Mainly out of your politeness I will see if I can avoid it unless I see it as absolutely necessary (as I did think so when watching people here support political violence towards their political opponent, which is terrorism and not ok. I do miss when 'the left*' at least pretended to be peaceful and 'when they go low we go high' whereas now there is so much hatred and violence from everyone directed towards opposing political spheres).
* In this instance I'm referring to the left wing general populous - in this instance practically all US left wing leaders condemned the Charlie Kirk attack it was just the followers that diverged with this opinion.
However, your assumption that I am ‘very far removed’ is not a good one. Why do you and others who continue to make this claim not see the impact the US culture and the US political situation has on the rest of the world? How often do you think I am in the United States? At this point if I could pretend you didn’t exist, never visit again and ignore the toxic right wing and left wing culture you keep exporting elsewhere I would. Sadly, I can’t. Yes it is scary, that is the point. And it’s gone from annoying to dangerous now. If your domestic affairs are domestic why can’t you keep it there and stop infecting us all with it? If you wish to be isolated from the rest of the world then you must first isolate yourself from the rest of the world.
I still of course appreciate that ultimately it is still more serious for you and I won't pretend otherwise. But I am asking to stop pretending that it isn't affecting others - genuinely if you don't know this I think you truly need to understand, empathise and appreciate what it is like to be in the western world where you have one mega dominant super power (the USA) at the top of it all whose people at both government and population levels are making demands of us, influencing us and policing us culturally that we never asked for, voted for or signed up to.
If I am going to be impacted by this I surely am not going to give up without a fight.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
Updated On: 2/7/26 at 04:45 AM