The US speedrunning towards shithole status.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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Turns out a lot of Americans just wanted to live in a shit hole this whole time.
Americans live in a country where people die on the regular because they cannot go to a doctor.
They regularly have go fund me's to pay for medical treatment.
They live in a country that has no guaranteed paternity, sick, or vacation time.
America is a shit hole country with the veneer of being rich.
To sum it up America is a third world country with a Gucci belt. It has been that way for a while
America is a playground for the rich and a sweatshop for everyone else.
This 100%
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To sum it up America is a third world country with a fake Gucci belt. It has been that way for a while.
Fixed that for you.
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The US is one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest, in the world. The issue is that there are very few people that represent that wealth.
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A lot of those people have lived in shithole states their entire lives. I was speaking with a person from Uganda that would have voted for trump if he could vote. He lives in Washington State. I tried to explain to him that there's a difference between rural Alabama and Seattle, that you get a lot of benefits most states don't get. I don't think he understood the difference.
Americans are drowning in propaganda. They're constantly being sold expensive inferior replacements for any kind of public good or service.
Nobody wants to live in a shit hole, but when every TV and radio is screaming "Don't trust the government! Privatize! Privatize! Privatize!" that's what people ultimately believe.
Incidentally, the same news media selling privatization of every aspect of life is the one screaming "People in China are miserable! Everything is awful! Don't be like the gross, stupid, evil Communists!"
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It's been a steady process since about 1980. People are just now actually realizing it because the shitty policies that they greedily voted for are impacting them too, not just future generations.
Yes, but China is forward looking while doing shitty things. The US is putting it in reverse gear while doing shitty things.
This is what MAGA means.
Broke: MAGA
Woke: Maglev
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Hegseth said war is imminent. I have no idea is that's true bit this is the sort of thing you do when you expect war is near.
That would presume that they have any kind of plan.
Have you forgotten project 2025?
That's a self-contradictory bunch of fascist fantasies but not a coherent plan. So OK, technically they do have a plan, you got me there.
Coherence is immaterial. They’re following it, and they’ve accomplished significant amounts of what the plan defines. Dismissing it because it’s a dumb plan is extremely myopic and dangerous.
If you look at the individual cards on that site, it's incredibly frightening. Especially about cutting medicaid, it was their plan all along.
Umberto Eco’s third tenet of fascism: The cult of action for action’s sake.
“Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
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I've never seen a Republican that didn't want a war.
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I wish, they have all the great manufacturing jobs no one here wants to do.
Soon, they'll bring all the manufacturing back to America, incarcerate thousands of people for opposing the government, then force those political prisoners to be free slave labor under the 13th Amendment.
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Come to Europe for actual freedom
A year ago I was seriously thinking that I might want to buy a laptop or a phone that was completely made in the U.S.
It literally isn’t possible. We don’t mine a lot of the raw materials.
The phone I'm talking about is https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/ and yeah I guess they're not even claiming that.
"Starting at $1,999" lol I was out of my fucking mind. Good thing I don't have that kind of monies.
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