• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    2 days ago

    Imagine being from the US while your government is run by pedophiles who are turning the country into an authoritarian dictatorship. But meanwhile all you do is complain there’s nothing you can do about it, how you’re a victim (even though you voted for it or were stupid enough not to vote) while you defended the second amendment after yet another school shooting because you might need it in case of a tyrannical government. Keep in mind, the people who voted for the other option still voted for right wing, as there’s no left wing representation in that country, because apparently the left is such a tiny part of the population they don’t have any political representation.

    All dystopian fiction writers would say this story wouldn’t sell so wouldn’t be worth writing about, because it would be too far fetched. Americans: “hold my beer…”

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    292·
    3 days ago

    Imagine having fully operating concentration camps where people from all over the country is arbitrarily “detained” and put in, and just going about your day like usual.

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
          443·
          4 days ago

          The point is to demonstrate that Germany, Austria, Poland are not very far away from Ukraine. It compares the situation as described.

          Imagine living in Minnesota, living life as you are used to, while there is a war in Ohio

          • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            110·
            3 days ago

            Again, Ohio is part of the Midwest, so there’s no comparison being made. So it’s a poorly made point.

            • lad@programming.devEnglish
              23·
              3 days ago

              Oh, but isn’t everyone from the US? And even if you’re not, at least have decency to learn the relevant¹ geography in school

              ¹

              …relevant being the US, of course. But learning in school in the US seems to be largely unavailable

              /s

              • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                33·
                3 days ago

                Wow, so you resort to insults? Yea we’re done you, you win by being the first to resort to name calling.

                Why should anyone engage with your sophostry?

                • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  31·
                  3 days ago

                  Yea we’re done you, you win by being the first to resort to name calling

                  Man, you were so close to a coherent thought. Maybe a little less time looking up “sophostry” , and a little more time proofreading?

              • hector@lemmy.today
                327·
                3 days ago

                Don’t let a handful of half wits convince you your comment isn’t dumb and pointless. Regardless of your worthless contribution here, my point is living 500 miles away from something isn’t all that close. At least 500.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        3 days ago

        Ohio is officially counted as the eastern most Midwestern state. It has been for at least a century.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        51·
        3 days ago

        I see the Midwest as more of a cultural region than a physical one. Ohio and Indiana honestly both perfectly fit in with the Midwestern culture, so I welcome them into the “Midwestern” moniker

        Personally, I see the Midwest as a triangle with Ohio, Minnesota, and Missouri as the corners. Kentucky and Arkansas are too southern culturally (and honestly, the southern half of Missouri is too) Oklahoma is almost southwestern culturally, and Kansas, the Dakotas and Nebraska are very western culturally (and honestly Western Minnesota and Western Iowa are pretty Western culturally too)

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          Yeah the transappalachian great lakes region and the great plains. The real question is is west Pennsylvania midwestern

          • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            i don’t think you can be appalachian and midwestern, too. i think an argument can be made that the midwest is the mississippi and great lakes watersheds without mountains north of the missouri compromise line

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 days ago

              I agree, and I meant west of the Appalachians, not necessarily including them. This of course does make ohio weird as regardless the vast majority of it is past the mountains but a tiny bit brushes into the foothills.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
    111·
    3 days ago

    I’m in SW Romania. I can drive to Ukraine in a day.

    And yea, just kinda… living my life. Not much else I can do.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    If you drive from the east coast to the midwest and back, as I have, you’ll get a sense of how weirdly huge the United States is. There comes a point where your primitive monkey brain is confused that people still speak the same language.

  • Gork@sopuli.xyz
    521·
    4 days ago

    Isn’t just living in Ohio the same as being in an active warzone?

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      151·
      4 days ago

      Nah, more of a “crabs in a bucket” situation. Nobody wants to be here. A not-insubstantial amount of the population was either dumped out the gate of the nearest military base upon retirement or is otherwise descended from those that were.

    • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      As an Ohio resident that had 2 people pull a gun on me and someone firing off in an alley I was working in just last year alone, I’d say it’s getting close.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    The Midwest ends somewhere around poland/the northern Baltics in that map, I was under the impression that those areas have been freaked out.

  • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
    104·
    3 days ago

    We don’t have to imagine it. Across the border, right now the cartels are attacking the cities and setting them on fire. It’s not on the level of Russia attacking Ukraine, but still, a little unsettling.