All fun and games until a piece of space junk knocks into the satellite and you accidentally cut through the Dutch sea wall.

Ok come up with something that’s better and just as practical.

Of course he is.

Lol… Kamelåså

Don’t talk with your mouth full!

You can do your bit by buying locally produced drugs. You’ll also be supporting the community by creating work for American criminals.

Of course numbers per capita make more sense. That’s been my point the whole time. I’m not trying to gaslight anyone. And you know sometimes the USA needs to be reminded that they aren’t “all that”, because apparently American exceptionalism extends to arguing about protest turn out with random people online.

You realise that Donald kiddie fiddler Trump isn’t the president of Scotland right? He’s objectively your fucking problem. You ought to be grateful for any foreign countries who want to help out. I never said there were proportionally more people protesting in Scotland.

If you look back at the comments, I’ve only ever argued with your position that any country that doesn’t field 5M protesters isn’t outperforming the states. Which, by the way, is still some grade A stupidity. I’ve no fucking idea how many people showed up, but as previously mentioned trump is definitely more of a problem for the USA than anyone else so I genuinely wouldn’t expect that many to show up.

However if the first minister of Scotland did even half the shit trump’s done, Edinburgh would fucking burn with the riots.

Protests are measured in raw numbers because if you said 1.4% of the population of the usa gave enough of a fuck to turn up, it would show just how little you people care about What’s happening in your country. And if you compare that to the protests Georgians had about the Russification of their government, they had raw numbers of around 169000 at the low end, but that’s over 4% of their population. So yeah if you want your passive population to seem politically engaged, by all means use the raw numbers, but nobody’s impressed when the survival of your country is on the line and only 1.4% can be bothered showing up.

Yes Scotland has a population of approx 5.5M so in order to have a higher percentage of the population protesting they’d need to have 80K people take to the streets just like Greenland would need 760 people to outperform the states.

Actually the EU is forcing standardization of electronic devices.

I pay for my parents to visit me instead.

Stop going to the usa on holiday. Its not worth it.

Which is probably why they haven’t tried to make contact. “Oh look! It’s a planet full of fundamentalist chimps with nuclear weapons” “should we pop over and say hi?” “Nah, fuck that noise!”

China is doing very well for themselves but they aren’t making donations. They’re selling things at market value and buying ridiculously discounted oil in return.

Don’t hate me. A man’s gotta eat!

The EU is bankrolling Ukraine, Russia has no friends and no money. Ukraine will easily outlast Russia. They just need to stay put and keep defending their positions while taking out Russia’s capacity to attack.

This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.

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