Hi, American here. I just wanted to take this time to say sorry about…you know…everything.
Our country is not ok right now. We’re going through some shit. And I look at other countries and hope they don’t think that all of us support this nonsense.
It’s bad enough that I don’t even have to specify WHAT has gone wrong. I have to appologize for our current general existence.
I can’t even say this isn’t who we are either. Right now our biggest issues are racism, dumb fucks, and lack of empathy towards others.
…yeah, that just sounds like historically accurate America. We’ve always been this way. It’s just especially bad right now.
So to the rest of the world, sorry about our existence.
As someone that grew respecting the US but is now watching the dumpter fire it spiraled into, I can only say: don’t give up.
We know there are still people in there that do not support the madness and stupidity going on.
Get rid of it, clean out the gangrenous parts, and come back.
More than ever, we need all hands to take this world in the right direction.
I’d like to point out that an Austrailian helped get us to this point.
If I can give one advice to Americans, and everyone honestly, it’s to make sure you show empathy to everyone, including the racists or mysoginists or transphobes. Don’t agree with them. Don’t encourage them. Don’t hesitate to stop them if they are immediately harming someone. But show some empathy. There usually is a reason they are the way they are.
While there isn’t one single reason why things got so bad, I strongly believe the trend of completely rejecting anything but perfect “political correctness” and ostracizing the people is what contributed significantly.
When people get ostracized for not being progressive enough on the left and the far right will welcome them with open arms, many people will come where they are welcome, making things much worse.
Yes, there are exceptions, no one should be empathizing with Trump or ICE agents or KKK members. But keep the exceptions rare.
German opposition in 1930s Germany: “Remember to show empathy. These nazis are the way they are for a reason, don’t ostracise them for political correctness reasons”.
Yes. The Nazis were mostly elected not by extreme racists, but by people concerned with the economy. Concerns that the other parties failed to empathize with and address. Sounds familiar?
You don’t have to agree with them to empathize. But if you ignore their concerns enirely, they will turn elsewhere.
Lotta angry people not recognizing how much correct shit is in this.
Everybody who’s not a fucking idiot already understands that there are chill as fuck israelis, russians, chinese, americans, etc, who hate their dogshit situation, and that lumping them in with the dumbfucks who are doing it to them is not something anybody cool or even slightly smart does.