5 Myths about the US I no longer believe

[@TripBitten]

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[@debsctn]

well said. Capitalism needs to be regulated is a right approach..... I agree and I think many can agree no matter their approach.

[@ZafWitness]

The odd 'consumerism' in the Healthcare with 'insurance system' being consumed - if you didn't use it, the money is gone ... in contrast to our system where the taxes pays for the Healthcare, you 'invest' for the day that you can't earn money, and you need the system - either because you are sick, old or other reason - then you have your tax paid healthcare - that you have paid for in your adult 'healthy' days - with no limit to how long you ca use it when you need it. I wish someone would proofread this, because that was horrible, but I hope you get the idea -- > insurance=wasted, taxes=paid by healthy for those who need it ..

[@robertko5425]

Yep - Freedum & Democracy ??? just pay us your Goddam TAXES and shut the phuck up already !!! Again - its all about the $$$'s.

[@ChinaSongsCollection]

People often say the US is free while China is not. I tend to think the opposite is probably closer to the truth. In the US, people can't even go out alone at night. But in China, even teenage girls can go out ALONE after 12am midnight and nothing would happen. In the US (and many parts of Europe), your house is effectively your prison. It doesn't sound like a very free place. *My question to those people is :* If you don't even have the most basic freedom of leaving your OWN front door at a time you choose, why accuse those who can of having no freedom. Why brag about freedom that you clearly don't have?

[@qjtvaddict]

@@debsctnChina knows this

[@mlrussell1]

Myth #6: No one is above the law.

[@TripBitten]

Oh yea, that is a good one! If you have money, you don't have to worry about the law or if your daddy is the president....

[@yanchen5698]

No one is above the law (X). No, one is above the law (√).

[@sciagurrato1831]

The presidential pardons to crooks (thx Bill) are truly the prima facie evidence of this.

[@middleagebrotips3454]

Damn speak English bro I cannot understand this is too deep. ​@@yanchen5698

[@middleagebrotips3454]

​@@TripBittenor if you are accused of inciting a coup just run for president again.

[@leo92344]

As an Australian who grew up on a steady diet of American movies like John Wayne and I Love Lucy, I was sold on the American ideal. In my 50s, I traveled to Chicago for work and, as they say, reality bites. I was shocked by how bad it was-the feeling of not being safe, the stark contrast of wealth next to poverty, and the arrogant attitude towards an "ignorant man from Australia." The profound ignorance of the outside world, coupled with an overwhelming sense of American arrogance, was astonishing. What struck me the most, though, was the obvious decay and decline. The dirty streets and people begging for money were heartbreaking. The best part of my trip was the plane ride home.

[@tamjansan1154]

It gave illusion of greatness all along.

[@disdoncable]

And that is purely YOUR perspective as an Australian (who already has a great amount of privilege in a highly developed country like Australia). Fair enough! I'm sure there's plenty others in American who moved from other highly developed Western countries who share your sentiments. However, for those of us who moved from the third world (yes, I said it) and who literally had ZERO privilege, our opinions about and experiences in the US stand starkly, stridently, and overwhelmingly in contrast to yours. Our baseline of comparison is pure hell, and hence the US remains a highly dazzling, "city on the hill". So as far as this video goes, I know quite a handful of brown-skinned Americans who'd have some major disagreements.

[@brianye964]

​@@disdoncablein fact you can view more videos here in KZbin about other countries and raise your bar a little bit.

[@Alan-lv9rw]

I’d rather be in Texas than Australia for a thousand reasons.

[@franklinbrown5625]

Amen

[@LertTth]

As European. It's still mesmerising me how many Americans still believe free health care and education are communist thing.

[@harlequinems]

It's because most Americans have absolutely zero idea what they are saying actually means. It's a nation that still uses 'bad guys' to describe people they don't like, a term that outside of america is only seriously used by young children playing games. They just think that if someone questions capitalism, then they must be a communist/Marxist/socialist etc etc

[@bigverybadtom]

Oh we have free education which is in fact mandatory. Of course it is a case of school quality.

[@sumalx]

​@@bigverybadtom free education doesn't require payments after graduation in university.

[@sharonprince6364]

As an American I agree !!!

[@LisaTao]

Technically they are. Like many isms there are good and bad. That’s the good part of communism no one wants to acknowledge.

[@bluebird1109]

I live in Europe, and most Europeans think the US is backwards.

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

It is.

[@bigverybadtom]

Better backwards than having stepped into a hole.

[@bigverybadtom]

Maybe what you call "backwards" is a virtue. I know Europe is no paradise.

[@frankanderson5012]

@@bigverybadtomThat doesn’t change the statement. Compared to Europe, the US is backward. Better working conditions, health care, education, freedom from religion, from gun violence, governments and policies that aren’t controlled by big businesses. Also, nothing was mentioned about Europe being a paradise so that statement shows you’re grasping at straws, but but compared to the US and many other countries around the world, it is.

[@C.Hughes-Lloyd]

@bigverybadtom 👈Total denial of facts and reality.🤦🤣

[@jag1963]

I've lived in Eleven counties in my lifetime America since 2019. This is easily the most repressed and unfree country I've ever lived in. Health care here is terrible.School system and specifically the food they are given is terrible. Job security completly non exsistent and more rules than anywhere else I've ever lived. The American people have been lied to for a very long time.

