Poor americant’s. Having inflated dollar salaries and being unable to live well, with stress, overweight problems, political insanities, shootings per screaming eagle and other american’t problems.,😔😔😔
Hmmm. It’s been a long time, but the last time I was in Mexico, I recall being told that the real unemployment rates were quite a bit worse than the official numbers, and that finding a job at all was nearly impossible without a connection, e.g., a family member of close friend working at a particular place and having the ability to hire you.
I dunno, if Mexico had more opportunities than the US, you’d think that, first, the cartels would be less of an issue (joining a gang isn’t as tempting if you can find a decent job), and second, you wouldn’t have a lot of people trying to emigrate to the from Mexico. I just heard a story today about highly trained engineers leaving Mexico for jobs in a Kia (or Hyundai?) plant in the US, where they ended up being relegated to menial, manual labor; you’d think that if unemployment was really as low the official numbers say that it would be pretty easy to get an engineering job in Mexico.
You will forgive me if I don’t find your “joke” funny, specially when right-wing SOBs indoctrinated in your country periodically take turns to destroy my country with conservative or (now) anarcho-capitalist actions and get all the money outside to offshore accounts while “selling” all public companies to their friends.
Soy argentino pedazo de pelotudo jajajaj y ese chiste viene del sub Dankgentina. Tengo el meme original guardado en algún lado pero no ando con ganas de buscarlo.
You are grade A delusional if you think you are better off in Mexico.
Shit is getting more difficult financially,100% agree. It’s still an absurdly rich nation. Unemployment is still crazy low. Jesus Christ, who believes this shit?
Having done the research of going to the url on side the of the image, turns out the cartoonist does satirical cartoons that have been published in The Guardian and The Village Voice.
Whether the average person recognises this, (average probably varies by location quite a lot) I’m now quite happy to triple down on satirical.
It’s Lemmy. It’s popular to think the us is some dystopian nightmare. I’m not saying “love it or leave it” or anything even remotely like that, but the level of cluelessness here about how privileged most people living in the us are is mind boggling.
People in the US should not wait until conditions deteriorate to levels seen elsewhere before voicing concerns. I wouldn’t call what they have privileges, as people had to fight for them in the past. The privileges you’re talking about are not something that fell from the sky. Moreover, there’s no guarantee these privileges will remain without continual effort to preserve them.
Can you not see the huge world between “voicing concerns” and claiming we are in a dystopian nightmare? Do you really not realize how privileged Americans are to live in a place - with shit like easy access to clear water, a stable peaceful society, many rights, and our social systems even understanding it lags our peers?
Yes of course you can be voice concerns. That should have been clear when I said I’m not “love it or leave it.”
But, dear god, stop defending the stupid " were in a dystopian nightmare!" Because that’s just straight up cluelessness.
And you should convince people to do that by presenting blatantly false information? People see this, roll their eyes, and call you crazy outside these echo chambers.This is propaganda veiled as humor. A good candidate for/c/theleftcantmeme if you’d like to draw a parallel content here.
I mean it’s almost certainly going to fall within our lifetime, that same privilege will also come to bite us. The 3rd largest population in the world that has next to zero experience living like the rest of the world. When it falls it’s gonna fall hard.
I’m not sure how you calculated it to be “almost certain” but based on these dopes who have clearly had access to education and are lucky enough to have Internet, you’re right that if they face actual adversity like much of the rest of the world, it won’t be pretty.
It’s Lemmy. It’s popular to think the us is some dystopian nightmare
ikr, i’d rather stay in reddit where at least my fellow brethren will defend our pride without question like a rabid mob.
the level of cluelessness here about how privileged most people living in the us are is mind boggling
There are privileged people living in even in hell holes like North Korea and Russia too, my guy. And everyone knows how US came to be and why it’s insanely “rich and privileged”, so it isn’t the flex you think it is.
It’s like Russian living in Ukraine, off of Ukrainians suffering and calling Russians privileged.
But you do. That’s your education system with a large dose of propaganda for ya. Blame everyone else but yourself for all your problems.
There are privileged people living in even in hell holes like North Korea and Russia too, my guy.
