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.
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]
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.
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.
See
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…
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.
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.
Mom says I get to post the “shit on the US” thread tomorrow!
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
Kinda disappointed in this thread, was hoping to find things that Americans on Lemmy aren’t ready to hear. Everything here seems like the usual complains that most Americans on Lemmy and even Reddit already aware of.
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.
South Central and Caribbean duh
You may have heard about North America but that’s a hoax. Who would be gullible to believe there’s people who behave like USA’ians?
Canada is another hoax, it’s just the part of Greenland where people live.
so hear me out: the earth is not flat, toast is not bread.
“Toast” is short for “toasted bread”.
dude just because you add a word is your mind doesnt make it real.
like football. just because you add “american” doesnt make it a real sport
toast is not bread, it is candy. you dont know what bread is. better dont fall off that flat earth edge.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/toast
The word is from Latin tostere, meaning roasted, burnt (referring to bread.
Also
Tostie is attested from late 14c. as "toasted piece of bread, dish made with toast
But you clearly have some really funny joke going on with yourself so I won’t stop you
Unless you’ve had proper ruisleipä you can’t talk. Have a tosi tumma reissumies or some saaristolaislimppu and then we’ll talk about bread
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Toast is bread.
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.
This post:
The fact that Americans don’t think about the people they kill by the hundreds of thousands overseas is not a good thing.
The irony of euros unloading in a thread that the people who most need to see it will never see, just to feel better about having unloaded, is peak self-serving uselessness.
Get the fuck off of Lemmy and go unload in conservative and Republican cesspits like the fox news vomment section, xhitter, OANN, not here where the vast fucking majority already fucking agree with you.
But you know you can’t do that because that would actually mean going for a swim in political sewage, which means doing actual work for your personal beliefs, and which also means you’re most definitely going to get backlash that you know you won’t get here.
TL;DR: non-US bitching about the US on Lemmy, where nearly all lemmy Americans already agree with them, are as functionally idiotic as the conservative white Americans they’re bitching about.
Gasoline prices are heavily subsidized in the US, the gas price you complain about is cheap compared to other countries.
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.
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.
But it’s the new bible!
This comment is unconstitutional.
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.
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.
Freedom of speech is pretty good though.
The level of uneducation in the US is a threat to the entire species. Most of Ylyour people are uneducated, fat and dangerous. After the last election, I have lost hope in the US as a collectivity, you deserve your unfair system because you chose it. You elected a convict rapist, fellon, racist, fat billionaire who doesn’t pay taxes and tried to steal the election, your deserve to be treated the way you will be, you made a choice.
Sadly, this is by design.
I agree and accept your judgment. I’m not optimistic about the future of this country; at this point my only hope is that we don’t take the rest of the world down with us.
O. Right. And I’m sure your country of residence is squeaky clean. No corruption at all right?
Not what I said.
Get out of here with those propaganda techniques, please
I’m sure you will address each and every one of these fallacies correct?
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Hasty Generalization: The argument assumes that most or all people in the U.S. are “uneducated, fat, and dangerous,” without providing sufficient evidence or accounting for the diversity of the population.
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Ad Hominem: The criticism targets individuals based on personal attributes or perceived character flaws (“fat,” “uneducated”) rather than addressing systemic or factual issues.
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Straw Man: The argument oversimplifies and exaggerates the actions of voters or the qualities of the elected individual, constructing a distorted view of their intentions or rationale.
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Slippery Slope: By claiming that the U.S.'s level of “uneducation” is a threat to the entire species, the argument leaps to a catastrophic conclusion without sufficient reasoning.
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False Dilemma: It suggests that the outcome of the election leaves no room for nuance, implying that all Americans are complicit and deserving of the system without considering other factors such as political constraints, voter suppression, or dissenting voters.
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