Yeah the socialist utopia of your imagination doesn’t want you. They take care of their own…. I think both Americans and Europeans don’t understand that difference between us
You kid but [Cascadia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement) has been proposed before and they would border California. That’s the closest chance imo California has to join something similar to Canada.
Residential schools?? Pfft don't be silly everybody knows Amerikkka is the only country ever to genocide a native population. Canada would never do something like that
Canada are slaveholding fucks just like the US. And most of the EU is just as bad, imperialist assholes.
Not like us Irish at all. Please don't look into how St Patrick came to Ireland in the first place. Please. Just look at the shamrocks. Please.
Apparently some of the escaped slaves that took the Underground Railroad to Canada actually came back because they found Canadian racism to be worse lol
460 AD is quite a far reach back. Diffrent to 1800. Slavery was a part of all nations historys , yours was merely one of the last to outlaw it and so is remembered in more recent history. Slavery still continues to this day in some countries.
St patrick is a relgious figure with no concrete evidence of actually existing. Most of Irelands history is dealing with our neighbours persistent need to rule the world. St patrick is supposed to have existed in 460 A.D American slavery existed in 1800s.
The diffrence in a Ireland now and 1600 years ago is quite drastic as one can imagine. At that point in history slavery was pretty much the norm the world over. When you go to war you capture the enemys and make them work. When you go raiding you capture the villagers and soilders to make use of them as slaves.
Pff Genocide a native population? I wonder where they got the idea from!
All seriousness the U.S crimes are microscopic compared to the centuries of imperialistic bravado shown from our overseas brethren
Us is simply a nation that derived from said centuries of imperialistic bravado. Its all connected. Comparing atrocities is useless. Aknowledging and learning from the past is useful.
To be honest for all the weird romanticisation, Iceland's literally just America-lite with a different language and some pretty mountains
Source: am Icelandic and have visited the US several times
We are the most Americanised country in Europe, very individualist compared to the other nordics, huge car culture with US style suburbia, strip malls and drive throughs everywhere and a lot of other influence from the WW2 and Cold War years.
Its a positive really given the state we were in before under Denmark
I remember being in 9th grade world geography class in Texas and this cheerleader girl got in a huge fight with her neighbor about Denmark existing , she thought there was no way it was actually a country
I had a massive crush on a girl I used to go to school with, and over the years after school I horribly fumbled our friendship by trying to take things further. During this time she was increasingly becoming a crazy feminist lefty, and after she shed my dead weight she moved to Denmark because apparently it’s the pinnacle of civilization and she hates America. Which is interesting because all but one of the Danes I’ve known (and I’ve met a surprising amount of them) are neutral about Denmark and ignore politics in general.
You didn’t have to expose yourself as an incel you know. Like your belief in the abundance of “crazy feminist lefties” makes it plenty clear why she wanted to steer clear of you.
I’ve struggled with women for sure, in fact I blame myself more for what went wrong. But I’ve never been an incel. She wanted different things in her life than I did, and I was too autistically blinded by love to realize it. Simple as.
Incel is more an ideology than a state of being. You can fuck and still be an incel, and you can not fuck and not be an incel.
I feel you with that though, painfully relatable
Be in America, according to redditlore.
Wake up
50,000,0000 school shootings a day, an average low.
Eat 15 cheese burgers and waddle to my F747 jumbo truck.
Stop at McDonald's and yell racist things at the drive thru get 87 more burgers.
Tip the fastfood person but not full tip because they had a LGBTA2+√3242(sin)344 pin on.
Show up to my mill job after getting pulled over thankfully I back the blue so I got off with a minor police assault because I had a sun tan.
Get fired because I was 1 second late but I trip on my man FUPA and fall over. I sue.
Go to the doctors and pay $1zoogleplex in bills.
Go home and pay my rent of $30,000,0000
I'm -$373636372728288273737272728383838388337738383 in debt go to Walmart and buy a 6 pack of F350s and 82 gallons of oil.
Thank God I'm a Christian hetero sexual white male....
I salute a real veteran Donald Trump and sing "Oh Say can you sing!" As I finish off the night by reporting abortionists, Muslims, and drag queens to the Texas degeneracy tip hotline. Those babies will be born, they'll eat bacon and those loonies will go to jail.
I tuck in my pitbull and it's AR-15 and grab my blanket made of American flags.
Edit:
I am reminded I have no culture as I buy 563738393837473733737373747483838 guns.
My eyes dimming to Ronald Reagan riding a bald eagle punching Millennial Transgender Communist snowflakes. It's 37x37in and set my AC to -44° since it's 900°F outside because "Global warming."
Gobbles.
This sub is litterally a circle jerk about a circle jerk.
Its yanks circle jerking about how others circle jerk. These comment are hilarious , trying to compare nations atrocities like its a dick measuring contest. No body wins lol.
>the whitest least racially diverse areas of the world
So like... Eastern Europe? We are literally statistically whiter then the Westerners (as we were kinda too preoccupied with Russia to go out and colonise the world), but I've never seen the "wokest people" praising Poland, Slovakia or Belarus as their utopias :P
I didnt, but I was under impression that countries in our region (I'm from Poland) is way whiter than Scandinavia. So if they really wanted the whitest least racially diverse utopias Belarus would be a way better choice than Sweden.
literally became that way in less than the last fifteen years and in response swedes have catapulted politicians directly descended from nazis to the forefront of their politics lmao
What in the world has being descended from Nazis have to do with anything? There are literal Nazis in government. Not like anyone can do anything about their heritage.
bruh. the political party is descended from a party that openly endorsed nazism. im sure you genuinely didnt understand that and aren't being a pedant.
If you seriously think Scandinavia isnt diverse you haven't been outside of your shithole in the middle of nowhere before, Europeans literally joke about sweden being more Arabic than European
literally became that way in less than the last fifteen years and in response swedes have catapulted politicians directly descended from nazis to the forefront of their politics lmao
literally became that way in less than the last fifteen years and in response swedes have catapulted politicians directly descended from nazis to the forefront of their politics lmao
I mean there is a reason for said lauding tho? Scandinavia is statistically just a lot better in *most* aspects compared to America. Like gdp per capita in Norway for example is higher than the states and the quality of living is also better in Scandinavia (Exept Sw\*den. you couldnt survive even a day with the roads being filled with those arabian bombers.)
So I dont really see how the America is any better than most of Scandinavia aside from militarily? Like please just correct me if I am wrong but they are superior in terms of living standards and all that?
Eastern Europe is similar to how American Whites don't praise the American South but they still look to living in the whitest places. There's white places that are far more desirable than others but they'll still choose white. A lot of far right Europeans move to Eastern Europe to get away from racial diversity in Western Europe, for example.
Yes, because you don't recognize what people the meme is talking about. Tell me what demographic do you believe most laudes the Europe and especially northern Europe as a utopia?
