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.
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!
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.
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Any American: Mentions British culture
Freedom, someone else’s freedom to exploit you for profit and fund the military to spread this “freedom” across the planet.
Yeah we both suck Ur point lol
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
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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