I know the backstory that’s kinda the joke.

Aye I mean I have no idea wtf is going on I kinda doubt anyone does right now. It certainly doesn’t help his case in not being a Russian asset, I’m just trying to find some sense in this shitfuckery.

I have no fucking idea lol.

No but really was Thomas Crooks hired by Blackwater frfr?

This is because Russia already has sanctions, it’s also why Cuba isn’t on the list.

That microcosm reflects the broader “This is terrible but i’m still too comfortable to do anything about it” mentality of the masses. The world is fucked and it’s all of our fault for letting a handful of people make things worse for all of us. We, including myself, are all guilty of this crime. We need to do something.

No it wont, I have yet to see anything from Americans that’ll inspire such action. They’re all talk and no walk.

Americans don’t have the balls, I’ll believe it when I see it. Unfortunately Americans are more likely to use their 2nd ammendment on themselves.

At least you’re not using chatgpt to figure out the best way to talk to people, like my brother in finance tech does now.

Ozzy Osbourne outlived some of my healthy friends.

Pretty sure your 4 downvotes are from Biden, Kamala, Hillary, and Obama’s lemmy accounts.

Uhh, Kamala didn’t run on a platform of taxing the wealthy either, that would break the contract she has with her corporate sponsors.

There’s plenty of Kamala supporters that don’t see her as just a Hillary 2.0, democrats and MAGA both agree not to go after the rich people robbing them blind.

No I mean provide sources for your claims, otherwise you sound like a MAGA person saying “Just trust me bro I saw it on facebook.” Making a claim and then saying “various articles” is vague and dismissive at best, where did you find these numbers? Facebook?

Ah, the MAGA defense.

Where are you getting these numbers from?

Listening to that album nowadays is hair-raising. It’s almost as though people have been screaming in Americans faces for decades about what’s becoming impossible to ignore, I know I was singing these lyrics since 1999:

"Well, I’d like to tell you all about my dream

It’s a place where strip malls abound

And diversion’s mere moments away

Where culture’s defined by the ones least refined

And you’ll be left behind if you don’t fit in

It’s all distorted in Americana my way

Well, fuck you

Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

Now give me my cable, fast food

Four-by’s, tat’s right away

I want it right now 'cause

My ge-generation don’t like to wait

My future’s determined by thieves, thugs and vermin

It’s quite an excursion but it’s okay

Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

Well, fuck you

Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

Yeah, it’s all coming true

I’m a product of my environment

So don’t blame me, I just work here

But I wanna fuck it up

My rights are denied by those least qualified

Trading profit for pride but it’s, it’s okay

Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

Well, fuck you

Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

Yeah, it’s all coming true

Yeah, it’s all coming true"

Let’s say I am a worthless keyboard warrior living in America and not going out to protest as if my future depended on it, what difference would that make? Still an accurate description of Americans, if you’re an American on lemmy complaining about people showing a mirror to you then do something about it.

I know, which is why Americans are fucked. They don’t even have a shared history, let alone reality or morals. I mean, most Americans don’t know about how the police dropped bombs on Philadelphia in 1985, let alone even protest or start a riot over it. 341 million Americans agreed not to riot over that one.

I also struggle to see how “Africans are to blame for global warming” the same way Americans are to blame for their own countrymen’s actions.

EDIT - Just to add, I find it intriguing that you’re so quick to blame Africans for the sake of a strawman argument. Not a good look, kinda looks American.

“I’ll stand peacefully on a sidewalk holding up a sign to defend democracy, so long as no harm comes to me.” - Americans