I respect drag.

I cannot respect showering corporations with money to buy lights to cover your already unnecessarily large mcmansion in gaudy baubles, and waste enormous amounts of electricity for over a month just so everyone can see how much more “festive” you are than your neighbor.

The money wasted on the setup in just one of these pictures alone could feed dozens of homeless for a month. And I think feeding the hungry fits in way better with the supposed theme of Christmas.

Tldr: Long winded way of saying “is he wrong to assume that?”

American here, I can assure you that the majority of the people around me have absolutely no idea about anything involving the UK government.

In the last month I have overheard two separate conversations in different states, asking if the UK has a “president”, and at least one got the answer “no, they have a queen”.

I’m not even sure most Americans are aware the queen died. I’m not sure how they could possibly have missed it, but our country is collectively under a rock, so…

I have heard many people over the years trying to argue US law for things happening in the UK.

I have had to inform a great many people that the UK includes Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Most people have been surprised to find out Ireland isn’t united as a single country.

Americans in general are not smart. Even less informed about anything that happens outside the US than I assume most people in the EU know about the US state Ohio.

I would like to have a pineapple plant just because I think they look neat and it’s cool that they grow such large fruits.

I don’t like pineapple though. Horrible, bitter taste.

Pffff I couldn’t be trans because I look anything but feminine, and all that daydreaming and looking at clothes and wanting to buy breast forms and go girlmoding is just normal CISHETMALE stuff, right?

… Right?

blatant Russophobia

Lol. Lmao, even.

4,000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation, while BILLIONS are spent on BOMBS

CREATING DEATH SHOWERS

No, it absolutely isn’t.

It violated our own laws, international laws, and as far as I’m concerned it’s both an act of war, and possibly a literal war crime (please, anyone with more knowledge than me weigh in on that last one) and every other country should treat ours accordingly. We broadcast to the world that it’s do what our leader wants or we will take whatever we feel like.

Heck we did that decades ago, but now we aren’t even lying about it.

I think it really is hard for the average person to grasp just how much the US has invested into warfare. Heck, I’d argue the absolute powerhouse of the military isn’t even weapons, it’s logistics.

It’s simply not even plausible that the US military industrial complex comes grinding to the proverbial halt over Venezuela.

If any other country tried to invade the US, they must first cross oceans to do anything effective, and with modern equipment, I doubt any stealth tech could slip in unnoticed, and everything else would be intercepted by the navy or, assuming the navy has largely become ineffective from being over-extended, national guard, coast guard, and just plain old home defense structures.

Keep in mind, several buildings around DC house anti-air sites and other defensive structures. They’d be last-resort type things though, home defense would be priority (or would be in any other administration) so you can bet in case of an attack, non military traffic would be grounded and jets would be scrambled, since no matter how bare-bones some squad in Caracas is, the personnel and equipment at home are fully stocked.

Unless the rest of the world completely cuts off the US, and honestly unless we actually strike at a major EU country I don’t see that happening, the US will keep chugging along, conscripting kidnapping people for the Orphan Grinding Machine. The 0.01% will never feel it, and will keep the poors fighting until the rest of the world turns their backs and nobody is left standing to fight.

I’m not singing the praise of the US military. This isn’t “American exceptionalism” here. This is shameful overspending on death machines while citizens starve. This is disgusting abhorrence for humanity that will result in loss of life on an unimaginable scale unless things change.

How many people would still be alive today if we had just decided to mind our own business after 1945? How many regions would be far more prosperous?

If you made it to the end of my rambling, I’m sorry for wasting your time. I might be a little baked right now. Thanks for reading though

As a us citizen it’s very clear what the US government wants it to mean.

Do what we want or we will hurt you and your neighbors. Anything said or done before Demented Don took office is irrelevant, just do what he wants. Or thinks he wants. Or what his handlers want. Or else.

Having perused international laws myself, but not being a lawyer, I’d say “YES THE US FUCKING VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAWS”

Me, playing any game where I can play as a woman, but most recently cyberpunk2077:

Some AAA game company releases a big-budget title that turns out to be a complete buggy mess (like MindsEye)

[FREE SPACE] contenders in here, but I like this one the best. The next one is a very close second.

I got an email like this a few weeks ago, and then about 2 minutes later I got a new email with the corrected replacements.

I replied with a screenshot zoomed in on the “candidate name” bit and left it at that. Didn’t even get a half-assed “lol sorry Bruh”

Yeah, they should toss it in a landfill like everyone else! Fucking posers, trying to do literally anything with stuff that isn’t easily recycled or reused…

Look at those soulless, lifeless eyes.

Black eyes…

Like a dolls eyes…

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard someone near me say something about how minority groups in the UK are just going around stabbing each other or shooting up drugs, and also immigrants are stabbing everyone and doing all the drugs, and also the teenagers are getting wasted every night… Etc…

Like… What possible news source could you be basing this off? I’ll admit I don’t keep up with global news like I could, but it seems pretty stab-free in the UK and that’s why it’s such a big deal when it does happen.

Also just this past month I’ve heard someone talk shit about gun control because of a shooting in a relatively gun-free country “look how that helped them”… Uhhhhhh yeah let’s just ignore all the mass shootings in our own backyard that don’t even make news anymore because it’s so frequent.

Reality means nothing to these people, only what they(re told to) feel at that particular moment.

Right? Call of duty is basically 5 seconds of setup and then everyone just sprints at each other guns blazing.

Who asked for that??

If I had to guess? Children/minors who don’t like setup time.

Yeah, ruining play experiences by locking things behind paywalls is a terrible thing to do.

The food could have been given to someone hungry before it spoiled in the fridge.

The furniture could have been given to someone else instead of tossing it for the newer model/different decor.

My in-laws throw half-eaten food away every day. They redecorate for every season and usually only keep entire couches for 2-3 years. I’m assuming they’re an extreme outlier, but I know plenty of people who toss food like it’s fashionable to waste half your fridge every week, and get new furniture when I see nothing wrong with the old furniture.

Too few are the type to get a new chair only when the old one has broken in half, and eat everything they made for lunch.

Luigi (who I am not convinced actually did it) only stopped at one.

I bet if we kept going, things would change pretty substantially.