Theocrats are rarely true believers. We’re headed towards the mammonite theocracy

It’s those but so bad it’s a disability. Like how just because most people don’t hear something from time to time doesn’t mean they’re all hard of hearing

I’m reminded of that ex Soviet joke about how they always knew the government was lying about their own countries but were shocked to learn it was telling the truth about america

What else would we do? Like it’s not ok and we’re obviously not ok. But any effort to improve things is met with state violence and further propaganda to convince half the country that we’re the problem with America. I’m white, that makes me lucky when it comes to this.

You try explaining to your fellow Americans that it’s horrifying that cops do this they’ll say “everyone knows you need to do what the cops say and they were just a criminal anyways, and we need the cops to keep us safe.” They also love to say “maybe you should experience violent crime and see how you feel about cops then.” And let me say, I’ve experienced violent crime in the past year and my opinion of cops worsened.

But yeah huge swathes of Americans have problems with it. We marched over it in 2020, we’ve marched over it before and we’ll do it again too. But this country is barely a democracy, we’re bound between two parties, one that’s pro cop but thinks they need slaps on the wrist and more training when they murder people and the other that thinks that doing that is an unacceptable level of punishment. Oh and the deck is stacked in the latter’s favor.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if our nation collapses in the upcoming administration.

Most people on lemmy should be more afraid of a social credit system. Get arrested at food not bombs? That’s a penalty. Get raided at a gay bar? That’s a ding. Protest against deng? Ding. (Couldn’t help myself).

Financial credit score is more of a “we don’t give half a fuck what you do so long as you’re good with money”

We tried banning it but failed. My girlfriend was a teenager married to a marine when she was 17

Yeah that’s the thing that a lot of Americans seem to gloss over the horror of. We’ve accepted the legality of execution without trial for running from the cops or looking threatening in their eyes. Doesn’t matter if the cop thinks all black people look threatening. Failure to comply with verbal instructions? Death penalty, its not the cop’s job to confirm that you’re not deaf…

I just assumed everywhere was

I’m afraid Christianity is sweeping across America and turning us into yeehawdists

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Because they don’t want the freedom to say what they want, they want to force everyone to listen. Lemmy is terrible for that as we’ll defederate them real fast. I forget who they were but I chose my instance over willingness to defederate from a bigot instance and if I have to I’ll change instances over it

Greening out is something else entirely. Its Marijuana induced nausea

Well yes, but Minnesota is quite Danish.

I’m pretty sure we’re both. I don’t see another explanation for our current firearm situation

Yes, we absolutely must insist

Why? Just because it’s Danish without any of the swedes or Norwegens you have to deal with in Minnesota?

Everyone loses to Vietnam and Afghanistan though. They’re both famously good at home turf guerilla warfare

In order to understand American military doctrine you need to understand a few things. First we’re an engineering power masquerading as a military and cultural one. Second we had three major advantages in the world wars: we came in late to both, our civilians and manufacturing capacity were on the other side of the world, and we had more experience with an industrial war than anyone else thanks to our civil war. And third, we know we’re insane and so does everyone else, sometimes that means we surprise Hitler, other times it means we accidentally shell Mexico.

And yeah the guy who shelled Mexico? L. Ron Hubbard, founder of scientology back when he was in the navy.

I’m not even a little surprised Danes had to stop us from shooting our own helicopters.

That would actually solve several of my problems and I wouldn’t even have to learn a new language