MeanwhileOnGrad @sh.itjust.works goat @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

I personally don’t care that if I can’t get into the USA, I’ve never wanted to visit. What am I gonna see? Roads? Walmarts?

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I don't see any issue with what they posted... American exceptionalism is a cancer.
- Negativity is also a cancer. There's a lot of great things about America, and a lot of great people. If the bad parts are stopping you from appreciating the good, the that reflects more on you than it does on the country or the people who live here.
  
  I didn't say America was a cancer, I said American Exceptionalism.
  
  What if the negative aspects overwhelm the good? Particularly the shootings and lack of socialised services.
- Yeah, it's a deeply flawed country. But it has some truly amazing and unique nature and history.
They're not entirely wrong though?

The US is 1.867% of the world's landmass, ignore Antarctica and you still have 95% of the world to see. It's a young country so the density of historically significant things even in major cities is pretty low compared to Europe and a lot of urban development is in fact suburbs (so roads and outlets and big stores). It's big so it's varied but take the same size of territory and check what you get anywhere else and it's the same thing... Heck, culturally speaking you'll have more variety over a much smaller territory in most of the world because countries are smaller...

I made the decision to not go to the USA anymore after 2016 and don't miss it one bit, plenty of awesome stuff to see elsewhere...
- Where will you find the grand canyon or any other national wonder?
  
  The post pokes fun at Tankie's inability to see anything more than their ideas of capitalism, and their pretend version of communism.
  
  "Any other natural wonder". There are natural wonders beyond the States. More than any individual can ever see in a lifetime.
  
  I mean, in most european countries you can see both nature and awesome architecture.

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