I’ve heard wild takes on Louisville, Spokane, Boise, La Jolla, and Mackinac. Drop your city/town, the common wrong version, and the correct local pronunciation (phonetic spellings welcome!).

January..

via https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/27/shooting-reported-at-church-in-minneapolis-suspect-contained-city-says

I’m Latino, and since I was little I’ve watched the series that come from your country, like Malcolm in the Middle, The Simpsons, or The Amazing World of Gumball, and I’ve always noticed that it’s very common to see the same stereotype of American families repeated: the father who is an idiot dependent on the mother, a child (usually the daughter) who is a genius, other children who are also idiots, and the mother as the head of the family. Why is this cliché repeated so much? Are typical American families really like that?

@courttvlive

I’m not sure this is the right subreddit but I checked the rules and couldn’t see anything agesnt it. I’m just wondering: As the USA is so big dose it still feel like the same country when u go from one side to the other? as for here for example the accent’s and culture changes when u drive to the next town lol. Are drugs like fent, crack and heroin actually a massive problem over there or is it more just a tv thing. And finally when u have elections do u vote in a local representative or just a state representative who runs under a guy going for president as in England we elect a local pm who then works under a party but there’s like 213 or something across the hole country plus we even have even more local vote for a different house of parliament

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

This has been the GOP’s mantra for over 50 years and Trump has turned it into an art form. While the party’s tax and anti-union policies have transferred at least $50 trillion from the middle class into the money bins of the morbidly rich just since Reagan’s inauguration, Trump has a extracted several billion dollars for himself and his family by exploiting the presidency.

Trump-loving white racists continue to vote for the party because he’s working so hard to disempower women and Black people while pushing brown people out of the country or throwing them into concentration camps.

Do we have the Epstein files yet?

@i_like_pinball

Just seven months ago, the federal agency I work for used to pride itself on being one of the best places to work in government and took the employee surveys pretty seriously...now, I highly doubt that they will even go through the effort of sending them out.

I mean they stripped the huge incentive of telework away from everyone, guaranteed no end of year performance reviews above mediocre despite the fact that everyone left has taken on 50-80% more workload, and any sense of transparency from management has been completely eliminated...why in the hell would they seek out whether people left still working here are happy with their jobs??? Results obviously would be in the shitter. The only way I think they might is that they might get off on seeing how unhappy everyone is...that's truly a possibility with these people.

The agency I worked hard to get to is now just another American shithole to work at. People who celebrate government workers who've worked hard throughout their careers to earn a position that actually offered incentives and work life balance being senselessly stripped away from them just so they are forced to match the rest of America's misery is just dumb. Shouldn't we all fight together for the working class against the misery pushing machine rather than just settling for the notion "well, if I have to be miserable then they should too because my tax dollars pay their salary"???

News flash people, government workers pay the same income tax as everyone else...I am just so sick of it all. So sick of the people in power taking pride in promoting people's misery so they can become more profitable and not share any of it. Private sector does nothing better other than rip people off. Cut corners and exploit the shit out of our workforce to maximize profits baby! It's disgusting.

The worst part about all of this for me personally is that my children have all been negatively impacted by this monstrosity we've been forced into. The oldest is just seven and they see how nonsensical and cruel this all is. They don't like seeing me so run down and are sad and upset that their lives have been negatively impacted too. They ask me daily now when I am going to just quit. I am getting closer everyday...but life and my stubborn/fighting side holds me back. Also, it seems that places of employment that used to offer work life balance incentives are dropping like flies...soo it's not like finding an unshitty job will be very possible these days.

The way that the public has reacted to the treatment of the federal workforce makes me convinced that over all Americans would rather celebrate losses of others and have others join in their misery rather than unite to fight for a better life for us all.

This video gives me hope that we are. It discusses how the US has gone through phases before of turmoil followed by rapid change for the better and argues that we are the beginning of one of those cycles now.

The Kremlin has been quicker than the White House to provide several details on the meeting between Putin and Trump.

