About 3 in 10 say there are better countries than the U.S
7 in 10 are still blinded by the propaganda then.
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I mean… At least a couple of those seven could be thinking they’re all fucked. That’s how I feel, even the countries I used to think about fleeing to are all being bullshit right now. Whether it’s the EU’s continued infatuation with chat control, or Brexit, or whatever else is going on. Several countries right now seem like they’re only about five or 10 years behind the United States in so far as enshitifying goes.
Some of us might see it as exceptionally shitty or at least exceptionally captured by corporate interests.
Americans are routinely terrorized by the very thought of moving to a foreign country. Every other place on Earth is wracked with crime, plagued with poverty, ruined by pollution, and obliterated by war. Fortress America is the only Safe Space for white people. And even within Fortress America, you need to be holed up in some exurban Walled Garden that's surrounded by battalions of the most heavily armed police imaginable.
My father-in-law traveled to Zhuhai, China (just outside Macau) a few years ago. He was flabbergasted at how clean and safe and easy to get around a foreign country could be. He'd been prepared to hike ten miles a day between shitty bus stops. He'd left everything personally valuable to him behind, because he was convinced it would all get confiscated or stolen. He dressed almost entirely in flannel, because he was afraid looking to affluent would get him mugged. He even packed a bunch of dried food, for fear he wouldn't find anything to eat for days at a time. Ended up in a city that could have doubled as San Francisco. The worst experience he had was people insisting they let him take a picture together (he's a tall round guy with a white beard and people kept calling him "Santa").
I've had this experience so frequently with folks who have traveled. We go to Mexico City. We go to Seoul, South Korea. We go to Turkiye and Greece. We go to Moracco. We go to Buenos Aires. Even London and Paris. Everyone thinks we're going to die. We send them pictures. We tell stories. Nobody in the states believes it, until they get dragged out of their hidey holes to see it for themselves.
The American Brain is absolutely cooked.
Stop tolerating the right, for starters. They tried to overthrow the government in the Civil War and then everyone just stopped and let them slink back into society like it never happened instead of rounding them up and executing them for treason. Hundreds of years later, surprise, they’re strong again and back at it. Will they learn from the past this time? Clearly not.
I think what mount actually be effective would be to have a 'January 6th Re-enactment' event. You basically gaslight the fuck out of Republicans and act like the j6 insurrection was a peaceful protest. Then have as many people show up as possible dressed in pro Trump shit with face coverings, only this time, we do what they actually intended to do with j6, which is overthrow the government.
Like what are they gonna do? Freak out because j6 was a violent act of treason? Because it's just a re-enactment of what repubs claim was a peaceful demonstration.
Also don't actually announce the event in advance, just show up unexpectedly, it will give them no time to prepare the troops/national guard.
At the end of the day the optics will be that a group of Trump supporters are trying to reenact an event that Trump claims was a perfectly peaceful legal demonstration. Except we actually execute it correctly. At first make it really hokey and stupid like a civil war re-enactment. Let people put their guard down, have the event start to peter out, then bam, swarm once they've let their guard down, and smoke, smoke, smoke. Reduce visibility, create chaos, act quickly. Have ice looking camo and carriers on under you clothes, switch clothes quickly, blend in as another team of responders, make your way to the perimeter, sabotage people stationed there, cause more chaos, then disperse. Capture the reps guilty of treason, deal with them on the spot
When you make it so the responders can't trust one another when they respond to the event you will have won.
The only way we stand above the rest of the world is in the strength of our military. We’ve squandered and abused pretty much every other advantage we might have once had.
No worries, the current admin is busy working on reducing the US military capabilities in this moment.
About 3 in 10 say there are better countries than the U.S.
So 7 in 10 think that having free healthcare, safety nets and, in general, a government that's not actively trying to kill you is a bad thing?
So 7 in 10 think
No, they don't. That's the problem.
Lord Feltersnatch and his maga minions have destroyed it!
America was broken on day 1. We were founded by rich white slave owners they didn't want to pay taxes.
We genocided the natives and stole everything they had and then started exporting that across the globe.
Hell the "golden age" of American prosperity was built off war profiteering.
Experiment over, we failed. Time to try something new.
We’ve been broken long before now, Trump is simply finishing it off.
Most data centers in the world! Most criminally charged leader in history! No one can equal the American kleptocracy!
America's the fucking worst
Well it is exceptional, but on the shit end of the spectrum
Oh, we're exceptional alright. Not in any positive way, but definitely exceptional
I see it as exceptionally shitty.
What sucks is I thought we fell so short of what we could be in the 90's and now its just beyond the pale.
Exceptionally dystopian.