r/AskUS

So I suddenly got curious about this after scrolling through reddit as one does and posed this question to google gemini. I expected bots to have an impact but Reality Apathy is a word that really put to term something I felt but didn't know how to explain. It also drew my mind to the growing nativist and isolationist movement spearheaded by the likes of JD Vance but which has points supported even on the political left. It got me wondering if that was the point of it all, to exhaust Americans enough that they turn their back on the world rather than having to confront the US directly.

What are your thoughts on this and Americans, how do you feel about all the negativity directed towards you &/or the country?

Last night July 4th through July 5th Trump posted at a rate of nearly one message per minute between 11:12 a.m. and 1:14 p.m., repeatedly airing the same grievances and complaints.
Yet his cabinet is not invoking the 25th Amendment due to medical incompetence due to mental illness.

You guys don't own:

1. Your movies
2. Your video games
3. Your music
4. Your computers
5. Your phones
6. Your cars
7. Your personal security

Everything you guys buy, from printers to razors, is locked into an ecosystem that big daddy owns.

It appears that your capitalists don't believe in personal property. And your government doesn't either.

All that time fighting communism, because it doesn't allow you to have private property, and you guys aren't even allowed to own your own shit.

By the way... Happy 4th! Have a good freedom day.

So apparently the White House called up FIFA president Gianni Infantino personally to "review" Balogun's red card after the Bosnia match. Ban gets suspended days later. Trump takes a victory lap on Truth Social thanking FIFA for "reversing a great injustice."

Am I the only one who finds this insane? This isn't some random ref controversy. This is the sitting President of the United States picking up the phone to lean on the head of an international sports organization he's cozy with (free tickets, a literal "peace prize" Infantino invented and gave him), to get a ruling changed in favor of the host nation's team. During a World Cup the US is hosting.

FIFA says the disciplinary panel decided "independently." Sure. Convenient timing though, right?

I'm asking:

Does this taint anything Team USA accomplishes in this tournament, whether Balogun's phone call had any actual effect or not?

Is this just how the US operates now, home field advantage isn't enough, we need presidential lobbying too?

I honestly thought we had courageous patriots in this country that would never allow what he’s done to occur.

Hi everyone, I am writing this from India with a lot of concern. My sister's fiancé’s sister, [Sunita H/O Prashant ], lives/works in Fontana (she was previously in Orange County).

We haven't been able to reach her for the last 32+ hours. Her phone seems to be unreachable/unresponsive, which is very unusual for her.

She is around [ 43 ] years old, have twins child and husbands

If anyone knows her, has seen her recently, or can suggest the best way to contact local authorities/apartments in Fontana for a quick welfare check, please let me know or DM me directly. We are getting very worried back home.

Thank you so much for your help!

Hey! So, briefly, I am an immigrant doctor taking a gap year to do research in the USA and planning to start residency soon. Actually, I am in West Virginia now. I discovered I can not stay here anymore, it is literally a dead state with zero chance of dating a high-quality girl or living a good and normal social life, ppl are so nice everywhere, but this is just a facade; in reality, nobody wants to talk to me, and nobody is intresting in knowing me. I can feel that once I ivisit big cities and start to feel there is some life, I feel myself. I am going to fix my life from this pain. Thinking of going to goto Houston, Texas, Dallas, or California, I wanna your suggestion on which state, county, has a good financial, social life, high quality ppl, and a good neighborhood to live in the USA.

I was struck by members of a particular sub claiming to be just fine with Trump's crypto grift, foreign entanglements, and insider trading. It seems there is absolutely nothing they won't defend, as long as it is done by Trump. These are people who were up in arms about Hunter Biden and the supposed "Biden Crime Family," people who wanted Nancy Pelosi impeached for stock trading--but they are offering full-throated defense of Trump's corruption.

It got me thinking that this is less about objective reality and more about not wanting to admit they were fools for being the marks of a lifelong conman. They can't take the ego hit of admitting Trump was bad when they wrap themselves head to toe in Trump gear and have made MAGA a core part of their identity.

What do you think is going on?

When confronted many of them will say "What, I'm going to vote for Kamala" but this cult-like devotion is not the same as voting for the lesser of two evils.

Interested in hearing about people’s experiences. Do you wish you could go back?

I often see people in TV shows walking into their homes without taking their shoes off. Do you guys really do that in real life?

How come we don't?