We are not one people. We never were. We were always disparate populations.

And we need to be allowed to do our own thing. We are “one people” in the same way that Britain and France are “one people”. You can still accept the humanity of others and visit other countries. Secession doesn’t necessarily mean we become North and South Korea. But pretending the American identity is some sacred thing that shouldn’t be broken is childish imo. This country has only existed for 200 years. It’s not sacred. And it’s rotten and deserves to be dismantled.

America as a whole can’t be fixed. But parts of it can. To put it in Lemmy terms, blue states need to defederate from the US. The US system is broken and it’s too large to be fixed. It will always be dragged down by the lowest common denominators. In the West, we can have Cascadia, and the NorthEast can become it’s own thing. It just takee the balls of leadership to decide to actually secede and stop playing this failed experiment.

Let the conservatives have middle America and the South.

I am American and I give blame where blame is due. A lot of our citizens are fucking idiots and close to half of them are okay with and/or voted what we have in.

Sure there’s some blame to go around to lack of media literacy and conservative efforts to dismantle public education but we all have the entirety of human knowledge at our fingertips and most of us still can’t be bothered to not be outright hateful fuckwits.

However your point that America isn’t the only place where the problem of the rise of fascism exists is true as well. I think Americans will rightfully get a lot of flak for it though since this movement largely and recently originates from us. We export our culture to the entire world so it’s not surprising that when we play with fascism other countries do as well. And it doesn’t help that we have billionaires with global empires pushing for the same policies and warping of mainstream media to fit conservative/libertarian viewpoints in several different countries.

Not to mention, what we do impacts the world far more than a dictator rising in bum-fuckistan because we put our fingers in so many pies and in many ways made many countries utterly reliant on us. This is partially their fault though too because maybe they shouldn’t have become utterly reliant on us.

All in all, we deserve the shit we get, but also yes others are being hypocrites as well. Congrats, we’re all fucked!

Landlording is simply siphoning money through the act of owning something.

This actually applies to most all investments.

I noticed Edge would only show me corporate/authority friendly results recently as well oddly cutting down the number of results I see to a very unnaturally short amount of results.

Deleting it and moving to DuckDuckGo which while the corporate friendly things were still at the top, it at least showed me some opposition results.

We’ve nerfed natural selection a bit too hard if you ask me.

“Paul defended his work, arguing that true crime is “entertainment masquerading as news” and that his content was less exploitative than traditional true crime media. “There’s really no difference between us except that [I am] not using real people and their suffering as my vehicle.””

Bro. Honestly, that’s a pretty good argument.

Cascadia Now!

Is there an alternative to Google Drive that doesn’t lock me into using MS Office. I particularly need to ability to share and edit files online.

It’s been proven that people who do fuckall after throwing their money into mutual funds generally fare better than people actively monitoring and making stock moves.

You’re probably fine.

I never bought NVIDIA in the first place so this news doesn’t affect me.

If anything now would be a good time to buy NVIDIA. But I probably won’t.

Ah I have yet to watch it. Didn’t realize Walken was in it.

Biden reversed Trump’s previous executive order banning it and said he would just support whatever Congress decides, and both sides of Congress bipartisanly supported a ban. But sure… Only Genocide Joe. 🙄

What is this format from?

Not to mention they’ve bought out every previously legitimate news source.

Why didn’t he join politics when he had the chance and win the presidency and singlehandedly abolish democracy and captitalism and solve all of the US’s problems instantaneously!

I solely place the blame of the state of our country at the feet of u/Godort and all other Lemmy tankies who have not lifted a finger to solve our problems to their own satisfaction.

No I literally don’t remember that.

When Republicans owned the Senate and more importantly the Supreme Court?

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Just as credible as social media platforms claiming they protect free speech, or corporations that claim they care about anything other than shareholders profits. Or Trump claiming he doesn’t support project 2025.

I refuse to use Facebook even for Marketplace. I still have pretty good luck with Craigslist.