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Oh, I do know that. And I apologise if I inadvertently implied something else in the process.

In the case of these two, the serial killers one, it was the number of serial killers reported to date on record. It wasn’t percentage per capita. It was all the other countries with reported serial killers on record (because not all countries even had a single number on record). When all the other ranked countries’ occurrences were summed, it still came quite short in comparison to the American number alone. I saw this on a broadcast news report about a decade ago, where they went on about what reasons could be the catalyst for such (there were too many referenced and suggested to briefly resume here now), this to say that my memory could be faltering too, but this may be something that can be found online somewhere if one goes looking for it.

In the case of mass shootings, there’s too many statistics being thrown around about this all the time now for me to pinpoint which one it was. But personally knowing people from countries with a higher violent crime rate than the U.S. it is still not a practice known to any of them to have “school shooting drills” for students. That’s a particularly unique U.S. occurrence.

I was merely talking about these two specific issues. I wasn’t talking about anything else. And again, I apologise if the way I wrote these suggested otherwise.

And what you stated should be highlighted about every statistic everywhere all the time.

And I want to reiterate again that I agree with the original comment we’re branching off. Too much focus is being placed around the U.S. in a silly global “schadenfreude”, that I find quite rude to the many people in the U.S. who don’t deserve any of it. Most of what is happening there is happening everywhere and we ought to be vigilant and helpful.

And if you are in the U.S. and particularly in one of the states being arrassed and invaded, please be safe, and know that most of the idiots you see around the web mocking this situation, are actually also rooting for you to turn the tide.

I wish you nothing but the best, and for you and your loved ones to be safe.

I absolutely agree with you.

I’m European and think Berlusconi was Trump way before Trump. Sarkozy was a terrible telling of France leaning into the far-right as a new normal, and people are now still cheering him and paying him tribute as he heads to prison for corruption by the way. What?? Bolsonaro in Brazil, the same. And the list goes on.

This all to say, you’re correct. This is everywhere. And I do believe it is starting to coalesce into the same global movement and in my opinion backed and financed by the very same people worldwide as a destabilisation of democracies to establish the new feudal system that is already in play, but not in total control.

But you do have to admit the U.S. has some unique problems. Like Mass shootings and serial killers. In both of these, the U.S. has more occurrences than all the other countries on the respective lists combined. WTF?

And if you’re in the Netherlands, the existence of a functioning public health care system is something that makes a huge difference. Including the reduction of crime.

This is why I’m gonna end on a quote from the great George Carlin…

“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.”

Yup. And to use decentralised and open protocol social media too. Like the one we’re on. And the Fediverse at large. Especially for organisational purposes and resistance initiatives like this one in the article. Learn to run their own instances and be bound to no company or algorithm that can bury them.

I’m using both Tor and the Web version of voyager right now. On a degoogled phone. And I’m in an European country where fascism has not even taken over. Yet.

Maybe a set of donation funds should be started to use for promoting the fediverse. Ad campaigns, billboards, flyers and so on. Decentralised collective efforts as well. Organised by communities in regions, not even nationwide efforts. It would be easier this way as a global endeavour too.

The problem that I find is most people don’t even know the Fediverse exists. And these are the people who would be benefited the most to know of it right now. They really think they’re gonna fight the oppressor with the tools of their oppressors?

Hmm… An euphemism instead of a hyperbole for a headline.

How refreshing.

Makes you wonder about how most armies and soldiers fail to see what and who they are supposed to be in service of. It’s this part of the article that struck me the most…

“Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters,” the soldiers at the base in Soanierana district said in a video posted on social media.

They called on soldiers at the airport to “prevent all aircraft from taking off” and those in other camps to “refuse orders to shoot your friends”.

“Close the gates and await our instructions,” they said. “Do not obey orders from your superiors. Point your weapons at those who order you to fire on your comrades-in-arms, because they will not take care of our families if we die.”

Bravo. These are true soldiers. Not the cowards holding guns in uniforms like in most places.

This is a great question.

This is my way of life for a long time now. And I can’t comunicate well enough that this is how capital powers are kept in check by consumers. It is a necessity now more than ever that this should be the way for everyone.

The fediverse is being constructed in a way that we will only need to jump instances and domains and not segregate ourselves from the rest. I’m technically not on Lemmy anymore. When lemm.ee shut down I jumped to piefed. But I’m still around. This is the novelty (which is more of a reclaim of the old internet tbh) that is missing from the larger web.

I use several search engines, I have several emails etc etc To me this isn’t exhausting. It is liberaring. To not be tied down to a single suite or conglomerate.

As to how to convince others as you asked… I think all the approaches are necessary. Informing, advocating and promoting or even hazing and mocking as some will surely do. All of them will play their part in the broadening awareness and bringing people out of stagnation and complacency.

We need to show people a redundancy… that the way to move is to keep moving. That a quest for a fixed definitive ground is not only impossible but a mistake to begin with.

As to the correct approach, like I said, all the approaches will be necessary in my opinion. Even the ones I dislike will motivate people in their respective in-groups.

