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American culture seems to have nothing left in it besides the layers of violence.
WHAT? Bet if i was there you wouldn't say that to my face.
Settle down, killer.
That's a strange way to spell gun.
That thing that make you strong and manly and AMERICAN.
That, and the implied threat of violence because someone on the internet doesn't agree with your opinion of how great America is?
It was a joke.
Literally impossible to tell the difference when it's just a line of text on a webpage.
That particular phrasing isn't used as "a joke".
That's why we typically use a "/s" to remove the ambiguity.
Just a hint for you, I've noticed a considerable uptick in the proportion of people taking my sarcasm literally, when I started hanging out on Lemmy instead of Reddit.
Thats a hint for you.
Or would you like to say that to my face?
Important to note that it's typically violence against people who can't really push back without risking getting killed.
It's time to make bullies afraid again, but I don't know how without starting a total escalation.
Just start a total escalation at this point
Racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you are protesting America.
This is a country where people whined about their freedoms being taken away because they were asked to not be loud vocal racist homophobes
I know, not on topic really, but lets not pretend that racism is an American trait and not a human one.
It's not human trait at all. No child is born racist, they're taught that.
Which you're implying that it's a natutal human trait and therefore somehow acceptable on some level.
Lol, fuck off with that projection and putting words in my mouth. It's like you haven't traveled at all and experienced racism in the Far East, in Europe, in Africa, etc. What a bullshit take. Don't put fucking words in my mouth and think that you made a good point.
Cool story edge lord.
Work hard and get ahead they said. Yea, they actually said that.
It is not more pervasive here, it's just the hypocrisy is hard to take. Go to most parts of the world and you'll see racism still alive and kicking. It's just the US we have constantly patted ourselves on our backs for being the "melting pot" of the world, or the "salad bowl" as we were later described. Yet reality and history show that was, and is, just hypocritical bullshit.
Can't believe a nation founded on slavery and baptized in blood would come to this.
Don't forget that it was stolen from people who already lived there
Yanks are quite keen to gloss over that part
Nothing left? Brother it had and has nothing else.
It was started on the principles of "I moved here and now I own the land because god told me so, now stand still while I genocide your entire nationality"
Moved to "I own you because someone brought you here on a boat and I need someone to work the fields."
Moved to "You may have civil rights but we make all the drugs and write the laws"
Moved to "Be free and happy, go do acid and don't look too closely at the vague yet menacing government agents wiretapping your homes, they are here for your safety"
Moved to "Serial killers are everywhere (don't look too closely at them, either. Dont want you seeing their badges)"
Moved to "We need agents everywhere watching everything, and Guantanamos in multiple locations because terrurists."
Its a long line of bloody murder stretching all the way back to colonialism (and beyond!)
Exactly! It's never been anything else. The Europeans who first came there were narcissistic and racist sociopaths and it's all been that since then.
America has preserved European values - more specifically 17th century European values such as racism, imperialism and the whole "might is right and a 'superior' race genociding an 'inferior' race to take their shit is absolutelly normal and fine".
Lmao ah yes, thank you for clarifying that it's specifically 17th century europe, I was really worried someone might get all confused and think that modern europe has a problem with racist imperialism. No no, that's just america.
Please point out the part of my post were I wrote that modern Europe doesn't have a problem with racist imperialism.
Uhm... That wasn't what you did, nor what I called out? So no, but I will say that trying to reframe criticism like that is a kinda dodgy tactic (if intentional).
You and your strawman should probably get a room
I'm not clear if you've just wildly misunderstood my part of this conversation, or if you're simply unfamiliar with the strawman fallacy. Either way, there's been no strawman from me. And I quite suspect the one example from you was unintentional.
This was an example of American corruption. A school official probably has a friend who is involved with the shock glove company and got kick backs for buying weapons to use on children.
Facism is imperalism turned inward.
with a veneer of faux prosperity.
then give it back. wear your own shock gloves and give the school cops a pat on the back fo 'keeping kids safe' or whatever it is they do when they are attacking parents from trying to save their kids
It's also into sex and drugs. Not as much rock 'n roll as you might hope, though.
And the sex is apparently only allowed with minors and those who do not consent.
Im surprised school shootings is news at this point. Seems to be like a weekend event.
Weekday* no school on weekends
Did you try (and somehow failed) to write "weekly"?
Do you not have a fun weekend life? Going out with friends? This comment is from someone who's weekends are normal and uneventful.
It's all rot
A bunch of performative cruelty.
Don’t forget the gambling and the grifting and the cornering of technology markets
It's really bad, it's deeply deeply ingrained in our culture. I hear people say "i swear to god im gonna murder him" multiple times daily at work. The violence is baked right into our language. (I guess the religionism too lmao)