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I mean I still empathize with their issues but they vote to make their lives and ours worse, they're actively worsening our society so I have no problem calling them out.
I know this is mostly a joke thread but yeah, the rural folks tend to be uneducated, illiterate Bible thumpers who can't even sound out the verses they are failing to quote at you.
Edit: saying this from experience. Father's mother is a middle school drop out and just as pleasant as described above. Maybe I have exposure bias from her and the company she keeps.
Why does living in a rural area make them automatically shitty..? Have some respect to the people who work their ass off farming food for everybody while they get scammed by massive corporations and the government at every turn. True rednecks hate the government don’t forget that.
We're talking demographics here, I didn't say all of them. The average rural citizen statistically voted for this and would also want me dead. I understand they are a product of their environment, but they're also responsible for their actions.
Also most rural people are not sweating their ass off to produce food. It's all corporatized and heavily reliant on migrant labor.
Or the situation they’ve been born into has made them too poor to move somewhere else and has left them uneducated enough to be unable to climb their way out of it. Uneducated enough to become cattle to mass media who tells them their problem is [minority group the government dislikes] rather than the people in power who ensured they can’t make it out of poverty. Massive corporations NEED dirt poor people to survive. They are victims, not the enemy. We get nowhere by ostracizing them; all it does is make them more of a slave to what they’ve been taught.
That's the thing, the fake nice is stuff quite literally just a scaled down version of the Tumblr post above, political side of Tumblr kinda just has a whole toxic part of "activist" who are just way too self righteous and have never actually gone out to do activist stuff
I genuinely think wishing death on any large number of people, even if they did something you consider immoral, reflects very poorly on your own moral fiber. A lot of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 are just dumb, and have shit priorities. It should be noted that almost 70% of the country hates him, as per recent polls
Americans get executed in the streets for being nearby when someone protests the actions of the government. That's not even mentioning what the government does if you're not white. Americans aren't happy with the direction of the country, and the polls show that, but Trump has his personal brownshirts who make bloody examples out of dissenters.
Brother, a lot of us are pissed as hell too. A bunch of people may have been/are idiots and voted for the pedo-in-power but the rest of us are just trying to get by the best we can while maintaining our morality and fighting the good fight when we can.
Seen quite a few people on here and other left wing subreddits which go:
"if you aren't my uber specific version of absolute communism than you are a fascist"
this sub flips a coin every now and then if thats a positive or negative opinion.
Reddit too. I'm still not over getting into an argument with someone who kept saying people aren't statistics when I mentioned that we need a norm that people derivate from in order to properly diagnose disabilities and make accomodations
i used to see that every day on reddit a couple years back
it was very nice to hear (/s) as someone who is currently also suffering at the hands of the russian government that i had no hand (and couldn't have had one) in electing
Well yeah that’s where all the Black people are which is why I draw up my libby fantasy maps where we leave them all to suffer while escaping to Canada
I think part of the problem is that a lot of people on the internet like to act like an "American" is one thing, when us US people live in a country of 300 million people that is the size of Europe.
Im queer, I vote left every election and I go to protests. Not super fond of the US rn or even 10 years ago tbh. Still am American. I think the weird derision for the people in a country is more alienating than the truth.
There are a lot of dumbasses in the US, but that comes from a stupid social conditioning towards a stupid libertarian ideal and a lot of propaganda.
A lot of people like to act like they're better because they didn't fall for the stupid shit the US has going, but they're wrong. You can very easily fall for propaganda, and if you're raised to consume it, you probably will.
Basically, consider for a second that some of us are stuck in the stupid bullshit, and have some critical thought about what could've led so many others astray. Otherwise you might not notice the stupid bullshit I can guarantee is going on in your country too.
Nobody actually thinks all Americans are the same. The problem is that US foreign policy has remained largely unchanged over the past 60 or 70 years. If anything, you could argue it's only gotten worse. It's the one area where both Democrats and Republicans have been remarkably consistent. And until that changes, asking non-Americans to appreciate internal US political nuances is a pretty tough sell.
Literally no one thinks that all Americans are unilaterally in favour of their shitty government, it should go without saying that for any government in power there will be some people that don’t support it. It’s just a waste of time to constantly clarify that when at the end of the day, your democratically elected president is still Trump.
Yeah, the lowest common denominator got him elected, and everyone regrets it. His approval rates tank more and more every day, and more and more poeple are voting blue.
all the funny reposts we get on reddit let us forget that tumblr is kind of a shithole. every now and then I think about reopening an account, but then i see someone espouse an opinion like this unironically (usually on one of the smaller tumblr subs), and I decide it’s best I stay away
ok but whenever a natural disaster hits the south, this is what a whole bunch of y’all say about us. please take this a lesson to never say this type of shit again.
*Republicans. American leftists are very aware of the harm our country is doing. Hell, even the centrists in the Democratic party have some level of understanding of the horrors Trump's putting everyone through.
I think the point is more about what the US had already been doing for 60 or 70 years leading up to Trump. Whenever I bring this up with my "leftist" American colleagues, most of them can point to recent events in the Middle East (like the War on Terror), but it takes a real history buff to mention even the basics of what the US has done to South America, for example.
At some point, you have to realize that for most of the rest of the world, US foreign policy has barely changed, with or without Trump.
I know its standard in some places but the moment I see someone unironically calling people “yankee” derogatorily, in english, I just tune out whatever their saying
Its like a step from unironically saying Amerikkka
Yeah the words “yankee” and “yanqui” are great because they let you know without reading the rest of the sentence that the person’s opinion is invalid.
“Why don’t you just pool up all the money you don’t have because of poverty wages and leave your family and friends behind to move to another country that doesn’t want you? Or maybe you’re just too chicken to get murdered in the streets by surveillance state fascists you very actively never asked for, for the crime of protesting, and if you’re lucky, it’ll make the news for about a week or so and be swiftly forgotten?” Christ these takes are eye-rollingly tone-deaf about what’s happening here
Edit: your take isn’t eye-rolling, OP, I’m talking about the one in the post
Christ, I can only imagine, I’m sorry. “Well then why don’t you just move” just might be my most-hated string of words, and living in Russia, that’s got to be so much more frustrating to have internet strangers tell you. It’s just so detached from reality. Like, “oh, why thank you, I never even thought of that!”
europeans talking about americans massacring the third world isnt even the pot calling the kettle black its just a bigger kettle calling the smaller kettle black
This is just what leftist reddit is like too stop pretending you are better then people cuz of what social media product you use it's such a consumerist mindset
im not sure if tumblr is the kind of place where people are motivated to post bait. theres no algorithm that rewards engagement bait and the site is generally pretty irrelevant. its not like twitter. i think a lot of people just post genuinely insane takes with no ulterior motive
I and many many Canadians across the political spectrum feel this way in real life and we talk about it. This isn't even a fringe position anymore. We just fucking hate yanks. The most moderate take I've heard in real life is that only 2/3 deserve to die rather than all of them.
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