Do we really want that smarmy insufferable no talent shrew to be press secretary insider for 3.7 hours before being fired by a tangerine incel and his crooked brain V Chip?
Do we really want that smarmy insufferable no talent shrew to be press secretary insider for 3.7 hours before being fired by a tangerine incel and his crooked brain V Chip?
I have no idea how Americans can stand being represented like this. It’s one long continuous series of insults heaped upon injury.
Many of us can’t and have been working hard to try and change it. Unfortunately, we didn’t spend our money on enough guns and ammo to nuke a country and aren’t backed by more wealth than the gdp of some nations.
I dare say France has - once again - recently demonstrated that you don’t necessarily need either of those things.
And once again, comparing France to America is a dumb take ignoring major differences in basically everything about the countries.
You know what? I agree. There really is no point in comparing the two.
Right. Compare something more obvious so people can stop making the same dumb comparison.
France vs Texas
I was looking it up a couple days ago - in France if you lived in the furthest large city from Paris, Nice, it would take you 8.5 hours by car or 6 hours by public transit to get to Paris. You could get off work at 4p on Friday, swing by home and be to Paris by midnight, protest for a day and half, and then be home in time for dinner on Sunday. It’ll cost $100-200 USD each way, and you can buy it as a single ticket.
No let’s look at Texas - The capital is Austin, which is more central North/South, and similarly offset east/west, aka it’s slightly closer to the center of the landmass vs Paris. If you live in the furthest away large city, Amarillo, it is 8 hours by car or 19 hours by public transit. A city bus to the transit station, then 3 different city to city buses to get to Austin. The cost is $200-250 each way. By the time you get to Austin, you need to call your boss and let them know you won’t be in on Monday, and that’s if you turn around and leave immediately.
America is Fucked.
Yeah, France actually has a sense of self worth among the populace.
Or, you know, the fact that France is smaller, has less people, more social safety nets, and doesn’t have a militarized trigger-happy police force.
Don’t forget the US has the nasty combination of a sizeable demographic of right-wing gun owners who’d love an excuse to use them, alongside news media who’d frame the protesters as an evil force that’s burning down entire cities.
It’s just unfortunate that most likely most of those in the US who do have guns are also Trump supporters, or at least I imagine that to be true.
They’re just the ones that like to brag about it and make it part of them.
To most a gun is a tool, nothing more. You don’t see carpenters running around bragging about their Stanley Fatmaxx 20 ounce hammers.
France is not the US. The US frequently kills protestors, even peaceful ones, and has literally bombed entire city blocks in the past. That’s not to mention the vast legal, demographic, and geographic differences.
The US government is depraved. It is not comparable to France.
Imagine growing up raised by idiots. In a region where you’re surrounded by idiots at all times. Then toss in constant propaganda on TVs everywhere you go. Then all the idiots around you telling you to download apps that only idiots use to repost propaganda fed to them by evil people who know they can manipulate you and your friends and family because you’re all idiots.
That’s basically how we are where we are.
Bread and circuses. They’re running out of bread though, so just trying to lean on circuses.
Half of us are raging, there’s a small core of MAGA faithful, a larger core of “at least this is better than Democrats”, and the rest are hopelessly ignorant of current affairs. I’d bet there’s one dude on my entire block that’s aware of this story.
You mean with the best president ever who has done the best things ever and everybody says so? /s
You must be speaking Calvin ‘silent cal’ Coolage who had the capacity to keep his yap shut for more than 30 whole seconds at a stretch.