this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
611 points (99.4% liked)

World News

51959 readers
2838 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Archive link
Btw they're sold out at the moment... go figure...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

American here, and one who grew up in what is now trump country. Well, I guess I still live in a republican area now, but I started out rural.

Your conclusion about how the society as a whole is sick is 100% spot on.

I don't do much international travel, but I did get to spend a little bit of time in europe in the past couple years. Most of it in scandinavia of all places!

The difference is crazy, even not counting all this recent crazy shit. On the surface things look similar. But being immersed in it let all the little details sink in simultaneously.

There's an air of dignity and respect that I am just not used to in american society. Even just the instances of "we couldn't have that, somebody would immediately ruin it" were constant.