• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
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    22 days ago

    USA is the only nation that matters on this planet and probably in the universe.

    Every time you eat a pizza, listen to Led Zeppelin or go to church on a Sunday remember that America invented it.

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          22 days ago

          Recently they also kidnapped a president and his wife, illegality and violence aside they now live in the US which is the worst punishment they could come up with

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      22 days ago

      From Canada, this sounds especially ominous. We don’t have enough of a human population to fend off 300M Americans, so I think we need to focus our efforts on grizzly bear and wolf breeding programs.

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        22 days ago

        Nah, you don’t need to fend off 300M Americans, ‘only’ 60% of it, the other 40% will side with Trump even if he would literally and personally torch their houses lol.

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          21 days ago

          40% of their crazies is 120M, compared to our total population of 40M (and let’s assume about 2-4M of ours are Maple MAGAs.

          Even if they have 180M who would see our side of things, that group has had enough trouble within their own borders, so we can’t rely on them to solve our problems.

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          21 days ago

          There are T-Rex skeletons in Drumheller. According to Jurassic Park, if we mix their DNA with that of an amphibian, it’s a sure shot

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    22 days ago

    As bad as things are now, at least you don’t live in the 1950’s USA.

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      21 days ago

      Idk. Both have problems. 1950s feels like less murder compared to 2026. But maybe I’m just being nostalgic for diners and American homeownership.

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        21 days ago

        It’s the era where the CIA was operating within US borders, torturing and experimenting on US citizens. Women couldn’t have bank accounts. Everything had lead in it. Workers were basically huffing asbestos.

        I could go on, but you get the idea. I’m sure it was nice for a few people, but the average American was worse off than you or I today.

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    22 days ago

    Plenty of great places in America particularly if you like rural living.

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      Oh my God, no. “Great place to live if you want you all your neighbors to be frighteningly conservative, the closest store to be a 30 minute drive, and the nearest hospital to be an hour away and shutting down because their public funding got cut”.

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        22 days ago

        Yea, make that make sense….pay many times what anyone else does for their healthcare, yet it still needs public funding.

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        22 days ago

        Better than Democrat cities. There you will wait 8 hours to be seen by the doctor, before getting scheduled 3 months out to see the specialist, go to your car with smashed out windows, cops that won’t do anything about it but still somehow managed to put a parking ticket on your car all while being surrounded by people that don’t see you or care your exist.

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          22 days ago

          Meanwhile in whatever shithole you’re from: people have two teeth, zero education, and no future.

          But yeah, fox news is protecting you from parking tickets. Lmao. Chuds have the babiest of brains.

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            22 days ago

            Actually blue collar work like welding, plumbing, electrical, ect is safe from AI for the time being, while most of the city jobs are going to be replaced like accounting, tons of medical field jobs, customer service reps, middle management, delivery drivers, ect. Hope y’all are ready.

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          22 days ago

          Alienation is very real but the rest of what you described seems straight out of far right propaganda

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          22 days ago

          Is this a democrat big city problem or are all big American cities like this? What’s the republican cities like in comparison?

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            21 days ago

            Out of the top 20 largest cities in America 18 of then are democrats.

            The two that are Republican are dallas and fort worth texas. These cities have vastly different crime levels than the other top Democrat cities.

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            22 days ago

            It’s all American cities. Crime is terrible. My car was broken into multiple times when I lived in the city. A relative had two thugs crawl in her bathroom window.

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        22 days ago

        What’s wrong with it? Why’re Americans suddenly hating their country so much lol, you can still love the country even if you hate the govt

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          22 days ago

          Getting the orange clown elected, twice, shows how awful the entire country is. It’s not a few nut bars it’s endemic.

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            21 days ago

            Brainwashing can make you do a lot of awful things.

            In my own country, I’ve seen really nice people support a bad regime.

