• the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    52·
    7 months ago

    I’m going to kidnap this man, put a bag over his head, drag him here to Bullshit, Ohio, and make him spend a week with my bills and budget.

    It’s probably going to take me a while to accomplish that, due to said bills and budget. It would be awesome if the entire site/planet could please join with me in this goal of forcing this man to walk a mile in literally any shoes less privileged than his own.

    failing that, maybe we could at least get our hands on the primo drugs he is taking

  • drearymoon@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    7 months ago

    Pulling this out of my ass, but what if everyone calling me stupid were actually the dumb ones? And I’m actually the biggest brain genius of all time? It adds up if you think about it.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    7 months ago

    So you spend like a century trying to push the message “our economy is the envy of the planet”, eliminated your only competitor, and people are still unconvinced that the economy is good? Well of course, it’s the people who are out of touch, not me!

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      33·
      7 months ago

      USA in the 90s: Finally, communism has been defeated! Now to complete globalization, end world hunger, and usher in a new era of peace, stability, human rights, and market-enshrined friendship between nations!

      USA in the 20s: Okay our biggest problem is we know too much about other countries.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    25·
    7 months ago

    Hmm, not sure if I understand what he’s even trying to say here. Boiling away the smug gives me a vague kind of American exceptionalism where he insists that the rest of the world is just “jealous” of the US. Common belief over there, or so I’ve heard, but I don’t think any other country has been jealous of the US for 20 years at least, maybe longer.

    As the western Roman empire was collapsing, various Roman nobles continued on with “business as usual” without really seeing any sort of direct “collapse” in their eyes. There was no real magical event that “ended” the western empire, it just sort of faded away over time. This guy reminds me a lot of that sort of mentality. Insisting things are as they were a generation ago despite all evidence to the contrary. The US as a nation could cease to exist and this guy would still be saying “the economy is doing fine” because the local warlord in the Utah Clique treats him personally quite well.

  • davel [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    7 months ago

    Do you see the echo chamber of responses, which unironically place the blame on the working class’ echo chamber? This guy is the personification of The Atlantic.

  • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    7 months ago

    He seriously thinks media from other countries is imported into the US rather than the exact inverse being true? He should try living anywhere else and just see how Americanism is pervasive throughout everything.