It still fucks me up when I remember led zeppelin is British. Just the sound of them makes me picture some dude with a Camaro pregaming a Budweiser in the parking lot.
I'm ashamed to admit I didn't immediately register the joke. But at least from the slew of down votes I can tell I'm not alone in being a little bit dumb 😅
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
that's the really crazy part about all of it; if you have more than 2 paycheck sitting in the bank, then you're already in the top 33%.
and if your bank balance is measure in five figures on top of that (w the first number being higher than 2); then you're automatically in the global top 10%. (and an overwhelming majority in this class are trump supporters. lol)
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't love an abstract legal identity. I'm capable of being happy with institutions, the culture composed if the people living there, and adoring the natural splendor.
Right now I'm actively angry at the institutions, a huge number of people have taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and I've got no problems with the forest still.
Me and the forest are cool, and that's part of why I'm mad at the institutions.
I have no desire to live in the forest because, if nothing else, that's not good for the forest. Then the people who opted to live there became insane, and decided to largely gut all of the institutions, and make it easier to destroy the forest.
"I live in a state of natural splendor, and I'm willing to fight to let you cut it down, splash me with mercury , and blot out the sun with smoke because I don't have healthcare and fuck you for asking. It's the refugees who are the problem".
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 😆
Yeah we all know you enjoy existing by leeching off the labor of the third world in your settler colonial genocide state. It is going to be hilarious when you lose the ability to project power in the near future.
You probably don't understand German (well, even if you do, possibly won't help you either). A pity, this song is a perfect fit of exactly that kind of person your comment describes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDeFYKmgePQ
As it happens, Austrians do know quite a bit about this kind of people. You may or may not guess why.
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.
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.
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.
don’t have to deal with (..) neighbors that are crazy unstable
On a scale from Bud Light Lime 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.
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.
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)
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.
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
unfortunately, even if we don't live in the US, the consequences of their stupid decisions affect all of us
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.
It's hilarious that there are people from the US who would think that you're serious.
Just recently I followed a discussion where multiple Americans thought 'we are the champions' is an American song and obviously about America.
There are USAians that would say what they’ve said seriously.
It still fucks me up when I remember led zeppelin is British. Just the sound of them makes me picture some dude with a Camaro pregaming a Budweiser in the parking lot.
a camaro from the 1980's and with a mullet haircut. lol
Good to know who to balme, if I'm ever going to be forced to go to the church on a Sunday.
You almost had me!...
Uh I mean, 'Murica, fuck yeah!!
I'm ashamed to admit I didn't immediately register the joke. But at least from the slew of down votes I can tell I'm not alone in being a little bit dumb 😅
But Led Zeppelin are European
Unlike pizza and Christianity.
Led Zeppelin? boomer detected!
Nah your thinking about Lightbulb Zeppelin. Of course it's not as new as OLED Zeppelin.
Nah you’re thinking of Organic Light Orchestra
Actually, you're thinking of the charge of the light brigade, a military action best known for being the inspiration for a poem that in turn inspired a classic Iron Maiden banger
You must be thinking of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
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...
If you live in the UK you are basically connected at the hip with us.
Annoyingly reform are going to eat the crap out the biggot vote
you don't live in the USA yet
it's coming for you
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.
Okay, but hear me out:
Alligator-mounted velociraptors
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
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.
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.
Tbf doesn't Canada have war doctrines and training specifically for defending against a country with bigger military?
Yea kiddo, sure, go sleep and we talk in the morning!
The US killed leftist politicians when we misbehaved
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
I feel like USA is a great place to live.
If you are a billionaire.
It's great even if you're a several hundred thousand-aire. The rest of us suffer.
how does it feel knowing that you're in the top 10% of wealth in the planet's population? lol
Huh? I don't make that much money
that's the really crazy part about all of it; if you have more than 2 paycheck sitting in the bank, then you're already in the top 33%.
and if your bank balance is measure in five figures on top of that (w the first number being higher than 2); then you're automatically in the global top 10%. (and an overwhelming majority in this class are trump supporters. lol)
It's nicer to live in the US than in a country the US has decided to re-colonize
Maybe you should get that checked out by a doctor. I hope you can afford it.
OK bud
Why do you travel then? Peculiar.
Peculiar indeed.
