• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    onlookers ignoring her pleas for help

    Yup. That’s America for you.

    Ten thousand shitposts about “9/11 would have been different if I’d been on the plane”. Then life gets real and you’re hiding under your seat.

    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      I mean. The Americans crowing like you’re describing (I’ve known many) treat cities like literal warzones and would absolutely not, in almost any scenario I can imagine, use public transit.

      They are so scared, all the time, of the most normal stuff.

      But also they somehow think people who live in cities, and who de facto navigate the supposed hellscape daily, are generally both foolish and weak. It’s an amazing knot of terminally unresolved internal tension, just like so much else of their neurotic (often at best) behavior.

      (To be fair getting stabbed to death by a random stranger is not normal stuff so their fear has a basis this time I guess, congrats, deeply broken clocks)