It turns out the nut we wanted to crack was the Higgs boson.

Most people buy guns because they’re cowards.

As a radical polyamarous leftist, yes, send all your witchy women to me.

Compare my life to yours, and kill yourself.

The second thing is actually pretty easy to answer. The same people from the first part of your answer have also been using their outsized power and influence to erode the power and influence of unions over time. Many actions taken by European unions would be considered illegal in America and met with violent state oppression. While Europe has maintained many of their labor rights from the turn of the 20th century, America’s labor rights have been rolled back to almost before the new deal. Most unions barely have the right to strike, and even when they can that power is exceptionally limited. Basically any effective labor action in the US would require people to accept that they are breaking the law, and will likely die, sustain life altering injury, or go to jail for it. Since most Americans that would benefit from strong unions are living in oppressive poverty to begin with they either see the risks of illegal labor action as too large, or have been propagandized against it.

People rarely distinguish between the sentiment of a demographic versus the sentiment of the individuals that make up that demographic. Hence, stereotypes.

“Americans” are not a monolith. There’s almost 400 million people in this country. Idk how each individual is doing, but most of the people I know are too busy trying to keep their heads financially above water to care. The actual American people have very little say over what happens in this country, and most are just as trapped in the horror as the rest of the world.

Does a country without public transit, universal healthcare, or any social safety nets sound like a country where the average person is in control to you?

MY hero!

Here’s a cool book about it related to the meme (and it’s got an appropriate title).

Endless Holocausts

Call off the war, boys. China’s clearly won.

Ah so everything was chill in the USSR then? Stalin didn’t have any secret police or totalitarian access to power?

When you ignore established agricultural science because it’s too capitalist, and your crops fail, starving a significant portion of your country, yeah that’s kinda the governments fault.

Hmm expecting people to extrapolate from incomplete date is how you end up with responses like “I don’t care who the second group is, their mysterious ways must be wiped from the earth.”

/s

Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.

Idk if it’s just me, but it’s insane to bring up Uhygur genocide, which has not been in the news or mentioned at all for years, while we watch US funded Israel blowing up starving children on a daily basis.

They’ve been reclaiming land from the sea for centuries. That’s what all the dykes and windmills are for.

I’m am withheld by capitalism from making the choices I want.

Don’t forget about PFAS!

The US has held hegemonic dominance over at least the western world economicly, culturally, and militarily for the past few decades. It’s really hard to go against that so a lot of countries got on board. Some got really rich because of it.

I think of it this way. When your ready about Roman history, you usually see a map that shows the reach of their empire, but not really the boundaries of what you’d consider the core of the empire. Those maps show the extent of their political and military reach.

So just imagine how history books will show the American Empire. The US has hundreds of military bases, everywhere. Its a global empire. It’d be impressive if it weren’t so awful. I mean, can you imagine what life would be like if you lived in a country that has a resource the US wants? It must be a nightmare.

Oh dude the CIA has their fingers in soooooooooo much shit in the era between WWII and… now? It’s all published on their web site.

Shhhh they still don’t know radio free Asia is a CIA project.

We cannot choose the period of history we reside in, but we can rise to meet the occasion.