Russia puts out backstage video seemingly featuring Trump and Putin buddying up after their public remarks.

Experts warn that Putin is a master manipulator as well as a war criminal, but Trump has boasted of his close relationship with the Russian president as talks reportedly continue.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kremlin-leaks-footage-showing-trump-023459221.html

Robert John "RJ" May III, a Republican South Carolina state Representative who once vowed to "protect" children from LGBTQ+ people, has officially resigned following his arrest for distributing sexual abuse material involving children.

The GOP are ALL pedophiles in one way or another. They're the swamp!

https://youtu.be/7Y8RVIqgXIU?si=E7R7k_A9Mnlx6Es5

Russia and Putin are not our friends. They have never been our friends. Giving Putin a bully pulpit to air his grievances against Ukraine, when he callously invaded a sovereign nation is capitulation by our liar in chief and a disgrace.

If people aren’t allowed to peacefully protest and the elections are being rigged through gerrymandering and voter suppression, how are Americans supposed to respond when they figure out their lives are being actively destroyed by a corrupt, fascist government?

The Pentagon at the behest of Trump plans to create a standing force of military personnel that could be rapidly deployed to US cities or communities to quell public protests or any situation President Donald Trump deems “domestic civil unrest" aka the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force.”

The plan includes using Title 32, to authorize the deployment of specialized National Guard units anywhere in the country within hours.

According to The Washington Post:

"The plan calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour, the documents say. They would be split into two groups of 300 and stationed at military bases in Alabama and Arizona, with purview of regions east and west of the Mississippi River, respectively."

The US military should never be used against peaceful civilians. Routine military participation in law enforcement is NOT NORMAL.

Phase 2 of the Dictatorship continues.

Looks like sending the National Guard along with federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C. to "fight crime", Trump thought US troops would blindly obey his orders if there are military-civilian confrontations.

When a sitting commander in chief authorizes acts like these (for the first time ever), which many assert are clear violations of the law, men and women in uniform face an ethical dilemma: How should they respond to an order they believe is illegal? Fighting and attacking our own people, civilians, is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all but.

While troops are conditioned to obey orders, many service members do understand the distinction between legal and illegal orders, the duty to disobey certain orders, and when they should disobey orders.

US service members take an oath to uphold the Constitution. In addition, under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the US Manual for Courts-Martial, service members must obey lawful orders and disobey unlawful orders. Unlawful orders are those that clearly violate the Constitution, international human rights standards or the Geneva Conventions.

The majority of service members know that targeting non-combatants, isn't just illegal, it's immoral. As military personnel, they have a duty to uphold the law and refuse commands that betray that duty. They're ready to disobey.

Thoughts?

Examples of his RIDICULOUS point include a teenager or a RETIRED person working for income they don't technically need to survive.

Bro, if a RETIRED person still NEEDS to work, they obviously NEED TO SURVIVE!

Logically, people NEED to make enough money to live, support kids, bills, etc. If people who work full-time do not earn enough for them to live on, how are they supposed to survive? $7.25/hour is NOT an acceptable pay rate for anyone!

Any full-time job should have a wage that is able to be lived off of, because whoever is working that job is doing so TO MAKE A LIVING. Traditional teenager jobs, like babysitting or cashiers jobs are NOT intended to actually support a family. These jobs are now sadly occupied by people who do NEED them to support families and SURVIVE.

Public service should be a minimum wage job. You're supposed to be sacrificing your time and effort for the greater good. So let's start enforcing that instead.

The dictator will "ask" Congress for “long-term” control of Washington DC’s police department and he expects to take over other Democratic-led cities.

Because only Democratic-led cities are the problem 🙃

As expected, the deployment of national guard troops and federal agents into the capital was only a dry run. He tested the water and the water is warm.

Nobody will stop him because everyone is so scared of him. It appears that the US has effectively ended as we knew it. We're a dictatorship ship now. A banana republic with a decorative Constitution that no longer applies and and equally decorative Congress. Criminals rule this country now.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/mayor-dc-trump-national-guard