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This year I had to euthanize a cat I had the pleasure to have in my life for almost 14 years. I saw her come into this world right out of her mum, and I was there when she died. Afterwards, we brought her from the veterinarian and buried her in my mother’s backyard.

She had late stage cancer. I never knew when was the right moment to say “it’s time”. The fucked up part is that we can’t get verbal confirmation that “this is it” for them.

She could barely walk or breathe by the end and I didn’t know if I was being selfish or if I was stealing time that she still wanted to have. It was brutal. Everyday was just one more day that I wanted to say goodbye.

And then one day I saw her struggle so much to breathe and said “it’s time”. The meds didn’t work anymore and I couldn’t ease her suffering in any way anymore.

That moment still sounds far off with your beloved friend. Treasure those cozy and snuggled naps they love to take and be kind to yourself as you navigate it all.

Oh, I know and I agree.

But it’s still ridiculous and awful to see these children, their children nonetheless become victims of abuse while they pretend it’s not happening.

Because if there’s any single one thing I am supposed to share with these mindless people is an aversion to the abuse of children. And if that were me and my community I would burn that institution to the ground until I found every trace of this.

If they kept their end of the watch as they claim others should I would at least respect their zeal as true. This way I got nothing for them. Absolutely nothing.

But I still don’t want that to happen to those kids. This shouldn’t happen. Period. Pointing out their hypocrisy and calling for their outrage to start by “cleaning their own house” works. I’ve seen it first hand. They don’t like it when they know you’re right even according to their narrow view of the world. If we just uphold them to the standard they believe they have, they don’t have an out.

And less kids end up like this as a result.

Isn’t it ironic that the “let’s protect the children” crowd allows the children of their base to be the most abused, molested and sexually assaulted?

More than any other group and without creating any repercussions to the institution that harbours the highest percentage of verified pedophiles.

Last time I checked the numbers, 6% of Priests have engaged sexually with a minor. That’s numbers that even shitty Hollywood can’t even compete with.

Just have all athletes measured in an index of height, weight, muscle mass and bone density, and redistribute them in even categories disregarding sex entirely as a categorization. For the first time we would have fair sports. Sports were never really fair, and anyone who understands just the simple notions of physics has always pointed this out. They just don’t like it when nerds prove jocks don’t understand the very games they play. And that’s all sports trully are in the end. Games.

The part that boggles me is how this takes so much space in the broad conversation when competitive sports are truly an inconsequential part of existence. None of that affects life outside of it. None whatsoever. And I’m sure even athletes want this situation actually solved, instead of just dumbing it even more.

And by the way I’m speaking of sports, not exercise. For some reason, people conflate the two.

Exercise is essential.

Sports are not. They can be fun. But people surely know how to ruin the fun out of it.

I’m looking forward to moving on to the next important issue. Which to them is probably going to be if there should be male vs female acting categories in award shows. No, there’s no reason for it. But caring about award shows is even dumber than that dumb distinction in them. The Arts would be better off without them. Competitions in Arts is as silly as it sounds.

I missed that one. Thank you for sharing it. The fact that they have the “wellness” as a spin is the really fucked up part. So…“Wellness camps” is how they’re going to sell the same thing like the “los indeseados” in Cuba. At least Fidel was honest in naming the nonsense he unleashed, I guess.

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I’m not sure if the OP is trying to expose this article as an idiotic thing or not, but I can’t take this nothingness of an article seriously.

I’m 40 and I’m sure that I “gave” this supposed “stare” to both older and younger people several times this month alone. And we’re barely past midway through it.

Yes, it is smug and rude and most of the times uncalled for. But I don’t remember a time when this wasn’t around. I’ve given this look and received it since I’m able to remember existing. It’s not a generational feature, it’s not even a cultural one, as I’ve met people from all ages and places that do this my whole life.

And it’s not that the young are more rude, is that everyone is more rude now.

We all know that social exchanges took a turn for the worst since algorithmic social media really started to take off circa 2010, and it only got worse when everyone got locked with it as their only form of social exchange during covid lockdowns. This is not a GenZ problem, nor a U.S. problem, this is a problem for most people in most places now.

Blaming this on the young when they had no saying in establishing this mess and when they were obviously never in charge of any decisions that led us here is the typical nonsense to expect from the most idiotic reasoning of the establishment and legacy media.

“Oh, you know who we should blame for the shitty world we have? The people who were never in charge of anything and never had any saying in a single thing whatsoever. That’s who!!”

I’ve witnessed this nonsense too many times my entire life and I don’t know how people fall for something so easy to recognize as inconceivable. And not with just the youth. It’s always stupid to assign blame to the people with the least available agency in the room, or in the world.

And I hope you all catch it and stop it everytime someone is trying this nonsense in front of you.

This article deserves the very “stare” that is trying to attribute to GenZ. If they do indeed do it more than others, articles like this only re-enforce that they should keep doing it. Because it very much earns that reaction.