Lord Wiggle

Doing nothing is ignorant compliance.

It may be a meme, but the US is both a joke and a train wreck run by incompetent clowns and scam artists. The easiest way to describe a dystopia is the US because even though the country was already extremely fucked up, Americans continue to find ways to make it even worse beyond anyone’s imagination. I wonder when Joe Exotic becomes president and by law everyone needs to have a pet tiger. It wasn’t possible because he’s in jail, but since recently convicted criminals are allowed to become president. Or maybe it will continue to head towards The Handmaid’s Tale. Let’s place bets!

Well, many Americans indeed are illiterate, and this is going to become even worse with Trump and DOGE destroying the education system. But the current system is shit as well, the level of education lacks behind compared to other western countries by far. And then there’s the unregulated homeschooling in many states, which religious nut jobs, flat earthers and other conspiracy idiots love to do. Most Americans only speak one language and only learn about the US and it’s history while skipping the rest of the world. Many don’t even know where the UK is on a world map. Even your vice president didn’t know where Greenland was, that it’s close to the north pole and fucking cold. There are loads of videos of interviews with random people on the street where the average person can’t even tell how many sides a triangle has.

In the movie Idiocracy they predict the world to be extremily dumb in the year 2505 but Americans probably thought this was a goal to work towards, and had trouble reading “2505” and thought it was 2025.

This is the opposite of hangouts with my friends. Why would you come by car, you cannot drink then. All my friends come by bike. Cycling while drunk is no issue, as long as there’s proper cycling infrastructure like in The Netherlands where I live. Sometimes there’s someone stupid enough to come by car, they have to pay 7 euros per hour parking fees and have to stay sober all night. But most of my friends don’t even have a car and live within 2km cycling distance. Others who live further away take the train.

But at what cost.

Fines are so the ultra rich and mega corps have more freedom than others. Rules do not apply to them, they pay for it which is far less than their profits. Fines do not hurt them, it allows them to make more money than smaller competition.