Americans’ superiority complex have always been a goddamn embarrassment. You guys also don’t understand Americans at all. The obnoxious American exceptionalists you are talking about are the ones who supported (and still support) Trump. Every negative stereotype associated with Americans is embodied by Trump supporters, not Trump opposers.

I don’t really care if the world is mean to us. I support every country boycotting the US. I do not consider myself a patriot and never have. I am a cosmopolitan and don’t think being born on a certain patch of dirt makes anyone special. I just wish people could understand that a lot of their “gotchas” about Americans (“you guys think your country is better than everyone else,” “you guys always talk about 2A”, etc) aren’t really gotchas because the people the shoe fits the snuggest are the ones who LIKE Trump. A lot of us are just people who think and act more or less just like you but who just happened to be born on this patch of land.

My problem isn’t that rhetoric targeting anti-Trump Americans is mean but that it’s counterproductive. We should be allies in this fight.

Black Lives Matter was not “far left.” It was mainstream liberal. The Overton window has really gotten completely ridiculous in this country.

No corporations will EVER back anything that is actually far left. Leftism is inherently anathema to them.

Europeans are so smug about this shit. It’s not a personal virtue that all of you can just hop on a train or a bike or whatever and be at your nation’s capital in an hour or two for between zero and fifty euros. Some of us are literally thousands of miles from DC. We are still protesting where we are, but it’s purely symbolic and also no one cares.

What far left protests have ever had corporate backing?

There are.

Trump isn’t threatening to charge people with domestic terrorism for leaving Tesla dealerships alone, is he?

Would you like a shmoke and a pancake?

Oh no, not the corporations. And here we thought they were ride or die and would always have the backs of the LGBTQ community!

Fuck 'em. Who wants or needs them? Queer people are not an “investment.”

“Minus the genius and charisma”

You’re describing an Austin Powers villain.

I am all for making the White House less secure at this point.

I am an educator and I regret to inform you that it absolutely 100% does. I routinely encounter calculus students who do not know how to solve for x.

Grade inflation in higher ed is also a serious issue. It was a growing problem when I was in college 15 years ago, and it doesn’t sound like it has gotten better since.

Idk anecdotal but I do math and programming every day and I still feel like I’m getting progressively dumber.

Microplastic brain

He’s a narcissist. Trust me, he cares. Yes, he will lie. He will lie to the world and to himself. Because he literally CANNOT cope. But that isn’t going to serve him. The more he lies to the world, the more deranged he will look, and the more he lies to himself, the more he will crash out mentally and self-destruct.

Yes and no. It’s really hard to boast about your “mandate” when a large and still increasing portion of the population publicly hates your guts and thinks you’re doing a shit job. It’s not enough by itself to meaningfully hurt him, but it does make him look bad and undermine his leadership. It is bad for his image, and image is an important component of power.

It’s also bad for his ego and could potentially lead him to behave even more erratically in ways that are ultimately self-destructive. Narcissists famously don’t do well in the face of being perceived negatively. The worse his ratings get, the more humiliating it will be for him. It is important to hurt their morale at every opportunity, even if it’s not nearly enough to stop them on its own. Demoralized, defensive MAGA will always be a weaker foe than energized, popular MAGA.

Right? Now do his head.

Not only can the right still not meme, it has apparently also lost all ability to recognize meme.

Apparently they keep getting tickets in China because they didn’t bother to adjust the settings to accommodate Chinese roads and traffic laws. Result is Tesla is getting utterly crushed by BYD in their one major market that doesn’t care about Elon’s antics.

Idk I think the “just following orders” defense is allowed for dogs. They actually don’t know any better.

Martial law AND a war at the same time would stretch the military pretty damn thin.

Fascism is nothing more than the bully mentality writ large. He is a bully but a bully is no trivial thing. They’re the absolute scum of humanity.