• Sisyphe@lemmy.world
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    I’m saddened by the fact that I understand what this is about.

    I’m not American. I have no reason to know the context of this. I should not know about this idiocy. My attention has been hijacked. Every time I learn about something as stupid as this, I feel like I’m wasting precious resources. There are more important things closer to me that I should be worrying about.

    How I wish I could block out all this and enjoy a nice surf on the web without having my awareness polluted.

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      It’s so depressing. I mean, it can be nice to see there’s a place where stupid people have stupid problems, to give my problems some perspective, but it’s impossible now to open the web without non-stop American stupidity confrontation. It’s nice to go to a theme park, it’s hell to live there. I wish there was an American-free platform. Even Lemmy, which is mostly hosted in Europe, is completely taken over by Murica slop. No wonder those Americans are so self centered, when the entire world has to live in their drama.

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            I can’t. I’m too poor, my gender is illegal to put on an American passport, and Canada/Mexico aren’t interested in taking asylees or refugees.

            Besides, if everyone leaves, no one will be here to fight back.

            I don’t have the luxury of fleeing.

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              That’s true, there need to be people fighting back. But there is a difference in fighting back and being prosecuted for who you are. Being able to fight is a luxury. Know there are programs to help expats in European countries. To find a job, housing, hobbies, meet people, get life started, even tax cuts to make it more attractive. Your gender isn’t illegal to put on a Dutch passport, for example.

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        As an American, sometimes it really is as awful as you think it is… I’m so ashamed of my fellow citizens for allowing this shit… It’s so disgusting

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          I feel you bro. I live in the SF bay area so I fortunately live in a bubble of mostly reasonable people, but I’ve driven through some dark places in other states.

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          There should be an anti-Trump/anti-USian one there. Sorry, my phone was misbehaving, it wouldn’t let me peruse further. But it has a lot of other very useful embed blockers there too.

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        I absolutely adore finding someone that drops ‘TDS’ in an online convo. Like, me am dumb, what TDS mean? Please eli5. And then they inevitably try to distance themselves, because using anything other than dog whistles is fucking terrifying to MAGA.

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          I try to stay out of chud spaces on the Internet. A conservative friend of mine dropped that on me IRL a few years ago saying I had TDS. It was the first time I had ever heard the term. I asked him what it meant, and he said Trump derangement syndrome. I said what does that mean? He said you’re so obsessed with Trump you can’t avoid shitting on him. I told him dude, you’re so obsessed with him you have a name for a made up disease that assists in fondling his balls in your vocabulary. He genuinely couldn’t believe I had never heard the term. This was maybe 2022.

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      Yep! A choice will be made either way so I don’t see the point in not voting. That’s just my $0.02.

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        You’re already falling with them though?

        It’s not like you only enter the country once you vote. You’re already living there. Shit affects you either way.

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          That’s an analogy, not a false choice. Look up the words, I’ll wait.

          Ironically enough, voting for a political party in the US is actually a false dichotomy.

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              It must be so easy being a liberal. You can just ignore reality on command if someone calls you out. And there is seemingly no ability for you to feel shame.

              A false dichotomy isn’t about “fake options”. Indeed, a false dichotomy may have two very real options presented.

              Obviously, It’s about restricting options to two instead of many. That is the entire premise of a false dichotomy. I encourage you to read the link you just posted.

              To emphasize: the person you replied to isn’t producing a false dichtomoy. They are analogizing YOUR false dichotomy.

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                  Brother, I’m a socialist. When we say “liberal” we are talking about capitalists, not American Democrats.

                  Not everything is about the US. Take your own advice, and while you’re at it, read a book.

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                It must be so easy being a liberal. You can just ignore reality on command if someone calls you out.

                They do share a fair amount in common with MAGA at this point to me. Just they haven’t found their cult yet.

                Also, I’m talking the political stances of liberalism, not the misused descriptor for liberal meaning left. Liberalism is not left.

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    For anyone curious, the American right wing wearing diapers in protests actually predates trump’s diaper use. They did it to protest college safe spaces too. I think they just like wearing them at this point

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      Why would she need to? Trump also has some “inspiring” quotes himself: “Grab em’ by the pussy.” “If she wasn’t my daughter I would be dating her.” “I think she’s going to have big breasts like her mother.” I won’t list more because it makes my flesh curdle but you can find them yourself.

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    When you have less self awareness than a grain of sand and the subtlety of an orbital strike…