Leveraged equity / finance / de facto world reserve currency.
That's all imploding now, btw.
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America is more than one person.
it was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
You ever read that tale of two cities?
If you want to be number one in everything you have to make a few sacrifices
cheese and diet coke
Completely untrue.
Americans survive on "processed cheese product" and diet coke.
American cheese is real cheese with two extra agents added
I am afraid a major part of the answer is "inequality".
And lucking out from a geographical standpoint.
Yeah this is just seeing the two tiered system and assuming it’s one large group.
The “haves” and the “have nots” live veeeery different lives.
l have seen it described as "The most advanced high tech society and a third world country thrown together into the same nation".
I've always been suspicious that America is maybe 4 or 5 countries in a trenchcoat. My source is I made it the fuck up.
Its literally just 50 countries, and only like, 10 are actually modern and productive at all.
50 IMHO
Only an American would unironically make that comparison, because they've never been out of their country even though they once went on a 2k mile road trip.
But that's literally what it is. Like sure, many states have grown similar cultures due to close proximity, but you could say that about plenty of European, Asian and African countries too.
Okay American that's never left America
If you go back through history the greatest advancements have always come from the richest countries, they just have the resources to do those things. American athletes are bragging about how they’re the best in the world as they compete with people who lack basic equipment and have proper jobs. I remember some Olympic swimmer who had never even been in an Olympic size swimming pool before he got to the event.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources, then spent the next 5 decades taking repayments.
Your first part is fair, but your second part is a bit misleading. We sent troops, just not until people were convinced that it was an "us" problem too. People didn't want to get tangled up in another one of Europes wars. Much like how most of the allies also didn't get involved until they got threatened too. Except the soviet's, who had an alliance with them.
It's not like providing the materials needed to actually survive is nothing. Our entire economy was repurposed around doing so. The repayment was because a massive "European problem" contingent thought a budget neutral requirement would keep us from helping. We worked out a system where we bought long term leases on land, and they used that cash to buy weapons from us. It was a shell game.
We got rich after the war because everyone else was rubble and we still had factories.
Literally every young man in America enlisted in that war. Stfu
read a history book...they had to start a mass propaganda campaign across the US just to convince americans that the germans were the bad guys.
"whats so bad about wanting to hurt blacks and jews?" - average american wasp
Whataboutism. I was just lecturing my kid on Japanese internment camps. My eyes have been open for decades. Doesn't mean every young man didn't sign up to kill Nazis when we joined the war. I've spent my life obsessed with our warts. Glad everyone else has woke up, but some of us aren't on the extreme pendulum end anymore and can see a single redeeming fucking quality of this country. I just listened to an MLK speech this morning and he calls out the warts and talks about the dream. That's America. Some of us are old and angry and tired enough to take a breath and love the good half of this country.
Because the US is like 50 small countries that all hate each other
I don't understand how Europe of all places doesn't understand this
I'm not sure who hates who, but we can all agree that we hate Ohio. Fuck Ohio.
I'm from Michigan, born and raised. I'm legally required to hate the state of Ohio (mostly Columbus). Indiana is worse.
Me too. I live right here 👉 ✋ . I live in the same town as Freddie "Motown" Brown. "IT AIN'T THAT FAR!"
Fuck Ohio.
They produced our vice couch fucker in chief, and that's enough for me
Terrible education system shows in Anon.
Two countries in an unsteady peace