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[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

The political left in the U.S. often aligns more closely with the center or even the moderate right in European countries, due to America’s overall more conservative political spectrum.

That's a misconception. The political parties are owned by the same billionaires, and they never allow farther left candidates to be nominated.

The politicians themselfs are right-leaning. That doesn't mean the people actually are. There is huge support for left-leaning policies in the United States, but the people in the U.S. have effectively no ability to get policy passed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&t=1&v=5tu32CCA_Ig

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

You overestimate the U.S. citizens' ability to influence the U.S. Government. It is not a democracy and has not been at least for my whole life. People in the U.S. have effectively no control over laws that get passed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Gee, I can't imagine why Germany would want to slow down government actions...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It looks like a lot of US states are about to declare backsies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh no! It looks like they have their 51st state!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Do you prioritize not having illegal status in another country over your own ability to stay alive and stay safe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Just make sure you never go anywhere near a protest unless your phone is in airplane mode or off. Governments can use phone networks to tell whose phones are active within a given area.

And talk to the people there to learn how to be more effective.

Each day's protest has more people than the last, even on days when the weather is awful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bring more people to the protests. Don't stop now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If that's going to happen anyway, might as well happen the first day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Parrots can mimic humans too, but they don’t understand what we’re saying the way we do.

It's interesting how humanity thinks that humans are smarter than animals, but that the benchmark it uses for animals' intelligence is how well they do an imitation of an animal with a different type of brain.

As if humanity succeeds in imitating other animals and communicating in their languages or about the subjects that they find important.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The United States would be better with a lot more toasters.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Groceries.

The debt is for groceries.

Super wealthy people portray it like you just did, but what you said isn't accurate.

People are putting basic necessities on credit cards now.

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