• experbia@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    it is. you’re correct.

    us Americans, we seem to like to swerve deftly around many such useful civil universalities.

    things you’d assume are vital to a peaceful, comfortable, safe people are often things that seem to baffle us.

    i think this repeated swerving should disabuse anyone of any notion of the USA being a civilized nation, but somehow people keep classifying us as better than we are. lived here my whole life… not sure how someone could make that mistake, honestly. not unless they were really rich, I guess.

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      9 months ago

      One big part is because of Hollywood. The entire world image of America comes from movies.

      Once you start to look into the prison system, the justice system, the financial system… Well, nothing actually builds on any feeling of caring about its citizens at all.