Ask Lemmy

Drastically reduction of guns WILL save your kids lives at school. But not "muh outdated rights from centuries ago".

Btw I'm not against guns, military and officers should have "easy" access to them.

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You have a massive obesity problem that is killing you and it is not normal.

That American exceptionalism is only describing the fact that America continues to have slaves when almost every other nation has banned it completely.

ITT: As per usual, Lemmy thinks living in conditions and condoning them are the same thing

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.

capitalism is actually the worst possible system

America is not the World.

That most of the world would be better off with the collapse of US hegemony.

Anybody on this platform already knows all the problems and how it can be better. Anyone preaching here hoping an American will read it and change are just wasting keystrokes.

We know it's bad. Unfortunately there's not much anyone of us here can do besides bitch and moan, or else we wouldn't be on Reddit Ultra.

That being said, German McDonald's have chicken wings and they're pretty amazing.

We aren't in your timezones, so we're not going to join your Discords.

MANY Americans aren't ready to hear these things. The rest of us are well-aware of them. We're glad that you're sharing your criticisms, and waiting for y'all to share with us how to implement your well-thought-out and practical, abiding solutions.

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.

You need a second civil war

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.

Your (as in Americans) Imperial system of Units & measurements is a big joke & you are a British colony & you have bad cars

This definitely won't be a pile of horseshit from people never been there, believe everything they see on TV, and operate completely on stereotypes from various sources, sprinkled with the dumbest takes you ever heard, and a bunch of blaming capitalism like it's the only nation that employs it.

Does “a foreign language” count?

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.

Americans invented neither the car not the computer.

That Europeans have running water

In foreign countries, the people don't always speak English or "American" and shouldn't be expected to bow down to you.

The root of their problems is not political or politicians it's greedy capitalism. Arguably it's also the root of their morally ambiguous success.

Gun control works.

And OK maybe it doesn't solve the problem 100%, but it solves it 99%, and that's a lot of schoolkids that aren't dead any more. Look at any first world country for working examples; I'm in the UK, and yes we still have some gun violence, but it's a whole load less than it would have otherwise been.

And it's incredibly short sighted to reject any solution that doesn't solve a problem 100%. Partial solutions are good.

Ok, so I'm going to do one that's actually likely to be downvoted by the Americans here.

Sometimes censorship is necessary for a safer society.

Usa was once founded by a bunch of outlaws and runaways and has never fundamentally changed since.

ITT Europeans tell us shit we already know about changes most of us want because they don't understand gerrymandering and the electoral college

You're the "Old World" now.

It's basically been ~~350~~ 250 (edit: correction) years now since US independence, and a decent while now at being a global power (~100-150 years?). These are timelines akin to that from the European Renaissance to the US Revolution (~1400-1800) and the UK emerging from the 1500s to being the "super power" in the war of independence.

Now, with the world's oldest constitution, and probably, depending on who you talk to, an increasingly critical mass of antiquated ideals and systems, the Presidency is more like the Monarchs of past revolutions than what remains of those monarchies, and the US's ideals and cultural influence something which most would rather move on and upgrade from.

Generally, I'd say it's one of the weirder and subtler historical events happening right now: the dissolving of the old lines between the "old" and "new" worlds. For me personally, this was once made clear when visiting Hannover, Germany, and its tourist attraction, the "New Town Hall", where someone who lives in British Columbia, Canada pointed out the similarities with their Parliament Building. The thing is though that the Canadian building is about 15 years older (both being just over 100 years old). Colonialism is long enough ago and Europe (and likely any other "old" culture, such as China) rebuilt enough and recently enough, that like X-genners and Millennials, the whole "young, hip, cool rebel" thing just doesn't mean anything anymore.