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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

He looks like he's taking a shit

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 17 points 16 hours ago

The only wrong part of this meme is the implication that burgers would even try to not blame foreign meddling.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

No you don't understand, it wasn't 80 years of fascist power consolidation and continual capitalist cannibalization since the 70s, It is all Putin manipulating social media causing the material conditions in the Global North. One thing is for sure, no one wrote a book in the nineteenth century describing this exactly.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You don't understand, the U.S. was sold to Russia in 2016, then it was reclaimed and thanklessly saved by our harm-reduction, lesser-evilism enjoyer (very wholesome), then it was hopelessly sold back again to Russia just recently..

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It's also a problem in europe

Edit: people blaming immigrants, that is, not immigration itself

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 12 points 15 hours ago

and blaming communism, despite the fact that there's no communism to be found in Europe

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago

They don't even try.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 19 hours ago

It's not like Musk was elected.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Mfw the country is founded by foreigners who didn’t like the other foreigners

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Elon Musk is a foreigner that is directly causing our current problems.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US has been the most evil country on earth long before musk arrived.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I would argue that the British Empire and Belgium were pretty fucking evil long before the US came into existence.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

The US is like a franchise of that nightmare though.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

After WW2 most of the worlds imperialism, death and destruction and theft has shifted. The main perpetrator went from being Europe to the US. With Europe remaining complicit of course.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 6 points 18 hours ago

That's a fair point. The US empire expanded tremendously after all the war profiteering from WW2, which allowed for the evil that we see today.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

No argument there.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Elon Musk is a foreigner

No, he's an American citizen. Or are American liberals full 'blood and soil' now?

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Rightwingers don't usually care about whether immigrants have citizenship or not.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah, including right wing blueMAGA liberals

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Wym "now"? Lmao

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Capitalism and First-past-the-post voting.

Capitalists hate competition.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 points 16 hours ago

Thanks Obama

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I frequent the “…thanks a lot Obama.”

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s those fucking illegals who came over on the mayflower that caused this

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

had the native american's been smart enough to build a wall across the ocean... none of this mess would have happened.

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[–] JVT038@feddit.nl 22 points 1 day ago

Lots of populist European parties are doing the same and are actually gaining votes by blaming everything on the immigrants.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

One in particular from. South Africa

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’ll start. Go home white people! Go back to where you came from!

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd love to live in Denmark, that's where most of my heritage comes from.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm Danish, follow your heritage and come back, it's pretty great here

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Serious question - what is the general opinion of older motorcycles in the country? Because I absolutely love my 1980 Honda XR500...

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

Sorry mate, I have absolutely no idea. I live in Copenhagen, and only own a bike and don't have a drivers license.

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[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

I second this ~a 13th great grandchild of Powhatan.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here ...

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The author Domenico Losurdo uses the term mutual demystification a lot, especially in Liberalism - a counter history. When two parties accuse each other of being hypocrites, it often ends up showing that they both are.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd like to point out that I'm european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

[–] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When people are not brain dead by media, both in the US and EU we know all of our problems comes from our own government and fat CEOs.

Foreigners are just one of the many scapegoats they put the blame on.

What it reminds me of is Greeks and then Romans calling them barbarian, from barbar meaning foreigners. This isn't new...

The problem always was power and the unfit nature of human beings to possess it.

[–] dawnglider@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't expect anyone to deny the existence of corruption or abuse of power, but I think the corrupting influence of power is often used to justify in retrospect the acts of people put into power to do exactly that. It might sound pedantic to say that CEOs or state officials aren't really "corrupt", because they rarely ever intend to represent the interests of the workforce or population, but really it's a total inversion of causality. They don't "betray" because they got in power, they got in power to "betray".

On an interesting sidenote, it also goes against the common misconception that any form of authority ultimately leads to corruption, since those same CEOs and officials seem to stay pretty loyal.

[–] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Exact, and I believe most forms of power incentives bad actions and the worse individual to take it.

Wich would entail it comes from our nature, dictating the properties of power.

Good actions done by CEOs or the ones being loyal seems to me is coming from another facet of us.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s not necessarily foreigners, but rather billionaires that are the problem. They bought off and corrupted government officials long ago, and directed them to perform heinous acts to line their pockets further. The rich have got to be stopped in order for things to get better. I’d prefer to simply tax them out of existence, but there are other means available…

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US was founded on slavery and genocide / conquest of hundreds of indigenous nations. It's rotten to the core.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England. This is a human problem, not a national one.

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England.

They were pissy that the king made it illegal to expand westward and exterminate all of the indigenous people. They were all "no, actually, the British Empire isn't evil enough. Let's make an even bigger and eviller empire than the [at the time] most evil empire on Earth."

This is a human problem, not a national one.

It is a national and class problem, not a human one. Human nature is a bs concept invented to sell the status quo.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 16 hours ago

its an anglo nature problem for sure

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

George washington, franklin, jefferson, madison, all the founders were slave-owning colonizers who explicitly modelled their country after ancient Rome.

It's not a human problem, these were specifically evil people who did not share the same values as the people they murdered and enslaved.

Most countries were not founded in this way.

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