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    Yeah. I don’t understand how anyone in the poor or working class can be a patriot. This country will let you die in the street if you can’t pay a bill some rich asshole demands of you.

    I hate this stupid holiday.

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      Lots of maga folks blame everyone else. And they believe if those people are gone, suddenly everything will be fixed.

      You know why gas is so expensive? Immigrants.

      You know why food is so expensive? Biden.

      You know why movies suck? Wokeness.

      You know why my children don’t talk to me? Obama.

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      I can’t wrap my head around patriotism in general. Seems like social engineering to make people more obedient.

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    I figure fuck it, while I’m at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.

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    Gotta be up there for propaganda. Americans appear to hate the idea of taxing billionaires, socialised healthcare, etc

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      Oh for sure, just off of sheer spending in Hollywood, corporate media, social network algorithms, and marketing, America is by far the most propagandized country on Earth.

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    • Military expenditure
    • Electing a pedo
    • Starting pointless wars and never remembering the folly
    • Car / truck safety regulations
    • Environment
    • Welfare
    • Taxes
    • many many more…
  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    We’re also #1 in per capita health care spending, and it’s #1 by a lot – literally twice as much as any other country. This goes fantastically well with that “worst in the developed world in healthcare outcomes” bit.

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    Wanting decent healthcare, education, life expectancy and a free press is “communism” according to Trump. But he is all in favour of giving pardons to some very unpleasant people - so I guess they’re happier!

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      Yeah, we’re #1 at gifting our oligarch overlords those amenities because they live here? It’s a shame they’re thankless garbage.

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    The Great US Empire is exactly that. It is #1 in projecting power and using gunboat diplomacy. And since WW2, that was all it needed.

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      Kids cant read anymore either. We pay our teachers less than babysitter pay rates, cut school funding and put cops in schools who run away and cower in the parking lots at the first sign of trouble.

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    One of the many problems is that it’s also #1 on GDP. Therefore GDP must be the One True Metric of a country’s success. Therefore it makes sense to shun any policy that might lower GDP.

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      GDP was meant to make the US look better than it actually does from day 1. Economists warned about GDP’s many issues and inaccuracies immediately, but it was still pushed through. The official reason is that no other metrics were available, but it’s not entirely true, because the concept of GDP PPP was created a decade or two before GDP nominal.