'unlike you tankies I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. 😏

No I haven’t read any declassified documents…’

There are lots of people out there with very baffling political beliefs.

I may be wrong. I’ve largely forgotten he exists.

Didn’t he get his start as a reddit atheist type personality?

These people think shit like Splinter Cell is real.

I don’t care what anyone else thinks: Apple’s UI sucks. They operate similar to Nintendo as some quasi-cult like company. I was in it in a prior life: I used to think people who used Android weren’t as smart as Apple users for some reason.

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I still felt really bad when I saw his brother died 😔

Some of this shit is really gross. Social media has had some seriously dark consequences on people.

I’m honestly not sure. Americans have been very infantilized. Many are very lazy and in poor health. I’m increasingly worried about how incompetent a lot of people I meet are.

I think the true rot of capitalism will show itself soon: collapsing buildings, infrastructure, etc. Hopefully the anger can be directed back at the ruling class, but many Americans have never even heard a true critique of capitalism.

I think the true rot of capitalism will show itself soon: collapsing buildings, infrastructure, etc.

Edit: this is already occuring, but I think the scale will continue.

The front page of Lemmy is so bad. Lots of complaining about wealth inequality and the general shitty conditions capitalism has created, and also lots of socialist bashing 🤔

Listens to The Deprogram once

The media is largely garbage in my county too. You’re more informed if you don’t follow it at all

Some people will never get it. They’ll fall for the same tricks until they die.

You can’t even seem to buy anything in the USA that doesn’t come with a pound of plastic packaging. It’s not on the individual, it’s the system.

most european countries are social capitalist countries, as in, capitalist countries with some social programs

A lot of European countries would be considered social democracy, your understanding is correct on what that is. I think social democrats are still considered liberals. This is probably the default ideology for most ‘Western’ nations.

On the other hand, democratic socialists are those who want to bring about socialism through traditional democratic reforms. This sounds like a great way to do so, but reality is a bit more complicated than that. These types aren’t liberals per se, but seem to agree with them and end up subordinating to them often in practice.

in the US it can mean anyone to the left of a fascist” would mean that just outright everyone in the US is a liberal? That sounds wrong.

My apologies, this is probably confusing if you’re not from the USA. The term ‘liberal’ will get applied even to communists here in the USA. Liberal is a term that doesn’t have a ton of meaning here (like many other words), it just means vaguely left leaning. This can mean anything from support for marginalized groups and minorities to being a full on Marxist. In short, people don’t know what liberal actually means here.

However, I would like to say that the USA is actually still very culturally homogenous. Most people here would be considered economically liberal, social attitudes vary much more.

I appreciate the conversation, let me know if you have any other questions.

In the USA labor Day has quasi been appropriated as yet another pro military/police day, but labor is never really celebrated in the USA for some reason 🤔

Nu uh in DPRK there is no vegetation. The population is only given USA flags to eat as their sole source of sustinence. Quite tragic 😞

A liberal is someone who supports status quo, free market capitalism, but in the US it can mean anyone to the left of a fascist.

I have a couple liberal friends I’ve known since childhood. They are probably a good representation of your average American. Well meaning, but just seem to believe whatever is on the news. I don’t talk politics with them. They were talking about the war recently and they both thought that Russia was getting their ass kicked and incompetent. I think a lot of people will be shocked when they realize that’s not true.