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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know. I would try to fight this as a statement if we did not put in our constitution that slavery is fine for prisoners.

[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The original document had the 3/5 compromise

[–] nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there anything in the constitution about not making arbitrary laws to make any random person ultimately a criminal?

[–] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OMG guys americabad amirite

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

This could apply to any number of countries and it's getting kinda tedious. It's like a bunch of American teenagers just learned that their history books aren't telling the whole story and literally cannot stop talking about it. You hit college level history, congratulations, good for you champ.

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[–] Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Well yeah… in lots of ways.

Good in others, as an Australian who traveled there the average American is great. I just think you’ve been intentionally fragmented and manipulated. So there are large groups of people who want their country to change but cannot seem to find common ground and band together to strengthen those ideas.

Then you have such powerfully rich and crazy groups that seem to be able to rule the narrative

[–] Sirosky@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Had to check to make sure I wasn't on Reddit again.

[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I had to check too cause "americabadamirite" complaints are basically peak Reddit since the Digg migration and shortly after.

Before then, I feel like I remember it being a lot less defensive about people daring to...criticize America

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago
[–] DrMux@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There's a huge difference between "lol le dum fat burger chez merica" and commentary about the history of the country and the patterns, systems, and dark truths that made it what it is today. Is there any one element in this meme that you'd argue is false?

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[–] Little8Lost@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you mean the united military budget of 50 3 world countries

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Or 10-11 top military leading countries in the world?

[–] NORAD@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

OH MY SOY!!! I haven't laughed this hard since the last time I watched Stephen Colbert while eating a tube of toothpaste!

[–] Fhek@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Murica 💩

[–] simple@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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[–] GrandFunkMonorail@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US has capitalism? Seems pretty regulated by people bought by corporations to me.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's...capitalism. In a profit-seeking society, there's no greater profit than taking control of the society's government. There's no such thing as "crony capitalism" if that is what you are referring to. It's all a part of the game. Any sufficiently powerful company will eventually attempt to manipulate the law and regulations for their own gain.

The Soviet Union is basically what it would look like if a single corporation managed to completely take over society and push out all competition. That's why some people argue that it was a type of society known as "state capitalist", instead of communist, since they never actually did away with money, class, or hierarchy.

Another good example would be "Buy-N-Large" from the movie "Wall-E", although from reading the backstory on them, it seems like a more benevolent entity than we would expect from such a monopoly. Faced with declining profits from a failing economy and environment due to their grip on it, they implemented a system of universal income so that they could continue to have customers. They slowly became the world government and effectively operated as one.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] words_number@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oof level: over 9000

(Yes, old memes are back!)

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also salty level: over 9000

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