What is your opinion on the state of the U.S.? How do you feel about the direction the country is heading? Maybe what do you think are the biggest challenges facing the U.S. government right now?
I know I know cookie cutter questions but I need to be on neutral ground while listening.
The country doesn't even have a name. it's like calling Italy the United States of Europe.
What is this high grade american take. Reminds me of that post where the american says that portugal is the greece of europe.
It would probably called something dumb like Libertas Terra(freedom land in latin) if it wasnt called The USA given they based litterally everything off rome
Latin is similar to Portuguese as is every latin language. it's an anomaly for a country to have so much Roman culture and not have Latin language.
Also I think it would be "Terra Libertas"
Mexico is called the United Mexican States, but at least Mexico is a real name, not just how we call the THE FUCKING CONTINENT.
Some of us genuinely voted for Kanye West at some point. The US is just a PVP server in creative mode.
It's funny how Mamdani has pissed off the MAGA's by just actually doing his fucking job and helping to fix the problems created by his predecessors.
Plus like 90% of the people mad at him don't even live in NYC, much less the state itself.
Mamdani hates whitey. Retards will say that this isnt real racism but it is.
i dont like him because hes communist, but i do not have enough information to determine if his policies are effective or not.
Fair enough I guess. So far he's been a competent mayor and done things like the tax on super rich properties with no one living in them.
Somehow, this is seen as a bad thing by poor people who do not and will almost certainly never own a property expensive enough for them to be affected.
Both sides fucking suck, 1 is full of pussies, other is full of homophobic bastards
the only things i could find in US history that came close to the gilded age was the roaring 20s, post-ww2 golden era, and the internet boom.
but i think the internet boom was the most beneficial since the gilded age only benefited the wealthy elites who could afford to industrialize. the internet boom benefited nearly everyone. its the era where a lot of people rose to the status of "New Money" due to the low start up cost for online businesses. the only way i can think of where this current age would be close to gilded would be if there is substatial financial benefits to all the AI and data centers that were invested.
A lot of people are too stupid and ignorant to even know or understand what the Gilded Age was
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at least you even tried to understand. your officially better than half the US population
I thought it was just some slang term being used again and not a historic piece lol
the confusion probably comes from basically every city in europe having had a "golden age" at some point in history
thats what made me confused at least, since gilded age in that context sounds like it should be positive, when the reality is anything but
Yeah no exactly that gilded age sounded like a good thing and but it just wasn't
They've developed a missile with a range of 6,000km in Türkiye? Okay, that's something to be proud of, but why is so much investment still being made in military projects when the economy, education, and justice system are in such a bad state? (Am I missing something?)
People that call for political violence need the thing they advocate for happen to themselves.
why the downvotes, anon is right
if you want to kill, you need to be prepared to die. so often i see Americans in media advocating for violence and revolution, but they never do it themselves. They sit in their cushy luxery houses, making tiktoks, and convincing the stupid masses to fight, get arrested, and shot on their behalf. then they will parade the deaths they caused as martyrs to escalate.
The general hostility, violent attitude and lack of decorum in the curren political discourse drives people into picking a "tribe" and sticking with it until the end. In a way the political landscape is devolving into tribal warfare.
heres my conspiracy take:
all the threats of violence against trump and members of the right wing party are intentionally left alone so that violence can escalate. The government knew about the assassination attempts but did not do anything until it is already happening. that way they can slowly villainize the left as violent extremists. All they need is one tragic event like a bombing where hundreds die, and then the American government would have full support of the people to brand democrats as terrorists and/or declare martial law.
my reasoning:
i looked into the assassination attempts on Obama and Biden. Theyve had a lot of assassination attempts, however nearly all of them were people who were arrested for simply PLANNING and COORDINATING the potential assassination online. Almost none of them managed to carry it out. The US government has the resources to stop them before they happen, but are choosing not to.
The same is for the ICE protests in LA and Minnesota. that white lesbian who got shot for hitting an officer with her car, she already had a criminal record for violence at previous protests yet she was still let free.
There are hundred and hundreds of people online who openly talk about wanting to kill Trump or how to do it, yet the the US government does nothing about them
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I laugh at Americans for how shit their politics are knowing my country is equally bad