how bad do you think the american government and the capitalists in charge of it hate the internet for cluing in the not only the american public but the rest of the world that living in america actually sucks extremely hard
turns out it’s hard to lie to people about the quality of living in other countries when you can chat with someone in Sweden and learn that the government pays YOU to go to college there. or you can chat with literally anybody in literally any other first world country and find out that going to the hospital is Fucking Free.
like it’s no wonder captialists want net neutrality to end so badly. they’re getting exposed super hard and future voters are learning to fucking LOATHE the shit they’re doing.
SO fuckin often conservative dipshits will be like why don’t you go over to Europe and see how they live you’ll be so thankful for Republicans protecting you from taxes and regulation. And I’m like. Holy fuck youre brainwashed by fox news. It would be sad if you deserved any empathy at this point.
my favorite thing is when an american conservative politician is like “oh you don’t want to go to europe it’s a lawless hellscape where people are murdered in the streets” and then online people are like
a. what the fuck are you talking about i live in sweden and have never even seen a knife in my entire life
b. isn’t america a lawless hellscape where people are murdered in the streets every day? by COPS?
Almost each and every SINGLE time I complain about one of the 90,000 things blatantly wrong with how America is run I get a “why don’t you move then” like they actually don’t think I’d love to if I could afford to and could leave behind people I care about here????? That all my health problems wouldn’t be GONE if America worked even slightly like other thriving countries???
Reminds me of this from a few years back (The U.N. Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.):
The women discovered during their visit that women in the United States have “missing rights” compared to the rest of the world. For instance, the U.S. is one of three countries in the world that does not guarantee women paid maternity leave, according to the U.N. International Labour Organization…
While the delegates were shocked by many things they saw in the U.S., perhaps the biggest surprise of their trip, they said, was learning that women in the country don’t seem to know what they’re missing.
“So many people really believe that U.S. women are way better off with respect to rights than any woman in the world,” Raday said. “They would say, ‘Prove it! What do you mean other people have paid maternity leave?’”
Exactly the kind of thing already discussed, which is unlikely to hold up in the face of better communication with people in other parts of the world. The situation with gender inequality and “missing rights” is only one example.
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