Also our for profit, punitive, non-rehabilitative, largest population on Earth prison system doesn’t help, with more than 2 million Americans behind bars, largely for being too poor to navigate our pay to play judicial system.
You know, freedom!
Freedom isn’t free.
You need expensive lawyers.
If you don’t pay your buck 05 who will?
$15,655.05 adjusted for inflation
What greater freedom is there than the ability to buy a small army’s worth of guns and ammo, to use as a backdrop to explain how you need to defend your rights from a imaginary monster, while actual monsters use those guns to kill children… nearly every single day, with school shootings nearing every other week. (About 30 of them this year!
I literally had somebody argue that we can’t have gun laws because some people have 20+ hubs cause they’re “collectors” (emphasis mine of course)
I’m sure the fact that they’ve stockpiled ammo for all of them is completely unrelated.
I agree, I think we should make both our countries worse instead
Bring guns to Britain and make Americans pay a telly tax, an idea so crazy it just might work
US also has to import transphobia and wrecking its economy for freedum
Oh honey we grow those in our back yard
Not like they do
Why are you concerned with what other countries should do?
Yes my country absolutely needs to overthrow its government. No, I do not want foreign powers intervening, and their governments aren’t much better.
The problem about americans sayin “you could improve on humanitarism” is that they dont just say it, they are at your door step on the next day with guns and demand you to change, then they leave with your oil, leaving you in a worse humanitarian situation than before.
I can say as an American that this does make it hard to criticize other countries, especially since it’s true.
Only if you all a tu quoque argument to derail you. Unfortunately, most people do because they don’t understand why it’s a bullshit argument. It’s been used in propaganda forever and famously prior to WWII.
More like
Any American: Mentions British culture
Yeah we both suck Ur point lol
“let he who is without sin cast the first stone” and all that
Good thing we aren’t stoning anyone nowadays! But if you need to be perfect to critique, there’d be none.
Yes, so critiques by Americans of non-American countries shouldn’t be invalidated by faults of America itself.
Exactly
Based is right
Freedom, someone else’s freedom to exploit you for profit and fund the military to spread this “freedom” across the planet.
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To be fair, the US always seems to be the center of attention anywhere you go. Why that is exactly, I don’t know. I mean for fuck’s sake, I live all the way out in bumfuck Asia and somehow news about American pop culture makes it here better than my local news does most of the time.
I’m not belittling America’s problems but sometimes I feel like people can benefit from being made aware that too much exposure to anything - like criticism of other countries - is detrimental to our world view. It’s literally The Cultivation Theory at work.
How many people in your rural Asian town are talking to strangers in English on the Internet about how detrimental the English-speaking Internet is?
I’m sorry, I’m not sure if it’s my lack of sleep or a reading comprehension issue on my end but I don’t understand your question. Though to answer it literally, English is so influential in my country that our schools tend to speak, read, and write in English more often than our native languages. If you speak English well, it’s likely that you’ll be regarded as a high-class individual by a good chunk of people here.
Unfortunately, that has threatened our own identity - to our people’s cultural detriment and annoyance - as you’ll probably see via English public discourse on American social media interwebs… which is why I’m saying, hey, why don’t we stop paying attention to what the US is doing every now and then? I mean, how’s Ukraine been really? What’s happening with their EU membership? Maybe if the US wasn’t always on the world stage they can actually participate more authentically and we can stop defaulting to making fun of kids dying in schools as a counterpoint, you know? It’s messed up wherever it happens.
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Why that is exactly,
Because it has the largest GDP, largest military, and largest entertainment industry, and is home to the world’s largest companies. So it’s kind of an important country that affects other countries directly and indirectly all the time.
Fair, I suppose because the US tends to be belittled so often online so I never made the connection to those sizable facts. It’s a bit too much still though, don’t you think? News about the US somehow always taking over headlines? The world always looks at the US. There’s always something about Elon Musk or the American government even on Lemmy’s “non-Reddit-exodus” instances. When Apple releases a new phone, people won’t stop talking about it positively and negatively. Europe does a better job with most things yet it’s less common to find them in the spotlight.
Europe isn’t a country, it’s a continent. I see individual countries in Europe discusses frequently, but none of them are even close to the US in size and influence. Even the entire3 EU combined has a lower GDP and smaller military than the US.
The US is the world superpower, annoying as that is, and until it is no longer the dominant superpower it’s going to dominate the news.
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I agree that there are other problems that should also be focused on, (on either side) but this is still a problem that should be solved.
I think both sides should just be willing to hear each other out I guess
