I know that I definitely have none of you on my timeline but just a friendly PSA to all conspiracy theorists out there insisting that this was all made up by the democrats.
I just. God. There is no aspect of this dumbass "is COVID real or is COVID that bad" debate that infuriates me more than this IT'S JUST A DEMOCRAT CONSPIRACY bullshit because oh my god.
When my uncle's 90 year old dad went into hospital (he managed to survive! Incredible!) it was definitely to trick some republicans halfway across the world. For sure.
Right? Imagine having covid in a country that's not America, being American, and having idiots online tell you that the suffering you're enduring is made up by a political party
He's not exactly my great-uncle cause that is one of the uncles that married into the family, but still! I've met him and his wife several times and they are really nice people. So I am super glad they made it.
It’s so awful.. I had a woman from Scotland in my stylist chair the other day and she’s like “I feel so bad for you.. all of this has brought out how idiotic Americans can be” cause she knew I was taking everything seriously.. I told her how embarrassed I was..
yeah, i tend to preface every interaction where Irish people ask where I'm from with "US, but ive been living in Europe for the past decade and never want to go back"
Another thing that the government “controls us” with is smoking areas, don’t use your cell phone here, etc.. but nobody thinks of it as control that way. Only social distancing. Why is that?
I hate how everything is political here. Who the hell started the whole “if you wear a mask you’re one way if you don’t you’re the other way” it makes me so mad
I have no doubt a lot of corrupt control happens in our government, but the virus is real and the scientists have worked hard to find out how we can be safe so why don’t we just try and be safe..
honestly the American system has needed to be torn down and rebuilt since it started, it's just so obviously in end times now that people on both sides are getting mad and it's so intentionally polarized with the two party system which is a fucking stupid form of government yeah i said it that pretty much everything is made political when it isnt
Hypothetically if it doesn’t work, ok so what, I’ve been “inconvenienced” for a few months, but if it works, then I’ve saved lives and prevented people getting sick and to me that’s far more important than MUH FREEDUMS or whatever horseshit these people are trying to prove
It’s like.. I enjoy living here and there are aspects about it I do like. But it needs so much fixing. So much fixing. Just easier to go somewhere else ig
yeah, i left originally because im type 1 diabetic and couldnt afford insulin and no other country in the world does that to its people so i was like nope fuck this place bye
with all my health issues and blindness its taking me forever to get through postgrad, so ive been chasing master's degrees for the past ten years which is the only reason i got to come to Europe. all on student loans but honestly id do it again in a heartbeat, im hundreds of thousands in medical debt anyway so loan debt is like...okay why not
The biggest thing with those particular heavy conservatives in the US (and most extremists anywhere) is they can only think of the world/other people outside of their immediate circle as theoretically existing. They’re not a solid reality to them. It’s an actual psychological development thing so no amount of insisting “You have to care about other people”
i guess its also mind-boggling for me how people can be so distrustful of the news. and have actual shitty news also i guess? but like we do have the gossipy unconfirmed shit magazines/shows but there's also the actual serious news-y news on tv that report on conflicts and shit and like it would never even occur to me to doubt what i hear on there
like obviously the whys and positive/negative light can be spun differently depending who's reporting and who's listening but if something was blown up it was blown up, if russia invaded ukraine then it invaded ukraine, etc
to the conspiracy nuts it's long been the mindset of Republicans vs the world and they're incapable of recognizing anything that isn't in front of their faces tbh
which is a fucking stupid form of government yeah i said itthat pretty much everything is made political when it isnt