            It’s bad people taking advantage of the ignorance of good people

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              Americans have some of the best access to information on the planet. Americans aren’t stupid or ignorant, we’re performers. That’s why you give those friendly sounding Americans the benefit of the doubt. All those conservatives playing innocent like they don’t know exactly what they did are definitely enthralled, but a big part of it is manipulating others’ perception of them so they’re treated like innocent children who can’t be held responsible for their decisions. A lot of them even believe their own performance and free themselves from all accountability even from themselves. I’ve lived around conservatives for a long time. The only way to be an American conservative is to live exclusively in bad faith.

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          22 days ago

          Why would you love a country built on genocide, exploitation, supremacy, lies, and bigotry? Do you like those things?

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        21 days ago

        To be fair, you dont get land and houses this cheap anywhere else. Rural living is great unless you’re a city weenie. And I’m hardly even rural tbh.

        My 3000 sq ft house (and 1000 sq ft garage) on an acre was 250k with 3% interest 5 years ago. hardly any neighbors, 5 minutes from grocery store, nice town nearby.

        Try doing that ANYWHERE else. I think people are mostly jealous of all that we can have for such little money. I have everythibg I could want, space to garden and rude dirt bikes etc. Lemmings have no idea how good it is.

        The city I’m near ia actually the least maga place in the whole state. Its still annoying tho.

        I get that people want their clubs and what not but thats not for me. I go to a bar once a month maybe. They bore me. I can do WAY more fun shit at my place. Weld, woodwork, play drums as loud as I want etc. People who lived in a new york closet their whole lives would lose their minds.

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          21 days ago

          Rural living is great unless you’re a city weenie

          rural living is a hell hole if you don’t look and act like the people who live there.

          it took me tens of thousands of dollars and decades of study and practice to realize that there’s nothing wrong with my queer autistic brown ass and that the only reason i thought that there was solely came from being born and raised in BFE in the american south west.

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            That is the shitty part. People are not very accepting. We do have a little of a diverse neighborhood here which is good at least. No one here cares if someone’s gay.

            Now if your walking around at night trying peoples car doors, you’re gonna get in trouble. We dont tolerate that garbage.

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              We do have a little of a diverse neighborhood here which is good at least. No one here cares if someone’s gay.

              people use words like this to describe austin, but i had to spend 5 years there before i realized that they’re qualified statements.

              and it’s not just small places, california used to insist that they didn’t have a problem with gay people either, but they still prevented us from getting married and it literally forced families, like mine, to break apart.

              it all goes to prove that op was right.

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                Yeah I hate how brainwashed people are. Completely religions fault. It preys on the idiots and then they are groomed for authoritarianism.

                I never understood it even when little. WHY hate people? Sure, you may hate a criminal or a rapist. But 98% of those are white cis men, not trans folk or drag queens.

                We have good little pockets of community lgbtq businesses and such that are growing more all the time, so its good to see somethibg positive is happening if even a small scale.

                Edit: woof, tankie spotted. No more communications from me, good luck with your sad life.

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                  I never understood it even when little. WHY hate people? … tankie spotted. No more communications from me, good luck with your sad life.

                  sounds like you should be answering your own question. lol

        • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOP
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          21 days ago

          You only get to live that way because your imperialist genocide state shares the spoils of empire with you but it is temporary and you’re going to find yourself fucked god willing. I hate you and I hope to be part of the solution to the worlds problems.

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            Wow much anger. I’m on the same side as you man, no need for hostility. I never voted for this government and I give as little as possible to billionaire corporations when ever possible.

            I was merely comparing city folk with those of us who prefer rural there’s nothing wrong with either.

            And I’ll tell you something, I don’t get fuck shit from my “imperialist empire”. If I get cancer I’m fucked. I don’t have rich parents that gave me everything. Sure, I’m very very lucky, but ive been working harder and longer than you since i was old enough to hold a shovel, doing real work building the shit you use on a daily basis.

            Also, you may want to go touch grass. Lot of anger you have there about things you can’t change. You are exactly as bad as the bigots saying “all people of this race evil no exceptions”. Its never an absolute. I despise maga. Does that make every single american evil? No more than it makes all dark skinned people bad because someone did a crime that was the same color.

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    Kinda sucks here ngl, but Europe is SO small. Like that high school graduate who came back from gap year to a high school party saying he traveled “all over Europe” just to pick up girls. Come on guy, it’s like a metro rail pass and a two weeks time.

