Every country has problems. Maybe let’s shit on those too.
Every country has problems but for most of these countries it’s to be expected. A small country with unstable politics and a developing economy is bound to have issues. The USA is a global superpower with immense influence on the world stage and quadruple the money of the next richest country, yet it struggles with problems most advanced nations have a handle on.
Women dying during childbirth. Adults being illiterate. Cops killing and abusing power. Most of America’s peers don’t have these issues. America is ranked next to small third world countries in these stats and many more. America isn’t mocked because it has problems. It’s mocked because it has problems it really shouldn’t have.
We’re all envious of their freedom though. Their freedom… it’s just so much freer than ours.
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.
Most of the other countries with problems don’t have their citizens walking around loudly declaring as a matter of average discourse that they are the “greatest country in the world”.
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?
We just want you to know that arrogance isn’t strictly an American problem.
Several and they all sucked, acting like they are the only ones in the space, being loud, obnoxious, and arrogant
Yes, many Americans act like you describe. However, many other Americans are embarrassed by (and ashamed of) the ones you describe.
Have you met a European, Chinese or Russian person on here? Holy shit they (we) are annoying.
I AM a European.
I’ve never heard any German claim that this should be a good country by any means.
“We’ve kinda got some industry” - “yeah, but china got more”
“We’re relatively good at healtcare and social security” - “have you ever even heard about nordic countries?”
“Uh, freedom of religion?” - “france does it better”
“We’re claimed to be exact and punctual?” - “No, that’s the swiss.”
“Beer and Bread?” - “That’s more like the polish?”
This is an obvious bad example because German nationalism died with Hitler. Of all European countries, Germany hates itself the most.
The problem is that the American model expands, its capitalism, the disinterest in safeguarding humanity and preferring money.
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.
It’s easier to be the good guy when your competition is the British Empire.
Or the French, or the Spanish, or pre-modern systems. But yes, it’s not a high bar, simply pointing out that US-style capitalism is not any sort of exceptional offender in this area. Planned and market socialist states both had accumulation of power and pollution as major problems, as did mercantilism, as did feudalism, as did classical despotisms and republics. Short of ‘return to stick’, there’s not really any immediate alternative to systems that pollute and encourage the grotesquely disproportionate accumulation of power for personal gain. The systems that were replaced don’t have an answer to these problems either.
Not to say that capitalism is even the best of those polluting and power-accumulating systems to choose from, just that, in those particular areas, it’s… not exactly the tall poppy. Right now what we must do is look forward, to the future, to new solutions, or at least new variations of old solutions.
America is the only country’s flag that makes me ill when I see someone waiving it around.
Mainly cuz it’s usually a bunch of dumb racist redneck assholes waiving it around.
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.
Even here in Canada, after our all of our stupid convoy protests and parroting of American media, the Canadian flag doesnt mean the same to me anymore.
I’m not sure if they’re proud to be a welcoming, morally righteous Canadian, or if those 4 ft tall and overly sized Canadian flags hanging from the back of that jacked up truck, just underneath the “FUCK TRUDEAU” flag, could potentially mean something else
Oh, I thought the rednecks loved the flag of the losing side from a civil war fought 150 years ago?
