When it's ringing more alarms than school kids getting killed, something is wrong.
And they get killed every fucking day, these assholes once a blue moon. So if this didn't ring any alarms as much as school shootings don't, I'd be pleased.
While being intelligent is better than being stupid, its not a guarantee of much. To be an American is to be played like a fiddle by a dozen interests and invisible hands every minute of every day. Its all a big show designed to keep you busy arguing about things which arent the real problems so you cant address the real issues.
Absolutely, I lived in the States for nearly a decade. The corporate influence is insidious. Living becomes a washed-out initiation of "real" life.
Acknowledging that, making and communicating criticism on the content of any writing based solely on its title is ridiculous and isn't a particularly American problem. Doubling down and defending having done so is a special level of idiocy.
Today in Lemmy News: After bragging about their intelligence, Lemming proceeds to provide ample evidence of their lack thereof.
Breaking News! Super intelligent Lemming unable to grasp nuance and context, provides unrealistic, hyperbolic examples to support his very smart opinion.
Expert Commentary: It's always interesting when people brag about how much they don't care about downvotes when no one else has even mentioned them. If they didn't care, they wouldn't notice.
Unable to actually address any points made despite their superior, testicle-backed intelligence, local brainiac and runner-up of the 2023 Madrid Masturbation Marathon resorts to fabrications and petty insults.