You actually voted for the biggest asshole and a retard to become president. He was wildly incompetent to the surprise of nobody. The country became a laughing stock. Secrets were leaked, justice compromised (even further), he attempted a literal coup. No, lets vote for him again.

We knew americans were dumb, but holy fuck. You need someone to protect you from yourselves because clearly your government is as caring as it is in russia. The entire population should be institutionalized.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Nope. There's nothing special about Americans just like there's nothing special about any nation or large group of people. You have to be deeply ignorant of history to think otherwise. We're all the same species and when things play out in specific ways it's always for a similar set of reasons and circumstances.

As Dan Carlin would say, "it's a human thing." You think this kind of insanity can't happen in your country because it hasn't yet. But you're wrong. It can and has happened, many many times throughout history, in various forms, all over the world.

Again, Americans aren't special and you have to be deeply stupid and/or ignorant to think otherwise.

[–] Starshader@lemmy.ml -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Wouldn't happen in my country. 🇨🇭

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

cough SVP cough

[–] Starshader@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They are just farm boomers or paradenplatz bankdad boomers. They will disappear with time, I don't worry to much.

Also : Direct democracy and no président.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe not now, but that's not the point. The point is that we're all human beings and what history shows us again and again is that as a species we are capable of talking ourselves into group-level insanity.

There's nothing about history that should lead anyone to imagine that the capacity for group-insanity is somehow unique to any so-called "race" or national identity.

If you really want to argue that Americans are somehow uniquely subject to such things, you then have to account for the fact that a plurality of Americans are directly descended from European ancestry which in turn means that any difference has to be cultural as opposed to some kind of genetic quality innate to Americans.

The upshot here is not that the US is somehow unique, but is rather that the US is precisely what happens when Europeans take over a brand new continent peopled by civilizations that lack the technology and microbiology to resist.

Again, this idea of yours, that Americans are somehow unique or special, is patently absurd given what we know of history.

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