Every country has problems. Maybe let’s shit on those too.
Every country has problems but for most of these countries it’s to be expected. A small country with unstable politics and a developing economy is bound to have issues. The USA is a global superpower with immense influence on the world stage and quadruple the money of the next richest country, yet it struggles with problems most advanced nations have a handle on.
Women dying during childbirth. Adults being illiterate. Cops killing and abusing power. Most of America’s peers don’t have these issues. America is ranked next to small third world countries in these stats and many more. America isn’t mocked because it has problems. It’s mocked because it has problems it really shouldn’t have.
We’re all envious of their freedom though. Their freedom… it’s just so much freer than ours.
In a thread full of emotional, simplistic opinions, I’m pleasantly surprised to come across one that’s so well put.
America is the only country’s flag that makes me ill when I see someone waiving it around.
Mainly cuz it’s usually a bunch of dumb racist redneck assholes waiving it around.
Oh, I thought the rednecks loved the flag of the losing side from a civil war fought 150 years ago?
I’m an American veteran and I’ve even started having that reaction over the last few years. It used to be that some Americans who were pretty established and normal, usually vets of WWII or the Korean war, would fly flags in front of their house to show national pride and that was about it. But when trump entered the stage all these wackadoodles started using the flag like some sort of dog whistle. It’s really upsetting.
Even here in Canada, after our all of our stupid convoy protests and parroting of American media, the Canadian flag doesnt mean the same to me anymore.
I’m not sure if they’re proud to be a welcoming, morally righteous Canadian, or if those 4 ft tall and overly sized Canadian flags hanging from the back of that jacked up truck, just underneath the “FUCK TRUDEAU” flag, could potentially mean something else
The problem is that the American model expands, its capitalism, the disinterest in safeguarding humanity and preferring money.
Most of the other countries with problems don’t have their citizens walking around loudly declaring as a matter of average discourse that they are the “greatest country in the world”.
Have you ever actually met an American
Several and they all sucked, acting like they are the only ones in the space, being loud, obnoxious, and arrogant
Yes, many Americans act like you describe. However, many other Americans are embarrassed by (and ashamed of) the ones you describe.
I wouldn’t even say many.
It’s really remarkable the level of anti-USA hatred floating around the fediverse.
Left leaning people can see the problems and the right leaning people won’t admit they exist, so they come here to commiserate. Just how it goes.
Criticism of the US isn’t hatred either, it can come from a desire for improvement.
There’s plenty of legit hatred on Grad and PooBear tho. Just gotta block those people when they show up.
It’s far and away the most obnoxious part. Like I am a vocal and outspoken critic of the US but it’s exhausting sometimes when you go into a thread about puppies or some shit and half the comments will just be like “wow this picture must not from the US, because nobody is kicking the puppy.”
The worst part is when they do this — play the victim and whine because they have the “right” to bear their fucking child killing machine against each other and other countries while singing a song with traditional values that their kids should do as they give their daily 99% of their bodies to the megacorp. But poor you! Your media and people are free and you get attacked for being too good! It’s nothing like the other megastate that also oppress their people, it’s way different
