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It's better being middle class in USA generally as well, but that quote also generally is correct.
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@emgy1000 Generally speaking, the cost of living in Europe is quite a bit higher than the US, so I don't think that helps your point anyway.
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@SackofWoe That's generally the case everywhere regardless of the country.
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@StevenSiew2 If all you hear are the .01% of police encounters then yeah, you're gonna feel paranoid.
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It really isn't, at least not much more than Western Europe. Homelessness/poverty/income inequality is generally as bad or only a little worse in comparison. This is mostly just online memes taken seriously rather than objective fact with statistics. "There is no safety net" Yeah, see, this is why Americans sneer at Europeans who unironically say stuff like this.
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@stargate4625 The one time its not, his fanbase became all pissy and cried about it. So he ain't got a choice lol
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To be blunt, this sounds absolutely racist from an American's ears. Europe as a whole sounds racist to a progressive's ears especially, though I doubt many Europeans care about their opinion. But there is an issue with integration of foreign peoples into Europe, and I'm not sure how to solve that for them. There has to be an aspect which alienates certain groups that prevents them from feeling to be an integral part of their new home.
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@Zones33 Sure, there are just homeless people hiding across the country out of sight and out of mind. US homeless per 100k: 17.5 Germany homeless per 100k: 31.4 France homeless per 100k: 45 UK homeless per 100k: 54.4 Sweden homeless per 100k: 36 Your inferiority complex over the US is showing. The US has genuine things that suck to it, but there are aspects where it blows the collective EU out of the water.
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@wizardclintx7981 These nations have cheaper access to these things yes, but they tend to have higher costs of living in spite of that. The fact that the average American roughly lives as well as people of these nations in spite of its absurd lack of public healthcare and other social spending is the interesting part.
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Funny enough, immigration trends point to immigration from the EU to the US rather than vice versa, despite its bizarre issues. So it's been happening already.
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@magmablaze69 Hmm, but lots of countries like Germany have a lot of English speakers, so there should be plenty of communication. Maybe it makes it harder to establish cultural bonds?
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@leoclements598 On the macro level, 100%. Everyone is dog crap compared to the US. On the micro level? There's much to be improved.
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@Ry_TSG When it comes to trust, a few bad apples spoils everything. So stop putting words in my mouth. And statistics on police mistreatment back me anyway; people tend to focus on the per capita of negative police encounters based on ethnic/racial background. When they should be looking at police encounters when compared to the crime per capita of ethnic/racial background. The discrepancy still exists, but its nowhere as severe as believed. The US in general just has a police brutality issue. That being said, there is genuine inequality when it comes to prison sentencing. Blacks being sentenced for more time for the same crime as Caucasians, for example.
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@magmablaze69 Get some rest, friend. Thank you for your insight. :D
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@Ry_TSG That's true, but that's also true everywhere. The fact is that it exists doesn't make it infallible, just ask the British and their NHS about that. I never claimed food insecurity isn't a minor problem, just that it isn't starvation -food insecurity is a big problem in all first world nations still. Look, I 100% agree with you that the US MUST do better with its immense wealth. It's absurd. But that's a separate conversation, I was just rebutting your blatantly untrue statement which massively exaggerates current issues. Because people unironically believe this stuff, leading to ignorance.
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@CursedAnqxl Nobody said that the US isn't affected by inflation, talking about economics means that we are talking comparatively. Your post literally applies to the rest of the world just as much as the US, so it makes no sense to talk about that.
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@Zones33 You're right. There are less homelessness per capita in the US than Germany, after all.
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@Zones33 If you're so sure of that, then provide statistics on the unsheltered per capita. Either way, homelessness is a far bigger issue since that implies that an economy is lagging and the country cannot provide adequate support for sections of the population. Giving the homeless shelter is a band aid for it, not solving it. But I suspect you know that, you just hate the idea that the US is doing way better for its people in this field over your country.
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@PlatinumAltaria Not collapse, just slowly fall. And the States hardly bleeds poor people, it's standard of living is consistent to European standards of living by almost all metrics. I love the cope about billionaires though. Keep telling yourself that while your state apparatus collapses due to an inability to afford state services in the future.