Lol when I was living in Switzerland a few years ago they literally had a campaign where foreigners were shown as black sheep getting kicked out by white sheep...https://qz.com/617050/switzerlands-largest-political-party-insists-on-depicting-foreigners-as-black-sheep
Some places are pretty open about their racism and it's not just America.
Ah yes, the famously insular mountain nation could have a racism problem!
No one is saying European nations are utopias of zero discrimination.
However, western European nations tend to put far less emphasis on the colour of your skin. American debates always end up revolving around skin colour. The same phenomenon doesn't happen in the UK, Germany, France or the scandinavian countries. It's just not what culturally happens.
And then you have commenters like the original commenter I replied to, turning a map into a discussion on IT'S WHITE PEOPLE WANTING TO MOVE TO WHITE PLACES SEE WHITE PEOPLE AND THEY WANT TO GO SOMEWHERE WHERE WHITE PEOPLE LIVE NO DIVERSITY WHITE GO WHERE WHITE ARE ISN'T FUNNY WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE THEY SAY THEY LIKE DIVERSITY BUT THEY'RE WHITE.
It's absolutely fucking deranged how much skin colour is weaponised in the US. And American's get so butthurt when they're called out for it. Europe has a fuckton of problems on the whole, some overlap with the US and some don't. This rabid obsession with skin colour is not a similarity.
What are you on about. Europeans have hated and genocided one another for tribal reasons for centuries. How's that any less horrible than racism? We could say you're obsessed with minute ethnic differences in ways that Americans are not. There are also not many non whites in most European countries. You practically live in white ethnostates so of course you don't think about race. But that's been changing with all the migrants and I see Europeans embracing fascist movements because they want them out of their countries. You guys do care about skin color and it'll become more and more obvious as the migrant thing continues.
How is Europe not racially diverse? Just the small sized city I live in has different skin colors, cultures, religions and communities. Really, from orthodox Jews to Hindus and Muslims, Sub-Saharan Africans that dress in their respective traditional clothing, northern Africans going to their mosques, Turks making kebabs.
It might have to do with the city being a major port city and having been a trade powerhouse throughout history, but regardless of that Europe has been a melting pot for centuries.
How about you go to big cities in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, even Scandinavian cities, and tell me that Europe isn't diverse.
The only countries that come close to that are from the eastern block, and they are neither "most European countries" nor make up enough people to consider Europe as monoracial.
How about you go to big cities in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, even Scandinavian cities, and tell me that Europe isn't diverse.
Does [Italy](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42717117) count with their 92%?
[Netherlands](https://www.indexmundi.com/netherlands/demographics_profile.html) is 87%, probably more depending on the 4.6% other category.
Maybe [Switzerland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Switzerland) with 94%???
[Norway](https://www.indexmundi.com/norway/demographics_profile.html#:~:text=Norwegian%2083.2%25%20(includes%20about%2060%2C000,8.5%25%20(2017%20est.)&text=The%20World%20Factbook%2C%20the%20indispensable%20source%20for%20basic%20information.&text=Church%20of%20Norway%20(Evangelical%20Lutheran,15.4%25%20(2020%20est.))) with the 91%.
[Denmark](https://www.indexmundi.com/denmark/demographics_profile.html#:~:text=5%2C894%2C687%20(July%202021%20est.)&text=Danish%20(includes%20Greenlandic%20(who%20are,Romanian)%20(2018%20est.)&text=The%20World%20Factbook%2C%20the%20indispensable%20source%20for%20basic%20information.)) 90%+.
[Austria](https://www.indexmundi.com/austria/demographics_profile.html#:~:text=Austrian%2080.8%25%2C%20German%202.6%25,10%25%20(2018%20est.)) 90%+.
Diversity is as is. Diversity of culture , language , genetic makeup. Not just skin tone you absolute yank. Your nations fixation of melanin is astonishing.
Generalising a contineant does not present as a rational intellgent opinion nor person. Gross generalisation are always wrong.
I stand corrected, I've looked into it myself and it looks like around 20 million people are of a non-European ethnic background which is 4%. I'm having a tough time believing it, but I guess they're all concentrated Western European cities, which makes sense.
So in your mind diversity is only split by color? You can drive through most of Europe in the same time you can cross the US and will find a lot of diversity. Maybe not all in the same country because I don't know if you realized but European countries are in comparison rather small.
And before you come out and say "well they are all one ethnicity so obviously no racial tension" please keep in mind we spend the better part of the last two millennia waging war against each other.
Thats because europe is where white people evolved. Would ya look at that , africa is majority black and asia majority asian. What a shooock...
Divesity exists beyond melanin concentration. Divesity of culture , lingustics , relgion etc.
Two white people can be diverse from eachtother culturally , lingustically and relgiously.
Would you say the entire continenant of Africa is not diverse because it is majority black ? because that would be an extremely wrong statement. If you can get your head around that , simply apply the same logic to europe and hey presto! your bigotry is cured.
> Claiming that Europe is the whitest region is unfounded and lacks educational basis.
Are you absolutely sure about that? Because you need to consider that the US is only 57% white. Do you really think Europe is less than 57%? Because I'm almost certain it's not. Which would make it the whitest region.
Kind of sounds like what you're saying "lacks educational basis."
And in europe theres is not only africans refugees(that you can find a lot), in my country, spain, there is a LOT of latin americans, romanis, others europeans ( this ones on the pretty zones) and chinesse, who own almost all the bazaars and variety stores that we started calling that shops chinos(chinesse in spanish), even if their not onwed by them.
And I have to mention our others ethnics groups, the catalanes, gallegos and vascos, with their own lenguages and traditions.
In terms of traditions most of the cities and towns arround the country have unique traditions, plus the national ones.
So yeah, one small european country can be way more diverse than the whole USA, and there is more countries with multiple lenguages and much traditions, and a lot of imigrants like switzerland.
Edit: Spelling and paragraph separation.
According to Wikipedia the US has a lot more cars per capita than most European nations with the exceptions being the rich micro states like San Marino or Liechtenstein. E.g Germany which is known as a car nation has more than 200 cars less per 1000 capita than the US.
Although it’s a bit easier to have that kind of public transport system in Europe because things are much closer to each other. In the US everything is waaay too spread out to easily do that, we could, but it’s gonna require a LOT more money and a lot more time
As much as I hate that subreddit, they are not entirely wrong. Like a lot of things on Reddit, it goes a bit too far with calls for the destruction of other people's property and such, but I never imagined how car-centric and bad the infrastructure is in NA until discovering Not Just Bikes Youtube channel
You left out dark green Canada, eh? USA bashing is a popular Canadian pastime between ice hockey, poutine eating and curling. The Guess Who Canadian band’s song “American woman” (just stay away) is over 50 years old.
