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The American mentality of 'Yeah its bad, but it could be worse" or "Yeah this sucks but at least or sucks more for someone else"
It solves nothing, as long as there are people doing worse than you. Maybe this is why they are trying so hard to mess up the lives of people who already are messed up
"Yeah, you're getting fucked over on a regular basis, but at least you're not a ~insert patsy demographic here~"
I have a hard time believing "could be worse" is a uniquely American thought.
It's not, but it's a trademark, often used to excuse selfish behaviour in the US.
Out of all the many negative cultural affectations of Americans, trying to pin the extremely common across cultures of "It could be worse" as uniquely or exceptionally American is fucking bizarre.
Combining flour, water, and an egg isn't difficult. If you told me that was the second thing that happened after figuring out how to make flour I'd believe it. Like flat bread, proto-pasta, leavened bread in that order makes the most sense to me.
Okay but as a chronically ill person in poverty struggling to feed myself in a late stage capitalist hellscape. I feel like I tick the first few boxes.
No tomatoes, no corn, yeah it was rough
Edit btw this means pizza, if you manage to make some, doesn't have any sauce
Second edit: And no tacos
Tacos aren't a big thing in Europe even today
Then I guess contemporary europeans have an advantage at imagining being ancient europeans, that's fine
Sounds awful. Tacos are great!
We have shawarma.
Falafel, Lahmacun...
I can get all of those and tacos.
If you never knew this things you'd never miss them.
But can you imagine the blissful ignorance?
No social media.
No phones.
No 24 hour news cycle.
Almost no literacy.
Just a town crier once a week or month or whenever our lord thought there was important news to share.
The travelling minstrel, or dance troupe, or puppeteer coming through annually and doing shows for a few nights before carrying on to the next town.
