There’s a lot of shame being an American these days…

But, like, at least we can spell.

It’s not the crime people claim it to be IF you aren’t trying to deliberately down others out.

This. The worst person I’ve ever worked with happened to be a woman. She was an awful human being.

Lemmy’s search is dogshit… It’s my number one problem with this place. And this is the ONLY place I use these days.

It seemed like it was failing over the last 10 years or so… But yeah, it has officially failed at this stage.

It may not be completely beyond saving yet, but the direction we are heading is going to create an extremist response. We will either have a resurgence of sanity after the disgusting display of corruption, or a descent into chaotic action as the people of this country get fed up with being marginalized for the gains of rich and powerful assholes.

Luigi is an outlier right now… But if there are more, then we will know we’ve begun our descent into the less desirable path.

As an American, I’m not convinced we can be anything close to the greatest country. We are incapable of solving massive problems that should be abundantly obvious. And it’s not just the government, it’s also a huge number of dumb civilians that don’t want to educate themselves on how our own systems are failing.

Okay, but they aren’t literally required by law. You’re just making a case for them being a necessity not everyone truly wants.

Plenty of people don’t own vehicles, and they are not getting in trouble with our legal system for simply making that choice.

They are also necessities, unless you have a very specific job in a large, or otherwise very specific city. Their adoption has created expectations, particularly amongst employers.

It’s not half. Though, you could say only a third of us seem to care about the fact.

59% of eligible voters participated in the last election. Trump actually lost votes compared to 2020, but THAT many people didn’t show up last November.

Americans are 100% aware of this. I’ve never owned an American car in my life.

Yeah, and the right side of our government is now trying to cover up and bury that entire segment of our history. It’s absolutely insane what they are doing.

Honestly, speaking as an American, there’s kind of endless examples of us doing most things worse. Healthcare, democracy, workers rights, our “justice” system, incarceration… The list goes on and on.

This one is far more complicated than non-americans think. I’ve spoken to people outside the country, and they tend to only listen to the really dumb democrats when it comes to this issue.

You can’t close Pandora’s box. There are 393 million guns in the hands of civilians here. If you have a crazy neighbor with a gun, you kind of have to go get one yourself. That, or devise another method of viable self defense. The cops won’t help you, not in virtually any situation.

Yeah, anyone with a brain knows this… So, like, between 33-66% of the country.

Yeah, most of us in the U.S. don’t think this way. This is just republicans, and they aren’t really here on Lemmy.

I prefer Windows.

Ugh, so lavish. I bet this guy also owns a water heater. No wonder he’s poor!

This assumes a single person inherits everything. In reality, it’d be quickly distributed for every billy that dies.

Mine runs at about 120 watts per hour.

Why are so many people taking this seriously? Lol