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.

The rest of world never sees the poor and desperate America, they mostly stay in the decently rich bits of New York or California, and have no idea what a "food desert" is.
@quinn for decades your TV overwhelmingly presented an affluent white suburban middle class to be the normal way everyone lives. It took a very long time for media with a different perspective to reach us in any volume
@quinn @kyle_pegasus The longer I live in this walkable city, the more I outright resent and detest my suburban upbringing. Never again. >:(

@tk @quinn @kyle_pegasus

Yup, first time doing full city living myself and clearly I was built for this all along.

I know there are plenty of people who like solitude, I'm just not one of em.

@eestileib @tk @quinn my point was more in line with what Quinn was saying, in that america is covered in desperate poverty that was for years kept hidden from the wider world, not that you like walking five minutes to buy a bottle of milk