And then the main conspiracy nuts are going “Nyeh!”, because it was about overthrowing a democratically elected government, and not rolling out communism (read: Obamacare).
Yeah most countries never admit to anything or declassify anything. It just disappears to time…
Gun laws not changing after every mass shooting incident
Doesn’t necessarily need to. Would open the door to many other awful laws based on single cases. Found a single case of gay men sexually abusing children? Ban homosexuality act enacted. Some gamer shoot up a school? Gaming banned.
The UK might have banned consensual extreme pornography after one death, but it shouldn’t be the norm. If anything, it should be seen as an infringement on human rights by anti-rights activists.
Quick search indicates 342 million people in the United States according to their census, i tried to find the total amount of American citizens but that statistics doesn’t appear easy to find, if we divide it in half and say 171 million US citizens who all potentially own 1 maybe 2 maybe 5 maybe 10 firearms, even if the laws were to change federally at any point do you think every citizen is going to comply?
Even the Canadian government struggles confiscating firearms from licensed owners, and that’s closer to 2 million firearms now prohibited, I can’t imagine how Americans would handle it.
Doesn’t need to be confiscated. Just stop sales and the number goes down over time.
And before you start, you don’t have to stop all sales. We can start with the ones that have potential to kill the most.
Firearms are known to last over a hundred years and can be rebuilt, they don’t just magically go away when sales stop.
And as I mentioned in another comment, In the United States firearms don’t have to be registered, as far as I know this applies federally, this may differ per state, how do you plan to track something with no traceability?
You don’t have to have 1 dude do the whole job. You can just use an equal amount of people per capita as smaller countries have.
maybe you could ask every other country that’s done it.
I don’t believe it’s a fair comparison, there are more guns in the US than people.
Yeah you’re right we should give up (?)
someone post all the major things the cia has done in the last 70 years by bullet point, much has been declassified and the fact none of the public is freaking out over the things they have done is maddening
Well yeah, the CIA has done horrible stuff in the 40s, and the 50s, and the 60s… And the 70s and 80s and 90s… And some stuff in the 00s.
But now? They probably learned their lesson.
I fruck out about it the first 10 or so times I found out about these things, but it doesn’t hit the same after a while. This is just what the US is. I vote, I speak my mind, I engage in a little domestic terrorism, but ultimately I don’t have enough power to change things in my lifetime. I’m crossing my fingers for an organized network of assassins with a conscience to materialize.
people who are usually morally right, usually don’t kill other people
I tend to agree. I would just like if a certain type of person didn’t have the kind of power that destroys the environment and worsens lives for ends that only serve to benefit that same type of person. How that happens doesn’t matter to me, but assassins would be quick and final. Collective action from the people would make me feel better for the future though.
No no no. We say two election cycles ago, the guy in charge did this. Or that old director of the FBI did this, after he dies and can’t say fuck no the president demanded it.
The only weird part is that we unclassify anything. And that only happens when they’re trying to buy some public trust.
Ice and ice cold air conditioning.
And it’s amazing
Yeah it’s gotta be the daily allegiance to the flag -thing for me. That shit hella weird.
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Having read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as a kid (they were required reading in school), it seems to me that the flag should be pledging allegiance to *us*, not the other way around.
I stopped saying the whole pledge in kindergarten. Didn’t seem right to pledge to a god I didn’t believe in.
Pretty much stopped saying it all together after 9/11
“I pledge allegiance to the the Flag of the United States…”
Unless you think the flag is a god, you’re not pledging to a god, you’re pledging to a piece of fabric, or to the design printed on that fabric. Which, honestly, is a lot weirder. How can one have allegiance to a flag? What about the opposite, is it possible to be disloyal to a flag?
…To which it stands, one nation, under god…
Yes, god is mentioned as an additional clause, but you’re pledging to the flag.
Yes… Pledging allegiance… To a flag… Representing a Republic… That exists by/for god…
I mean, I didn’t look into it that much at first, I was in kindergarten FFS, but I remember thinking it was funny that God was mentioned in the pledge, and how he was also mentioned in the prayers at Grandma’s church, and I thought I shouldn’t lie and say the “under god” part since I didn’t believe.
Huh, just checked the text and I was surprised to find that the god part was only added in 1954.
Yep, because soviet spies were godless heathens who can’t/won’t lie about their faith in order to sneak into the US.
It was an easy way to spot them back then. A bit like vampires and garlic.
OMG this. Straight up indoctrination. And our parents were like Rah Rah, GOOOO TEAM!!!
Shit looks sketchier the farther we get away from the previous world war.
Man that shit was hella weird growing up.
A huge amount of the population is truck-sexual.
25 years ago, I could see how they had a kind of rugged romantic working appeal back when trucks were four wheels, chassis, big engine, and two seats. They don’t seem to make those any more, I only seem to see the giant luxury wanker variety.
thanks for the explanation!
i didn’t quite get it the first time i saw the popularity.
