It’s the inevitable end result. It’s pretty hard to compete with money. They just keep buying your leaders.

Iraq was a pretty clear military victory.

So you’re trying to claim that racist USA convinced Europe to hate and kill Jews only for the USA to then take in the majority of Jewish refugees… That makes sense to you?

Do you even know what words mean? Your response makes zero sense in context of what’s being said here. What do you even think I said?

We are under attack.

The US took in more Jewish refugees than any European country. What a dumb slander.

It’s really sad to see someone at a very low point in their life.

Crazy, I would have thought reddit and lemmy were tight.

It seems even against rusty boats, Iran can’t break the blockade.

Many places won’t rent to someone that cannot prove monthly income greater than 3x the rent.

And just like that, suddenly Alles Scheiße is no longer cool, go figure.

Europeans are the masters of nihilism. It’s kind of honestly surprising your birth rates aren’t lower. We have our own growing culture of nihilism to battle and we certainly don’t need it harder.

Americans are far from prudes, but there’s a place and a time for nudity. If we allowed public nudity in advertisements, half of our billboards would turn into porn. If you don’t believe me, look at any state that’s legalize marijuana: it seems literally half of all advertising is for weed. Maybe if we didn’t have hyper aggressive market forces we could relax our laws a bit.

You are missing the point. Conservatism isn’t anything that you, specifically, believe it is.

Hmmm, I bet it’s no secret who your team is!

This place is very similar to reddit. Notably, chains of “removed by moderator.”

I’m not sure how you can be on lemmy or reddit and not recognize out-grouping from the left. Groups fundamentally define themselves by what they aren’t. And each group will strawman the other to strongarm their adherents into staying within the group.

Communist. Pink haired liberals. Nazis. Fascists. Meaningless boring out-group names that are repeated ad nauseum. But go. Indulge. Join a team and have fun. But don’t sacrifice real relationships for some politician. Be smarter than that.

Are you European? Do you think nothing matters? I have been around far too many Europeans that think that way and definitely do not look towards Europe for what I want America to be. Is it the desensitization of nudity? Probably not alone. But it’s one tiny piece of the nihilistic puzzle.

Look, you have it, you enjoyed it, and now it’s no longer a big deal. In other words, you no longer enjoy it like you once did. We’d rather not go that way. Everything in moderation. We’ll save the cyberpunk dystopia for another day.

I think Americans are mostly terrified of European nihilism and don’t want to fall into the same trap.

Driving drunk is known to be dangerous. People who indulge in that behavior eventually hurt others. We don’t wait for a drunk driver to crash into someone before we arrest them. We arrest them the minute they turn on their car while drunk.

Someone who indulges in sexualizing children will eventually hurt a child and we should not need to wait for it to happen before we arrest them.

I’ve said far milder stuff than this and had my comment removed for incivility.

My bad. Not sure how, but somehow I misread your comment. Thought you were saying Mike Rogers was Jewish.