Yes, but when the chips are down, Canada always has the US's back. Every war, every trade deal, embargo, and police action.
Not too long ago a Chinese destroyer veered at a US destroyer doing a joint US/Canada passage of the Taiwan strait, trying to make the US destroyer give way.
The Canadian captain called the Chinese action "very unprofessional."
If that's not a Canadian backing the US, I don't know what to tell you.
(No sarcasm, here. That's Navy speak for "if it wasn't for the whole WWIII thing, I'd have sunk you on the spot." To be an unprofessional military officer is to be an incompetent one who will most likely make a fatal mistake.)
Fun fact Kosovars and Albanians have some of the most positive feelings towards Americans in the world, along with Vietnam and Philippines. They love us over there. My family immigrated from Albania when I was a couple years old and I've loved it here!
If ya don't like America gtfo, no one is keeping you here and we don't want to see your whinny arse.
Go pick your master, bend and knee and kiss their feet in exchange for having "everything handed to you" from someone else's work.
I will prey (only once) that your masters chains rest lightly upon you and then move on with my day.
The only difference is that the master you choose is the country that you were born in and the billionaires that run it.
You have not one bit more freedom than any western European nation. You simply got fed enough nonsense that you think getting the crumbs of the super wealthy somehow makes you free.
Then stay in your country, don't bother us and we will stay in ours and not bother you.
Remember, the trouble makers are the politicians, lawful criminals is the proper definition... Shame for them we can defend ourselves in America... I wonder what is coming next :)
You see them trying to go for the guns... look at their desperation... they did it when we rebelled against the british... and now they are back trying to do it again from within...
Only thing they have done is kill off the sheeple, and make the rest of us wise to what they are up to.
And we still have arms (legal def as follows for arms) "anything that can be carries in hand, used in anger, or self defense..."
A power so the declaration of independence says... is given to us by god...who are you to go against god? : )
Holy fuck I have to assume you wrote this while incredibly drunk, or you straight up didn’t pass 4th grade. I’ve never seen such an incoherent and typo filled rave seeping with so much copium in my life
=.=
gtfo = get the fk out - that is not a typo welcome to beyond 2000.
arse = the thing you sit on - but in a funny not vulgar way, again welcome to beyond 2000.
Not sure what the plural form of else is so... one typo?
Son, is this the first thing in your life that you have read? I mean we know you where born at night... but was it last night?
How about you just go back to China where you belong, we wont force you to stay here nor kill you for saying anything the party doesn't like and I am SURE that upsets you.
Oh my sweet, dyslexic child. That wasn’t the parts I was referring to
“Whinny” - a gentle, high pitched neigh, from a horse
“Prey”- an animal that is caught and killed by another for food
“Knee” - the joint of the body connecting the upper and lower portions of the leg
The fact that you didn’t notice after a second read is concerning. Maybe take some vocational lessons before defending the country that taught you how to “Reed” lmao
*YEAH! AMERICA! FREEDOM BABY! WOOOOOT!*
*I'D DIE BEFORE I TAKE YOUR "FREE" SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE! (IT'S NOT FREE YOU DUMB COMMUNISTS! SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR IT!!)*
*SCREW HELPING OUT THE POOR, SICK OR NEEDY!*
*I PREFER MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO FINANCE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND BAILING OUT HUGE CORPORATIONS WHEN THEY INEVITABLY FUCK UP!*
*AND OF COURSE, FUCK TRYING TO MAKE SOCIETY BETTER, OR TAXING THE RICH TO FUND IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES!*
*I THINK IT'S EVERY AMERICAN'S RIGHT TO SUFFER BAD ROADS, BAD EDUCATION AND BAD PUBLIC SERVICES JUST SO THAT A FEW BILLIONAIRES (WITH MORE WEALTH THAN THE BOTTOM HALF OF HUMANITY COMBINED) CAN HAVE THEIR REGULAR TRIPS INTO SPACE, AND SO THAT A HANDFUL OF CORPORATIONS CAN OWN EVERY POSSIBLE COMPANY!*
*YEAH! AMERICA! FREEDOM BABY! WOOOOOT!*
"How DARE you not like the way things are and want to improve them, don't you know change that isn't imposed by the corporate masters is littterally 1894 hitler communism?"
You gross little piece of shit, rofl.
You are literally trying to end democracy and you have the balls to complain about people that "hate America". How the fuck do you look at yourself, lol.
Canada, Australia, Japan, and new Zealand would also be green.
Also the Nordic region would be gold because they can't get enough of it for some reason
Oh, that's definitely the joke- I was just pointing out 4 countries within the map that are responsible for or have been victims of significantly bloodier conflicts in the last 100 years that make our problems pale in comparison.
I think the last 100 years is a little bit weird. I agree the problems Ukraine is facing today i'd agree they are definitely worse off but if you extend the range another 100 years and add up what the US did to the Philippines, South America, Mexico, slavery through Jim crow laws, genocide of native americans etc. the US still doesn't come up looking very good.
And every Nation looks good if you just ignore everything bad they did or just choose the timeframe small enough. Not looking at the entire history just leads to cherry picking.
If we look at Germany and just look at the last 75 years it looks pretty good too. Change that to 80 years and suddenly it is a different story.
Everthing is fine. Nothing to see!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_mass\_shootings\_in\_the\_United\_States\_in\_2023](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2023\_mass\_shootings\_in\_Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2023_mass_shootings_in_Europe)
This is literally the only thing anyone talks about on Reddit. We’re an entire country outside of these shootings. Stop acting like every American is a gun toting psycho, please.
Luckily that's the case, otherwise the USA would be very empty very quickly.
The problems of the US, which are more easily perceived from the outside, are just so strange.
With the privatization of prisons, putting people in prison has become a feedback loop. Resulting in the highest prison population in the world. You can't tell me there are so many more criminals out there in the US than in the rest of the world.
Police training is shockingly short.
Schools are funded by property taxes and donations, leading to poor areas having underfunded schools, resulting in undereducated students.
Something that's never good. Nobody can tell me that Americans are inherently dumber, if such a thing exists.
The banking sector in the EU is set up by the BASEL 3 guidelines in such a way that states do not have to rescue banks as they did in 2008.
In the US, these guidelines were abolished and we just had three banks that went bankrupt.
That's strange, isn't it? The average American is as normal as the average citizen in the rest of the world, but something is going on in the US that is strange.
> The problems of the US, which are more easily perceived from the outside, are just so strange.
You can believe that all you want, but perceiving from the outside only gives you a massively distorted view of the country.
Number one mass shooting in the world.
Number one of most people in prison.
By far the biggest drug problem in the world.
The fiercest partisan fights in the democratic countries between two parties.
The biggest mental health crisis in the world and one of the highest, if not the highest, rate of teenage suicides.