    Yeah, it sucks in the US but we only have to deal with OUR idiots, we don’t have to deal with our own idiots PLUS a neighbor’s that are crazy unstable. I’m not in missile range of anything since the 60’s. Just saying.

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      I don’t think most of Europeans are particularly afraid of being in missile range of anyone but the US, right now.

      And the only country that doesn’t really fit in with the EU in terms of overall values at all is Turkey, so not a lot of crazy neighbours around overall.

      And, to be honest, if the US had a modern public transport system you could probably visit anywhere worth going in a couple of weeks too.

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        I’d imagine the crazy neighbour is russia. I think they qualify, and the country is in europe.

        What’s funny to me is that russia also borders the US. It’s not a land border, but the gap isn’t exactly huge.

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      22 days ago

      OK… 2 seconds on Google:

      • United States: 9.8 million square kilometers.
      • Europe: 10.2 million square kilometers.

      Do you also need me to search for kilometer?

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        Yes but he has a point : you can’t travel in the USA by train, it’s a fucking nightmare. Whereas in EU it’s quite easy and cheap.

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          Nobody does Lisbon-Tallinn by train either. It would be almost impossible or very expensive.

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          There is alsorts wrong here. 1, you referred to Europe as one single land mass, not individual countries. 2, you USAians can never make up your minds whether you’re some massively varied culture or not.

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      22 days ago

      I can’t spend more that $300 a year on medical bills. Not because that’s what I can afford, but because the rest is 100% covered by the government.

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      Europe is SO small

      Depends on what you count as Europe. If you include Turkey, Caucasus and/or the western part of Russia, it is fucking huge (~7500 km drive from Vorkuta to Cabo da Roca). Even if you only count EU countries, it’s still not that small (~5000 km drive north-to-south). And it’s also way denser than the US so there’s more to see overall, you can’t even explore any single country comprehensively in two weeks time (apart from microstates, of course)

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      I mean, you haven’t NOT been in missile range since the 60s, that’s when the Soviets really got their ICBMs online. Don’t need to put missiles in Cuba if they got the range to launch the from home.

      We just stopped CAREING about being in range once it got to the point that we couldn’t actually do anything about it

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      in the US

      don’t have to deal with (…) neighbors that are crazy unstable

      On a scale from Bud Light to Everclear, how drunk are you on American garbage alcohol right now? 🙄

      I’m not in missile range of anything since the 60’s

      Fun fact: in 2026 you’re thousands of times more likely to be killed by a bullet from a handgun in the US than by a missile in any other European country than Ukraine.

      Just saying that you’re full of shit. Because you obviously are.

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        I didn’t say anything about Americas bullet problems and I certainly didn’t say anything about ICBM’s which we are ALL in range of. Im saying I’m not waking up tomorrow morning to an anti-missile battery defending me from a hail of dumb fire missiles or long distance drone strikes.

        Haven’t had a drink in years, btw.

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      I hate it to break it to you, but buddy, you are the neighbours that are crazy unstable. Your people shoot each other in the face constantly.

      And Trump absolutely does have access to missiles he very well might be pointing at you ass at some point.

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        You and agree with each other. You aren’t telling me anything I don’t know. What I’m saying is WE have to deal with our own idiots. We don’t have insane neighbors willing to double down on the aggression less than a few hundred miles away. A few hundred miles could be a weekend drive to see family in the US.

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    I am grateful to live in the USA. My life is great. I fish, I camp, I BBQ, I have a stable career (that at least pays my bills if nothing else).

    If you stop living on social media and feeding yourself outrage constantly it’s pretty damn great actually. I have never even SEEN and ICE agent and I live in a hot spot 😆

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    What if I live in the UK? It’s pretty fucking shit here, too. Only real positive is that the Green Party are absolutely surging now. I’ve been Green for years, but I think I chose the best year to finally try and become a councillor. I live in hope that there are enough people left in this country with enough sense to vote someone in who actually gives a crap about fixing some of our problems, and not creating potential global wars…