You shouldn’t be sleeping soundly. Most of you are only a few steps behind us on the same path.
Yeah since everything is tied to the fucking dollar and whatever America does affects us all it’s not really surprising.
We’ll see if that shifts, perhaps the usd stability is coming to an end.
A lot of deep pockets people are shifting to the Euro already.
I tell all my friends and family to use less USAian services and products. !buyeuropean@feddit.uk
It’s a necessary step. Using more opensource stuff and consuming less USAian media will help at least a bit with the propaganda coming from there.
Lol. Lmao even.
Your country has been a joke for at least the past decade, only thing america is doing these days is ensuring others independence from it (honestly the sole source of the countries value so we’ll see how that goes long term).
But have fun with your facists!
Youre right it should be everyone else’s problem but poor, suffering america
There is a rope tied between our currency and the rest of the western world’s ankle. Laughing at our drowning nation is ignoring that you’re running out of rope.
Except Trump has finally made every other country in the world question why we don’t just cut the rope. I think the rope will be cut if Trump continues to stay in office.
Definitely, but it takes a while to chop through a thick rope like that. If we sink too fast, a lot of other countries are screwed.
I think with time the rope will be inevitably cut no matter what at this point. I guess we’ll see.
I love how Americans can always see themselves as a victim.
Yes you have handcuffs around every wrist you’ve had access to in the past century, but in this day and age even your handcuffs are outsourced.
Honestly America doesnt actually produce anything but IP laws these days.
And ya know other countries might not share your lack of education and realise its 1000% cheaper to simply just bypass the bully in the room.
I never said the word victim, but since you brought it up, 50% of the US are victims to this. A large number of us were actively fighting against this outcome and lost. We have been deciding what to do next, and many educated people are in the process of leaving the country. Those without that ability are stuck to suffer under the current conditions.
This is a very ignorant view.
Not much that I can do about it, so might as well not worry about it. Also my country is a few steps ahead of America
The are encouraging you and all other non-Americans to not fall asleep at the wheel like we have. The system that allowed this shit show to develop has been building for decades and we allowed it to happen.
Do not allow it to happen where you live, because the oligarchy is coming for you too.
Thats what i thought before 2 pro-Trump fascists almost won the election in my country
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.
Luckily in my country, the vaguely trump style politician not only lost the election, but didn’t get enough votes in his own district and is no longer a politician. Same thing happened in Canada.
but now Alberta allegedly wants to secede…
They have wanted to secede officially for over 50 years. Alberta was right on board with the Western Canada Concept party in the early 80’s.
It doesnt matter, america affects every one on the planet.
Today? Yeah sure. Next year? The way things are going…
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.
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.
The negative impact is real and very important. And in the future it can be even worse.
Meanwhile there’s those of us in the US
Whoa now! Can’t be chugging tariff-enriched coffee down like that.
Don’t worry, it’s Italian roast \s
Lmao this hits home, my caffeine intake has slowly been creeping up on me cause of my job and commute, I have like five or so double shot Americanos a day now.
Which still isn’t all that bad, like 650mg a day of caffeine. Above the FDA rec limit but lower than a lot of these people I see sucking down bangs all day
I dream of the day that we make America a place that OP would like to visit.
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!
As if Europe didn’t have one demented moron routinely threatening everyone with nukes for years now. 🌚
Try sleeping just north of them.
(edit: also the “launch codes” for most of the time they existed where just set to all zeros.)
The funny thing is that statistically, there’s a 43% chance that you’re living in one of the other 8 countries with nuclear warheads lol.
Bobby, if those kids could read, they’d be very upset.
I wouldn’t get too cozy over there. We’ll just end up bringing America to you :) Sleep soundly
I’m not sure I get it, is the joke colonialism?
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.
I didn’t choose to be born here and wish I was born somewhere where I wasn’t constantly fearing for what tomorrow could bring. But since I was born here I have to figure out a way to navigate this shit show of a country till I can flee
Same. And most of us are kept too broke to be able to feasibly move away anyways.
When I was a dumb kid, I really wanted to come and live in the US. I managed to visit it twice.
I will never ever go again. 🤞
Last time I visited, I didn’t even need identification. I just went to get some peeps at the big store, and then went back home. I think I’ll leave it on that high note. US scares me too much now–I worry I could get trapped there somehow.
Bro, man visited NY for less than a day during my visit to Toronto as a child, genuinely the worst place I’ve ever been to, in so many ways, it was as bad as I thought it would be, calling it a concrete jungle is lowkey an insult to jungles wallahi.
You know most of the US is rural, yeah?
One time I heard music, it was Hanson; fucking hate music now.
This has to be satire right?
Nah, js a miscommunication if you thought I was talking about Toronto, as became apparent after reading the reply to your comment, I wrote that comment like a dyslexic so mb, but mans got mad love for 🇨🇦 🖤
Or a highly subjective snap judgement based on a tiny sample size. Like I thought I hated Toronto for years, but it turns out I just hated the financial district, because that was the only place I visited. There are still real people and communities in there – you’ve just to go looking for them.
Same thing with a big country like the US. If you just stepped off of an airplane in New York and went for a walk, you’d probably be disappointed too.
My comment was abt NY, my bad if I made it seem like I meant Toronto, the NY visit was a stopover cuz of their proximities, I edited it to make it more clear. I loved Canada, especially Toronto, been Canada multiple times now, trynna fly back there sometime soon 🖤 🇨🇦
Imagine if this said “How I sleep knowing I don’t live in Palestine, and never will.”
Dont worry if you dont live in the USA the USA will come to you…
Or so the new native american saying goes.
The problem is that so many of us INSIDE the US still sleep like that, especially the ones who match homer’s kind of “dopey white middle aged boomer dad who raised a family on a single factory job” demographic.
I match some of those demographics, like the dopey white middle aged USAmerican dad raising a family with his one income. I don’t match him in other areas because I am an over-educated tech worker living in an old cheap blue collar neighborhood to make it happen in current day.
I am extremely unhappy and embarrassed about just about every single thing that has my country is in the news, to say the least. It makes me sad and worried for the entire world. Giving a shit about other people while evil morons are grabbing power will do that to you.
But for people who look like me and don’t follow what’s going on in the world or care about other people? My day to day real life in my local physical environment is comfortable and privileged as hell, and so is a lot of theirs.
Combine that with our culture where a “successful” life is constant stress over the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses, so that you are worried about making the payments on your luxury SUV rather than whether your government is destroying people you don’t know while funneling your resources to people who already have 1000x more than you.
Sleep in a house you own? Can’t relate
Lucky bastard, can you like abduct me or something?
Your government will do that for you
Yeah no shit.
I would be thrilled for the USG to deport me. Like where would they even send me? At least before New England finally secedes that is.