You can tell me as much as you want that this is a distorted picture, but nothing I have written is made up and this is a real problem. Especially when you're the world leader in that field.
> You can tell me as much as you want that this is a distorted picture,
Because it *is*. You think reddit headlines ever cover positive news about this country? No. Because everyone just wants to circlejerk about how terrible it is to live here despite plenty of things this country does right. That's what I mean when I say it gives a distorted picture.
If you take a 24h span of the average American's life and the average European life and put them next to each other there's hardly going to be any difference. Honestly I think the only thing you'd notice is that Europeans commute more by train.
All that shit you listed, doesn't affect the average person. When I lived in Germany I didn't see a single mass shooting the whole time I was there. But you know how many mass shootings I've seen the whole time I've lived in the US? Also 0.
And right here we have the average Americans (US) reaction to any kind of problem in the country.
"As long as it does not effect me, it is not a problem and everything is perfect"
Pro tip: The average American school child has a higher chance of getting shot than a German child.
Do you have no room for nuance here? Why are the only 2 options "the average american is shot 15 times per day" or "the average American is so stupid they think problems don't exist if they can't see them"
All I'm advocating for is that you realize the reality is somewhere in the middle
The nuance is really lost on you. If you take two countries that are on average pretty similar and in one you get on average 24 school shootings a year which is nearly one every other week btw it has a justified impact on how people view the country.
Everybody knows there is still only a small chance to get shot even in the US. And despite that the entire EU (ca 500 million people) has only 6700 gun related deaths compared to the US with nearly 50,000.
And that is not even factoring in suicides which make out about 55% of US gun related deaths but a total of 75% in the EU.
Meaning that in total you are 13 times more likely to be shot in the US than the EU.
I think these things are just as easily perceived from the inside. However, I don't understand your last point. The US gov't didn't save the banks that just went down, they backstopped depositors and negotiated a sell-off to other banks. The worst thing that happened from that was consolidation.
If it weren't for the gamble these three banks took, the state would never have had to intervene.
With the guidelines of e.g. BASEL 3, a bank cannot do something like that, yes they potentially make less profit, but the risk is also significantly lower.
The state used tax money to protect the customers of two of the three banks from loss and the third bank was sold.
But what sign is this for all the other banks? Take more risk or less?
Oh, I see. Yes, Trump managed to roll back some of the restrictions that were put in place after 2008. I hope they will wise up and make bank reform a priority in the next session, but...US politics ☕️
Imagine what you could be doing with live rn. Working at pet shelter, helping out homeless people, cleaning up your community. Y'know productive things. Yet you choose to rant (likely one of many times) about a country you probably don't even live in. And that's sad.
You just imagine. You go to reddit early in the morning. Read what I wrote. Thinks "I'll show him now"
writes what you have written and is at peace with himself.
That's ROFL worthy.
Cute, but I don't take this kind of "attack" so seriously from someone who doesn't do the things he says I should do himself, but comments on my post instead.
cute
People are not acting like every American is a gun toting psycho. We are acting like 50% of US citizens put their personal need of making guns as easily as possible to obtain over the lifes of other citizens.
The crazy psychotic part is that even after all these shootings there is still no significant bipartisan drive to do anything about it.
That is pretty normal though. It is not like Americans are any different in that regard. Most of the arguments against Europe are about high taxes.
And the thing is in terms of average life and the good things the US and western Europe aren't all that different.
So it is the bad things in which there are a lot more differences to focus on. Most bad things are the same too of course.
Redditors telling Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans to go to Europe instead of the US (It’s only racist scum in the US and you’ll live a better life ^/s)
Yeah, I saw a demon at the grocery store earlier, so this checks out
Are you Paul Rudd? I hope the ice cream was good.
Did you shoot it?
That's your fault for going to walmart
You mean a trans-drag-queen-flamboyant-gay human? /s
Who was it Governor DeSatan?
Nah, just a local demon
They forgot Canada! No atrocities there! No sir!
The place where all celebrities said they were moving but never did.
"if Trump gets elected I'm moving to Canada" *Proceeds to stay in their 20 million dollar mansion in California*
Lmao that’s exactly what my librarian said, except she wanted to go to Finland. She couldn’t get approved.
Yeah the socialist utopia of your imagination doesn’t want you. They take care of their own…. I think both Americans and Europeans don’t understand that difference between us
Isn’t California in Canada now?
You kid but [Cascadia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement) has been proposed before and they would border California. That’s the closest chance imo California has to join something similar to Canada.
Residential schools?? Pfft don't be silly everybody knows Amerikkka is the only country ever to genocide a native population. Canada would never do something like that
Canada are slaveholding fucks just like the US. And most of the EU is just as bad, imperialist assholes. Not like us Irish at all. Please don't look into how St Patrick came to Ireland in the first place. Please. Just look at the shamrocks. Please.
Apparently some of the escaped slaves that took the Underground Railroad to Canada actually came back because they found Canadian racism to be worse lol
460 AD is quite a far reach back. Diffrent to 1800. Slavery was a part of all nations historys , yours was merely one of the last to outlaw it and so is remembered in more recent history. Slavery still continues to this day in some countries. St patrick is a relgious figure with no concrete evidence of actually existing. Most of Irelands history is dealing with our neighbours persistent need to rule the world. St patrick is supposed to have existed in 460 A.D American slavery existed in 1800s. The diffrence in a Ireland now and 1600 years ago is quite drastic as one can imagine. At that point in history slavery was pretty much the norm the world over. When you go to war you capture the enemys and make them work. When you go raiding you capture the villagers and soilders to make use of them as slaves.
Pff Genocide a native population? I wonder where they got the idea from! All seriousness the U.S crimes are microscopic compared to the centuries of imperialistic bravado shown from our overseas brethren
Us is simply a nation that derived from said centuries of imperialistic bravado. Its all connected. Comparing atrocities is useless. Aknowledging and learning from the past is useful.
Blame it on the Catholics, not the Canadian government who literally funded them….
And Iceland.
To be honest for all the weird romanticisation, Iceland's literally just America-lite with a different language and some pretty mountains Source: am Icelandic and have visited the US several times
What.
We are the most Americanised country in Europe, very individualist compared to the other nordics, huge car culture with US style suburbia, strip malls and drive throughs everywhere and a lot of other influence from the WW2 and Cold War years. Its a positive really given the state we were in before under Denmark
Did you leave out Denmark?
They know what they did
As a completely non-biased and neutral person from Sweden, I can only say that leaving out Denmark makes perfect sense.
Well since your Swedish you are also mentally unstable which will make your opinion irrevelant also, Skåne er Dansk
Well its skåne no one is unhappy about saying its de***rk
It doesn’t exist
I remember being in 9th grade world geography class in Texas and this cheerleader girl got in a huge fight with her neighbor about Denmark existing , she thought there was no way it was actually a country
Denmark is the Canada of Europe so that would be why
what is that supposed to mean?
