• AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      ITT: a lot of people not admitting they are American. I would fucking love to see a Xitter style country tag on some of these accounts.

      I’m American, I’ve seen these people in every state I’ve been to, I’ve seen every person who walks by them avert their eyes, I’ve seen even the most liberal of cities make homelessness illegal.

      Punching down is what America does to the world and to our own. The world making fun of how our incredibly wealthy society has a problem with extreme poverty and drugs of oblivion isn’t punching down. They not making fun of the people, they are making fun of the society that has normalized abandoning them.

      This is forcing our eyes open and making us look at ourselves in the mirror, and a lot of people consider themselves the victims in that mirror when they are moving the machine forward with their action or inaction.

      America is the only place where we say “We” and we don’t mean the other 50% of the country. Those people are mutants. No, they’re also us.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      it’s making fun of Americans with a drug problem

      Again, this is the bottom line for me, and it’s not cool or okay in this situation. It isn’t satire, it’s pure ridicule.

      But whatever, what’s done is done.

      Btw,

      like making fun by imitating children doing school shooting drills

      this is okay to do in your opinion?