks. So it really should be possible to agree with your neighbor that a regime so obviously entangled in these crimes must be overthrown.

But hey, this is just one starting point - there are many more, given all the rampant corruption, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in the U.S. itself.

I’m afraid that U.S. citizens will have to get used to posts like this one, because the actions of the U.S. regime unfortunately affect the entire world, which is why the propaganda narrative of the friendly superpower spreading freedom is increasingly being recognized for the farce it has always been.

You'd have to be quite the optimist to expect a positive change from the US at this point. The same points you cite works against any form of improvement to the point where it's a borderline impossibility.

You should've taken Russia seriously instead of letting them slowly wear you down until they got exactly what they wanted. Dugin wrote a fucking book yet nobody took it seriously.

You should've taken care of your healthcare and educational institutions. The state of your school system is so bad I don't even have words for it. It'll take generations to rebuild it.

You should've worked on the systematic racism that never truly went away. Instead it became the perfect vehicle for discord while simultaneously masking the class warfare that truly fucked everything up

You definitely should've made sure money wasn't the deciding factor in politics and while you were at it you should've taxed those assholes that are destroying the planet right now. Instead they took over and now they're running things.

It's a little late to change things in any sort of civilised way now, and we're all going to suffer for it.

And also don’t forget that half of us are sitting here as disgusted and outraged as the rest of the world, or moreso because it’s happening to our country. When I come on Lemmy and see people lobbing bricks at us it just makes me hate them. I guarantee the half of Americans who put us in this mess are not the half who are present on Lemmy. The last thing I need is to come in here and be their whipping boy for the emotional catharsis of smug Europeans.