We’re all envious of their freedom though. Their freedom… it’s just so much freer than ours.

In a thread full of emotional, simplistic opinions, I’m pleasantly surprised to come across one that’s so well put.

And none of this will ever get fixed in the current US political climate. MAGA has taken over the Republican party, and Democrats can do whatever the fuck they want because people will defend them with "Doesn't matter because Trump exists."

The MAGA cult wants us to return to Biblical times and values, while Democrats pretend to be outraged at Republicans while they're doing the same damn shit (like racism and bailing out the rich).

Every other developed country has universal healthcare, while the best we could do is impose a tax on people who can't afford health insurance.

People are too afraid to call out their own side's bullshit.

We need to do better than this.

Now that's humour.

Ever seen Europeans on the Internet act like the way their country or continent does things is the only correct way, and North America is too stupid to realize it?

Have you ever actually met an American

The roots of that problem are as old as greed itself, and callousness has existed for much, much longer than America has.

the disinterest in safeguarding humanity and preferring money.

Don't know that the models the American style system replaces have a good record on that one either.

I'm an American veteran and I've even started having that reaction over the last few years. It used to be that some Americans who were pretty established and normal, usually vets of WWII or the Korean war, would fly flags in front of their house to show national pride and that was about it. But when trump entered the stage all these wackadoodles started using the flag like some sort of dog whistle. It's really upsetting.

Oh, I thought the rednecks loved the flag of the losing side from a civil war fought 150 years ago?

Left leaning people can see the problems and the right leaning people won't admit they exist, so they come here to commiserate. Just how it goes.

Criticism of the US isn't hatred either, it can come from a desire for improvement.

There's plenty of legit hatred on Grad and PooBear tho. Just gotta block those people when they show up.

It's far and away the most obnoxious part. Like I am a vocal and outspoken critic of the US but it's exhausting sometimes when you go into a thread about puppies or some shit and half the comments will just be like "wow this picture must not from the US, because nobody is kicking the puppy."

I just live here. Everyone keeps telling me the worlds ending and we are all living terrible lives but I'm doing fine.

If you're referring to guns when you say "child killing machines", you should know we find that offensive. Guns are surprisingly ineffective due to the fact that children have such a small stature, and any real American knows that you'll achieve much better results with anti-personnel weapons like fragmentation grenades, mines, and claymores.

I mean, I like it that you not gwt killed from our megastate if you critisize it.

And I mean, I dont see how anybody is praising China ?

So I dont get your point, because the media we consume is mostly western, the politics and society is mostly western. Why should we critisize eastern megastates for it?