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"Punch" is the name of the adorable baby monkey. There was no violence, thankfully. All of the animals are unharmed.

And the point of this idiocy?

It was later revealed that this appalling stunt was orchestrated purely as a promotional gimmick for a cryptocurrency meme coin.

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[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The globe hates Americans.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I pity most Americans

I despise a significant number of them

I spend a lot of time in the US, my fiancée is American

The problem is that even the good people have been beaten into submission

They have given up, because (and this isn't untrue) they see the problems, but they're bigger than what they can deal with when they're stretched close to their breaking point already

This is by design. Those with the power know exactly what they're doing, and it's working.

[–] roker@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

Where are you from? I just want to live somewhere where my voice matters again.

While I agree with much of that, I think regular Americans are to blame. America became what it is because of the carelessness and naivety of the culture. Americans could have had spines decades and decades ago, but instead chose to live with arrogance as a prided cultural trait.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

Yep. Stay classy Americans.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was somewhat ok with you guys until 2016ish, after that then wow. Just wow.
Can you work out why...

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't even think it's because of him. I used to partake in the left and right dramas, but now I see the entire American culture as something bad for humanity or manipulated for something bad for humanity. And it was in progress before trump, America made trump and he was able to grow under both parties.

I feel like its time to live for humanity and disregard the culture we were groomed into.

Shit, you can even dive deeper since america is a young nation. It really is an experiment and we are the rats. To keep participating in their game is to keep yourself caged. What they offer as freedom is an illusion, a marketed escapism from the situations they create specifically for you to lust for their manmade idea of "freedom".

Lately I've just been watching how people react to these marketed mainstream politics and debates, and just think "you're doing exactly what they need you to do to maintain control over you". People are hooked like junkies on American consumerism and will make up any excuse to to keep their habits. The lifestyles are marketed for reasons because the larger the groups the easier it is to move them. Like even people that consider themselves rebels, free thinkers, and people "fighting the power" are a group that's marketed and can be utilized by the powers for sinister agenda driven gain.

It's not that their are singular provocateurs, it's that the subcultures are already a part of the system they claim they are fighting and were specifically marketed as tools to be used. The nations aren't even the powers to fight, the nations are used by the elite class as tools as well. Most of the world isn't playing the same game as the true powers that lead humanity, they are simply chess pieces moved by the real players of the game that are beyond true law and order, and again beyond nations.

It's like you have the real game of reality and life, and then you have us, a game within the game with its own rules of what reality is that are man-made and not a genuine universal law of order. Like there's the person that used their true freedom to create the factory, and we are living as workers in the factory made to believe it's reality and freedom and we are groomed to believe this is true humanity and freedom.

I found this video about this idea. https://youtu.be/xKJ6NPEDuZA

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My meaning is we make it so easy…to hate us. The country has certainly had lots of issues for…ever. And yes, it’s gotten like exponentially worse since 2016

Plenty of us sympathise

If you can get out, then get out

There's a whole world where life isn't shit and cruelty isn't celebrated