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America is nothing to idolize- and many of us would move countries or get out if we could.
Comment by MermaiderMissy at 16/08/2020 at 18:41 UTC
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If all of the people here who wanted to leave suddenly had the means and clearance to go, a huge chunk of the American population would be elsewhere. Including myself.
Comment by Grow_Beyond at 16/08/2020 at 22:05 UTC
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Really? If you like, we could roll a 200-sided die, and see how often it comes up with a nation you'd rather live in than America. Or we can roll a 7 billion sided die, and see if you'd like to swap lives with a random human elsewhere.
It's easy to rag on specific flaws compared to other industrialized nations, but let not pretend being born American isn't winning the global birth lottery of privilege. Sure, it's only the 50k sixth-place consolation prize instead of the jackpot, but life isn't a game we enter by choice and most people don't win shit in comparison to the poorest citizen of the US.
Likewise, if you are in one of the majority of nations where you'd be living worse off, and you're getting any aid, financial/military/social/political, it's probably courtesy of the US.
If *we* shouldn't be idolized, who should?