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[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Right now, wherever you are, there are people paid by the USA trying their best to make your life worse in order to

  • Align your country's foreign policy closer to the goals to that of the USA
  • Shape your economy so that American corporations can enrich themselves by extracting the maximum value out of your country.

So yeah, there is no escape from America. That's the whole point of being the global hegemon.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't think enough people noticed the Trump regime's demands that EU destroy their own healthcare just so theirs could look, well, not better but less terrible by comparison.

This is not a joke. These people will absolutely do everything they can to rob the few nations on this Earth that manage to take care of their citizens to the point they're all beholden to the same crime lord family.

[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, do not even for a second entertain the notion that European companies wouldn't love it if your health insurance were held hostage by your employment like it is in the USA.

The truth of the matter is European quality of life has been coasting on the gains made in the past by the blood and sweat of the unions and the concessions made by the governments to stave off the specter of communism. Billionaires in the US are seeing this slice of wealth and are coming for it via the populist right-wing parties in every country. If anyone can get this fact through the thick skull of anti-immigrant voters, let me know.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I've been in a few places around Europe, and it really seems that in Western Europe, labour movements made big gains in like the 1970s and neolib governments have been squandering that ever since, and we are nearing the point where it all turns fash.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those were concessions to look good compared to communist countries. There is no need for a good impression anymore.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's one way to look at it, but I think it was more of the Reagan-Thatcher generation killing off the left and the rot set in. I wouldn't discount the achievements of leftists as just concessions from capital. They don't give an inch if they don't have to.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago

They had to. If life in western Europe would have been worse than in eastern Europe, people would have elected communists.

[–] katkit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Mexican here, and absolutely. The USA is menacing with tariffs each month even with a treaty signed by the POTUS himself. Who, btw, has a boner for sending troops to "help" us combat drug cartels that are somehow related to the DEA, the CIA, the FBI, or the WTFK. Recently, they sent a green-beret warhawk as ambassador. The US embassy in Mexico is the biggest in the world and it had participated in magnicides and coups. So, yeah, the classic American state is dying, but its death will be an authentic superbowl of a shitshow.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Good thing Trump's absolutely destroyed any kind of international leverage the United States had. That's the one silver lining to all of this: The USA has been on a steady path to fascism for a while, accelerating under Republicans and slowing down under Democrats but never reversing. However, now that you've gone fully mask-off you did it under the leadership of an outright moron, who's making it much harder for Americans to drag the rest of the world down with them.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

The US is no longer the number 1. China is way ahead in global influence now.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve found the USA to have some of the nicest, most welcoming people I’ve ever met. Probably some of these people have been lead down dark voting paths, against their own, and the world’s, best interests. All we can really hope for is enough people speak sense persuasively enough for them to hear it. And that means being understanding, empathetic and tolerant.

[–] syreus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

This comment is a breath of fresh air in this doomer echo chamber. Somewhere along the line people stopped wanting to fix things and now the people we need to save this country are leaving in droves. We need to remain positive and organized.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I didn’t choose to be born here and wish I was born somewhere where I wasn’t constantly fearing for what tomorrow could bring. But since I was born here I have to figure out a way to navigate this shit show of a country till I can flee

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thats what i thought before 2 pro-Trump fascists almost won the election in my country

[–] Emotional@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

The xenophobic "haha americans are so stupid/evil" attitude I've been seeing as of years ago all over Reddit and now even more intensly on Lemmy is making me very worried that people aren't gonna recognize the same disinformation that led to all this when its served to them...

I don't believe Americans and Europeans are as different as a lot of people seem to think. Or maybe I got dumber and more naive since my teenage years.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Luckily in my country, the vaguely trump style politician not only lost the election, but didn't get enough votes in his own district and is no longer a politician. Same thing happened in Canada.

[–] batman0730@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

but now Alberta allegedly wants to secede...

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I live in America. It's 2 AM and I just awoke from a nightmare wherein I was running from the govt. My wife, dog, and I were in hiding at my home, with friends occupying the place to help us stay hidden. But a drone spotted me. I shot it down, but we had 10 minutes to pack what I could into a short yellow schoolbus (which quickly became a British double-decker) and take off before agents showed up to capture or kill us.

By the way, I'm a white male, married to a white woman, and by all outside appearances, cis and "normal". Probably one of the most protected classes in America right now. And even I'm having nightmares about where our country is headed and when it'll be "my turn."

I woke up, picked up my tablet, and this was the top post in my feed. 😣

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Small, probably stupid tip, but what the hell. There is an almost surefire way to kill drones without needing a firearm. Buy a high-powered laser (>5W). It obviously won't be enough to take the drone down, but just a fraction of a second of that beam is enough to permanently destroy the camera. The downside is that the beam is very visible so you'd also be giving away your location. Also works on static cameras like traffic cams, number plate readers, ...

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This would be a trash way to take down a drone. You would have to know where the camera is exactly on the drone and then manage to shine the laser directly into that camera long enough to damage it. As distance grows between you and the drone, that time to damage the lenses will grow longer.

The currently most common drone takedown methods implemented are radio signal jammers, counterattack drones with nets, and shotguns filled with an intermediate shot size between bird shot and buck shot. The first two are fairly expensive options which take know-how to create, where as the latter is a shotgun, which are abundant and fairly cheap in comparison to the other two.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Also very un-american, shooting it it is! /j

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah and this way if you're imperfect in aiming the FBI will show up at your door for lasering any aircraft in the background.