You think there’s nothing going on behind the scenes that an American citizen should be proud of? Note this is different from “Americans have a lot to be ashamed of AND a lot of to be proud of”
What’s actually the point of this exercise? Trying to scrape together reasons to be proud of living in a fascist dictator state, “not everything is that bad”, just reads like cope. Yeah sure, there are some decent places in the US, but even those could be much better than they are. Every facet of life in the US is being held back by the fascism part, even whatever “good” parts we can brainstorm up
Some people just have a mentality of pure negativity.
I once dated a doctor, who was a fellow at the best hospital in the world, who had a pretty amazing life, from my perspective. They grew up with wealthy parents, they went to Standford, for free, and had a degree from Harvard Medical school, and they’d completed their residency and had a salary of about 350K at the age of 30.
From their own perspective, they hated their life. Nobody likes them, they were a failure, they were poor and struggling, etc. etc. The same rhetoric you get from so many people here. And I’m sure when I walked away from them because of their extreme self-negativity, they thought I was just also another mean terrible person to them. And they kept lecturing me about how ‘naive and dumb’ i was for being happy with my life…
People just become prisoners in their own minds and can’t see any good in the world or their own lives.
I don’t know if you live here or not. I’m trying to stay hopeful that this regime will fall apart sooner rather than later.
Don’t call me a prisoner of my own mind. Don’t insult my intelligence. It isn’t naive or dumb to hope that things can be better, or to go looking for them.
What OP is looking for is assurance that America isn’t an unredeemable bad guy. You know what I see? Someone rapidly realizing that their reality is propagandized nationalistic pride, and trying to claw it back, exactly the way I was ten years ago.
Of course there are good things about a place. But self-soothing with a constructed reality doesn’t change the fact that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, and that a pretty big chunk of the world’s issues are a direct result of our broken political system.
It’s okay to see the real world for what it is. Pretending it’s all gonna be fine makes the problem worse, not better. The sooner we can agree it needs to be fixed, the sooner it will get fixed. That gives me some hope. That eventually, enough people will see that it needs to change.
Yeah it was brutal. She was a really good doctor too. But just… had zero perspective on her life and was super bitter than other people had more money than she did.
She also wanted a cat but then kept saying how she can’t get one because it will mean she is a pathetic sad lonely single person. It was so weird. I had a cat and she would come over and play with him all the time… then start in on her self-hating rants. She could never just enjoy something.
The only good I’ve seen have been the sporadic and broken bits of a resistance that have managed to not get arrested yet. And I’m not talking about the democrats that are larping as real people for the votes.
You think there’s nothing going on behind the scenes that an American citizen should be proud of? Note this is different from “Americans have a lot to be ashamed of AND a lot of to be proud of”
What’s actually the point of this exercise? Trying to scrape together reasons to be proud of living in a fascist dictator state, “not everything is that bad”, just reads like cope. Yeah sure, there are some decent places in the US, but even those could be much better than they are. Every facet of life in the US is being held back by the fascism part, even whatever “good” parts we can brainstorm up
Can you just answer the question?
Some people just have a mentality of pure negativity.
I once dated a doctor, who was a fellow at the best hospital in the world, who had a pretty amazing life, from my perspective. They grew up with wealthy parents, they went to Standford, for free, and had a degree from Harvard Medical school, and they’d completed their residency and had a salary of about 350K at the age of 30.
From their own perspective, they hated their life. Nobody likes them, they were a failure, they were poor and struggling, etc. etc. The same rhetoric you get from so many people here. And I’m sure when I walked away from them because of their extreme self-negativity, they thought I was just also another mean terrible person to them. And they kept lecturing me about how ‘naive and dumb’ i was for being happy with my life…
People just become prisoners in their own minds and can’t see any good in the world or their own lives.
I don’t know if you live here or not. I’m trying to stay hopeful that this regime will fall apart sooner rather than later.
Don’t call me a prisoner of my own mind. Don’t insult my intelligence. It isn’t naive or dumb to hope that things can be better, or to go looking for them.
What OP is looking for is assurance that America isn’t an unredeemable bad guy. You know what I see? Someone rapidly realizing that their reality is propagandized nationalistic pride, and trying to claw it back, exactly the way I was ten years ago.
Of course there are good things about a place. But self-soothing with a constructed reality doesn’t change the fact that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, and that a pretty big chunk of the world’s issues are a direct result of our broken political system.
It’s okay to see the real world for what it is. Pretending it’s all gonna be fine makes the problem worse, not better. The sooner we can agree it needs to be fixed, the sooner it will get fixed. That gives me some hope. That eventually, enough people will see that it needs to change.
This is so sad!
Yeah it was brutal. She was a really good doctor too. But just… had zero perspective on her life and was super bitter than other people had more money than she did.
She also wanted a cat but then kept saying how she can’t get one because it will mean she is a pathetic sad lonely single person. It was so weird. I had a cat and she would come over and play with him all the time… then start in on her self-hating rants. She could never just enjoy something.
The only good I’ve seen have been the sporadic and broken bits of a resistance that have managed to not get arrested yet. And I’m not talking about the democrats that are larping as real people for the votes.