The gun rights y’all have?
Now, most people would tell you that Gun Control Works and that you should just do that and get less dead kids per month which is a generally good thing.
… But here’s another thing to consider. As long as you’re allowed to purchase weapons for cheap and easy.
You do realise you can in fact do something about the assholes in your government and your oligarchies with those guns, right? That they can be used for more than just killing children?
Luigi Mangione seemed to get it.
They know that, they stroke their gun boners to that very thought.
Except the tyranny they’re afraid of is someone coming for their guns, or “communism.” But they don’t know what communism is and aren’t aware that the guns aren’t the rights they’re losing.
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You’re describing the MAGA crowd.
All I’m saying is that there are plenty of non-MAGA Americans out there. Like 55% of the country or something? And that those people can get guns just as easily as the MAGAts do – And that “terrified children and minorities” are not the only human persons that can be targeted by a firearm.
I know they won’t
They lack the spine for it (or the spinal injuries?)
But that’s precisely what makes this a case of ‘thing they aren’t ready to hear’
You’re describing the MAGA crowd.
Biggest limp dick cucks are the most vocal gun owners many with poor gun culture. As if this is on purpose…
The internet had always been full of those gun boner guys fantasizing about taking up arms against threats to freedom. Younger me had no clue they were the tyranny themselves.
Keep on spreading comments like this and you might actually be able to get gun control implemented in the US.
Ah but there is my cartoon villain gambit: If my sentiment gets popular, THEN–
Either the USians that still have braincells finally nut up and take their country back. Which would be good for friends of mine that live there.
Or
The US government finally gets their shit together and starts doing something about the fact that any old idiot can have the sort of weapon most countries reserve for their armies. And this would ALSO be good for friends of mine that live there.
Either way, I win. [evil gay horse noises]
Gasoline prices are heavily subsidized in the US, the gas price you complain about is cheap compared to other countries.
The commodity price for gasoline right now looks to be about 2 USD per gallon. Retail gasoline in the USA is at least a dollar more due to taxes and markup.
Subsidies may play a role as well, but the taxes in some countries are extreme by American standards. My take on it is that a fuel tax is effectively neutral if it brings in enough revenue to pay for the road system.
The fuel tax isn’t enough to cover the damage to the environment and quality of life, though. That’s why taxes are that high in many other places. Same way cigarettes are taxed to help discourage use and to help cover the increased healthcare costs it puts on everyone
The USA is neither the best country nor the worst country. It’s just one of the countries.
From all the comments, this is one of them
Where to begin…
But I’ll touch on something no one else has here.
Shopping carts. It’s mindblowing to me that the country that sent men to the moon still hasn’t figured out that its easier for everyone if they turn on all 4 wheels rather than the 2 front ones.
That way you can slide your cart sideways to make room for other shoppers. And turning it takes no effort.
And even… even if it is some weird cost cutting thing. Why not make them turn on the rear wheels? That would still make it easier than in the front. Since you steer the cart from the rear.
Get your shit together. Put gun controll aside, put your dumb ass two party politics aside and focus on what matters. Your godawful shopping carts.
Maybe add the coin slot to them too, zero unreturned carts would exist. There would be a cottage industry of people returning free carts for the 50c coin if people won’t do it themselves
Nah we’d lose the free litmus test
Am American. Never heard of four wheel turning shoppng carts and want them right now.
They have them at IKEA
TIL: 4 rotating wheels are not default everywhere. I love these 5 wheeled carts of the beverage store. Which is way easier to steer.
Wellll I don’t entirely agree. Ever been to IKEA and had a cart full of furniture? It takes every bit of strength my strong body can manage to take a turn without sliding out of control sideways and knocking over five display units and three children. The non-turning back wheels make turns more manageable. Carts should work like cars, front wheels turn, back wheels don’t. I submit this comment as sacrifice.
Ever been to IKEA
I’m Swedish. So yes. I think it’s fair to say I’ve been to IKEA. I stand by what I said.
Okay, the all 4 wheels thing is a good idea, but turning on rear only is a horrible idea. Here’s why:
Let’s ignore which end is front and which end is back. You’ve got a box. Two of the wheels swivel around, and the other two don’t. Try pulling that box behind you, using only one hand, from the end with the fixed wheels. Thing goes all over the place, and you can’t control it. Pull it from the end with the swivel wheels, and it just follows your hand.
Now push that box from the end with the swiveling wheels. You have to make huge movements to keep it going straight, and in order to make it go left, you gotta shove that sucker way over to the right. Pushing it from the end with the fixed wheels is much simpler. Push box left, box go left. Push box right, box go right. Much easier for meltybrain cave man to figure out.
I strongly disagree. I’ve pulled and pushed carts that only turn on the rear wheels. It’s not complicated nor difficult. Even with one hand.
Ok another thing people haven’t really touched on is government restrictions on dangerous shit generally. I’m not just talking about guns, but also cars. When I was in the states I saw so many car accidents and bits of car on the road. That doesn’t need to happen. It turns out that if you have proper driving tests and mandatory classes, people don’t crash as much. Same with guns though. Owning a gun is fine if you learn how to properly use and store it.
We can’t understand how millions can vote for a senile, convicted sexual predator as president…
Dude half of us don’t understand it either.
It’s amazing what decades of defunding education will do when you mix it with a healthy dose of conservative talk show TV and social media algorithms.
I dunno, i understand it pretty well. Lack of education, lead paint/gasoline, nationalism, fascism, racism, sexism, economic disparity, lack of healthcare to deal with neural degeneracy common in trump supporters, and finally lower borth rates among the more educated. America is a shithole, and has been for the past 40 years at least. Until we finally grow a spine and start “adjusting”, things are going to continue getting worse until were all dead and the olligarchs own everything. Then theyll move on to fucking the rest of the world (harder than they already are)
Hah! Let’s make a list of the countries where leadership of that ilk has never existed. (We’ll just ignore that most of them did not allow elections.) Won’t take much paper.
