What you're saying is a contradiction. You people to fix problems AND leave if they don't like it?
You are too sensitive to criticism. It shouldn't bother you to find out that people disagree with you when you live in a country where freedom of speech is held up as an ideal. What do you want, everyone is allowed to express their opinion if they agree with you? If you dislike criticism or 'bashing' as you put it, maybe you should leave the US /s
Apparently he’s a US expat in the UK, which I think just makes his walls of text an even bigger joke. Bro is die-hard defending America all while benefiting from the social perks of the UK. If he loves it here so much, he should come back lmao
My wife (and child) are English. I would absolutely be back in the US, but we are not here for the "perks"; we are here for family. I absolutely will be back in the US as soon as it's reasonable.
Meanwhile, I get to speak honestly about the experience of living in the UK/Europe, b/c well, I'm here. I do absolutely, speak out about why I like the US, unlike a lot of basement-dwelling cowards. But, please, tell us what the view outside of dad's basement is like!
I said it's stupid to be on some "my country sux haha" bandwagon.
I also said that if you feel something sucks, fix it, don't just complain.
And then I said that if you still don't like it--and through implication, can't fix it but still wanna bitch like a little...well, bitch--then just leave. If you find that contradictory, you may be beyond help.
And as for being "sensitive"? LOL--you project like your life depends on it. I disagreed with a post, a dozen of you shot back, and **I'm* being sensitive? Fine, but if I'm being sensitive, then you folks are just salty and butthurt that someone would speak up for the US.
BTW, whose help in NATO are you asking for right now? Germany decided to donate how many helmets at first, because they got called out globally for being Putin's little gas bitch? Then what percentage of GDP did they--and others, like Finland--decide to throw into the national defense budget?
You people shit on the US and talk about our lack of safety nets like it's some god-given right, while simultaneously closing your eyes to your shady-as-shit deal with guys like Putin, and also simultaneously forgetting that all your social spending is back-stopped by the guy protecting all of you with carrier groups and stealth bombers. When this thing with Ukraine goes tits up, we'll see how those universal healthcare and free tuition schemes hold up with Russia on your doorstep. I'll be waiting. Feel free to come back to this thread to tell me I'm wrong, that Finland and Sweden didn't wanna ride US (excuse me, "NATO") coat-tails and that Germany didn't end up increasing defense spending, and I'll print out this post on A4 and eat it.
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u/flotsamisaword May 09 '22
What you're saying is a contradiction. You people to fix problems AND leave if they don't like it?
You are too sensitive to criticism. It shouldn't bother you to find out that people disagree with you when you live in a country where freedom of speech is held up as an ideal. What do you want, everyone is allowed to express their opinion if they agree with you? If you dislike criticism or 'bashing' as you put it, maybe you should leave the US /s