We live in a country that is so bloodthirsty that it has not only been involved in wars around the world for 80-90% of it’s existence, but there are mass shootings being perpetuated every week or so with no end in sight. We’re so desperate to kill one another that it’s not even safe to go a grocery store.

But at the exact same time, the laws that allow this state of affairs to continue aren’t used for their intended purpose. The 2nd Amendment is supposed to be for stopping the government from becoming tyrannical, but the ones who seem to champion it the most are the tyrants. Rights get taken away, protesters get brutalized but nothing ever really escalates like in other places. We all just decided to stop caring and move on within a week, mostly to keep our oppressors from clamping down even harder.

Sometimes it feels like the U.S. is a land full of hostages. Where the few hold the power and their armies of well paid thugs are encouraged to crush any resistance.

  • @sudojonz@lemmygrad.ml
    25•2 years ago

    The greatest export of the United States is their media/propaganda arm. Most of the people I meet around the EU are still heavily influenced and infatuated by the U.S. despite the reality of the situation. The country was always a shithole full of cracks where only the rich have a good quality of life. Suddenly in 2016 a few normies started to realize something was up because of Trump lacking decorum eye roll. But the vast majority of people still don’t realize that the fucked up and crazy situation has always been there getting worse bit by bit, now it’s bunch by bunch. Yet the propaganda continues evermore.

    Sometimes it feels like the U.S. is a land full of hostages

    You nailed it with this line. Get out while you still can. I sacrificed everything I had to GTFO 10 years ago and even living in poverty in the EU, it’s a higher quality of life than i had in the states.

    • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
      11•2 years ago

      I was out yesterday and was eavesdropping on a conversation of a couple of army vets. To my surprise, they were talking about how bad it is in the USA. They talked about how they wished we had public infrastructure and could do things like ban single use plastics. They mentioned how selfish and arrogant most Americans are.

        • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.mlOP
          6•2 years ago

          I’m a Navy veteran myself, and the amount of brainwashed useful idiots and just outright dangerous people I saw was staggering. Not just impressionable kids either, it’s usually the older guys and gals who you think would be smart enough to see through it.

          I’ve met incels who think Dems are scared of guns and feminism is ruining everything, I’ve met a guy who was personally offended when the Pope came to the US and said “Hey maybe things aren’t that great here” back in 2016 or so, I’ve heard stories of old men who buy into the propaganda so utterly that they think every American war is a matter of “Good vs Evil.” Most recently, I knew an authoritarian bootlicker who was both a terrible sailor and a gun nut. So every time he came in late to work we assumed that he was getting one of his guns that he never shut up about and was getting ready to shoot up the office.

          A lot of casual racism and sexism too, in fact it’s even encouraged. Every port call in a foreign country calls for you to treat the locals like a threat and cheating is rampant (but only a problem when it’s a woman that cheats, I noticed.)