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Just laughing at the arrogance to think you live in the greatest country to ever exist… while on a lockdown because you refuse to believe there’s a global pandemic… and the country refuses to help its own people, but meddles in other’s affairs.
Where does the “great” come in?
Where does the “great” come in?
Only country to ever drop a nuke on another country is also gatekeeper of nukes?
The country that perfected appropriation and rebranded it as “discovery and innovation.”
The country better suited to commodify trauma than actually prevent it.
The country that perfected appropriation and rebranded it as “discovery and innovation.”
The country better suited to commodify trauma than actually prevent it.
The country that made the choice between a racist rapist and a career politician (with her own menagerie of problems) such a close race, it had to use rules designed to count black people as part of the population without actually calling them humans for the racist rapist TO WIN!
The mother fucker WON(!!!) and we still think we’re the best. How can you be the best country ever and Spite Vote™ the black guy, WHO ACTUALLY WAS AN IDEAL IMPERIALIST, by immediately electing the career grifter that called him Kenyan? Like…
The only thing we’re great at is exploitation. The only “people” enjoying The Amerikkkan Dream™ are all the corporations we helped grow into global oligopolies.
WE LEGALLY MADE CORPORATIONS ***PEOPLE*** BEFORE LEGALIZING SAME SEX MARRIAGE!!!
WE LEGALLY MADE CORPORATIONS ***PEOPLE*** BEFORE LEGALIZING SAME SEX MARRIAGE!!!
So yeah… it’s just hilarious. I’ve been reading Thomas Day’s “The Dying Negro” and just… this country has BEEN the laughing stock this whole time, and we responded by being the world’s school shooter.
We are the country that buys lifted trucks to compensate for dick size.
We are the country that buys lifted trucks to compensate for dick size.
Figuratively and literally!
We don’t think critically, we just like having the biggest shit. Like, unnecessarily large shit. Sizes that’s outlawed in other countries.
We are bad Weird Al songs of other places. Like… think about that:
We don’t think critically, we just like having the biggest shit. Like, unnecessarily large shit. Sizes that’s outlawed in other countries.
We are bad Weird Al songs of other places. Like… think about that:
We “abolished” slavery 80 years BEFORE the holocaust and Germany is just out here lapping us with how we handle “sins of our past.”
We can’t even agree on the confederates being traitors! We didn’t even abolish slavery and now California is on fire CUZ THE SLAVES ALL HAVE COVID!
We can’t even agree on the confederates being traitors! We didn’t even abolish slavery and now California is on fire CUZ THE SLAVES ALL HAVE COVID!
We’re so dumb, we think we can vote away police violence. WE DONT EVEN THINK WE ARE A POLICE STATE!!!!
This is the country where coworkers snitch on each other when our chronic illnesses we can’t afford to have impede our office productivity.
This is the country where coworkers snitch on each other when our chronic illnesses we can’t afford to have impede our office productivity.
We’re so dumb, once every few weeks, there’s a twitter debate about math equations. MATH EQUATIONS.
We call bi- and trilingual people lazy and stupid. We defend rappers who shoot Megan Thee Stallion a week after she drops WAP.
We call bi- and trilingual people lazy and stupid. We defend rappers who shoot Megan Thee Stallion a week after she drops WAP.
We are the country that debated whether serial rapist Darren Sharper should be in the pro football hall of fame because we intentionally didn’t include “off-field antics” as criteria for enshrinement.
WE ARE TRYING TO PLAY FOOTBALL DURING A PANDEMIC!!!
WE ARE TRYING TO PLAY FOOTBALL DURING A PANDEMIC!!!
The absolute hilarity of this place. All we know how to do is never learn from our mistakes. Everyone talks shit about Florida, but that’s the only state brave enough to fully embrace what it truly means to be Amerikkkan: a dumb sack of shit willing to do anything for fame.
“The bad people” of this place can’t even be consistent on their opinion of cancel culture. We are collectively enamored both with power and the basic fact that we don’t know what to do with that power EXCEPT harm each other.
Dawg… places we call “shitholes” have better internet speeds than us.
We criminalize sex workers despite Porn being the reason behind most of our current technological advances.
We (allegedly) put men on the moon but still argue about trans folx in bathrooms
We criminalize sex workers despite Porn being the reason behind most of our current technological advances.
We (allegedly) put men on the moon but still argue about trans folx in bathrooms
(I’m joking about the “allegedly;” calm down)
Just allllllllllll of this… what makes us great? Explain it to me like I’m an outside observer. Which part of us is dope that isn’t a product of exploitation by this country or a trauma response to this country?
For those who followed me when I was on IG, this thread feels like the time I got real aggro about We Rate Dogs becoming a beacon of white privilege in dog form.
Every good thing about this place is tied to our resiliency in the face of us trying to kill ourselves. We are - collectively - so incapable of actual reflection. All we care about is hoarding things we only find valuable because we deny others from hoarding them.
