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I don't know. You (as an American) are in a better place to judge that than I.
What I do know is this: people are people. And for every rotten son of a bitch, there's someone else, quietly, moving heaven and earth to do good - both in big ways and small. If we're going to tilt at windmills, we may as well tilt at windmills together.
American here.
No. We're living in the early stages of a fascist dictatorship. And we've been doing this to the rest of the world for way too fucking long. The sooner we come to grips with the fact that the hens have come home to roost and we're reaping what we've sown, the sooner we can actually take it down and build something better.
Everywhere there are good people doing good things with the best of intentions - people doing art for the love of the art, actually taking care of natural areas for the love of nature, helping others because they don't want others to suffer rather than as some "charity" grift to make money or make others think they're good people, and so on.
They're just not in power in the US and, IMHO, don't add up to anywhere close to being the majority of people.
Uh, we have the best military, the best medicine, the best universities, broadest cultural reach... etc.
Life in liberal blue progressive areas, is highly desirable and really great, but it's very expensive.
It's just that you aren't getting access to any of it unless you're part of our social elite. If you're in the bottom 90% of the economic status, you are only ever going to get access to the middling/average stuff.
Grifting.
I would probably say your movie and tv show industry, im not going to comment on the the actual conditions for writers, actors, people who work in the industry (out of my expertise), the output is pretty amazing. No other country has produces the sheer content and quality of media you do.
This was unexpectedly wholesome. Thanks homie.
i'd say only americans that have cause to be proud of themselves are the ones who are actively opposing what is happening to your country.
Yeah, we are about to get served a big slice of humble pie so bring your appetite. The pain we are all experiencing is there to tell us we cannot continue the way we were. We had the option to change in the past but didn't because it was too hard, now there is no avoiding change.
I don't think there was much of a reason to ever be proud of it, if you're ashamed now. You can still be proud of what your fellow americans put out : on the culture and research fronts most notably... the US shines far, even though I hear the Trump admin hurt some universities.
But on the political level ? it's still the murderous empire it has been for the past 80 years, just a little more open about it
No
There has been an increase interest in NATO and I believe they are working to contribute more to defense because they can no longer expect help from the USA.
All hope is false, unless engineered, built action by action. You want hope? Build it.
It's very easy to disparage a nation state due to the actions of their government and forget that there are good people everywhere that are well intentioned and trying to do the right thing. The No Kings protest movement is a good example of that. Building solidarity movements with humane values is the way we change society for the better.
Not US here. I sometimes think that Americans are nice individuals, generaly speaking, but they are collectivly ferocious.
Americans are radically different depending on what region, and social class, of American you are interacting with.
But that's true of any country. Every country hates and is embarassed by the poor uneducated douchebags, and loves their elite well-off cultured population.
UK has way more chavs living in shitty places with bad economics, than it does 'posh' people with nice accents living in London. USA is no different.
the lgbtq+ rights in your country seems amazing compared to my own
they are being eroded fast tho
check literally any LGBTQ+ focused news site
No they aren't. They are being eroded in red states, blue states are expanding them.
Hell, San Francisco has a UBI program that' exclusively for LGBT folks.
You should be proud to be human.
Not to be born within some imaginary line drawn on a map, in an area that later got "cleaned" as much as possible of everyone else not speaking the same language or worshipping the same god.
Pride comes with accomplishment.
Being human, being American, being male, being white, these are all accidents of birth. There's no reason to take pride in any of it.
Bring born in to a disaffected class of people, being gay, or a person of color, and overcoming that adversity to any measure of success, that merits some pride.
But just being human? Anybody can do that.
I understand but I think we call pride also the sense of belonging to a chain of individuals that achieved growth of knowledge, rights, scientific discoveries and engineering results.
It is a meaning of the word that would easily lend itself to manipulation but also one that allowed individuals to contribute and to stand on the shoulders of giants.
In that sense, the highest level one would easily be being human.
No we're at the end of an empire and the dawn of a new world. Our bases across the middle east will be abandoned. More will be emptied or destroyed. Our influence across the world will shrink more than it is now.
The states we have may stay. Alaska might try to break off and join Canada in 50 years. Hawaii might join Australia and New Zealand as well.
Unless we get a political party that will advocate for taxing the fuck out of the rich to invest in america via trains, healthcare and R&D.
Don't get your hopes up.
Alaska might try to break off and join Canada in 50 years.
I wish we would do that today. But unless the military and oil leaves the state, we're still carpetbagged by southern evangelical morons. This state is solid red for now. And they think Canada is socialist because they think it's bad and that's all they know. We're not going anywhere.
Whatever may come, there is one sure thing: nobody will trust the US ever again. It may take the old allies a while to find their footing and they may still be dependant on the US. But that relationship will be more like that of the abusive caretaker vs abused teen. Biding their time until they finally can exit the dependance.
No. This is late stage capitalism, it is over for the US.
Which country are you from?
The collar of the USA is in the hands of Zionists/AIPAC. The USA is managed by Zionists
I think it’s more likely that the ruling class owns both the USA and Israel, and use them together to accomplish their goals. AIPAC is just the mechanism of control and Zionists are just the useful idiots.
That took me by surprise. In his first term, Russia was holding the leash. Are these guys passing around the Trump Kompromat?
there's more than one epstein and more than one blackmail book. weird rich guy sex stuff is about power and control more than it is anything else. the centers of these rings just also enjoy power and control over victim and direct perpetrator in a form of violent sexual hierarchy