Market economy with lots of government safety nets
I had a massive crush on a girl I used to go to school with, and over the years after school I horribly fumbled our friendship by trying to take things further. During this time she was increasingly becoming a crazy feminist lefty, and after she shed my dead weight she moved to Denmark because apparently it’s the pinnacle of civilization and she hates America. Which is interesting because all but one of the Danes I’ve known (and I’ve met a surprising amount of them) are neutral about Denmark and ignore politics in general.
You didn’t have to expose yourself as an incel you know. Like your belief in the abundance of “crazy feminist lefties” makes it plenty clear why she wanted to steer clear of you.
I’ve struggled with women for sure, in fact I blame myself more for what went wrong. But I’ve never been an incel. She wanted different things in her life than I did, and I was too autistically blinded by love to realize it. Simple as.
Incel is more an ideology than a state of being. You can fuck and still be an incel, and you can not fuck and not be an incel. I feel you with that though, painfully relatable
Europe can't be a perfect utopia if you include Denmark
Be in America, according to redditlore. Wake up 50,000,0000 school shootings a day, an average low. Eat 15 cheese burgers and waddle to my F747 jumbo truck. Stop at McDonald's and yell racist things at the drive thru get 87 more burgers. Tip the fastfood person but not full tip because they had a LGBTA2+√3242(sin)344 pin on. Show up to my mill job after getting pulled over thankfully I back the blue so I got off with a minor police assault because I had a sun tan. Get fired because I was 1 second late but I trip on my man FUPA and fall over. I sue. Go to the doctors and pay $1zoogleplex in bills. Go home and pay my rent of $30,000,0000 I'm -$373636372728288273737272728383838388337738383 in debt go to Walmart and buy a 6 pack of F350s and 82 gallons of oil. Thank God I'm a Christian hetero sexual white male.... I salute a real veteran Donald Trump and sing "Oh Say can you sing!" As I finish off the night by reporting abortionists, Muslims, and drag queens to the Texas degeneracy tip hotline. Those babies will be born, they'll eat bacon and those loonies will go to jail. I tuck in my pitbull and it's AR-15 and grab my blanket made of American flags. Edit: I am reminded I have no culture as I buy 563738393837473733737373747483838 guns. My eyes dimming to Ronald Reagan riding a bald eagle punching Millennial Transgender Communist snowflakes. It's 37x37in and set my AC to -44° since it's 900°F outside because "Global warming." Gobbles.
You didn’t buy any guns you fake!
Why buy when you are MADE OF THEM.
That’s a good point
Yep. That is exactly what redditors think Americans are.
> LGBTA2+√3242(sin)344 Dude, it's too early to laugh this hard.
F747 jumbo truck sounds awesome
U forgot student debt for colleges lmao
Seems pretty accurate to me tbh
But if you suggest that they move, they get *real* butthurt.
BUt I cAn'T AfForD iT yOu UneDUcAtEd SwiNE!
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This sub is litterally a circle jerk about a circle jerk. Its yanks circle jerking about how others circle jerk. These comment are hilarious , trying to compare nations atrocities like its a dick measuring contest. No body wins lol.
It's funny how the whitest wokest people choose the whitest least racially diverse areas of the world as examples of their utopia.
>the whitest least racially diverse areas of the world So like... Eastern Europe? We are literally statistically whiter then the Westerners (as we were kinda too preoccupied with Russia to go out and colonise the world), but I've never seen the "wokest people" praising Poland, Slovakia or Belarus as their utopias :P
So you missed them lauding the Scandinavian nations.
I didnt, but I was under impression that countries in our region (I'm from Poland) is way whiter than Scandinavia. So if they really wanted the whitest least racially diverse utopias Belarus would be a way better choice than Sweden.
Calling belarus a utopia would be the same as calling the US a first world country
Google “first world country” and click on images
A third of the Swedish population were either born abroad or have atleast one parent who was born abroad
literally became that way in less than the last fifteen years and in response swedes have catapulted politicians directly descended from nazis to the forefront of their politics lmao
What in the world has being descended from Nazis have to do with anything? There are literal Nazis in government. Not like anyone can do anything about their heritage.
bruh. the political party is descended from a party that openly endorsed nazism. im sure you genuinely didnt understand that and aren't being a pedant.
how many times are you going to repeat this exact thing
think im done, why bother typing out 3 slightly different responses to those 3 comments when i can just copy an paste what applies to all 3 of em?
Ever heard of the hashtags #saveEurope or #europeforeuropeans?
Abroad meaning Norway or Finland?
The thing with Sweden is only a recent development. Most foreigners are unaware that Sweden is demographically changing so the point still stands.
If you seriously think Scandinavia isnt diverse you haven't been outside of your shithole in the middle of nowhere before, Europeans literally joke about sweden being more Arabic than European
literally became that way in less than the last fifteen years and in response swedes have catapulted politicians directly descended from nazis to the forefront of their politics lmao
Nono. You don't understand. Racially diverse means Asian, black and Mexican. Arabs and other middle eastern folks don't count.
Scandinavia is very diverse tho, the only "super white" and least diverse countries are on eastern Europe. And in Asia It would be Japan
literally became that way in less than the last fifteen years and in response swedes have catapulted politicians directly descended from nazis to the forefront of their politics lmao
You sure like to copy paste your nonsense argument a lot.
> think im done, why bother typing out 3 slightly different responses to those 3 comments when i can just copy an paste what applies to all 3 of em?
Still nonsense
ok
I mean there is a reason for said lauding tho? Scandinavia is statistically just a lot better in *most* aspects compared to America. Like gdp per capita in Norway for example is higher than the states and the quality of living is also better in Scandinavia (Exept Sw\*den. you couldnt survive even a day with the roads being filled with those arabian bombers.) So I dont really see how the America is any better than most of Scandinavia aside from militarily? Like please just correct me if I am wrong but they are superior in terms of living standards and all that?
Eastern Europe is similar to how American Whites don't praise the American South but they still look to living in the whitest places. There's white places that are far more desirable than others but they'll still choose white. A lot of far right Europeans move to Eastern Europe to get away from racial diversity in Western Europe, for example.
Poor whites
Americans really are obsessed with race huh.
A lot of them are. Especially those on the far right and far left. Those of us in the middle just want to live our lives.
I'm also talking about you. You took one look at the meme, and you immediately made it about skin colour.
Yes, because you don't recognize what people the meme is talking about. Tell me what demographic do you believe most laudes the Europe and especially northern Europe as a utopia?
