I don't think anything I've seen so perfectly captures why there's no way the US is going to be getting on top of COVID-19 pandemic anytime soon. pic.twitter.com/Sa0WNYyYs6
— Cassandra of Troy (@BrynnTannehill) June 28, 2020
In den USA ist man ja stets darum bemüht, alles ein bisschen größer als überall anders auf der Welt zu machen. Seit 2020 wissen wir, dass das nicht nur für Burger und Hollywoodfilme gilt, sondern auch für Pandemien (und Rassismus). Erst bewaffnen sich Rednecks gegen ein Virus bzw. für ihr Recht auf eine fesche Frisur, mittlerweile ist die Zahl der aktiven Fälle in einigen Bundesstaaten höher als in ganz Europa und trotzdem tragen viele Amis keine Maske, sondern lieber eine große Corona-Dauerwelle. Oder verschließen mit einem Mundschutz die Augen vor der exponentiell wachsenden Shit-Show. Und dann sitzt da ja auch noch ein scheinbar seniler Vollidiot im Weißen Haus, der ernsthaft Desinfektionsmittelspritzen als Lösung vorgeschlagen hat.
Größer als sonst war aber nicht nur die Zahl der Facepalms, die Trump verursacht hat, sondern auch die Zahl der Tweets aus den USA, die in den letzten sehr ereignisreichen Wochen in meine Timeline geslidet sind. Und damit ihr nicht den Eindruck bekommt, dass es im Amiland nur dumme Donalds und kaputte Karens gibt, hier mal ein paar meiner Favoriten (American Twittwoch):
Imagine living in a country that it took months to respond to a pandemic and seconds to militarize the police against its citizens
— Solomon Georgio (@solomongeorgio) June 3, 2020
How are you gonna say All Lives Matter when just two months ago you wanted to sacrifice your grandma for the economy?
— Ste-fawn (@sdellag) June 4, 2020
White people: we want a haircut.
Gov’t: Done.
Black people: don’t strangle us to death.
Gov’t: that’s kind of a big ask.— Kashana (@kashanacauley) May 30, 2020
Those who have stayed inside, wore masks in public, and socially distanced during this entire pandemic are the same people who are used to doing the whole group project by themselves
— L🍎🧢 (@7eandra) June 27, 2020
Anybody have any big plans for the weekend? I’m gonna STAY THE FUCK HOME & not kill people! Anyone wanna join?
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) June 27, 2020
Any zombie movie that doesn't have hordes of people running towards the zombies to deliberately get bitten because they're convinced it's a liberal hoax is going to look pretty unrealistic now.
— SlothHammer 40K (@CaseyExplosion) June 27, 2020
Why are people scared of the riots and looting?
The flu kills way more people every year.
— Tall Paul (@TallPaul612) June 3, 2020
Racism and Covid-19 aren’t going away just because you’re tired of hearing about them.
— Krystina Arielle 🦖 (@KrystinaArielle) June 24, 2020
Yep it’s all fake. The entire world shut down and ruined their economies, just to make you wear a mask because you’re so ugly.
— Jasmin (@SinCityJazz) June 24, 2020
We are living in;
A) 1984
B) That Movie Idiocracy
C) An Episode of Black Mirror
D) A Season Of South Park
E) All of the Above
— Ben Larrabee (@Ben_Larrabee) June 21, 2020
I joined twitter to share and read scientific papers and now I’m an anarchist
— Ivan Alcantara (@ivancedric_a) June 12, 2020
Now I be like “oh fuck i forgot my mask” like im spiderman or something
— Neal Owusu (@neal_thatdude) June 9, 2020
BREAKING: Man who thinks a mask makes him look weak is now hiding in a bunker.
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) June 1, 2020
Gee, what other dictator ended up hiding in a bunker? #BunkerBoy
— chaplinlives (@chaplinlives) June 1, 2020
jk rowling woke up this morning, looked out her window at a world where police are murdering unarmed black civilians, a deadly plague is ravaging the population, and fascism is on the rise, and thought “im gonna shit on trans people today”
— deandra🦇warrick (@deeeeewarrick) June 6, 2020
please remember come election time that as 100,000 people died, our current president golfed. https://t.co/B5RYtmSKBG
— Lane Moore (@hellolanemoore) May 24, 2020
Black Mirror really outdid themselves this time. Having us EXPERIENCE season 6 instead of watching it on Netflix? Remarkable really
— New Army On The Block⁷ (@Krystiiiina) June 1, 2020
America, where the police couldn’t even stop doing police brutality at police brutality protests.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) June 3, 2020
IT TOOK ALL 50 STATES, THE AMISH, KPOP STANS, 13 OTHER COUNTRIES, WITCHES, ANONYMOUS, THE LGBT COMMUNITY, CELEBRITIES, STAN TWITTER, PEOPLE OF COLOR, WHITE ALLIES & BATMAN TO GET 2ND DEGREE MURDER AND THE THREE COPS ARRESTED AND WE HAD THE PRESIDENT & MILITARY AGAINST US, MY GOD
— ♛ Miranda Priestly (BLM) ♛ (@rauhling_bizzle) June 3, 2020
Sept 11th, I’m wearing a shirt that says “All Buildings Matter”
— Wise King (@KingBraize) June 3, 2020
Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice
— Andy Milonakis (@andymilonakis) May 30, 2020
Every other basic response: “We stand with our black employees :)”
Ben & Jerry’s: “WE GOTTA FUCKIN SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY. FUCK THE KKK AND FUCK YOU. BLACK LIVES MATTER. OUR NEW FLAVOR IS CALLED FUCK THE POLICE. ITS GOT BLUEBERRIES”— ✦ 𝘷𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 ✦ (@heavensxgate) June 3, 2020
It’s not white vs black, it’s everybody vs racists
— RomeAlone2 (@Alone2Rome) May 28, 2020
I guess complaining about fake news while sharing fake news about fake news is that next level 4D chess everyone’s talking bout
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 19, 2020
conservatives a month ago: “why should we listen to the government and stay home? you are all sheep, this is a free country!”
conservatives today: “if you just follow the government mandated curfew, the paramilitary police stormtroopers won’t shoot you in the face, it’s simple”
— Crisp (@heycrisp) June 2, 2020
If I woke up tomorrow and my boss told me that today at my job I had to shoot rubber bullets and throw tear gas at people protesting racism because one of my coworkers killed someone in cold blood, I would simply quit that job and do something useful like stock grocery shelves.
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) June 1, 2020
My conspiracy theory is that time travel IS real & someone keeps trying to fix 2020 by changing something but every time they do, they unwittingly make it worse. How else do you explain the sudden disappearance of murder hornets? They saved us from those but at what cost?!?!
— Chantal KC (@NSLCpunk) June 24, 2020
The richest 400 Americans sit on $3 trillion—the size of the entire UK economy.
The billionaire class now pays a lower tax rate than people living paycheck to paycheck.
The looting of America has been going on for over 40 years—and the culprits are the ultra-rich.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 1, 2020