Meme Misuse, in my Lemmy?
It’s more likely than you think.
people here really don’t know how to do memes
most of the time the meme is either 5-15+ years old or the meme format is horribly butchered
i really don’t understand why though
Because nobody gives a shit lol
Sometimes I feel like a grammar Nazi when it comes to meme use. But I just need to remember that I’m definitely right.
AND MY AX
We recently had 6 mass shootings in under 48 hours!
U! S! A! U! S! A!
At least monthly, on average
We’re a for-profit country. It’s like everything we have set up is to make a few people very rich. The everyday tragedies are acceptable byproducts for those who run everything.
England is more into knife attacks. Easy access to guns is the major factor in the US. With parents starting to receive prison sentences for their kids actions, we will have to see if the number starts to drop. Best solution, of course, is to get guns out of the hands of the disturbed and get them help.
The UK has fewer knife attacks per person than the US.
It’s just that there’s so much gun violence, no one talks about it.
Tbf, this paints the picture that the issue isn’t “the guns.” If we also have more knife attacks, “guns” can’t be “the reason” Americans are more violent than their oft compared counterparts. I’d wager it’s something in the absolutely well known cocktail of economic disparity, general hopelessness, social isolation, instability abound, the pollution from chemical plants that led to our past serial killer problem (no really), and all the other factors that we know can contribute to more violence in a region.
It’s also more helpful to compare a country to itself, it’s possible factors other than “guns” can be the real reason. For instance, Japan may be less violent because they don’t have guns, or they may be less violent because they’re quietly an authoritarian police state that has police in your district inspect your house once a year “just in case” and they can hold you indefinitely if you’re simply suspected and can force confessions leading to a suspiciously high conviction rate (spoiler: false convictions). Without being able to force people to confess to crimes they didn’t do (legally, it does happen but it isn’t allowed), who knows how that’d work here.
So with that in mind, comparing America now to America then, violent crime in the US has dropped steadily since 1993; and gun ownership has only gone up in that same time, in 2004 our “assault weapons ban” expired and violent crime is still falling, despite public perceptions fueled by 24/7 news media and their “if it bleeds it leads” scaremongering for ad revenue, of course.
big if true
Numbers from elsewhere in the conversation.
They have school stabbings. UK & Germany have grooming gangs. Paris is the crime capital of Europe.
Please take your BS elsewhere.
The billionaires have really done a number on you guys. I live in the UK, and this dystopian view of my country being pushed by Musk etc and swallowed by people in the US is absolutely wild. Yes, there’s problems with immigration, but this idea that we’re some sort of Islamic state, overrun by knife-weilding jihadist peados is laughable. Source: I’VE FUCKING LIVED HERE FOR 48 YEARS.
You should watch less Fox News.
