[-] obvs@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

The political left in the U.S. often aligns more closely with the center or even the moderate right in European countries, due to America’s overall more conservative political spectrum.

That's a misconception. The political parties are owned by the same billionaires, and they never allow farther left candidates to be nominated.

The politicians themselfs are right-leaning. That doesn't mean the people actually are. There is huge support for left-leaning policies in the United States, but the people in the U.S. have effectively no ability to get policy passed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&t=1&v=5tu32CCA_Ig

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You overestimate the U.S. citizens' ability to influence the U.S. Government. It is not a democracy and has not been at least for my whole life. People in the U.S. have effectively no control over laws that get passed.

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Oh no! It looks like they have their 51st state!

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Do you prioritize not having illegal status in another country over your own ability to stay alive and stay safe?

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Bring more people to the protests. Don't stop now.

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Parrots can mimic humans too, but they don’t understand what we’re saying the way we do.

It's interesting how humanity thinks that humans are smarter than animals, but that the benchmark it uses for animals' intelligence is how well they do an imitation of an animal with a different type of brain.

As if humanity succeeds in imitating other animals and communicating in their languages or about the subjects that they find important.

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The United States would be better with a lot more toasters.

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

German population density map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_density_in_Germany.png

U.S. population density map: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:US_population_map.png

1 square mile is about 2.6 square km, so 2500 people in one square km is about 6500 people per square mile.

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

21 has been overestimated.

obvs

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