1 1st amendment 2 the most popular culture and the most cultural influence over the world 3 most money aka largest economy on earth 4 largest military.
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3 out of the four make it the worst, and even the first is barely worth the paper itās written on. There are other countries with far more free speech and freedom of the press than the US. The US never scores very highly on global āfreedom indexesā.
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An American hereā¦ and there are literarily dozens of
reasons why America sucksā¦
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if all that money is going to the military, much less, way less is going
to the people who actually need itā¦ for example, seniors on
Social Security, and Medicare, they are forced to choose between
medicine and foodā¦ My mom was forced into that spotā¦
Medicare also does not apply to these three things, hearing,
vision and dentalā¦ need these things, tough shitā¦ Iām retired,
but havenāt hit these problemsā¦ yetā¦ -
the government is taking money away from seniors and the young
to pay for the billionaires tax cutsā¦ how does that Make America great? -
You have ICE/SS going about the country trampling on every
single right guarantee by the constitutionā¦ How does that make MAG? -
Over 30% of all Americans are just two paychecks away from
living on the streetsā¦ that in terms of numbers works out to
over 100 million Americansā¦ -
The US has the highest gun murder rate in the world, the most
people in prison, and the highest mortality rate of childrenās deaths
in the industrial worldā¦ -
millions of Americans are both homeless and lacking in
basic nutrition because they donāt have the money for foodā¦
how does that make America great? -
we have become two Americaāsā¦ one is the small number
of very wealthy people and the rest of us, over 250 million
people are part of the working poor or the actual poorā¦
the middle class has been basically squeezed outā¦
how does that make America great?
These are just a few reasons why America sucksā¦
and there are plenty more reasons if you are curiousā¦
Kropotkin
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Those problems exist outside of the United States as well.
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I can only think of one. India. Enormous wealth but full of poverty and squalor and with a huge military. Thatās not exactly something to be proud of.
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The best country that is on a global tour of mass murder since itās inception.
Which has birthed the entire insanity that is the liberal left.
Which thinks diversity is strength
Which instigated globalism
Which never has done a SINGLE fucking thing in itās entire existence to help anyone, unless it benefited them somehow in the process
Which has the 1st amendment but is also the place that created āwords are violenceā
Lets leave it at thatā¦
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That sounds like another country I know.
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There are a lot of countries like that, but there is only one that advertises itself globally as the shining beacon of democracy and human rights, while simultaneously touring the world massacring people wherever they go.
Thats what pisses me off about america. Its this sheer fucking hubris of wanting it both ways. Simultaneously being like any other large military might, but also wanting to be seen as the benevolent, kind, helpful, altruistic good guys.
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Well this other country used to do that too, now it doesnāt quite have the means.
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ArenĀ“t counties inside States, and States inside United States?
The United States is an excellent hegemonic power.
People that hate it hate it because its power reinforces their feeling of powerlesness.
A person that feels powerless hates anything that isnāt slavery, because only slavery can offer safety to a powerless worm.
Every āevilā they accuse the US of is committed 1000000x by their enemies. This does not even make them blink. Why should it? āAttrocityā was never the crime.
The crime is a Hegemonic power of Free Men.
Freedom. You motherfucking serfs. Freedom.
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I spit on you and your mothers.
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People like you are a living example of in order to have freedom you must take it away from others. To be free others must pay the ultimate price for that where their own freedom becomes forfeit.
Thatās really what it all boils down to.
I once had a patient who held onto bullshit that sounded similar. It was unusual because the home I was managing was for elders, and he was only 58. From day one, he abused the staff verbally, despite being paralysed from the waist down, and the staff encouraging him to become more self-dependent by getting him into a wheelchair. He threw bottles of water at them, knocked his plate and whatever it contained on the floor, grabbed the womenās breasts and tried to put his hand up their skirts.
On day two, I took over his morning wash, and he accused me of being weak, gay, and attracted to him. Why else would I volunteer to take over his intimate care? It turned out that his accident had been caused by misadventure and that he was brought to us because, in the therapy sessions, he was non-responsive and abused them verbally as well. His wife told us that she was separated from him because of domestic violence, but they were still married. He still shouted at her despite her loyalty.
As the days went on, and after several bruises on my arms, he started telling us to give him a lethal injection and shouted abuse when we told him that, even if we could, we wouldnāt. Slowly, his commands became pleas, and judging by the men who visited him, he was losing his status among them. One of them must have given him an idea because he suddenly demanded a wheelchair, and though our stairs were only reachable with a key, he apparently wanted to throw himself down the stairs.
He fell out of the wheelchair several times, injuring himself and blaming the staff, but finally, a doctor found him suicidal, and he was taken to a psychiatric ward. I never heard from him after that, but I had to think that his attempted show of strength was in fact futility, and my staff were the strong ones, putting up with his abuse like his wife had. She was thankful that we stuck at the job, but we confessed to be glad we were relieved of him.
When people are constantly surrounded by others (usually a small group) with āalternativeā views, they begin to think those views are normal views to have. Your patient sounds like one of those people.
To be honest, it wasnāt so much āalternativeā views as the inability to accept his own situation and his accusing nurses of malevolent intentions. The attempt to interact with him failed miserably and only when I turned up, physically stronger than my staff, did he change his approach.
The man was incapable of social interaction.
What a horrible story. āā..and even if we could, we wouldnātā. Why not? Do you enjoy seeing suffering? Do you torture small animals in your free time? And all of the abuse going on in those appalling ācareā homes is done BY the staff on inmates. You might be begging and pleading for a lethal injection yourself one day.
Just because you are prejudiced against care homes doesnāt mean you are right. I donāt know how to be polite about this, but take a long walk off a short pier.
We took in a patient for whom we tried to serve, but he abused the staff in the way I have described. I took over, and he tried to verbally and physically assault me, but it didnāt work. The only cooperation we had from him was when he thought he could use a wheelchair to push himself into the stairwell and hurt himself even more.
It was clear from his verbal diarrhoea that he was one of those men who only valued strength and considered male nurses like me to be gay, and only in the job to see him naked. If you have a paralysed patient who doesnāt cooperate, it is very exhausting and time-consuming, let alone the psychological stress.
If you havenāt done the job, back off!
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Oh boo hoo. If you canāt handle it then donāt do it. I donāt want to hear your depressing stories. āCareā homes are one of the biggest reasons why euthanansia needs to be available to people. Itās a human right. Polticians have no right to withold its availability. Thereās nothing āsacredā about humans. If you want out you want out. No one is ever going to choose lingering torture. You would be in the front row at a hanging, drawing and quartering. Physical abuse is par for the course in them, and most of the people who work there have no qualifications. Why are you gossiping about patients anyway?
Like I said, that is your prejudice speaking, but you have no idea what the job entails. You are also speaking from a different country, and have no idea how our care is organised.
The only point with which you are inadvertently right, is the fact that politicians in most Western countries neglect care homes and resources are cut.
The event I described took place thirty years ago, and I have been retired for 6 years.