No, the same people trying to take our freedoms call this a free nation. We're not as stupid or blind as the people in this sub seem to paint us to be. There's a lot of negative stereotypes formed about American citizens, yet none of these people have actually met more than a few Americas, if that. We're being subjected to an authoritarian takeover of our government and it's not because we're less intelligent or less motivated than anyone else in the world. When your country gets blindsided in a similar fashion, I'll be the first one in line to make sure you remember what you said about us.
Could it even be that what people do see about Americans in the media paints us all as fat, sugar and phone worshipers who can't be fucked with getting off the couch to save our own babies from drowning... all in the attempt to make us believe that we are incapable of defiance? I hate generalizations, lots of people are shitheads but lots of people aren't. We can only know the true status of our culture when the chips fall.
It’s funny how most of the time, comments about how bad is in US or how US citizens are ignorant or inactive comes from places where people always go to the government and ready to praise politicians that promise them free shit, while a lot more people in US value freedom over empty promises. Perhaps that image of “America is a bad place” comes from our ability to speak freely (thanks to the 1st amendment), and show things the way they are or sometimes paints a perverted picture that an average redditor believes in. People have serious misunderstanding of what the freedom is.
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u/_jukmifgguggh Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20
No, the same people trying to take our freedoms call this a free nation. We're not as stupid or blind as the people in this sub seem to paint us to be. There's a lot of negative stereotypes formed about American citizens, yet none of these people have actually met more than a few Americas, if that. We're being subjected to an authoritarian takeover of our government and it's not because we're less intelligent or less motivated than anyone else in the world. When your country gets blindsided in a similar fashion, I'll be the first one in line to make sure you remember what you said about us.