Surely every homeless person there enjoys overabundance too
Are you dril
I'm from Spain 🖕 😌 🖕 🇺🇸
Sup Spain
Can they frickin tax their rich already? Jesus christ man
We're way past that
Imagine living in a country USA likes to bomb tho
We're all living in America!
America! America!
Coca Cola, Wonderbra!
Coca Cola, sometimes war.
Amerika ist wunderbar!
Me but not in Dubai
Dubai is certainly a place
And I even had to pay taxes for all this bullshit going on.
Real
As bad as things are now, at least you don't live in the 1950's USA.
Idk. Both have problems. 1950s feels like less murder compared to 2026. But maybe I'm just being nostalgic for diners and American homeownership.
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.
It's better to live in any other country, as long as it's not America with its stupid president.
Son of a snake
https://youtu.be/KGAAhzreGWw
I envy you
I live in France so I don't really care.
Plenty of great places in America particularly if you like rural living.
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".
Yea, make that make sense….pay many times what anyone else does for their healthcare, yet it still needs public funding.
Billionaires need more compounds and yachts, duh
It's always interesting to see that MAGA shitheads hate-read this forum.
Thanks for the report from the alternate reality you live in curated for you by mass media
Which Democrat city hurt you?
Alienation is very real but the rest of what you described seems straight out of far right propaganda
Is this a democrat big city problem or are all big American cities like this? What's the republican cities like in comparison?
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.
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.
Interesting, what's your source?
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.
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.
If the white collar people get replaced no one is going to hire you, fucking idiot
What are you doing here, bro? Shouldn't you be on truth social?
Shame upon you.
Ew, I'd rather kill myself than live in rural United States
More for me 😁
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
sounds like you should be answering your own question. lol
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.
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.
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
Why would you love a country built on genocide, exploitation, supremacy, lies, and bigotry? Do you like those things?
You could love people who live there today and the nature I suppose.
Getting the orange clown elected, twice, shows how awful the entire country is. It’s not a few nut bars it’s endemic.
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
Death to America
🎶 And butter sauce!
Don't boil me!
I'm still alive!
IRAQ LOBSTER! 🎶
His username is hamid
I thought it was very good, not hamid at all
Yeah you'd expect his username to be something like "based"
I don't love an abstract legal identity. I'm capable of being happy with institutions, the culture composed if the people living there, and adoring the natural splendor.
Right now I'm actively angry at the institutions, a huge number of people have taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and I've got no problems with the forest still.
Me and the forest are cool, and that's part of why I'm mad at the institutions.
I have no desire to live in the forest because, if nothing else, that's not good for the forest. Then the people who opted to live there became insane, and decided to largely gut all of the institutions, and make it easier to destroy the forest.
"I live in a state of natural splendor, and I'm willing to fight to let you cut it down, splash me with mercury , and blot out the sun with smoke because I don't have healthcare and fuck you for asking. It's the refugees who are the problem".
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 😆
Yeah we all know you enjoy existing by leeching off the labor of the third world in your settler colonial genocide state. It is going to be hilarious when you lose the ability to project power in the near future.
hoes mad🦅
Just do it already, what are they waiting for?
Promises, promises, promises, never delivers.
I'm sure universal health care is great where you live.
You probably don't understand German (well, even if you do, possibly won't help you either). A pity, this song is a perfect fit of exactly that kind of person your comment describes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDeFYKmgePQ
As it happens, Austrians do know quite a bit about this kind of people. You may or may not guess why.
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.
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 your ass at some point.
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.
OK... 2 seconds on Google:
Do you also need me to search for kilometer?
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.
Nobody does Lisbon-Tallinn by train either. It would be almost impossible or very expensive.
Interrail?
Europe 44 different countries. USA 1 country.
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.
On a scale from Bud Light Lime to Everclear, how drunk are you on American garbage alcohol right now? 🙄
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.
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.
It appears that the time you did spend drinking has rendered you permanently fucking stupid then
You seem lovely. I wish you the best, friend.
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)
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.
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.
We could learn a thing or two from Turkey.
I'm glad I don't live in Europe either tbh
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.
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
"All over europe" => they flew from barcelona to paris and then went to amsterdam
Eh 40% of US is parking space tbf.
It's not small, it's comfy sized.