One of the many problems is that it's also #1 on GDP. Therefore GDP must be the One True Metric of a country's success. Therefore it makes sense to shun any policy that might lower GDP.
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Quite frankly, I am OVER IT.
"Yosemite?"
You are right. The US has the most Yosemite sites in the world.
Wow! We're number one at so many things! We're number one, we're number one!
Take this endlessly re-posted shit back to reddit.
You came into our space, not vice-versa
Well... I just joined the site after 3 months of unwarranted permaban on Reddit, and this is my first time seeing it. But I'll keep this post in mind next time.
Wanting decent healthcare, education, life expectancy and a free press is "communism" according to Trump. But he is all in favour of giving pardons to some very unpleasant people - so I guess they're happier!
Yeah, we’re #1 at gifting our oligarch overlords those amenities because they live here? It’s a shame they’re thankless garbage.
We're also #1 in per capita health care spending, and it's #1 by a lot -- literally twice as much as any other country. This goes fantastically well with that "worst in the developed world in healthcare outcomes" bit.
Capitalism is such a scam.
Yeah. I don't understand how anyone in the poor or working class can be a patriot. This country will let you die in the street if you can't pay a bill some rich asshole demands of you.
I hate this stupid holiday.
Lots of maga folks blame everyone else.
You know why gas is so expensive? Immigrants.
You know why good is so expensive? Biden.
You know why movies suck? Wokeness.
You know why my children don't talk to me? Obama.
Excuse me, we're a number 2 at everything. What's this 24th?
Thank god MAGA can’t read
Kids cant read anymore either. We pay our teachers less than babysitter pay rates, cut school funding and put cops in schools who run away and cower in the parking lots at the first sign of trouble.
and none of that will change with the current administration or any offshoot thereof
The Great US Empire is exactly that. It is #1 in projecting power and using gunboat diplomacy. And since WW2, that was all it needed.
I remember when republicans used dictatorshios to defend their ideology
imo, it's often last in citizens who believe ranked statistics.
More guns than people. Checkmate, libs
Gotta be up there for propaganda. Americans appear to hate the idea of taxing billionaires, socialised healthcare, etc
Oh for sure, just off of sheer spending in Hollywood, corporate media, social network algorithms, and marketing, America is by far the most propagandized country on Earth.
Hey! We're not all that stupid. Just most of us.
I mean no where else does gun deaths quite as silly. I mean where else is there a non zero number of people a year get shot due to storing loaded firearms in an oven?
How else are you supposed to dry them?
I assuming... wait... Are they storing them?
Loaded as well.
Remember during the pandemic when people were accidentally killing their sour dough starters because they accidentally left them to warm in the oven and another member of the household decided to make pizza. It happened A LOT.
People being stupid with an oven, an every place sort of stupid and mostly not harmful (other then the odd sour dough/house fire).
People being stupid with an armed oven, only in america.
- Military expenditure
- Electing a pedo
- Starting pointless wars and never remembering the folly
- Car / truck safety regulations
- Environment
- Welfare
- Taxes
- many many more........
But communist gulags though.
Don’t forget “believing in angels!”
Where's police abuse?
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