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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. (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by TheControlled to c/unpopularopinion

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"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.

EDIT: You people are an exhausting swarm of pecking ravens and I've spent all the "toxic" energy I want arguing with half you because you just hear what you want to hear and fit the stereotype I loathe I think you only commented out of trained reflex and a few of you are just unsophisticated haters. Whatever, fuck you, and all that jazz.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From what news I read.

From outside the USA, what news I get is biased and more sensationalist than it should be for it be fair coverage.

For example, I get zero news about Vermont, Minnesota, I get lots of news about Texas, Florida, Alabama, etc.

My assumption is that the states I don't get any news about suck in exactly the same way my governments sucks... In ways that are unlikely to have serious global, or extra-judicial impact.

The USA is the single most important country in the world. No other country has as greater impact on the rest of the world (except maybe China, in select industrial or economic areas).

I care about what happens in the US, I care about its people, I care about how the US influences how other counties behave. I have no way to influence that though. I'm on the other side of the world.

[–] TheControlled 1 points 9 months ago

I really appreciate your fairness and honesty. I agree with you on all points, including the sucking 🙂 Governments are how governments be, but the bias and prejudice, in both directions can be hurtful and breed resentment (which I definitely have).

Thanks for not being reactionary, even if I was a bit defensive. I've been getting attacked pretty relentlessly and I was being a dick to some commenters that were behaving really rudely. Sorry that I kinda came at you like that too.