Yeah but not “most” which is an important modifying word that I used. Clearly you’re not arguing in good faith, lying about what I said and then using that lie to make up a position I take and then claim that’s the result of propaganda.
If you want to respond to what I actually said, feel free to make an honest attempt. But if you feel the need to be this dishonest, then it’s clear you know I have a point.
That said, I would fear for the world. Our glass national ego, especially among our entrenched power, wouldn’t be able to handle it, and we would likely go on a militarized rampage if our economy collapsed.
"America" generally refers to the USA. People use "North America" or "South America" when referring to the continents. Since, y'know, "America" isn't the name of any continent.
Sure, but consider this: the ones who travel and say “I’m from America” sound like boneheads, and ones who say “I’m from the US” sound more thoughtful.
Source: American who’s spent a bunch of time learning through mistakes while traveling.
Depends on language and culture and context. In the United States we use America to refer to the country and North America and South America to refer to the continents. Many Latin American countries use a six continent system though, where North America and South America are just one continent called America. This can lead to some tension and confusion when people from the United States call themselves American, since that would imply everyone in the western hemisphere to them basically. While sometimes “Americano” is used to refer to people from the United States, you’ll also you get descriptors like “estadounidense” in Spanish for this reason. Though this also has ambiguity, since technically Mexico is also a “united states.”
Anyways, point is, a seven continent system with the western hemisphere separated into north and south America isn’t used everywhere, for some people America is a continent. In some places Europe and Asia are combined, and there’s other variations too. None of them line up with plate tectonics or anything perfectly, so they’re all a little arbitrary in the end.
You should always listen to context. Languages are not competely logical.
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America, between Canada and Mexico.
This has been pretty much true for every country I have visited or lived in, except one time in France some one referred to my Canadian cousin as American.
“America” or “Americas” can refer to the continents which is why you should pay attention to context. When someone says they have an American citizenship, they are not citizens of a continent.
In this comic, if someone is in North America, when they say America, they are referring to USA.
Don’t bother, by the time people start the “USians” stage they generally can’t be argued with and will only be pleased by the entire USA being skinned alive.
In my experience USians is usually used by weird liberals who are in favor of manifest destiny, but are worried about the racist baggage attached to the term. Go to Toronto or Tijuana and insist that the locals are Americans and you’ll get your teeth knocked out.
The Dutch, Austrians, and large amounts of Switzerland are technically Germans. But if suddenly people from the Federal Republic of Germany started going on about how Austrians are also technically Germans, and you should refer to people from FRG as Bundesen, all of Europe would start to freak the fuck out.
In my experience “USians” is usually used by butthurt Spanish speakers who think that because America means one thing in Spanish it has to mean the same thing in every other language.
In my experience “USians” is usually used by butthurt Spanish speakers who think that because America means one thing in Spanish it has to mean the same thing in every other language.
Well, there’s more countries speakers of Spanish, so we have a point, I think.
It’s funny you talk about language nonsense, when so many of the US citizens believe that their dialect is the original English and the UK is a deformed version of it…
No, you don’t have a point. You’re missing the point. The point is that America in English is not the same word as America in Spanish. They’re false friends.
False friends is the linguistics term for two words spelled the same in two languages, but with different meaning. For example, the word “glass” means ice cream in Swedish. We don’t tell the Swedish they’re using the word “glass” wrong, we accept that it has a different meaning in Swedish.
Sometimes the false friends are pretty subtle. The word “må” means “may” in Danish, but “must” in Norwegian. This can sometimes lead to misunderstandings, because unlike the ice cream example above, you don’t get any hints from context. You just have to know.
It’s the same deal with America. English-speaking countries (yes, the UK too), and all of the Nordics for that matter, use a continental model where North and South America are separate continents, and America is shorthand for United States of America. And the superior amount of Spanish speaking countries don’t give them the right to tell English speakers what words should mean in their native language.
To be fair, the last time Germany did that it helped pull the majority of the planet into a very bad time and we as a species picked up new forms of trauma. I’d get a bit twitchy too, but your point is valid
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