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I'm gonna go ahead and assume that you are talking about Americans in the sense of the Americans who live in the USA.
God-damnit guys, not everything is about you.
Now, I don't know if USA inhabitants are not ready to hear it, but certainly Lemmy USA residents are not.
Like it or not, you guys have a GREAT COUNTRY in the USA
Worldwide, people envy you. The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.
For God's sake, people are literally willing to kill themselves trying to reach your country, to have an atom of freedom that you guys squander with petty squabbles.
No USA proper citizen has ever been in the need so dire to escape the USA that they need to build a raft to risk their lives to go anywhere from their Homeland.
For that same reason, collectivists worldwide hate you and your country with undying hate. Because you (as in your society) don't need them. And they do need you. And they resent this so much, that they're willing to destroy you all just to stop that from being true.
You guys have lived so cozy and accommodated lives, thanks to the disrespected sacrifices made willingly by millions that you are bored out of your minds.
So much in fact, that with a little nudge from the collectivists worldwide seeking your destruction, you yourselves plunge willingly into the chaos of unmaking by allowing the collectivist mindset to pollute your youngest.
Make no mistake, the USA will keep growing and thriving, like it or not.
But not thanks to your internal or external enemies. That's for sure.
Edit: the upvote to downvote ratio tells me I followed the post premise to a T
The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.
Sorry but this is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever read.
I grew up in an area of the US with poverty issues and now live in Europe. The lives of poor Americans are so much worse than where I live now (central europe) that it's almost hard to fathom. Poverty in the US is systematically CRUSHING and can be near impossible to escape. It's a soul-destroying existence...
There are certainly places which are worse, but we just don't have that here in Europe to nearly the same extent! I'm far from rich, but life is much nicer here...
Where exactly (both Europe and origin) if I may ask? Just curious.
Grew up in the rural northwest US, been living the last decade-ish in Germany, Austria, UK.
All of these places have rich and poor, but the poorest in the US have it sooooo much worse than those in the other countries I mentioned.
OK, thanks for the reply. I don't know why, but I expected more like south east of US... Also wondered whether you moved "behind iron curtain" or not.
People in poorer countries are scrabbling to get to the USA, risking life and limb doing so, because the USA is good at advertising they are an amazing and free country.
In reality the US is a complete shithole, and in many ways just like a third world country.
Worldwide, people envy you. The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.
It's one thing to exaggerate or to fall for propaganda, but this is a ridiculous statement.
- The richest of many, many countries have more rights and possibilities than 90+% of the USA.
- A whole percent of the USA is incarcerated, and according to their constitution, legal slaves, many performing labor in for-profit prisons.
- According to the UN HRC 2018 report, “5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty”. In two of the visited states, "a high proportion of the population is not served by public sewerage and water supply services".
This is not a country which has had mainland wars in the last century. This is the country creating those asylum seekers on rafts through their imperial wars.
Waaahwaaah, collectivists bad, i must sacrifice more orphans to the orphan crushing machine, otherwise profits will go down :((((
I cannot believe this post is getting upvotes. There's certainly advantages to living in the US, and people do move here seeking a better life. Neither of those statements make this country "great". It's "great" for a very particular demographic of people, white men - especially wealthy white men. If you're any racial minority, or are queer, police violence is very common. If you have a uterus, your reproductive rights are being targeted. Our health care system in general is completely broken and doesn't take care of people. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck barely getting by, while our politicians squabble over trans people using restrooms to keep us distracted and hostile to one another. I'd like to know what "freedoms" we have that the rest of the world doesn't. There are certainly a lot of places worse than this - but that doesn't make the US an even remotely good place to live. It's work for the corporate overlords, or die, for most of us - whether we recognize it or not. If you can't work because of a disability? Well, you're pretty screwed.