• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    To someone from Europe like me, the US very much feels like a dystopian hellhole whenever I read stories like these. How can a government hate its people so much?

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        10 months ago

        I was just feeling this yesterday, picking through the damaged can/box section of our super market, walking down the street and seeing how alienated and alone we are and how normalized that is, being sent two hours of paperwork that is the exact same questions I spent two hours on the phone answering in spring as I try to access our public safety nets.

        The feeling in the U.S. of A. is like living on a well polished turd that no one wants to admit still smells like a turd. At least, not in public.

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        10 months ago

        I guess I’m glad I have dual citizenship but jfc, my parents brought us here because it was supposed to be better lol.

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      10 months ago

      Most people here are brain dead idiots that don’t know that a politician’s job is to create policy. They think it’s a team sport and if you cheer louder for your guy, they’ll punch the other guy in the nuts. This is why we don’t have nice things like attractive cities, public transportation that actually works, or actual culture.

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      10 months ago

      Like all corrupt governments in the world, they care about making money and not paying taxes. They don’t care about other people.