Their constitution is a divine document, dictated by the elder gods which cannot be altered in any way (including the amendments, oddly enough) and which can solve any problem and contains every truth.
And can be ignored by the very same government whenever it chooses to do so.
And the founding fathers were divinely inspired geniuses who thought of every possible contingency, despite being a bunch of 20 year old rich kids.
Applying bible rules to the Constitution.
Actually that’s incorrect in terms of the “cannot be altered”. The constitution can be altered via a ratification by 38 / 50 states or 2/3rds of congress. With a supermajority being required, this would mean that the proposed amendment would have to be bipartisan… Which means it’s almost impossible to do, especially nowadays.
Last time this happened though was in 1992
thank goodness because if it was too easy, the “two terms” would have been amended already by the Party of Trump
No wonder he wants to “federalize elections.” Just look what’s been happening in Nicaragua since 2013 which has finally come to a head
I mean, they’ve already reinterpreted parts of the Constitution to not mean exactly what it says. They can wordsmith their way around the 22nd amendment if enough of them find politically advantageous. I’m sure Alito has a draft ruling already ready to go.
American civil religion is a sociological theory that a nonsectarian civil religion exists within the United States with sacred symbols drawn from the national history of the United States. Scholars have portrayed it as a common set of values that foster social and cultural integration. The ritualistic elements of ceremonial deism found in American ceremonies and presidential invocations of God can be seen as expressions of the American civil religion.
I’ve always thought of this as being very bizarre and I don’t know if something similar has ever emerged in another country so far.
The US has birthed lots of very weird ideas.
Injured people trying to escape from ambulance crews.
We’re at the accident site but the wounded seem to have vanished again. We’ll try following the blood trails.
Shoes on at home.
Don’t associate me with those other animals
If this phenomenon has made its way to TV and movies, there has to be at least some truth to it.
There is. I’m sure most Americans do shoes in the house, and I find that horrific
we show you a price, then charge more at checkout
it’s easier to get a gun than a doctor’s appointment
tipping
pharmaceutical commercials
casually having the largest prison population in the world and pretending it’s normal
violence on tv is okay, but no cussing or sexuality
casually having the largest
prisonslave population in the world and pretending it’s normalit’s easier to get a gun than a doctor’s appointment
A lot of times, it’s cheaper too!
tipping
I don’t think tipping is weird on it’s own, but the default expectation of tipping, and the fuckery around wages that makes tips essential to earning “a living” instead of a nice bonus is definitely weird.
I think a more accurate shorthand for this would be “tipping culture”
Tipping is weird on its own. The idea that you are showing gratitude by pushing money on someone is gross at best and downright offensive at worst.
If someone tried to thank me with a hand full of change I’d tell them to fuck off.
What if it was a small stack of 20s? 100s? What if it meant the difference between paying rent or not?
If it were 20s or 100s it would be more insulting, you understand this, no?
If it’s the difference between paying rent or not then it’s a huge problem that the behaviour exists to enable that situation. If it weren’t a cultural behaviour it would be called panhandling.
I see it as an extra “thank you” if someone goes above and beyond what I was expecting for a service. It’s not something that should be given out lightly or something that is expected, but I also know that tipping is necessary for people in some jobs to make a living. It’s not a fault of their own, but a fault of a system that saw a benefit they were getting, and was like “oh, we can just under-pay these employees and use tipping as leverage against them.” Do I hate the tipping system in the US? Absolutely. Am I going to impose financial stresses (by not tipping) on the waitstaff at a restaurant in order to make a point about how badly they are compensated for their work? Absolutely not.
Tipping is the product of capitalism. Using it as gratitude, puts capitalism as superior.
Considering that giving cash to someone under any other circumstances is considered tacky (even gift certificates/cards are more acceptable, and that’s just cash with limits on where/how you can spend it), it is weird that tipping is so ingrained in our culture. And unsettling, to be honest…
One thing that, uh, amuses(?) me is that apparently there’s still a national emergency from 9/11: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/03/2025-16941/continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-certain-terrorist-attacks
You know how Hitler rose to power by abusing a national emergency regulation? You know how there was worry of Trump doing a fascism, back when Obama handed over to the guy? You know how Trump literally announced beforehand that he’ll do a fascism, when Biden handed over to him?
Both could’ve chosen to terminate the national emergency. Neither did so.
https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-extends-9-11-state-of-emergency-by-a-year/
I never agree that both sides are the same, fucking far from it. But the left politicians are not without their shady AF shit.
that’s because they’re not left, at all.
I was just watching an old rerun of some generic tv drama, and a judge was signing a warrant, and saying “One day we’re going to have to explain this to government sub-committee,” and I thought, “IF that happens, and that’s BIG IF, nothing will happen.”
The Epstein Files will be released in 2126 to ensure that all guilty parties cannot face justice.
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