Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "The Onion"
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@just the facts What does "better opportunities" mean, exactly? 1 in 3 Americans go to bed hungry every night, despite the fact that some 40% of all food brought to market in America goes to waste. 600,000+ people are houseless and living in the streets, despite there being 17 million unoccupied homes in the country. Tens of millions of people are a single paycheck away from joining their houseless neighbors, and tens of millions more are two or three away. Meanwhile, fewer than 50 people own more than 50% of all American wealth, more than 50% of the wealth of the richest empire in the history of humanity―that makes you and me poorer compared to the current aristocracy than the serfs were compared to their kings and nobles under feudalism. And if you happen to be a foreign member of "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", well, you're clearly not welcome here: We have concentration camps on our borders that keep kids in cages so miserable that if you kept your dog in them, you'd be literally guilty of animal abuse. And yes, both wings of the Congressional Party have increased funding to these camps, despite the billionaire media's sudden silence on them after Biden's election. Whatever opportunity America provides, it comes at extraordinary cost―a cost that can easily be measured to be greater than it is in other nations.
So I wonder what "opportunities" you think America uniquely affords for the average human being? Sure, if you're a valuable tech worker, you can get a job here―but you can get a job with that anywhere on earth. Social mobility is far lower in the United States than it is in other developed nations, both for natural citizens and immigrants, so don't come to America for that, despite the myths from over a hundred years ago―times have very much changed. Access to healthcare is also worse in America than it is in countries that might surprise you. We have the most incarcerated population per capita on earth, so god help you if you defy the status quo, especially if you're not white, since Black people are 28 times more likely to be arrested than white people, and Black men over 25 have 1 in 1,000 odds of being killed by the police in their lifetime―a statistic so significant that Death by Cop is a literal leading cause of death for Black men in America.
There is a country less than 100 miles away from the United States that has 100% literacy, zero homelessness (because housing is considered a right, not a privilege), free universal education, free universal healthcare, and access to some of the best doctors on the planet. This country has achieved that despite being under embargo by more than half the world for more than half a century, and despite being less than 100 miles away from the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, an empire that has nakedly tried and failed to overthrow it literally hundreds of times―an empire that has itself achieved literally none of the aforementioned benchmarks. Does not even Cuba, therefore, offer certain opportunities to its people that America cannot hope to promise under its current power structure?
Job opportunities are not better here than in other developed nations. Healthcare is far more expensive. Education and literacy rates are lower. Our prisons are bloated to bursting. Our police kill more people than every other country's police on earth except for Brazil, Venezuela, The Philippines, India, and Syria―countries like Pakistan have less than half our annual rates of police murder, and countries like Denmark, Iceland, and Switzerland have all reported years with literally zero state executions. Our poverty gap is greater than any other country on earth. Our Happiness rate is lower. Our life expectancy is lower.
I'm not trying to go on a bashing spree, I'm not speaking with a forked tongue, I'm not trying to deceive you or "gotcha" you or anything like that. I just genuinely wonder: Which "opportunities for people" are you referring to?
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