Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are.

It's a decades long effort to turn most of the population into a money and power pump for a tiny elite class, all while grinding us into dust.

We're crazy and scared all the time, and have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world.

There's a reason dying of opiates seemed like a rational choice to a lot of people.

@quinn It sounds like India, but kind of reversed. The rest of the world doesn’t often see the amount of wealth flying around in Indian cities, right next to the slums.
@samir there's a lot of similarities! But reversed global reputations. Though Indian healthcare isn't as completely deranged as American healthcare.

@quinn Nowhere is, but it’s still fucked in different ways.

You have enlightened me.