I have friends who are AmericaN, but America scares me at the moment. Last week, the amount of MAGA hats I saw here was amazing - "Make America Go Away." I thought they were "Make Albo..." hats, but, no, America.
Australia has threatened the US with cutting off access to Pine Gap. Then what? I have heard US people say Australia should be another state. And I have a friend working at Sydney airport. He says that you'd get one USian a week coming through with a gun in their luggage. Now it's more than 1 a day. because apparently they think US laws now apply everywhere.
As you said - not all Americans. Far from it. But he was voted in (granted, with 38% of the available vote) but if others didn't like it, they should have made more noise about voting the other way...
Meanwhile I'm over here stuck on the 200mg of caffeine. If I had that much caffeine I wouldn't be able to leave my bed because my heart would go into overdrive!
It certainly appears, particularly in the US (coming from my own perspective and I could be wrong about this), that there isn't a lot to laugh about. The pandemic, war in Europe and mass shootings are definitely a cause for concern, but I do wonder if these tragic events are reflected in the moods of the population at large.
Comedy tends to show up as black humor in various nooks and crannies of Instagram, at least from my perspective. That black humor is often linked to the more somber aspects of life. I even come across jokes that tie back to mass shootings (an event I'm starting to see get less and less press coverage as time goes by). So...it depends on the type of humor and the platform where it's being displayed.
Personally, I prefer my humor either super dry or ultra pervy. There's not a lot of middle ground. And sometimes I can combine the two. This could be a sign I watch too many British YouTubers, though. Such is life.
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