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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sure we have plenty of high-hanging fruit:

    • antiquated voting laws
    • asymmetrical representation
    • oligarchy via political funding
    • military industrial complex

    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).

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    But school shootings, obesity, healthcare, and oil, though.

    Source: Am American.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't forget police murdering people and doing highway robbery.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    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?

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    Why Americans are suddenly so touchy about their school shootings, obesity and healthcare?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You're speaking pretty large for an American for not being a school shooter yourself

    But as an American who meditates, that is not the answer lol.

    We have a bigger issue with the media trying to make us feel like everything outside is scary first. A lot of fear mongering to keep the scared gun owners to buy and advocate for more until a mentally deranged one goes too far and ruins it for everyone else. The media can now sensationalize that shooting and you get either people buying more guns or people advocating for no guns and neither side wants to hear each other anymore. It's one big crazy chain reaction loop we're stuck in and the politicians got the crazies advocating for things that would just make the politicians more money. Sigh.

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Well ya, it's absolutely pathetic for Americans to strut around acting like they're an authority on how society should operate when theirs is an absolute dumpster fire unless you're making 500k/yr+.

    Does it hurt when this is pointed out or something? If you're tired of it, maybe stop trying to swing your tiny little dick around and people won't have to constantly tell you to put it back in your pants.

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago

    When they stop being huge fucking problems, we'll stop making fun of you for them :P

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Americans when European leaders start making the same choices that got America to this point.

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  • 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!

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    don't forget the lack of the metric system!

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    It's low hanging because it's overweight.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    Americans when they don't shut the fuck up about their politics and everyone starts mocking them(we don't mock them enough)

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    In England the lawyers still wear wigs. You're welcome, Lemmy. It's just as fucking stupid as you picture in your mind.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not "America', USA only 😄

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    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.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    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.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    yeah, true.

    -Most Americans.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Public transport, and bike lanes

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s weird seeing this meme without the tits

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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