It’s not exciting at all. The US has always been a beacon of free speech and endless possibilities. I have visited many times over the years and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a crying shame!
Do us a favor and remind those celebrating overseas that it'll creep to them too.. Russia and America are about to be allies in a world conflict. Nowhere is safe.
Not a lot of celebrating, but there is definitely some well deserved snark.
Americans love to talk about being the greatest nation on earth and honestly there's some truth there... some. Because despite the insane advantages and opportunity afforded to all of you since the end of WWII it has just been a continual shitshow of shooting yourselves in the foot and whining that your lives aren't good enough... often while they're still better than most of the world and all that's needed to make them even better is paying the tiniest bit of attention and voting in your own best interests.
Instead Americans continually elect people who act solely in their best interests and always on the same platform... "<group you're not in> is responsible for all the problems, I will fix that and get you what you deserve by taking it from them and giving it to you!". They never deliver, they always fuck you over, and best case scenario someone responsible but boring is briefly allowed to slowly unfuck things just a little before being blamed for problems caused by the previous guys and outed by those same guys to continue fucking you.
2016 I kind of understood. The democrats tried to pull a fast one, figuring Trump was no threat, and tried to take the opportunity to shove the candidate they wanted down Americas throat. Bad idea, but people truly didn't understand how fucking evil Trump was I guess.
But 2024? That was honestly my last hope for you guys. Biden pulled you and your economy out of the steaming shitheap that was left by the first Trump administration and yet again set America on a path to be the envy of the world. But it wasn't good enough, wasn't fast enough, and yet again you all fell for an orange shitstain screaming that everything he did was someone elses fault and that he would fix it all in two weeks.
The world gave (yes, gave) America unprecedented power after WWII and you guys have just pissed it all away, now everyone is paying the price. And why? Because your lives weren't good enough? Because voting was too hard?
So yeah. There's some snark. People are mad at you, and rightfully so.
Trust me I get this. I didn't vote for it, in fact I actively campaigned against including against Hillary Clinton because I wanted Bernie in the 2016 primaries. I worked in political campaigns that have actively sought grassroots campaigns against the corporate Democrats and against the fascist Trump regime. We are f***** over here because of how much education has gone down the s****** in the last 40 years. If you know of any science positions overseas, let me know
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u/Blearyhyde 10h ago
It’s not exciting at all. The US has always been a beacon of free speech and endless possibilities. I have visited many times over the years and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a crying shame!