Listening to a podcast and one of the hosts (American) said “The US is a beacon for other countries” and I nearly spat out my drink. Only Americans think America is a beacon for anyone else.
@haruki_zaemon At least China and Russia have the dignity to keep their police funded and prevent criminals from walking free. Only the third world is stupid enough to think that the US is a model civilization.

@physicap
Russia is a mob state, the criminals run the state.

And the police is literally a corrupt enforcement trope for then.

But yeh, the USA are by God not the or even a model civilization.
@haruki_zaemon