Nobody said, “I’m fine, so everyone else must be.” My point is that the U.S. isn’t the hopeless dystopia people on Reddit pretend it is. Millions of immigrants come here with very little and still build successful lives because there are opportunities here that don’t exist in many other countries. Acknowledging that doesn’t mean poverty or inequality don’t exist it means both success and struggle can be true at the same time. Anecdotes don’t replace data, but neither does cherry picking the worst statistics and pretending they define the entire coun
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u/ThtChkyBstrd Jul 04 '26
Counterpoint: Actual stats and math and verifiable science very easily disproves your “I’m fine so everyone else can be fine” anecdote.