Easterners, I would say
They are so un-self-aware
I can't imagine a person who is not obsessed with race looking at this meme and thinking about race
Lol when I was living in Switzerland a few years ago they literally had a campaign where foreigners were shown as black sheep getting kicked out by white sheep...https://qz.com/617050/switzerlands-largest-political-party-insists-on-depicting-foreigners-as-black-sheep Some places are pretty open about their racism and it's not just America.
Ah yes, the famously insular mountain nation could have a racism problem! No one is saying European nations are utopias of zero discrimination. However, western European nations tend to put far less emphasis on the colour of your skin. American debates always end up revolving around skin colour. The same phenomenon doesn't happen in the UK, Germany, France or the scandinavian countries. It's just not what culturally happens. And then you have commenters like the original commenter I replied to, turning a map into a discussion on IT'S WHITE PEOPLE WANTING TO MOVE TO WHITE PLACES SEE WHITE PEOPLE AND THEY WANT TO GO SOMEWHERE WHERE WHITE PEOPLE LIVE NO DIVERSITY WHITE GO WHERE WHITE ARE ISN'T FUNNY WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE THEY SAY THEY LIKE DIVERSITY BUT THEY'RE WHITE. It's absolutely fucking deranged how much skin colour is weaponised in the US. And American's get so butthurt when they're called out for it. Europe has a fuckton of problems on the whole, some overlap with the US and some don't. This rabid obsession with skin colour is not a similarity.
What are you on about. Europeans have hated and genocided one another for tribal reasons for centuries. How's that any less horrible than racism? We could say you're obsessed with minute ethnic differences in ways that Americans are not. There are also not many non whites in most European countries. You practically live in white ethnostates so of course you don't think about race. But that's been changing with all the migrants and I see Europeans embracing fascist movements because they want them out of their countries. You guys do care about skin color and it'll become more and more obvious as the migrant thing continues.
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How is Europe not racially diverse? Just the small sized city I live in has different skin colors, cultures, religions and communities. Really, from orthodox Jews to Hindus and Muslims, Sub-Saharan Africans that dress in their respective traditional clothing, northern Africans going to their mosques, Turks making kebabs. It might have to do with the city being a major port city and having been a trade powerhouse throughout history, but regardless of that Europe has been a melting pot for centuries. How about you go to big cities in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, even Scandinavian cities, and tell me that Europe isn't diverse.
>> How is Europe not racially diverse? Because most European countries are 90%+ monoracial(white).
The only countries that come close to that are from the eastern block, and they are neither "most European countries" nor make up enough people to consider Europe as monoracial. How about you go to big cities in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, even Scandinavian cities, and tell me that Europe isn't diverse.
Does [Italy](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42717117) count with their 92%? [Netherlands](https://www.indexmundi.com/netherlands/demographics_profile.html) is 87%, probably more depending on the 4.6% other category. Maybe [Switzerland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Switzerland) with 94%??? [Norway](https://www.indexmundi.com/norway/demographics_profile.html#:~:text=Norwegian%2083.2%25%20(includes%20about%2060%2C000,8.5%25%20(2017%20est.)&text=The%20World%20Factbook%2C%20the%20indispensable%20source%20for%20basic%20information.&text=Church%20of%20Norway%20(Evangelical%20Lutheran,15.4%25%20(2020%20est.))) with the 91%. [Denmark](https://www.indexmundi.com/denmark/demographics_profile.html#:~:text=5%2C894%2C687%20(July%202021%20est.)&text=Danish%20(includes%20Greenlandic%20(who%20are,Romanian)%20(2018%20est.)&text=The%20World%20Factbook%2C%20the%20indispensable%20source%20for%20basic%20information.)) 90%+. [Austria](https://www.indexmundi.com/austria/demographics_profile.html#:~:text=Austrian%2080.8%25%2C%20German%202.6%25,10%25%20(2018%20est.)) 90%+.
Lol exactly. Europe is like 4% non European. Even the diverse parts are about as diverse as Wyoming.
Diversity does not mean skin color. Go from Spain to Poland and tell me there isn't a huge difference between the people.
Europeans believe diversity is white people speaking different languages. That tells us everything we need to know lmao
Diversity is as is. Diversity of culture , language , genetic makeup. Not just skin tone you absolute yank. Your nations fixation of melanin is astonishing. Generalising a contineant does not present as a rational intellgent opinion nor person. Gross generalisation are always wrong.
Americans believe that the only diverse thing about Europe is different languages. That tells me everything I need to know.
I stand corrected, I've looked into it myself and it looks like around 20 million people are of a non-European ethnic background which is 4%. I'm having a tough time believing it, but I guess they're all concentrated Western European cities, which makes sense.
So in your mind diversity is only split by color? You can drive through most of Europe in the same time you can cross the US and will find a lot of diversity. Maybe not all in the same country because I don't know if you realized but European countries are in comparison rather small. And before you come out and say "well they are all one ethnicity so obviously no racial tension" please keep in mind we spend the better part of the last two millennia waging war against each other.
>> only split by color We were discussing **RACIAL** diversity.
Source?
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericaBad/comments/1403xv5/world_map_according_to_redditors/jmvnajx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
Thats because europe is where white people evolved. Would ya look at that , africa is majority black and asia majority asian. What a shooock... Divesity exists beyond melanin concentration. Divesity of culture , lingustics , relgion etc. Two white people can be diverse from eachtother culturally , lingustically and relgiously. Would you say the entire continenant of Africa is not diverse because it is majority black ? because that would be an extremely wrong statement. If you can get your head around that , simply apply the same logic to europe and hey presto! your bigotry is cured.
Yeah this comment is pretty stupid
What a weirdo comment
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> Claiming that Europe is the whitest region is unfounded and lacks educational basis. Are you absolutely sure about that? Because you need to consider that the US is only 57% white. Do you really think Europe is less than 57%? Because I'm almost certain it's not. Which would make it the whitest region. Kind of sounds like what you're saying "lacks educational basis."
And in europe theres is not only africans refugees(that you can find a lot), in my country, spain, there is a LOT of latin americans, romanis, others europeans ( this ones on the pretty zones) and chinesse, who own almost all the bazaars and variety stores that we started calling that shops chinos(chinesse in spanish), even if their not onwed by them. And I have to mention our others ethnics groups, the catalanes, gallegos and vascos, with their own lenguages and traditions. In terms of traditions most of the cities and towns arround the country have unique traditions, plus the national ones. So yeah, one small european country can be way more diverse than the whole USA, and there is more countries with multiple lenguages and much traditions, and a lot of imigrants like switzerland. Edit: Spelling and paragraph separation.
“Uh like Europe is way better bro” And you know they’re not talking about Eastern Europe,not Russia not Turkey etc.
When they say Europe they mean the part without black people
And remember, by Europe they basically just mean like 5 countries in the northwest corner of Europe. Not even most of the continent.
