It's a low hanging fruit, but I mean... The tree doesn't have a lot of higher fruits, and they're not as tasty anyway.
Sure we have plenty of high-hanging fruit:
But we didn’t start a world war that killed millions of people, that we’re still digging up unexploded munitions from, and that gave us the ability to fix some of our governmental systems and implement social and societal change (at least for white European folks).
But school shootings, obesity, healthcare, and oil, though.
Source: Am American.
Same tbh
Don't forget police murdering people and doing highway robbery.
And shit trains, and pointless poverty, and ridiculous town planning, and an absurd prison system, and shit voting and representation, and unlimited money in politics, and weak-sauce unions...
Why Americans are suddenly so touchy about their school shootings, obesity and healthcare?
Imagine justifiably criticising a bad trait that someone has in the hopes of having them improve
Most people are going to take that as a threat because they hold that trait deer to them and / or view it as a part of a themselves
americans are likely viewing the criticism as a threat to themselves and their country and are responding with emotionally fueled responses instead of logic based responses
americans should learn to meditate because it can help with the issue of wanting to respond to percived threats emotionally
Accepting it is a low hanging fruit is the saddest thing I've read today. It's so obvious our society is fucked! Don't you have something more creative to say, dumbass?
7% of residential properties in the US are owned by a single corporation, America accounts for 20% of the world's prison population. The average salary of a college football coach in the US is $3,500,000, almost 60 times the average salary of a school teacher. Americas upcoming election will be fought between a barely coherent octogenarian and a proto-fascist serial fraudster & con artist.
Because -- and this might be a hot take -- I don't think it should be socially acceptable to bring up a recent national tragedy as a fucking punchline
We've been voting. We're trying to get the rules changed and we're getting stonewalled by people who only listen to media that makes up reasons for them to hate things that would be good for the masses because it would be bad for a few people at the top and I'm sick to fucking death of people making fun of us for it and treating actual dying children as some sort of own. For Christ's sake, have some fucking empathy. None of us, not even the furthest-right conservatives, think this is okay, and we're trying to do something about it, and it doesn't help when you're like "haha look at all the dead children, isn't it funny how stupid Americans are"
None of us, not even the furthest-right conservatives, think this is okay
Aguably, conservatives may not think it's ok but they're so scared of losing their guns (because their politicians say dems will take them so they can get elected) that conservatives consider dead kids an acceptable loss. If they didn't, more of them would vote for the party that wants to control who can obtain them.
I prefer bringing up that in US "democracy" some votes count more than others. When trump won, more people voted for Clinton and for some reason yanks seem to be totally ok with this.
We are not ok with this, but changing the way it works is a herculean task. The people that it currently works for are very invested in keeping it that way.
But why is nobody even protesting it? Seems kind of a cornerstone of democracy, no? How could anything coming out of this system have any legitimacy?
Because it's easier for people to pretend already being busy (focusing on and protesting nonsensical and completely irrelevant shit) vs actually focusing on the primary and relevant things that are actually impacting their lives.
When they stop being huge fucking problems, we'll stop making fun of you for them :P
Americans when European leaders start making the same choices that got America to this point.
Happening in Canada too. For the last decade, virtually every province has been led by Conservative governments (except BC and that was just half a decade ago). Healthcare and housing has been slowly falling apart.
Looking at the polls, what’s amazing is that most Canadian voters seem to think the problem is insufficient conservatism!
Americans when they don't shut the fuck up about their politics and everyone starts mocking them(we don't mock them enough)
It's low hanging because it's overweight.
Americans are so soft. You throw shade at the Europeans by making fun of their food or wine or streets or whatever. They take a shot back and you guys whine.
Take a shot back instead of flipping the table.
Americans: "Your accent is funny and your food is bland."
Europeans: "Well at least children aren't dying in our schools. At least we don't see street memorials on television every other week. Haha, owned."
Americans: "..."
Europeans: "See it's funny because people are dying and voters are powerless to stop it"
Americans: "What the hell man"
Europeans: "Wow, you guys should seriously get some thicker skin"
You are not powerless to stop it. Who is telling you this and why do you believe it? Your group is much, much bigger than the one who fucks everything up. Go out and show them! Nobody is telling you to get thicker skin, they're telling you to get off your ass and get angry about it.
You say that as if Americans aren’t prepared to take your invitation literally
We don't do that when America is mentioned.
We do that when America is yet again too full of itself, to keep them down a notch.
We can't help it if that is the only thing Americans do.
I see two memes right next to each other of Americans crying about being meme'd on...... This is why you guys are so fun to bully.
In England the lawyers still wear wigs. You're welcome, Lemmy. It's just as fucking stupid as you picture in your mind.
And at the same time, we europeans who have been in the USA (so we just don’t follow what media wants us to think) love so many things in the USA. Are the States flawed? Yes. Are Europeans country flawed too? Absolutely. I don’t like the bullying the world thing, but I’m happy I’m on ‘tesm bullying’ and not ‘team Russia’ or middle east.
I have a solution for the gun violence problem in schools. Print simple steps on common causes and solutions to the underlying social and mental contributors. Put these up in every door, hallway and classroom in every schools. Then these poor misguided kids would have troubleshooting.
every society in the world is falling apart So it takes the edge off by mocking other countries.
except for those more civilized people up in the Nordic regions. they're doing good with the whole Utopian human rights thing.
yeah, true.
-Most Americans.
And conveniently forget about all of the problems they have.
still not worse than yours
laughs in brexit
Although I guess Britain doesn't count as Europe anymore
Europe is doing their best to catch up on some fronts. Keep at it, you'll get there. We'll continue sending fast food chains your way to help.
