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Relative to other countries, the US has much more competive industries and space for new entrants to grow. In Canada for instance many industries (banking, grocers, telecom, media, etc.) are each dominated by a handful of uncompetitive companies that exploit consumers.
To be clear I know that the US has this issue too to some extent, but it's better there than elsewhere.
The landscape.
Movies/TV Show.
Sure, with the 75 different steaming services all trying to produce content the majority is horseshit, but even if just around 15% is decent, that's still more decent content than the output of entire other country's film industries.
Mexican food
Seriously, as an American the best part of America are the Mexicans.
As many have said, our National Parks are incredible, and even outside of them most of the western US is pretty awe-inspiring. I live in a place where, within an hour or two, I can go to desert badlands, alpine forests, coastal tide pools, and even skiing resorts for decent chunks of the year. I was recently up at 11k ft altitude in the Sierras and at -250 ft in Death Valley a few hours apart. The US is HUGE and big parts of it are still very wild. It's something worth fighting to preserve.
Edit: Also we can't read, I am American. Look, I didn't say the education system was good.
Don’t worry; as a person born and raised in New Mexico most people would consider me an immigrant so I can say that I agree with your sentiment that the land is truly glorious. We got a freakin northern coast and a temperate massive grassland for farming all the food anyone could ever need (barring tornado or big agriculture ruining it). Not to mention a great trench in which to cast dissidents or non-virginal women who dared to miscarry their pregnancies. We also got The Big River and then built the bigger car-river! Truly, a wondrous land.
The national parks? I'd like to visit one.
Don't forget about the National Monuments! They're not sculptures etc, but cool stuff like walls of dinosaur bones and canyons!
They're AMAZING
The 2 times turn limit for presidents.
It's actually "term limit" as in "term of office".
Nahh, there's also a secret amendment that caps them out at 720° of motion in a single instance of movement.
This is actually the Secret Service 's main charter.
The museums
Content. Without it there wouldn't be an abundance of free learning material. I'm already feeling the pain of trying to find any decent lesson about my interests after Russian government blocked YouTube.
How are things within Russia?
Like for the past 23 years. In my life literally nothing is changing. (For the exception of this fucking censorship)
I have met some Russians in my community (MA) and they have all mentioned that they are scared of the censorship their relatives are now facing in russia. I remember hearing one of their nephews got a visit from the local police department for their social media activity.
This was at a local repair cafe, and I was sharpening tools. Got to see some cool old Soviet shears, scissors and knives.
Yea, censorship getting worse day by day. Not sure about the cop situation, but I think it is probable, since I got cops called on me once for calling one annoying woman a few hearty names.
Any plans to move, or stuck with your cursed citizenship?
I don't have any money sadly, and it's very hard to find a job for some reason (personally, my friends don't seem to have this problem). There was only one person that hired me in 6 years, and only paid 20k rubles a month for back breaking labor. I would pretty much like to move, but that's probably gonna stay a pipe dream.
That fucking sucks. The Russian/Slavic community here (new england, USA) is very hospitable, and many Ukrainians and Russians moved here after the "special military operation". The local bazaar was even handing out free care packages to displaced Ukrainians.
Good to hear that folks have succeeded in moving 🙏🙏
The national parks. I visited Yosemite Valley two years ago and it was amazing. We don't have acces to nature in this scale in central europe.
I'm an American but I remember talking to a gentleman from Belgium years ago while visiting Muir Woods. He said something along the lines of, "You all have some of the best national parks in the world. You should be very proud of them."
That conversation gave me a new appreciation for our national parks. We are fortunate to have some pretty amazing scenery in the US.
No matter how much you disagree with someone, there is always a possibility to shoot them in their face
God Bless 🇱🇷
No matter how bad it gets, there is always you to show it could be worse.
High quality and rugged leather goods. PNW boots, deer/elkskin gloves, belts, wallets and so on.
Your individualism. Of course I'm aware of the huge downsides, but my understanding is that personal freedom has been a vanishing rare thing in human history. As I see it, some very odd circumstances (puritans and the frontier) generated the USA, which morphed into something even weirder still: a libertarian superpower. Which then, in extremis, saved the rest of us from authoritarianism of both right and left. Probably temporarily. I predict that after it all collapses, and with better hindsight, we'll appreciate the USA more than we do today.
The influence into rock music in general is nice and one of the only reasons why I'd like to visit the states, e. g. Seattle, Nashville, Chicago and so on.
Without the American innovation of deep frying a wrapped dough something within another wrapped dough something and serving it in a bucket, I don't think civilization would be on the positive path it is on right now.
Wikipedia says people have been doing that since at least 2000 years before Christ!
Cars, probably a controversial one, but we don't really have "muscle" cars like the firebird and mustang in the UK, and I've always been a little fascinated by them.
The Entertainment. You have really good movies, tv series, music, comedy.
Whatever we did during the campaign to get kids to stop smoking cigarettes managed to work wonders. Even counting vape, the nicotine users numbers are way down. There are other countries with legal weed who still have more tobacco smokers than us too so I think its more than just the availability of weed, although that clearly helped a lot.
Non-Americans:
I managed to quit smoking via vaping!
Aaaaaand then we banned all the flavored vapes, including those without nicotine. So I fell back into cigarettes. So stupid.