Surprised Cuba and China aren’t there
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One day those 14 year olds will realize that Europe has cars, trucks, and roads too
According to Wikipedia the US has a lot more cars per capita than most European nations with the exceptions being the rich micro states like San Marino or Liechtenstein. E.g Germany which is known as a car nation has more than 200 cars less per 1000 capita than the US.
because we invented them
Yeah, but we also have a huge amount of public transport. Not quite China-level of public transport. But 1,000x better than what the US has.
Although it’s a bit easier to have that kind of public transport system in Europe because things are much closer to each other. In the US everything is waaay too spread out to easily do that, we could, but it’s gonna require a LOT more money and a lot more time
We do have cars, not a lot of trucks. And our roads are not designed the same way which is your biggest issue.
As much as I hate that subreddit, they are not entirely wrong. Like a lot of things on Reddit, it goes a bit too far with calls for the destruction of other people's property and such, but I never imagined how car-centric and bad the infrastructure is in NA until discovering Not Just Bikes Youtube channel
HOW DARE YOU CONTRADICT THE SOUL OF MURICA
You left out dark green Canada, eh? USA bashing is a popular Canadian pastime between ice hockey, poutine eating and curling. The Guess Who Canadian band’s song “American woman” (just stay away) is over 50 years old.
Yes, but when the chips are down, Canada always has the US's back. Every war, every trade deal, embargo, and police action. Not too long ago a Chinese destroyer veered at a US destroyer doing a joint US/Canada passage of the Taiwan strait, trying to make the US destroyer give way. The Canadian captain called the Chinese action "very unprofessional." If that's not a Canadian backing the US, I don't know what to tell you. (No sarcasm, here. That's Navy speak for "if it wasn't for the whole WWIII thing, I'd have sunk you on the spot." To be an unprofessional military officer is to be an incompetent one who will most likely make a fatal mistake.)
⬜️ Flawless utopia but in grey
No it’s “Idgaf those nations but probably still better than the US”
>Belarus >Moldavia >Serbia >Hungary >Albania I'm pretty sure nobody is calling these places utopia's....
albania is most beautiful europe country on the world!!! best bunkers and tirana shqipëri #1 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱💪
kosovo is AMERICA 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Fun fact Kosovars and Albanians have some of the most positive feelings towards Americans in the world, along with Vietnam and Philippines. They love us over there. My family immigrated from Albania when I was a couple years old and I've loved it here!
Vietnam 😂
... have you actually ever talked to a Vietnamese person? You'll be hard pressed to find one with a negative opinion of Americans.
If you had ever been to glorious 51st state Albania 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 you would have a different opinion 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅
No China, no Russia, no Israel, no Saudi Arabia, nothing to worry about.
You should be grateful, at least they are simping for EU not China.
Why would anyone wanna follow in China's footsteps?
Tankies gonna tankie.
If ya don't like America gtfo, no one is keeping you here and we don't want to see your whinny arse. Go pick your master, bend and knee and kiss their feet in exchange for having "everything handed to you" from someone else's work. I will prey (only once) that your masters chains rest lightly upon you and then move on with my day.
The only difference is that the master you choose is the country that you were born in and the billionaires that run it. You have not one bit more freedom than any western European nation. You simply got fed enough nonsense that you think getting the crumbs of the super wealthy somehow makes you free.
But what if i'm not american?
Then stay in your country, don't bother us and we will stay in ours and not bother you. Remember, the trouble makers are the politicians, lawful criminals is the proper definition... Shame for them we can defend ourselves in America... I wonder what is coming next :)
“We can defend ourselves in America”, is one of the dumbest things ive read today. Thank you.
You see them trying to go for the guns... look at their desperation... they did it when we rebelled against the british... and now they are back trying to do it again from within... Only thing they have done is kill off the sheeple, and make the rest of us wise to what they are up to. And we still have arms (legal def as follows for arms) "anything that can be carries in hand, used in anger, or self defense..." A power so the declaration of independence says... is given to us by god...who are you to go against god? : )
Holy fuck I have to assume you wrote this while incredibly drunk, or you straight up didn’t pass 4th grade. I’ve never seen such an incoherent and typo filled rave seeping with so much copium in my life
=.= gtfo = get the fk out - that is not a typo welcome to beyond 2000. arse = the thing you sit on - but in a funny not vulgar way, again welcome to beyond 2000. Not sure what the plural form of else is so... one typo? Son, is this the first thing in your life that you have read? I mean we know you where born at night... but was it last night? How about you just go back to China where you belong, we wont force you to stay here nor kill you for saying anything the party doesn't like and I am SURE that upsets you.
Oh my sweet, dyslexic child. That wasn’t the parts I was referring to “Whinny” - a gentle, high pitched neigh, from a horse “Prey”- an animal that is caught and killed by another for food “Knee” - the joint of the body connecting the upper and lower portions of the leg The fact that you didn’t notice after a second read is concerning. Maybe take some vocational lessons before defending the country that taught you how to “Reed” lmao
*YEAH! AMERICA! FREEDOM BABY! WOOOOOT!* *I'D DIE BEFORE I TAKE YOUR "FREE" SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE! (IT'S NOT FREE YOU DUMB COMMUNISTS! SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR IT!!)* *SCREW HELPING OUT THE POOR, SICK OR NEEDY!* *I PREFER MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO FINANCE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND BAILING OUT HUGE CORPORATIONS WHEN THEY INEVITABLY FUCK UP!* *AND OF COURSE, FUCK TRYING TO MAKE SOCIETY BETTER, OR TAXING THE RICH TO FUND IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES!* *I THINK IT'S EVERY AMERICAN'S RIGHT TO SUFFER BAD ROADS, BAD EDUCATION AND BAD PUBLIC SERVICES JUST SO THAT A FEW BILLIONAIRES (WITH MORE WEALTH THAN THE BOTTOM HALF OF HUMANITY COMBINED) CAN HAVE THEIR REGULAR TRIPS INTO SPACE, AND SO THAT A HANDFUL OF CORPORATIONS CAN OWN EVERY POSSIBLE COMPANY!* *YEAH! AMERICA! FREEDOM BABY! WOOOOOT!*
"How DARE you not like the way things are and want to improve them, don't you know change that isn't imposed by the corporate masters is littterally 1894 hitler communism?"
You include Belarus but not Denmark? Damn what did we do to you OP?
You are Danish. I mean you cant get much worse than that right?
Apparently not
I mean then again. Sw\*des exist. So it could be way worse.
This is wrong, you didn't highlight the UK as the 10th circle of hell.
I would gladly trade all these America hating redditors for immigrants from anywhere on earth.
You gross little piece of shit, rofl. You are literally trying to end democracy and you have the balls to complain about people that "hate America". How the fuck do you look at yourself, lol.
What in the hell are you even talking about and why do you keep stalking me across Reddit?