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@XMysticHerox By most metrics the US has comparable standards to Western Europe, and flat out better standards than Europe as a whole. Also did you unironically act like the US' position post-WW2 was some kind of uber benefit when the US spent trillions to defend Western Europe from the USSR and fought across the planet in the Cold War while being infiltrated 24/7? Western Europe received massive support and was completely insulated from the troubles of the world to form their own new societies without much external interference. Western Europe, by every metric, was the one that had everything given to it post-WW2. Only the UK was given a raw deal. Eastern Europe much worse. To the contrary, the fact that Western Europe is sliding on the macro level so hard despite its absurd advantages in the late 20th century is insane to me. The US' issues are on the micro level, which can be fixed as long as the macro level is maintained -for Western Europe its the opposite. If it wasn't for the rising economies of the East for the past 3 decades, the West would be in serious economic and demographic crises about now.
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@LeoMes01 The cope of Africans making everything about the CIA is still hilarious. Gaddafi had far more to do with Sankara getting overthrown than the CIA.
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@skyisreallyhigh3333 Difference is that we can afford it. Mind you, still terrible; but Americans are so absurdly wealthy that such costs are handled. Imagine if the US actually had public healthcare?
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@skyisreallyhigh3333 "Most of us can't afford it" Imagine being this deluded. If people can't afford it, why are there more homeless per capita in European countries than the US? You'd think that would be the opposite -since such poverty is obviously so endemic, right? If you can't even hope that the US will get public healthcare, you should also apply that lack of hope to Europe, whose growth has slowed while its demographics are crumbling. Or is this just a one-sided hatred of your own country that this pessimism resides? I happen to think that the entire West is generally improving even as it faces issues, but I'm sick and tired of Europeans and Americans alike just trashing the US as if it has no merit to it while using hypocritical logic. At least be consistent with the logic behind it, ya know?
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@savannaha5038 The end result of your mindset is where everyone is forced into little cubicles and taught from birth not to want more. The maximum we should focus on is to have people want more but also use government to temper their greed for the betterment of society. Not stifle people to be "content".
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@savannaha5038 And they're fine, when the people are doing it out of their free will rather than it being imposed on them. That sounds seriously dystopian. I already suggested the best outcome; promoting wanting more but also having government take healthy slices from the top for the betterment of society or those who want to chill. Respecting the human spirit rather than tossing it into a box like you seem to want.
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@Ry_TSG Starvation in the US generally doesn't exist, just like it doesn't exist in any other 1st world nation. Mostly because we have systems in place to prevent that. At max there is what is called "food insecurity", which means that some people go from paycheck to paychek.
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@Michael-mh2tw US seems to have a higher cost of living though, mostly self-inflicted due to an unwillingness to adopt social welfare schemes and other benefits. But yes, Americans generally are very wealthy despite what people are crying about.
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@XMysticHerox The point about income inequality is a fair one, you're right, US income inequality is quite a lot worse than in Europe as a whole. So I'll give you that. The homelessness issue is actually much worse for Europe if you take into account migrants/illegal migrants -the US has somewhere around 11 million migrants in the US. The US has effectively been dealing with a much larger "refugee crisis" for decades without getting much worse than before. And to be blunt, homelessness is homelessness; you have zero reason to believe US homelessness is worse than Western Europe barring your own biases. You used data the first time to prove your point, but here you're only guessing. As for poverty, it depends on how you measure it, your first measurement had it as those who lived on less than 5 dollars or so. According to DW, the German poverty rate was as high as 15.5 in 2015. The US poverty rate at the time was roughly 13.8 in 2015. So we have conflicting sources, but they are roughly around the ballpark of each other. So I'd like to think that I'm mostly correct here. In reality, despite the US' considerably worse income inequality, the US is doing as well as the likes of Germany in spite of facing far more issues outside of its control or just flat out having worse policies.
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@theonlythingihavetosayis9333 That has nothing to do with maintaining capitalism as it is to maintain basic economic factors. Whether feudalism or Marxist in nature, having more of something drives prices down. Unless you want the government to start majorly subsidizing farmers just for random people abroad, or just force them to make a certain amount and kill any future flexibility of agricultural production, the current option is by far the best choice.
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@PlatinumAltaria True. Though the US is among the few 1st world countries that has a decent growth rate and demographics; so everyone's future prospects barring the US and a few other exceptions is pretty horrid.
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@crayfish6735 It's about as hard. The benefits for being poor in the US has roughly the same benefits as being poor in the EU. Public healthcare, social welfare net, etc. The homelessness population in the EU is quite a bit larger than the US, while income inequality is a lot worse in the US than the EU.
