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What a disgusting shithole america has become.
Become? They call it the American dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it.
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The American Dream has morphed into this "anyone can be rich" idea.
When I was a kid, it was a house and two cars.
Which is basically a multimillionaire in today's standards. Unless you mean two junkers and a house in the hood. I'm not opposed to the latter but it's hardly anyone's first choice.
You're being very hyperbolic. We have a house and two cars. I have around $200 in my bank account. Admittedly, it helps that we do not live in the most desirable part of the country, but we also live paycheck-to-paycheck and have not even ever been hundred thousandaires.
You can't be poor and achieve it, but you don't have to be rich either.
I feel you. I have my house in the hood with my two Hondas.
Shit should not be this difficult.
A $200,000 home isn't luxury but it also isn't the American dream.
I didn't mean to suggest that. Housing prices and car prices are ridiculously and unnecessarily high. I'm just saying that the American dream has morphed into something that at least a large proportion of the population can even now achieve into something that almost no one can achieve.
Yeah, it was started by rich people looking to increase their wealth and influence and has remained under their control ever since.
It's only going to get worse. Money buys elections and Putin, along with American oligarchs have a lot to spend on getting their desired results.
You mean AIPAC.
Yet it remains one of the happiest countries in the world. I'm not saying we don't have our problems, because we clearly do, but the idea that the country is a "shit hole" is just baseless nonsense.
Top 23 isnt what I would call "Happiest country in the world" Especially not for the worlds most powerful nation. So yeah, shit hole applies
Edit: For perspective, theres 190+- countries depending on whos counting, The most powerful Country on this planet doesnt even enter the top 10% of countries with the happiest citizens. At 190, the states is in the top 12%
Happier than nearly 90% of the countries in the world isn't amount the happiest? Where do you draw the line then? Seems like your definition is ridiculously narrow.
Once again, the ACTUAL MOST Powerful Nation in the world is basically at the bottom of the list when compared to countries of similar wealth and political stability. US only looks good when you compare it to countries with significant poverty or political problems. So yes, if you're trying to escape life under a cartel, the states is a better option, if you live in Europe, the Commonwealth, or any of the Nordic Countries, hell no would you move to the States
(Just for clarity, the Nordic countries are part of Europe if anyone thought anything else)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/03/20/us-world-happiness-report-youth/
And it's still happier than nearly 90% of the world. To me, that's one of the happiest in the world. Where do you draw the line?
I don’t care where it stands in relation to other countries. The problem is that happiness is decreasing at an alarming rate.
Well, I was responding to a claim that the US is a "disgusting shit hole" not that our happiness is dropping.
Bowing down to the wealthiest people is what makes it a shithole. America sold its self respect to give the rich more tax breaks.
1: Shithole is in response to your country's remarks about other countries
2: You are bragging about being lower than the DEFAULT for countries similar wealth and political stability as the US. Its like someone with an alcohol addiction, but who doesnt have to work for a living bragging that they feel more fulfilled in life than someone who is struggling to put food on the table for their children
This makes zero sense in the context.
Challenging the nonsensical claim that the us is a "disgusting shit hole" is not the equivalent of bragging about anything.
Ok fine, 1: you are one of the richest countries on earth and yet your citizens have to go into lifelong debt to pay for what would be routine and free surgeries anywhere else in comparatively wealthy countries
2: The US houses 4.2% of the world population, but 20% of the world's prison population
3: You Country experienced a horrific school shooting in 1999, and instead of doing anything about it, like most of the rest of the world did when their own countries experienced similar tragedies, it sat on its ass an did NOTHING in the 24 years that followed and the Tragedy became a yearly, then quarterly, then monthly, now it seems almost DAILY occuranxe
4: Your last president openly staged a coup 4 years ago now and has yet to see himself behind bars.
Mind enlightening me on how this doesnt equate to a shithole?
Already did: it's one of the happiest countries in the world. If it were some disgusting shit hole, people would be a lot more miserable.
And I countered your happiest point in that you only beat out poorer countries because of your wealth and political stability, a political stability that is eroding at a terrifying speed I might add, partly do to the fact that your country likes to fellate itself that its better than the poors, while ignoring how it compares to countries of similar status. No one but you cares that your citizens are happier than North Koreans
So the things that make the us a good country don't count for... reasons... I guess.
Lol I'm including all of the countries, which is why I said it's one of the happiest in the world. You're excluding and ignoring countries, not me.
Please don't blame me for your inability to defend your point.
A drunk man can be happier than a sober one, but that's not much to brag about.
Who's bragging? Certainly not me. I just challenged the nonsensical claim.