EaterOfLentils

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

New mental illness boutta drop.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You just want to argue. I don't. Let's not.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

There's no reconciling with a narcissistic parent.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Right? I'd even settle for a party that has the most basic desire to fight at this point.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

The kid is all right. Great hair, too.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Dammit! I was so busy all this time worrying about whether an extremely obvious Nazi salute was a Nazi salute, I didn't even notice all that other stuff that nobody has been talking about at all.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Americans' superiority complex have always been a goddamn embarrassment. You guys also don't understand American political subdynamics at all. The obnoxious American exceptionalists you are talking about are the ones who supported (and still support) Trump. Every negative stereotype associated with Americans is embodied by Trump supporters, not Trump opposers.

I don't really care if the world is mean to us. I support every country boycotting the US. I do not consider myself a patriot and never have. I am a cosmopolitan and don't think being born on a certain patch of dirt makes anyone special. I just wish people could understand that a lot of their "gotchas" about Americans ("you guys think your country is better than everyone else," "you guys always talk about 2A", etc) aren't really gotchas because the people the shoe fits the snuggest are the ones who LIKE Trump. People who think the US is God's gift to the world and entitled to stomp all over everyone else voted for Trump because that's what he believes! They aren't out here protesting and they're not going to because they think there's nothing to protest!

My problem isn't that rhetoric targeting anti-Trump Americans is mean but that it's counterproductive. It's preaching to the choir. A lot of us who voted against him and continue to oppose him are people who think and act more or less just like you but who just happened to be born on this patch of dirt instead of yours. And with a government that doesn't listen to us at all, we have about as much power over the situation as you do. We should be allies in this fight.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Black Lives Matter was not "far left." It was mainstream liberal. The Overton window has really gotten completely ridiculous in this country.

No corporations will EVER back anything that is actually far left. Leftism is inherently anathema to them.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Europeans are so smug about this shit. It's not a personal virtue that all of you can just hop on a train or a bike or whatever and be at your nation's capital in an hour or two for between zero and fifty euros. Some of us are literally thousands of miles from DC. We are still protesting where we are, but it's purely symbolic and also no one cares.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What far left protests have ever had corporate backing?

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