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@crayfish6735 That's some serious copium. Every definition of homelessness has its issues and people missing through the gaps, your assumptions is literally based on nothing but your own biases. How many European homeless are unaccounted for because of its own absurd standards of homelessness? Impossible to say, but suffice it to say that nobody really disputes the US' numbers.
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@crayfish6735 Can you source it?
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@d.b.2215 Describing immigrants to a country, even if they're only meaning to come as a periodic economic workforce as what amounts to "guests workers", especially due to their country of origin (read: poorer countries) is considered racist to most Americans, I think. But that could be from a bygone age, so idk if they're still called that. Learning German isn't a problem, it's the assumption that migrants will be problematic if they don't learn it that is problematic -the idea behind it, I guess. There are a lot of immigrant communities in the US that don't really speak much English, and they do fine. Lastly, the bit about citizenships needing to be revoked to get a German one is absurd, but that might be my own immigrant background. That's like severing a part of your heritage just for the privilege of being German. My grandparents have their passports to their countries of origin and the idea of forcing them to cut ties with family back home because of the fears of your new country fills me with unease. Mind you, this is just a perspective. So I'm not saying its factual, but from my own immigrant background a lot of Germany's policies are very problematic. And I'm not even an uber progressive either, some in the US already consider US immigrant policies to be too stringent and harsh, Germany's would sound dystopian to them. But that might be the different cultural outlook rather than anything truly negative or positive. Germany has its own cultural history born in Germany, while the US' is an immigrant country.
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@mae_doll You people are so vacuous with your obvious Marxist bootlicking, geez. Why are you acting like there is a means to NOT have people work for their own sustenance when every single Marxist experiment ended up worst than any capitalist society?
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@aspen1606 Far as I can tell, that's very much not true. Homelessness is worse in multiple European countries, but not income inequality.
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@rogerroger9952 That comrade will have you and I placed against the wall to get silenced for talking smack against the revolution like all of his ilk.
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The future generation claims that things will be better off under them, then the next generation after them will curse them as fools and hope for the time your generation gets old and die to fix your mistakes.
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@consensualcode9750 US forgave much of that "fee" afterwards. US aiding the rebuilding effort was more of a geopolitical thing; it did not help it economically. In fact, aiding those countries would create new economies that would destroy the US' industrial base.
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@desmondfonseca5014 A lot. And we still have not discovered them all due to the USSR's and Russia's penchant for hiding the truth. Angola, Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Namibia, Somalia, etc, etc.
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@yesimemoin0935 Most oil companies don't walk away with a 50/50 stake in any country. Not even oil companies exploiting US oil give out 50/50 stakes, genius. That's not exploitation by default.
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...So it was a dictatorship, then? Thanks for admitting it in so many words lol
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@gamermapper I don't think any European will ever win compared to the US when talking about past atrocities, my friend. The "American dream" as it were includes Natives these days, the past is its own separate conversation.
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@DumplingDoodle That trend has only improved, as far as I can tell. If anything, the US remains one of the few wealthy nations that has been massively successful with such a tactic.
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@DumplingDoodle By almost every metric, it is. This really has nothing to do with perception, and everything to do with statistics.
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@bigbrotheriswatching2680 If good, why is Socialism dead across the planet? Socialism has failed, and we're pissing on its corpse.
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@davidevans916 Migration trends point to way more Europeans moving to the US than vice versa; but very few travelling to the US are travelling for migration to begin with.
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@Artur-qq1ef6zm1l The "ideology of racism" was common throughout the world. And even maintained further under Fascist and Marxist regimes worldwide. The concept of superiority is hardly a unique thing; and unlike most, the US has and continued to face their issues with it. Can't say the same for any Marxist states which have a habit of making targeted minority groups "disappear". Germany's failure was in its failure of diplomacy to maintain their geopolitical position. The US' position by contrast is so ludicrously superior that its insane that you even compare the two; the only catastrophe waiting for the US is if another insane state decides to press the nuke button. So basically, Russia is the problem.
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@nutpeg6915 Many Americans are self hating people that do so for love from Europe, so that really doesn't mean anything. Of course there are also those that consider Europe to be a broken continent worth nothing too, so I guess they even out.
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...So he wasn't practical? He pushed further than he should considering his position, meanwhile Botswana carefully maintained connections with both Superpowers where neither attempted to screw it.
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