Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Lol America
They accuse a democrat with these charges any time and the news media, government and the public literally stops as everyone shows their outrage.
Accuse Trump of similar things and the country just chalks it up to the list of shit he’s done that no one cares about.
None of this is a Trump problem … it’s an American problem.
The country’s already broken. After this orange orangutan is gone, the country will keep fracturing until it turns into two, three or more new countries in the coming decades.
Shiny with fake gold trim everywhere, and gold colored flames painted on the side.
The rules both legally and morally for hiding your identity are very distinct when applied to those in power.
The morality of it is pretty simple
If you want to wear a mask to hide your identity because of what you are doing … chances are you know what are you are doing is wrong and you don’t want to be held accountable for it later.
If you honestly believe in what you are doing and have all the faith in the world that what you are doing is morally, philosophically and politically correct … then you should never have the need to want to wear a mask to hide who you are.
Wearing a mask is the sign of a coward who doesn’t have the conviction to stand up for what they believe in.
… and knowing America’s track record for stupidity … THE WORST PRESIDENT SO FAR!
The dumb part of this story is not that they’re trying to cover it up
The dumb part is that America just accepts it all as a cover up and won’t bother doing anything about it.
If any other president before had done any of this … the country would have erupted … but the US has become so complacent and apathetic to this orange menace that it’s become an authoritarian nation not ruled by force but by the adject stupidity and complacency of the entire country.
Yeah … knowing America’s track record … after he dies, his name will be mocked and removed everywhere … then in a hundred years (or less), there will be a new neo-MAGA movement that will revive his name and everyone will debate about his legacy all over again.
We’re on to your dumb games America … you can’t be trusted any more.
We did a little tour on our own into Germany one spring, about 20 years ago. It was only a few days, we didn’t have much money and we absolutely didn’t know what we were doing. We rented a car and just started wandering. It was just at the point of technology where GPS was still new. We didn’t have any so we just started driving with a shitty map and no clue.
We had done some traveling in other countries before and we had met several famously obnoxious German tourists. We had partly expected to meet equally arrogant Germans in their home country.
Instead we met the most open, kind hearted, brilliant people ever. Everywhere we stopped, we’d meet three or four locals who were more than happy to give directions, recommend restaurants, bars, tea shops and sites to see.
At one point we met a truck driver who gave us a ton of information and showed us a driving route on a big format ringed binder map book. When he was done talking, he left the book. We told him he was forgetting his book and he said we could have it as it had detailed updated map info of the entire country. It was an expensive book and I knew it, so I told him not to give it away. He insisted and said he didn’t mind.
I still have that map book on my shelf and whenever I see it, I think of that trip and all those people we met.
Totally loved Germany after that.
Republicans? … they were to blame a decade or two ago.
Ever since then, all of America is to blame.
Trump could literally in broad daylight kick them in the balls while looking at them in the eye … and MAGA idiots will still blame the democrats for it.
The problem is that whenever billionaires are about to get hit by a bus … government usually throws a bunch of poor people in front of them to cushion or even stop the bus from hurting anyone with money.
lol … sounds a lot like the evangelical preacher with the million dollar private jet who asked his parishers to give more money to buy a second jet because it would save more people
(I remembered this story from a few years ago and thought it was ‘a second jet’ … I was wrong … the preacher was asking for donations to buy his FOURTH JET!!!)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44305873
Trump isn’t running a country … he’s an evangelical preacher leading a ministry called the United States
Don’t know … I can’t afford internet credits in order to access a connection.
More like a take from … The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
… but not as funny :(
It sounds like you’ll fit right in … great to have you here … have fun!
Last time this happened, the country affected needed electro shock therapy to help them snap out of their delusions.
I was making light of your question … partly to have a bit of fun … and partly to show that the community enjoys sharing these silly little bits of movie quotes that act like memes. The one I was using is from the movie “The Naked Gun” (the original film from 1988 with Leslie Nielson)
A lot of the meme communities enjoy old slapstick movie content as there is a lot of memeable content there … films like ‘The Naked Gun’ series, Hot Shots, any of the Mel Brooks films and Monty Python.
Don’t be afraid to test your boundaries, comment as you like but with an open mind and kind heart … people will let you know if you’ve said or implied anything negative or positive. Don’t be discouraged if you get no response either … it’s not a popularity contest. The longer you stay, the more you comment, the more you get to know people and the more they get to know you and eventually you become a regular part of the community.
Welcome to Lemmy and welcome to the fediverse.
Boycotting and protesting with your money also works
If everyone just organized together and said … ‘hey, let’s boycott this one company and just this one company’ … and everyone did it, it would drive that one company to its knees and bankrupt it and even drive it out of business.
It wouldn’t affect most people terribly … we’d still be able to shop, go around do things and go about our lives without much disruption … but at the same time, it would scare the shit out of that one company.
Once one company gets destroyed, then everyone organize again and target another company and boycott them … then just keep the ball rolling and keep boycotting and driving out companies one at a time. After a month of doing this, every major company would be shitting their pants knowing that they would be next on the list.
These assholes don’t understand if you hold a sign up that says you dislike them … they never listen to that … but if a large enough group of us just stood back and withheld our money from them and told them to go fuck themselves, then they’d listen.