• Broiled_Tofu@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    I am grateful to live in the USA. My life is great. I fish, I camp, I BBQ, I have a stable career (that at least pays my bills if nothing else).

    If you stop living on social media and feeding yourself outrage constantly it’s pretty damn great actually. I have never even SEEN and ICE agent and I live in a hot spot 😆

  • null@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    16 days ago

    As bad as things are now, at least you don’t live in the 1950’s USA.

    • robocall@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Idk. Both have problems. 1950s feels like less murder compared to 2026. But maybe I’m just being nostalgic for diners and American homeownership.

      • null@lemmy.orgEnglish
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        14 days ago

        It’s the era where the CIA was operating within US borders, torturing and experimenting on US citizens. Women couldn’t have bank accounts. Everything had lead in it. Workers were basically huffing asbestos.

        I could go on, but you get the idea. I’m sure it was nice for a few people, but the average American was worse off than you or I today.

  • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    Kinda sucks here ngl, but Europe is SO small. Like that high school graduate who came back from gap year to a high school party saying he traveled “all over Europe” just to pick up girls. Come on guy, it’s like a metro rail pass and a two weeks time.

    Yeah, it sucks in the US but we only have to deal with OUR idiots, we don’t have to deal with our own idiots PLUS a neighbor’s that are crazy unstable. I’m not in missile range of anything since the 60’s. Just saying.

    • tino@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      OK… 2 seconds on Google:

      • United States: 9.8 million square kilometers.
      • Europe: 10.2 million square kilometers.

      Do you also need me to search for kilometer?

      • xav@programming.dev
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        16 days ago

        Yes but he has a point : you can’t travel in the USA by train, it’s a fucking nightmare. Whereas in EU it’s quite easy and cheap.

        • tino@lemmy.world
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          16 days ago

          Nobody does Lisbon-Tallinn by train either. It would be almost impossible or very expensive.

        • Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml
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          15 days ago

          There is alsorts wrong here. 1, you referred to Europe as one single land mass, not individual countries. 2, you USAians can never make up your minds whether you’re some massively varied culture or not.

    • untorquer@quokk.auEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I can’t spend more that $300 a year on medical bills. Not because that’s what I can afford, but because the rest is 100% covered by the government.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 days ago

      in the US

      don’t have to deal with (…) neighbors that are crazy unstable

      On a scale from Bud Light to Everclear, how drunk are you on American garbage alcohol right now? 🙄

      I’m not in missile range of anything since the 60’s

      Fun fact: in 2026 you’re thousands of times more likely to be killed by a bullet from a handgun in the US than by a missile in any other European country than Ukraine.

      Just saying that you’re full of shit. Because you obviously are.

      • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip
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        16 days ago

        I didn’t say anything about Americas bullet problems and I certainly didn’t say anything about ICBM’s which we are ALL in range of. Im saying I’m not waking up tomorrow morning to an anti-missile battery defending me from a hail of dumb fire missiles or long distance drone strikes.

        Haven’t had a drink in years, btw.

    • Hobthrob@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I don’t think most of Europeans are particularly afraid of being in missile range of anyone but the US, right now.

      And the only country that doesn’t really fit in with the EU in terms of overall values at all is Turkey, so not a lot of crazy neighbours around overall.

      And, to be honest, if the US had a modern public transport system you could probably visit anywhere worth going in a couple of weeks too.

      • LwL@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        I’d imagine the crazy neighbour is russia. I think they qualify, and the country is in europe.

        What’s funny to me is that russia also borders the US. It’s not a land border, but the gap isn’t exactly huge.

    • dantel@programming.dev
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      16 days ago

      I hate it to break it to you, but buddy, you are the neighbours that are crazy unstable. Your people shoot each other in the face constantly.

      And Trump absolutely does have access to missiles he very well might be pointing at you ass at some point.

      • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip
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        16 days ago

        You and agree with each other. You aren’t telling me anything I don’t know. What I’m saying is WE have to deal with our own idiots. We don’t have insane neighbors willing to double down on the aggression less than a few hundred miles away. A few hundred miles could be a weekend drive to see family in the US.

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      Europe is SO small

      Depends on what you count as Europe. If you include Turkey, Caucasus and/or the western part of Russia, it is fucking huge (~7500 km drive from Vorkuta to Cabo da Roca). Even if you only count EU countries, it’s still not that small (~5000 km drive north-to-south). And it’s also way denser than the US so there’s more to see overall, you can’t even explore any single country comprehensively in two weeks time (apart from microstates, of course)

    • Lowleekun [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      15 days ago

      Yeah that’s really speaking to you being american. Not only is Europe as big as the US, it is spread out much more and not a square.

      Living in the imperial core sucks because we are responsible for how the world is cooked. And the ignorant buffons pretending we are the good guys. Apart from that conditions are far too good for most of us.

    • Cuddles McBubblefun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I mean, you haven’t NOT been in missile range since the 60s, that’s when the Soviets really got their ICBMs online. Don’t need to put missiles in Cuba if they got the range to launch the from home.

      We just stopped CAREING about being in range once it got to the point that we couldn’t actually do anything about it