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  • The problem is that so many of us INSIDE the US still sleep like that, especially the ones who match homer’s kind of “dopey white middle aged boomer dad who raised a family on a single factory job” demographic.

    I match some of those demographics, like the dopey white middle aged USAmerican dad raising a family with his one income. I don’t match him in other areas because I am an over-educated tech worker living in an old cheap blue collar neighborhood to make it happen in current day.

    I am extremely unhappy and embarrassed about just about every single thing that has my country is in the news, to say the least. It makes me sad and worried for the entire world. Giving a shit about other people while evil morons are grabbing power will do that to you.

    But for people who look like me and don’t follow what’s going on in the world or care about other people? My day to day real life in my local physical environment is comfortable and privileged as hell, and so is a lot of theirs.

    Combine that with our culture where a “successful” life is constant stress over the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses, so that you are worried about making the payments on your luxury SUV rather than whether your government is destroying people you don’t know while funneling your resources to people who already have 1000x more than you.

  • I didn’t choose to be born here and wish I was born somewhere where I wasn’t constantly fearing for what tomorrow could bring. But since I was born here I have to figure out a way to navigate this shit show of a country till I can flee

    • Same. And most of us are kept too broke to be able to feasibly move away anyways.

  • Thinking about the USA right now too much doesn't lead to any good sleep for me at all right now. Because there's bad things happening to good people there. I feel awful for the actual decent people that share a country with cruel and dogmatic clowns. People who probably live next door to someone who voted to ensure their rights get taken away and their lives become even more miserable.

    I honestly struggle to come to terms with the fact so many people are still so cruel and backwards. It's not the stupidity that's the main problem, it's the malicious intent and desire to turn everyone into a goose stepping clone. And how easily people are turned into goose stepping clones. Conned by reality stars and drug addicted tech bros, what a joke. I think it's part stupidity and part the fact that these people really are just malicious assholes, so they could've been convinced into this by a talking toilet brush mascot.

    I feel sorry for the intelligent and empathic, and the people who dare to live lives that are true to themselves without dogma who have to live in a country with the stupid and selfish, and the people who want to impose their narrow minded puritanical views onto everyone else with force and cruelty.

    I'll be sleeping like a baby when the goose stepping clowns are all dying of some easily preventable disease that they could've vaccinated for but right now there's nothing comforting about what's going on there.

  • The opposite: "I remember as a child: I used to sleep. ... But not anymore. In fact, I don't even dream. What am I talking about‽ I don't even sleep!"

    (Magmanamus, from Dial M For Monkey)

    How I sleep knowing I live in America and I never won't

    • I haven't "dreamed" in so many years ( close to 7 now ) it must be unhealthy, doesn't matter if I sleep 3 hoursor 12, no dreams ( atleast one's I can remember )

      • Similar here. I rarely dream (and typically not very vividly even when so). It could be because my sleep quality is poor (sleep stages likely impacted due to autonomic issues, and it's possible that I need something like CPAP) then again I also have aphantasia.

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