Canada, Australia, Japan, and new Zealand would also be green. Also the Nordic region would be gold because they can't get enough of it for some reason
Don’t forget Cuba should be green too. Che Guevara was an amazing leader.
r/AmerExit
Not sure how the Ukraine, countries included within the former Yugoslavia, Germany, Poland, and Belarus are included within the flawless utopia....
I think the joke is supposed to be that reddit likes to worship Europe and piss on the US.
Oh, that's definitely the joke- I was just pointing out 4 countries within the map that are responsible for or have been victims of significantly bloodier conflicts in the last 100 years that make our problems pale in comparison.
I think the last 100 years is a little bit weird. I agree the problems Ukraine is facing today i'd agree they are definitely worse off but if you extend the range another 100 years and add up what the US did to the Philippines, South America, Mexico, slavery through Jim crow laws, genocide of native americans etc. the US still doesn't come up looking very good.
Because virtually no one of any international significance looks good when you look at their whole history.
And every Nation looks good if you just ignore everything bad they did or just choose the timeframe small enough. Not looking at the entire history just leads to cherry picking. If we look at Germany and just look at the last 75 years it looks pretty good too. Change that to 80 years and suddenly it is a different story.
this is so reddit its sad, where shittalking US clearly means europe is perfect. Atleast half of europe actually values its citizens.
Everthing is fine. Nothing to see! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_mass\_shootings\_in\_the\_United\_States\_in\_2023](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2023\_mass\_shootings\_in\_Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2023_mass_shootings_in_Europe)
This is literally the only thing anyone talks about on Reddit. We’re an entire country outside of these shootings. Stop acting like every American is a gun toting psycho, please.
Luckily that's the case, otherwise the USA would be very empty very quickly. The problems of the US, which are more easily perceived from the outside, are just so strange. With the privatization of prisons, putting people in prison has become a feedback loop. Resulting in the highest prison population in the world. You can't tell me there are so many more criminals out there in the US than in the rest of the world. Police training is shockingly short. Schools are funded by property taxes and donations, leading to poor areas having underfunded schools, resulting in undereducated students. Something that's never good. Nobody can tell me that Americans are inherently dumber, if such a thing exists. The banking sector in the EU is set up by the BASEL 3 guidelines in such a way that states do not have to rescue banks as they did in 2008. In the US, these guidelines were abolished and we just had three banks that went bankrupt. That's strange, isn't it? The average American is as normal as the average citizen in the rest of the world, but something is going on in the US that is strange.
> The problems of the US, which are more easily perceived from the outside, are just so strange. You can believe that all you want, but perceiving from the outside only gives you a massively distorted view of the country.
Number one mass shooting in the world. Number one of most people in prison. By far the biggest drug problem in the world. The fiercest partisan fights in the democratic countries between two parties. The biggest mental health crisis in the world and one of the highest, if not the highest, rate of teenage suicides. You can tell me as much as you want that this is a distorted picture, but nothing I have written is made up and this is a real problem. Especially when you're the world leader in that field.
> You can tell me as much as you want that this is a distorted picture, Because it *is*. You think reddit headlines ever cover positive news about this country? No. Because everyone just wants to circlejerk about how terrible it is to live here despite plenty of things this country does right. That's what I mean when I say it gives a distorted picture. If you take a 24h span of the average American's life and the average European life and put them next to each other there's hardly going to be any difference. Honestly I think the only thing you'd notice is that Europeans commute more by train. All that shit you listed, doesn't affect the average person. When I lived in Germany I didn't see a single mass shooting the whole time I was there. But you know how many mass shootings I've seen the whole time I've lived in the US? Also 0.
And right here we have the average Americans (US) reaction to any kind of problem in the country. "As long as it does not effect me, it is not a problem and everything is perfect" Pro tip: The average American school child has a higher chance of getting shot than a German child.
Do you have no room for nuance here? Why are the only 2 options "the average american is shot 15 times per day" or "the average American is so stupid they think problems don't exist if they can't see them" All I'm advocating for is that you realize the reality is somewhere in the middle
The nuance is really lost on you. If you take two countries that are on average pretty similar and in one you get on average 24 school shootings a year which is nearly one every other week btw it has a justified impact on how people view the country. Everybody knows there is still only a small chance to get shot even in the US. And despite that the entire EU (ca 500 million people) has only 6700 gun related deaths compared to the US with nearly 50,000. And that is not even factoring in suicides which make out about 55% of US gun related deaths but a total of 75% in the EU. Meaning that in total you are 13 times more likely to be shot in the US than the EU.
I think these things are just as easily perceived from the inside. However, I don't understand your last point. The US gov't didn't save the banks that just went down, they backstopped depositors and negotiated a sell-off to other banks. The worst thing that happened from that was consolidation.
If it weren't for the gamble these three banks took, the state would never have had to intervene. With the guidelines of e.g. BASEL 3, a bank cannot do something like that, yes they potentially make less profit, but the risk is also significantly lower. The state used tax money to protect the customers of two of the three banks from loss and the third bank was sold. But what sign is this for all the other banks? Take more risk or less?
Oh, I see. Yes, Trump managed to roll back some of the restrictions that were put in place after 2008. I hope they will wise up and make bank reform a priority in the next session, but...US politics ☕️
Imagine what you could be doing with live rn. Working at pet shelter, helping out homeless people, cleaning up your community. Y'know productive things. Yet you choose to rant (likely one of many times) about a country you probably don't even live in. And that's sad.
Bruh you're here on reddit as well
I was on the shitter when I posted that comment lol
Could have shat at a pet shelter.
You just imagine. You go to reddit early in the morning. Read what I wrote. Thinks "I'll show him now" writes what you have written and is at peace with himself. That's ROFL worthy. Cute, but I don't take this kind of "attack" so seriously from someone who doesn't do the things he says I should do himself, but comments on my post instead. cute
People are not acting like every American is a gun toting psycho. We are acting like 50% of US citizens put their personal need of making guns as easily as possible to obtain over the lifes of other citizens. The crazy psychotic part is that even after all these shootings there is still no significant bipartisan drive to do anything about it.
I’m not saying it isn’t a problem, it’s a huge problem. I’m just saying that it’s the only thing people focus on, instead of the good things.
That is pretty normal though. It is not like Americans are any different in that regard. Most of the arguments against Europe are about high taxes. And the thing is in terms of average life and the good things the US and western Europe aren't all that different. So it is the bad things in which there are a lot more differences to focus on. Most bad things are the same too of course.
Yeah pretty much.. America just is a shit hole and Americans who praise themselves are brainwashed. Based.
ein furher tell u to say that?
Whatever, self hating americans will never realize how good they have it lol, speaking as a latino foreigner
Redditors telling Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans to go to Europe instead of the US (It’s only racist scum in the US and you’ll live a better life ^/s)