• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    They were right to be talking down on us and we have been trash since at least Reagan though.

    Most European nations are societies. We’re a bunch of deluded fools playing pretend we’re rugged individuals at each other’s throats for oligarch scraps.

    We can’t even agree as a society to feed or invest in educating our kids. We let millions of our worst off neighbors die of exposure out of economic tribalist spite. We’re a loathsome country worthy of ridicule. Honestly if we weren’t so good at marketing, the art of bullshit, we could have saved a lot of potential immigrants time, shown them who we really are, and they never would have crossed a desert to come here. This is a cesspool.

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      If America has been trash since Reagan how could illegal immigrants not know who we are? I mean that was 45 years ago. America pays more per student for education than most other developed countries but ranks near the bottom especially in math and science. We are victims of our own success. Kids don’t study or try hard because whatever happens they will be fine. Hell they are graduating kids from high school that cant even read or write their own names now.