Don’t forget military spending, we’re definitely #1 in that.
Not per capita
I see this talking point all the time and I have no idea why anyone would think it matters at all.
Country A has a population of 200 million people and each one has X tax dollars going to the military. Country B, which is directly threatened by Country A, only has a 20 million people and each spends 2X dollars on the military. That means Country B’s spending per capita is twice that of Country A’s, but Country A’s military spending is five times that of Country B. Obviously, Country A is more deserving of criticism for building up a five times larger military with no legitimate threat, while Country B’s spending is more reasonable, and might even need to be higher, despite the fact that it’s already twice as high per capita. Per capita is almost entirely irrelevant in the discussion.
Don’t forget “believing in angels!”
Yeah. I don’t understand how anyone in the poor or working class can be a patriot. This country will let you die in the street if you can’t pay a bill some rich asshole demands of you.
I hate this stupid holiday.
Lots of maga folks blame everyone else. And they believe if those people are gone, suddenly everything will be fixed.
You know why gas is so expensive? Immigrants.
You know why food is so expensive? Biden.
You know why movies suck? Wokeness.
You know why my children don’t talk to me? Obama.
I can’t wrap my head around patriotism in general. Seems like social engineering to make people more obedient.
I figure fuck it, while I’m at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.
How do I vote for this guy?
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The rest is up to Russian and Chinese social media bots getting enough brainwashed deplorables to vote against their own interest.
“Our country is good, so its problems most be the fault of evil Foreigners!”
Newly declassified documents show that Russia did interfere on behalf of the orange moron.
These claims include that when the former Vice President was in office, he engaged in criminal activity in his dealings with Ukraine and individuals tied to Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
In other words, they “conspired” to state facts about Hunter Biden, Burisma, and the “big guy.”
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How bout dem apples.
Gotta be up there for propaganda. Americans appear to hate the idea of taxing billionaires, socialised healthcare, etc
Hey! We’re not all that stupid. Just most of us.
Oh for sure, just off of sheer spending in Hollywood, corporate media, social network algorithms, and marketing, America is by far the most propagandized country on Earth.
sums up that shithole pretty good :)
- Military expenditure
- Electing a pedo
- Starting pointless wars and never remembering the folly
- Car / truck safety regulations
- Environment
- Welfare
- Taxes
- many many more…
We’re also #1 in per capita health care spending, and it’s #1 by a lot – literally twice as much as any other country. This goes fantastically well with that “worst in the developed world in healthcare outcomes” bit.
Capitalism is such a scam.
Where’s police abuse?
Wanting decent healthcare, education, life expectancy and a free press is “communism” according to Trump. But he is all in favour of giving pardons to some very unpleasant people - so I guess they’re happier!
Yeah, we’re #1 at gifting our oligarch overlords those amenities because they live here? It’s a shame they’re thankless garbage.
Oh I think vacation days should be added as well
The Great US Empire is exactly that. It is #1 in projecting power and using gunboat diplomacy. And since WW2, that was all it needed.
A nation that can’t adapt to the changing world
Thank god MAGA can’t read
Kids cant read anymore either. We pay our teachers less than babysitter pay rates, cut school funding and put cops in schools who run away and cower in the parking lots at the first sign of trouble.
One of the many problems is that it’s also #1 on GDP. Therefore GDP must be the One True Metric of a country’s success. Therefore it makes sense to shun any policy that might lower GDP.
GDP was meant to make the US look better than it actually does from day 1. Economists warned about GDP’s many issues and inaccuracies immediately, but it was still pushed through. The official reason is that no other metrics were available, but it’s not entirely true, because the concept of GDP PPP was created a decade or two before GDP nominal.
Quite frankly, I am OVER IT.
