People who generalize as if the US is one government instead of one big inept government and then 50+ governments that have districts and counties and cities are aggravatingly ignorant and smug.
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People who generalize as if the US is one government instead of one big inept government and then 50+ governments that have districts and counties and cities are aggravatingly ignorant and smug. - Lemmy.World
“The US should do X and they suck because they don’t!” Each state has it’s own
laws on education. Some places suck, some do not. It’s not a monolith. “The US
has shitty beer lol” We have some of the best beer in the world but it’s
local/state/region only and never exported unlike fancy Euro beer. The US for
better or worse is a, hmmm 🤔 a unity of government states under a federation
called America. It’s very hard to get federal laws and bills passed, especially
for education. The states want the power to chooses for themselves what they do,
and the federal government hangs above them, sometimes intervening. We are a
huge country that has a relatively unique circumstance of government,
population, and young brutal history. I’m a Californian and I live in the Bay
Area which almost literally a different country than most of America, especially
the South and Midwest. I’m so sick of people, especially smug Europeans, talking
like they know Americans and America but they don’t really know shit about us
except the movies and going to NYC and Miami. Yes I am having a bad day. To be
honest I love Europe and have friends there that I miss dearly! I’ve been many
times. But dumbassery is dumbassery.
Except the one government at the top is the one that interacts with every other nation on the planet and is usually the one making policies and taking actions that piss everyone else. And like it or not, these policies and actions are decided by the congress and the president, which everyone in the U.S. is responsible for electing the people there. And when you look at that federal governmnt, well let me tell ya that it doesn’t reflect very well on Americans.
If you want to go on foreign policy, sure. The federal government is usually the lead. However, there are a lot of things handled at the state and local level that Europeans love to extrapolate to all the USA when it doesn’t go that far.
Outside of Vermont, New York, Colorado and California, there really aren’t a lot of places in the US that seem normal to the rest of the world. And if you go at the county level, it gets worse it seems.
I find it hard to believe that Vermont Colorado and California even fit in with Western European standards considering the absolute lack of any useful public transportation in any of those states. Even NY only resembles Europe in NYC, upstate NY is some of the worst parts of the US to live in.
Oh wow. You cracked the case. The only thing that matters when comparing a city… Is public transportation. Wow! What a fucking revelation! I hope you get to be mayor. No, Supreme Leader of the World someday.
I mean if you wanna play this game, our public education also is not up to the standards of those countries, unless you’re comparing to Bosnia instead of Germany for some odd reason. Yes, especially in those states you mentioned. Also those states are still subject to the American healthcare system. And those states, possibly excluding VT, have a much higher rate of poverty and homelessness than any developed nation in Europe. All of these things are enough to destroy your argument by themselves, but when added up you have no legs to stand on
But not all states have the same exact healthcare. And I’m not trying to measure dicks about about healthcare. I never brought it up, not once. It sucks because it’s not free for everyone, I get it. We alllll get it. I didn’t bring up homelessness. I see it daily. It sucks too. What fucking part of my comment don’t you understand? What is so damn hard? It’s like I say don’t be a smug ignorant prick about America and it’s people and then it’s a string of reasons why America is the worst? What? Why? Was I saying America is the best place or is that what you wanted me to say, what every bitter and jaded asshole (besides me) wanted to hear so you could vent and bully a loud American? You can’t tell me something about America I don’t already know better and know why unless you’re a foreign diplomat. Americans online don’t constantly attempt to roast or be smug dicjwads
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