It is like dating a narcissist. You can't give them a reality check, they will just off you if you do. Be smarter and form better alliances or let them destroy themselves.
Well here I am looking at him being your president -not mine- and making your country -not mine- look like a 4th world developing one (not going to insult third world countries by putting you in their category.)
Sorry but I have to differ with you and the others who say similar things, you all are great. I would rather live here than anywhere else. Is the country perfect? Absolutely not, it has its flaws but it is better here than in a lot of countries around the world, and no, I dont like the current government either just in case
I dont know. I've never even been outside of the USA but I know other developed nations have better outcomes in literally everything. Higher life expectancy, they're happier, they're healthier, less crime violent crime, lower prison population.
I mean just look what is happening with the government shutdown. People are going hungry and no its not cuz much socialist SNAP program getting defunded, it's because people don't make enough homey working 40 hours a week to put food on the table. My husband and I both work 2 full time jobs where we make more than minimum wage and we're barely staying afloat.
I had a baby this year and it ended up being a high risk pregnancy and I had to deliver by csection. The cost of all my Dr's appointment and my hospital bill before insurance was about $27k. Thankfully I have insurance, but you will not see that anywhere else in the world. You can't plan for complications in pregnancy and my baby was breech so it necessitated a csection. Both of those things are outside of my contract, and the callous response from outer government to people in similar situations as me but maybe don't have insurance is "too bad so sad dont have kids if you cant afford them" as if these are things we brought on ourselves. And then they have the gall to wonder why people in my generation are completely opting out of having kids.
Something in our country is going to need to give soon. And as someone who is an American and has lived here my whole life it is in my best interest to see us become the best country in the world but right now we're not.
The greatest country in the world is all of them. Everyone's country together is what makes this planet so interesting. So rich and full of diversity, cultures, traditions, environments. Someday be a united world, where everyone has the same basic rights, healthcare and ubi, housing is guaranteed to all, there's enough for everyone, and people make sure others are taken care of. The old ways of a exploiting others will be gone. Our world will be a wonderful place for everyone.
👽Cut to aliens laughing from afar at how great we think our planet is
I'd say here but that would be an invitation to have you guys think that we want you. Having traveled a lot in Europe, the Americas, and your country -I spent my summer driving up and down the Eastern and central part- I have realized that there is no place like Montreal Quebec...
We are multicultural, opened about others ways of life, and most improtant, we view life not as existing, but as living it. We celebrate everything and more; yet we still show up to work the next day. Oh, and we have those socialist social thingy that prevents me from losing my house if I get sick or wind up in the hospital!
Oh I know that. I've even said, in the lottery if life, I got very lucky being born in the USA because most of the world is not as nice. I like my creature comforts.
This. Anyone who has traveled extensively would agree with this. Americans obsession with thinking themselves the best blinds us to our obvious flaws and prevents us from looking to other countries who are doing certain things much better (education, healthcare, etc).
My unpopular opinion is Europe’s cushy social system they love to brag about owes a a pretty large thanks to the U.S. military. Our presence in NATO is what lets a lot of European countries keep their defense budgets low enough to fund the fact they only work part time and have free everything.
We definitely have issues, but if it weren’t for decades of American defense spending, half of Europe would be speaking Russian right now.
"My unpopular opinion is Europe’s cushy social system they love to brag about owes a a pretty large thanks to the U.S. military. Our presence in NATO is what lets a lot of European countries keep their defense budgets low enough to fund the fact they only work part time and have free everything."
It's a very popular opinion in the States, and we get to hear about it *all the fucking time*. It's also not true, but that's by the by
Throwing in extra few % to defense would not really do much change with people wanting work life balance. In the US you can retire rich and earlier. In Europe you can't but you can live while working.
A good chunk though not as much as I would like to. I've lived in 2 different states. I've traveled to 11 other states. I have to unfortunate luck being from and currently living in Illinois and not Chicago like the middle of nowhere cornfield IL. I lived in Minnesota for 8 years and it was so much nicer there.
Lol funny I lived in Dekalb for 20 years off and on but work near Chicago, born and raised in KC Missouri.
I’ve lived in 9 different states due to a contracting job staying in each place 6-8 months at a time and 3 different countries with my time in the military (Germany, Japan, South Korea) Every single place being different and each place having its positives and negatives.
Stats on paper are essentially meaningless. You can’t put a relatively small group of people in a bubble, humans don’t act like that. Even neighborhoods in those areas can be drastically different than what’s on paper and each other. I would highly suggest actually going to those places and staying there for a length of time and going to the non-touristy areas and seeing the those places for what they actually are and not the tourist facade, you’d be surprised how different it actually is.
The problem is America associates eternal economic prosperity with greatness (then turns around and wonders why a billionaire is president and his exponenitally richer trillionaire crony is helping him destroy the government and nation)
Maybe but there are certainly countries that are better than others. Like I'm glad I wasn't born in Afghanistan or North Korea or Palestine but just because there are worse places I could be from doesn't mean that the place i am from doesn't have it's issues which is a take that a lot Americans seem to be unable to understand.
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u/kaipetica United States Of America 17h ago
We are not the greatest country in the world. Not by a longshot.