DURING A PANDEMIC, there was a pissing contest between the two septuagenarians running for highest office in our government over whether either of them could hold a glass of water with one hand.
That’s our bar. Wanna have the nuke codes? Drink this first.
That’s our bar. Wanna have the nuke codes? Drink this first.
“So what are you gonna do about it.”
Nigga what are YOU gonna do about it? Why are you happy with filth? I’ve been saying burn it all down, but everyone wants decorum.
Pink knit hats ended sexism according to some of y’all. We are operating at different levels here.
Nigga what are YOU gonna do about it? Why are you happy with filth? I’ve been saying burn it all down, but everyone wants decorum.
Pink knit hats ended sexism according to some of y’all. We are operating at different levels here.
All I’m saying is… be honest with yourself. This place is trash and your behoovement to traditions and all your meaningless material shit is gonna get us killed. We’re dead already, so just like… be honest about it then.
I’m not asking anyone to solve anything. The time for solutions has long passed us… just stop lying to yourselves about what’s happening around us.
I keep taking the wrong lessons from the shit I consume.
I’m just exhausted FOR you… the effort it takes every day to lie to yourself. Live your current life, but just say you’re doing it cuz the bad stuff doesn’t discomfort you enough to act.
Being defensive about obvious shit sounds so tiring.
Being defensive about obvious shit sounds so tiring.
…dawg, evangelicals think they’re going to heaven. HOW WILD IS THIS??? Not wild in a “religion isn’t real and just archaic forms of control” sense. But assuming Christianity/Catholicism (I think they’re the same?) is legit, they think their actions are getting them upstairs…
WE ARE THE COUNTRY THAT ISN’T SURE A MASS SHOOTING AT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!!
That happened a month after Barry got re-elected. We are living in the part of the movie that would’ve been cut for time or done as a montage cuz we’ve BEEN this awful for a while.
That happened a month after Barry got re-elected. We are living in the part of the movie that would’ve been cut for time or done as a montage cuz we’ve BEEN this awful for a while.
That’s where this thread kinda started but then I got carried away… our 250 year legacy is constantly questioning whether we actually did anything our own history says we did to the point that our current president admits to crimes and we’re like “but IS it a crime?”
This happened LESS THAN THREE WEEKS AGO!!!! Mother fuckers out here questioning IF BILL COSBY WAS FRAMED!!! https://twitter.com/DrSixFingersEsq/status/1289974496368029696
Random thought but along the same lines, sorta:
Indigenous tribes in remote parts of the world… I wonder what they think is happening to their homes. Like, you feel me? We KNOW we fucked the entire planet, but what about those who’ve been spared knowing how we all fucked up?
Indigenous tribes in remote parts of the world… I wonder what they think is happening to their homes. Like, you feel me? We KNOW we fucked the entire planet, but what about those who’ve been spared knowing how we all fucked up?
I think about the indigenous in the Amazon and shit… this is me high and naive, so grain of salt here but… how are they processing the rise in temp? What do they think is causing all the bad shit around them?
Back to us: WE FUCKED UP AN ENTIRE PLANET IN UNDER 600 YEARS!
Back to us: WE FUCKED UP AN ENTIRE PLANET IN UNDER 600 YEARS!
4.5 billion year old planet… survived a couple ice ages, like 6 or 7 mass extinctions, it rearranged Pangea into a half dozen large islands…
Still destroyed over the course of the last 0.0000006 billion years.
Still destroyed over the course of the last 0.0000006 billion years.
Americans are so dumb… we don’t even understand how large “a billion” is.
Jeff Bezos has $43.5 for every 1 year the earth has existed. How’s that for a twitter math equation???
Jeff Bezos has $43.5 for every 1 year the earth has existed. How’s that for a twitter math equation???
This shit is gonna gnaw at me for the rest of the day…
If we - collectively - were good people, we’d do the right thing cuz it’s right. Instead, this country only acts (emphasis on “acts;” cuz it’s all a performance) when pressured by dollars.
Morally bankrupt. Amerikkka.
If we - collectively - were good people, we’d do the right thing cuz it’s right. Instead, this country only acts (emphasis on “acts;” cuz it’s all a performance) when pressured by dollars.
Morally bankrupt. Amerikkka.
Not an indictment on the tweeter, just so tired of being told “there’s two” blah blah blah and then we do materially nothing about. How do any of these systems still exist if not tacit complicity? https://twitter.com/elizaorlins/status/1296884001114906625
Commodify trauma, don’t prevent it. Amerikkka! https://twitter.com/TheSlayGawd/status/1296952285113667585
Just adding this to the thread! https://twitter.com/veitchtweets/status/1296066993834070024
I owe everyone 250 years and older an apology. I said we destroyed the planet in “under 600 years,” which technically still true, but that shit popped off once the slave owners declared independence. https://twitter.com/kellygerling/status/1297613908832706560
I dunno why, but it feels like this belongs in this thread. https://twitter.com/i/events/1300820244328407042
