That microcosm reflects the broader “This is terrible but i’m still too comfortable to do anything about it” mentality of the masses. The world is fucked and it’s all of our fault for letting a handful of people make things worse for all of us. We, including myself, are all guilty of this crime. We need to do something.

No it wont, I have yet to see anything from Americans that’ll inspire such action. They’re all talk and no walk.

And when he gets executed, Americans will occupy a whole sidewalk! That’ll show em!

Americans don’t have the balls, I’ll believe it when I see it. Unfortunately Americans are more likely to use their 2nd ammendment on themselves.

At least you’re not using chatgpt to figure out the best way to talk to people, like my brother in finance tech does now.

So then military members “swearing an oath to their constitution” are all full of shit as well? Cuz I dont see any upholding that oath.

The fact that this is still contentious for Americans goes to show how far gone they are. Liberal democrats just can’t seem to fathom the basic reality of what you’re saying, they’re so focused on aesthetics and “we need a mixed race woman president” over “we need to fix wealth inequality.” It’s about as brain dead as MAGA but with virtue signalling, “Yeah I support Israel, no it’s not a genocide, rich people earned that money fair and square, and have no influence on our democracy” meanwhile they put on a rainbow flag badge on Pride month and say “I’m a progressive, and I support protesters (so long as they’re not disruptive.)”

Pretty sure your 4 downvotes are from Biden, Kamala, Hillary, and Obama’s lemmy accounts.

Uhh, Kamala didn’t run on a platform of taxing the wealthy either, that would break the contract she has with her corporate sponsors.

There’s plenty of Kamala supporters that don’t see her as just a Hillary 2.0, democrats and MAGA both agree not to go after the rich people robbing them blind.

No I mean provide sources for your claims, otherwise you sound like a MAGA person saying “Just trust me bro I saw it on facebook.” Making a claim and then saying “various articles” is vague and dismissive at best, where did you find these numbers? Facebook?

Ah, the MAGA defense.

Where are you getting these numbers from?

Dude Americans can’t even be fucked to do anything when their kids are smashed to pieces by bullets in their own schools, except of course a “thoughts and prayers” on a social media is about the most of it, the rest go “Oh that’s terrible” and go back to eating their dinners.

Crazy that Americans couldn’t come up with a third, non-genocidal option.

Probably his birthday suit.

Let’s say I am a worthless keyboard warrior living in America and not going out to protest as if my future depended on it, what difference would that make? Still an accurate description of Americans, if you’re an American on lemmy complaining about people showing a mirror to you then do something about it.

very deliberately ignoring any kind of evidence

These are people that believe in an old beard in the sky. They’re not ignoring evidence, they’re mentally incapable of processing it. There’s a good majority of Americans that literally don’t know how to think, that think dumb ignorance is somehow cute and forgivable, that believe anything they’re told because “look at his suit.”

I know, which is why Americans are fucked. They don’t even have a shared history, let alone reality or morals. I mean, most Americans don’t know about how the police dropped bombs on Philadelphia in 1985, let alone even protest or start a riot over it. 341 million Americans agreed not to riot over that one.

I also struggle to see how “Africans are to blame for global warming” the same way Americans are to blame for their own countrymen’s actions.

EDIT - Just to add, I find it intriguing that you’re so quick to blame Africans for the sake of a strawman argument. Not a good look, kinda looks American.

This is another one of those ‘scary and must riot’ thresholds.

Americans are known to miss that boat. Remember when Americans rioted over the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia when they dropped bombs on the city and let blocks burn? Or that time when Americans rioted over the police and government firebombing Tulsa? Or that time Americans rioted over the people who caused the '08 financial crisis not receiving justice?