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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?
Comment by anoncactusfriend at 16/08/2020 at 22:07 UTC
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Just because you’re happy with the current situation, does not mean the rest of us are. Plenty of countries do not have children living in cages, a president trying to control the election, and policemen and woman killing citizens, and injuring them during peaceful protest. Canada is doing well, and so is Switzerland. Many countries are not currently in a fascist regime. I would much rather be in Canada. If we’re doing so well, why do so many want out?