Thereās worse places out there, to be sure. Chinaās worse, for one thing. Theyāre like America but you have a ton of limitations in what you can watch to distract you from the void. Russia whoās sending their own people to die over their dictatorās ego.
But Iād much rather be poor as a Brazilian citizen, where I have 100% free healthcare and education ā Than to be poor in the US of A where you leave your unfortunate citizens to their own and blame them for their misfortune.
Ofc, given Muricaās foreign-interference-y habits and whoās currently in charge of your country, we might just become a fascist dictatorship again and all our public services might get defunded. It happened in the sixties, it almost happened in the twenty-tens, it can happen again.
I still find it hard to believe USA is so bad all of a sudden. Itās just mind bending, itās hard to grasp how is it possible considering the statistics and strongest economy. I donāt think I will ever fully understand it.
One country instead of USA then for the āgrass is always greenerā fantasy I was kinda hoping to get into was New Zealand
China is literally right behind the US in āstrong economyā stats and some expect them to surpass itā¦ And that means jack and shit, because living in China fucking sucks, especially if you are under 30.
A strong economy means little if all that wealth is being used toā¦
ā¦ Uh. Kill people mostly.
Whereas the peopleās lives have been getting steadily worse since 1980.
You know the Simpsons? Itās just a cartoon, right? It was originally a parody of eighties-nineties America.
The Simpsons as they were written in the late eighties were meant to be a lower-class family. They still owned their own house (a large, two story suburban property at that!), their own car, and all on the income of just the man of the house. They were āpoorā by eighties standards because Bart didnāt always get all the newest and shiniest toys and they didnāt travel abroad every year.
The Simpsonsā economic situation hasnāt changed in the forty-ish years the show has existed for. But nowadays their lifestyle is considered insanely wealthy. There isnāt a single family in the US left that has their own home and car on the income of 1(one) man with a high school education, working for wages with no generational wealth, side hustles, or passive income. There just isnāt.
The fiction of the show has to make all sorts of excuses for that. It acts as an accidentally poignant time-capsule and depiction of how much the US of A has degenerated in the past 40 years. And the sad part is most of yāall seem to be cheering for this, or at least, resigned to the idea you canāt do shit about it ā Like ā This happened in America, these guys were Americans. Your ancestors took care of each other, in the face of authoritarian power, and often on the penalty of death. This is something you all seem to have forgotten.
Mind you, life has been getting steadily shittier since 1980 in ā The entire first world really. Neoliberalism has done a number and a half on society. Reagan and Thatcher are the reason we all hope hell is real so they can go there. The living standards your generation has are shite compared to what your (grand)parents knew.
This is not the case here in the Third Worldā¦ But thatās mostly because of how hard it sucked to live here in the sixties and seventies. Yeah, a messy society being eroded by cruel āausterityā measures is gonna be a dream come true when you are literally coming straight out of a military dictatorship that drained the countryās coffers and killed god knows how many people in the most cruel ways imaginable (thanks for that, by the way, US. Never would have happened without Operation Condor :3).
At least I can say I have like. A vote. And human rights after a fashion. And some hope that my life might maybe possibly not completely suck. All things with my parents didnāt have until they wereā¦ Literally in their mid thirties (which Iām close to but not quite at).
Thereās worse places out there, to be sure. Chinaās worse, for one thing. Theyāre like America but you have a ton of limitations in what you can watch to distract you from the void. Russia whoās sending their own people to die over their dictatorās ego.
But Iād much rather be poor as a Brazilian citizen, where I have 100% free healthcare and education ā Than to be poor in the US of A where you leave your unfortunate citizens to their own and blame them for their misfortune.
Ofc, given Muricaās foreign-interference-y habits and whoās currently in charge of your country, we might just become a fascist dictatorship again and all our public services might get defunded. It happened in the sixties, it almost happened in the twenty-tens, it can happen again.
I still find it hard to believe USA is so bad all of a sudden. Itās just mind bending, itās hard to grasp how is it possible considering the statistics and strongest economy. I donāt think I will ever fully understand it.
One country instead of USA then for the āgrass is always greenerā fantasy I was kinda hoping to get into was New Zealand
China is literally right behind the US in āstrong economyā stats and some expect them to surpass itā¦ And that means jack and shit, because living in China fucking sucks, especially if you are under 30.
A strong economy means little if all that wealth is being used toā¦
ā¦ Uh. Kill people mostly.
Whereas the peopleās lives have been getting steadily worse since 1980.
You know the Simpsons? Itās just a cartoon, right? It was originally a parody of eighties-nineties America.
The Simpsons as they were written in the late eighties were meant to be a lower-class family. They still owned their own house (a large, two story suburban property at that!), their own car, and all on the income of just the man of the house. They were āpoorā by eighties standards because Bart didnāt always get all the newest and shiniest toys and they didnāt travel abroad every year.
The Simpsonsā economic situation hasnāt changed in the forty-ish years the show has existed for. But nowadays their lifestyle is considered insanely wealthy. There isnāt a single family in the US left that has their own home and car on the income of 1(one) man with a high school education, working for wages with no generational wealth, side hustles, or passive income. There just isnāt.
The fiction of the show has to make all sorts of excuses for that. It acts as an accidentally poignant time-capsule and depiction of how much the US of A has degenerated in the past 40 years. And the sad part is most of yāall seem to be cheering for this, or at least, resigned to the idea you canāt do shit about it ā Like ā This happened in America, these guys were Americans. Your ancestors took care of each other, in the face of authoritarian power, and often on the penalty of death. This is something you all seem to have forgotten.
Mind you, life has been getting steadily shittier since 1980 in ā The entire first world really. Neoliberalism has done a number and a half on society. Reagan and Thatcher are the reason we all hope hell is real so they can go there. The living standards your generation has are shite compared to what your (grand)parents knew.
This is not the case here in the Third Worldā¦ But thatās mostly because of how hard it sucked to live here in the sixties and seventies. Yeah, a messy society being eroded by cruel āausterityā measures is gonna be a dream come true when you are literally coming straight out of a military dictatorship that drained the countryās coffers and killed god knows how many people in the most cruel ways imaginable (thanks for that, by the way, US. Never would have happened without Operation Condor :3).
At least I can say I have like. A vote. And human rights after a fashion. And some hope that my life might maybe possibly not completely suck. All things with my parents didnāt have until they wereā¦ Literally in their mid thirties (which Iām close to but not quite at).