this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025

288 points (88.1% liked)

Ask Lemmy

27340 readers

3896 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Rules: (interactive)

1) Be nice and; have fun

Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them

2) All posts must end with a '?'

This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?

3) No spam

Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.

4) NSFW is okay, within reason

Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].

5) This is not a support community.

It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

6) No US Politics.

Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected] or [email protected]

Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

288

Those who live outside of the US, what's something Americans aren't ready to hear? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma to c/asklemmy

675 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 29 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

The gun rights y'all have?

Now, most people would tell you that Gun Control Works and that you should just do that and get less dead kids per month which is a generally good thing.

....... But here's another thing to consider. As long as you're allowed to purchase weapons for cheap and easy.

You do realise you can in fact do something about the assholes in your government and your oligarchies with those guns, right? That they can be used for more than just killing children?

Luigi Mangione seemed to get it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Keep on spreading comments like this and you might actually be able to get gun control implemented in the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Ah but there is my cartoon villain gambit: If my sentiment gets popular, THEN--

Either the USians that still have braincells finally nut up and take their country back. Which would be good for friends of mine that live there.

The US government finally gets their shit together and starts doing something about the fact that any old idiot can have the sort of weapon most countries reserve for their armies. And this would ALSO be good for friends of mine that live there.

Either way, I win. [evil gay horse noises]

[–] Wogi 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

They know that, they stroke their gun boners to that very thought.

Except the tyranny they're afraid of is someone coming for their guns, or "communism." But they don't know what communism is and aren't aware that the guns aren't the rights they're losing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

See

You're describing the MAGA crowd.

All I'm saying is that there are plenty of non-MAGA Americans out there. Like 55% of the country or something? And that those people can get guns just as easily as the MAGAts do -- And that "terrified children and minorities" are not the only human persons that can be targeted by a firearm.

I know they won't

They lack the spine for it (or the spinal injuries?)

But that's precisely what makes this a case of 'thing they aren't ready to hear'

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] conicalscientist 3 points 11 hours ago

The internet had always been full of those gun boner guys fantasizing about taking up arms against threats to freedom. Younger me had no clue they were the tyranny themselves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Kinda disappointed in this thread, was hoping to find things that Americans on Lemmy aren’t ready to hear. Everything here seems like the usual complains that most Americans on Lemmy and even Reddit already aware of.

[–] drunkpostdisaster 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I don't even know what that would be. Even the people kind of dog whistling for violence our oligarchs are all spot on and the user base here knows ot.

[–] Shardikprime 1 points 8 hours ago

Because this thread is basically a circle jerk of the type:

USA bad, updoots to the left

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic 29 points 16 hours ago

Ok another thing people haven't really touched on is government restrictions on dangerous shit generally. I'm not just talking about guns, but also cars. When I was in the states I saw so many car accidents and bits of car on the road. That doesn't need to happen. It turns out that if you have proper driving tests and mandatory classes, people don't crash as much. Same with guns though. Owning a gun is fine if you learn how to properly use and store it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

Where to begin...

But I'll touch on something no one else has here.

Shopping carts. It's mindblowing to me that the country that sent men to the moon still hasn't figured out that its easier for everyone if they turn on all 4 wheels rather than the 2 front ones.

That way you can slide your cart sideways to make room for other shoppers. And turning it takes no effort.

And even... even if it is some weird cost cutting thing. Why not make them turn on the rear wheels? That would still make it easier than in the front. Since you steer the cart from the rear.

Get your shit together. Put gun controll aside, put your dumb ass two party politics aside and focus on what matters. Your godawful shopping carts.

load more comments (8 replies)

[–] Godric 6 points 12 hours ago

Mom says I get to post the "shit on the US" thread tomorrow!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

To some Americans, it is that the US isn't the pinnacle of democracy but far from it. To others, that the EU isn't better policy wise than the US, it just has far more competing interests which mean lobbyists have to hand out more than a lump sum of sucking up to people. To some Americans, that your health care system is really shit, to others, that their public health care is increasingly under attack in some EU countries by an industry pouching and locking down medicine through the profits their greed has allowed them to accumulate in countries like the US to such an extent that there are real tradeoffs now to the for-profit alternative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Sweet daddy Jesus, after latest situation, America is ready for a health care solution.