How is you not understanding that the fault of the Americans?
The original question was not “what bad thing are Americans guilty of?”
Universal health care is better than whatever you have, for 99.9% of the people 99.9% of the time. And it always was. And always will be.
But, then who makes money ? It just doesn’t make sense !
We know. Even if some of us don’t want to admit it.
Yeah, anyone with a brain knows this… So, like, between 33-66% of the country.
This is absolutely true, but I do think that a lot of Americans are in fact ready to hear this. There is just a lot of money and power involved. And those with money and power don’t want to change it since it won’t improve their lives. There’s also religion involved. And many Republicans are religious and have been fooled into thinking that universal healthcare is all about allowing abortion.
Your population is essentially being farmed by corporations.
Nothing new to that. In 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, the US Supreme Court declared that companies are people too. With the same rights — under the 14th amendment.
But without the responsabilities I bet.
And the option to be thrown in jail.
Vasectomy safe. No wage slave renters coming from this guy.
Yes, you really need to rewrite that constitution of yours and declaring something “unconstitutional” doesn’t win you an argument, it makes you look like a brainwashed idiot. Just saying.
This comment is unconstitutional.
But it’s the new bible!
All the rules have been exposed as toothless and being reliant on acting earnestly in good faith. It really doesn’t work in a partisan environment and it wasn’t built for a two party system.
Yes! with any discussion, Americans are more concerned whether it’s inline with the founding fathers’ intentions, than if it makes sense in today’s world. They should focus on finding the best solution, not the most constitutional one. Every idiot running around with a gun is a bad idea in a modern city. Maybe it made sense 200 years ago on a farm. But let’s not live in the past.
Freedom of speech is pretty good though.
Yeah fuck people having rights.
rights are won with your life, everything else is a privilege that daddy (government) allows you to have
“The constitution is a list of rights”, says anyone who’s never read the actual constitution, and just skips straight to the stuff that was amended to it.
A while ago I watched a live stream of CSPAN (I think?) where the House failed to form a government for several consecutive days. The way the entire process started with a prayer, and the many references to religion throughout, is just as disturbing as the personality cult around Stalin. That whole gang is fucked in the head.
100% accurate.
We exist as much as you do. You’re not the main character.
!AskUSA@discuss.online for USA questions
Say that to the aliens who are going to make first contact with us.
In either New York or Los Angeles, because those are the only places that exist, clearly
Mom says I get to post the “shit on the US” thread tomorrow!
Needing two jobs to survive isn’t a good thing.
Affordable healthcare
Public transit
Civilian oversight
Prisoner rehabilitation
Universal income
Free education
Separation of religion and state
Wealth taxes
Law enforcement accountability
Environmental regulations…
Where is this magical place?
Scandinavia.
Was guessing so. Thanks for your reply,
Separation of religion and state
I cringe every time their president or other politicians are talking about god. It’s unbelievable how backward the US are in this regard.
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Varies state to state and city to city, but my city has the majority of that list… plus the freedom of speech is nice. When I read the news about people in Europe going to prison for comments online but getting slapped on the wrist for violent crimes I’m baffled.
Oh really? I would like to know which city is that so I can confirm, but I seriously doubt you have most of that list since that’s regulated on state or federal level.
Also we have freedom of speech in Europe, but you obviously can’t incite violence, the same is true in the US, going online and trying to get people to bomb a building filled with gays or immigrants is hate speech and will get you arrested in most civilized countries.
I gut upvoted you because I want to confirm your point of view, it resonates with me. But you are asking the guy to doxx himself for an internet argument, besides maybe where he lives isn’t so bad and he wanted to express his sentiment.
Yes, I don’t expect him to answer, even though just naming a city where you lived or have lived before is not doxxing yourself, it is personal information that I understand someone not wanting to share.
That being said, his claim was that his city had most of a list of things, you can’t make that claim and not expect to divulge the city, he could have hidden the fact that it was where he lived or had lived before by saying “X city has most of that” which would have allowed him to give verifiable information about his claim without doxxing themselves. But as it is it sounds like the person who swears he has a girlfriend who lives in another country and has natural blue hair, but no one has ever seen her.
Have you just come here from 9gag?
The thing is that the US also does not have 100% free speech.
You can absolutely get arrested in the US for shouting “FIRE!” In a crowded area.
Regarding punishment for violent crimes seeming low in Europe, that is mainly due to us focusing on rehabilitation rather than revenge. However change is comming, we are moving to longer punishments.
If I got to decide, we would have a system where we focus on rehab for the first X times a person commits a crime, when it has been shown that the person does not want to change, then they are put in containment prisons, they are less nice, and focus on containment firstly, rehab secondly.
Free speech doesn’t not mean freedom from consequences.
Example. If you tell someone to kill someone else, and they do it, you will be charged with a crime. Free speech means that you can voice your views, and the government (not private corporations btw) is not allowed to restrict it. That’s why you can still read Luigi’s manifesto, or the Unabomber’s. It’s why you can still publish and read the Articles of the Confederacy, or the Anarchist’s Cookbook.
The small brained “you can’t yell fire in a movie theater” argument so we don’t have free speech is the intellectual equivalent of Jeff Bezos is poor because he drives a ‘93 Honda civic.
Yet that is exactly your argument, that only the US has free speech because Europe puts people in jail for online comments, without regard to what those comments are, it’s the equivalent to saying the US jails people for speaking in the movie theaters in the fire example.
USA could be, but isn’t the greatest country in the world.
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.