[@janstaes2172]

i just started a new job i have an american collegue, he was telling me that Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2022. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022. 54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level. He also mentioned that 40% of the people go bankrupt on medical bills they no longer can afford. I was quite shocked. They have the bigest spending on their healthcare in the industrielised world with the lowest outcome.

[@harlequinems]

Every time I hear about how free Americans are, the easiest counter is to ask them if they live under a HOA ? 😂

[@stephbreizh]

​@@harlequinems and under HOA 😅

[@stephbreizh]

I respectfully disagree with regard to Ukraine. Ukraine asked for help

[@LMB222]

I laugh whenever Americans talk if freedom. You can't even carry a bottle of beer in the street, let alone drink it.

[@CarCal0216]

Very low IQ when the response is “ well if you don’t like it, leave” Unable to accept that there is more freedom in other countries.

[@etep878]

I wish it was easier to leave. No other country is allowing me to enter and stay.

[@DubboU]

@@CarCal0216 people with those kinds of responses, shows that they have no real lives, and makes no meaningful connections with other people or things outside of their bubble. If it is that easy to up and move you whole life to another country, half the people in U$A is gone by now.

[@scotthullinger4684]

Be sure to tell me which "freedoms" are lacking in the USA. EDUCATE ME - Name them one by one. Are you seriously this stupid?

[@kgblankinship]

We're about to see our freedoms tank here as the political right becomes more authentic with its love of authoritarian plutocracy-theocracy. William F Buckley's model for America was Franciso Franco's regime in Spain.

[@scholarssolutions6735]

Also very telling when these are usually the same Americans that are like “USA is great bc muh free speech!” And then they start wishing everyone who isn’t an American nationalist could leave.

[@ElfIng1986]

Unregulated capitalism is unregulated greed.

[@bigverybadtom]

Every nation has some regulations. In fact, the old Communist countries had an underground barter system where people traded rationed products. They had no choice.

Anarcho-libertarianism is self-destructive and unsustainable.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@koschmx Good question. There is not an economic system in existence that does not have some sort of regulation to keep things from exploding or falling apart.

[@trsgringo]

Jews

[@bigverybadtom]

@@koschmx Probably happens to everybody. It does to me.

[@cuffy6322]

Any country which demands daily incantations about how great it is, is not great at all

[@leec6707]

Similarly, it's a bit weird for the US folk to keep banging on about freedom. No-one else thinks it's worth mentioning, it's just a fact of life!

[@cuffy6322]

@ Real Talk !!

[@RobertBooker-xi8cc]

We never had that kind of thing in the UK. School was for learning, not for brainwashing, and kids did learn. I've lived in Germany for over 40 years now, and it's similar here. And both countries have in their education systems more or less kept up with progress, technical or otherwise. In comparison the US education system is a (bad) joke.

[@supermario69kraftgami23]

Yeah, it's always the worst dictatorships that encourage such incessant praise.

[@zoniemom153]

Back in 1997, I lived in Ireland for 5 months. I lived , worked and acclimated to the society there. When I came back, my views were very different. My family, especially my Republican dad, did not react kindly to my opinions of the US. Since then I've had a life, got married and divorced and have a teenager. I've never been able to shake that viewpoint, that there is something deeply broken here. My daughter wants to live abroad and I'm all for it. I will likely go with her. Life is too short to stay in Plato's Cave.

[@bigverybadtom]

It helps to be white and have money.

[@oldtimeoutlaw]

I so totally agree with you

[@stananderson4524]

I learned the longer you stay outside the US, the more you realize this. Especially if you are in a situation where you could acclimate to where you are, as upposed to just being a tourist. The more insular people are, the more they swallow these mythes.

[@Centurion101B3C]

Then go for it! You have all that is needed to make the jump now more than ever. You have experience and a broadened scope so that you can rightfully make the distinction. You have the maturity to offer you a headstart wherever you choose to go and hit the ground running. You have the support of your closest to make this a reality together. You are not alone in this. With all that is happening in the US right now, it is on the precipice and it doesn't look overly good for anyone not belonging to the 1%. I know that I did when 'Agent Orange' decided to run the 1st time. Having lived in the US for 22 years I prepared, packed up (kids and all) and moved back to Europe. I have not regretted it a single moment.

[@jairoagudelo6843]

Free 🇵🇸

[@ubiased23]

What I find ridiculous about the United States of America is that I am paying taxes and get nothing in return. As an American, am I getting free healthcare or higher education? How about the updated infrastructure with a good public transportation system? The answer is no.

[@shotelco]

...then why do you remain?

[@dayeah765caoni3]

You pay tax to stay out of jail 😂

[@dayeah765caoni3]

@@shotelcowhere to? Your home?

[@shotelco]

@@dayeah765caoni3 I ask a legitimate question. You and all of us have the option to out-migrate to a Country that "better" aligns with your ideology. To respond to your question of "where to?" I would say this is an _Individual_ preference. There are about 190 Countries you could relocate to. You have a choice; you can be satisfied with just complaining, you can be satisfied with taking some viable action to change things for the better (which I think is pointless), or you can out-migrate.

[@IbnRushd-mv3fp]

@shotelco you're kinda using this to circumvent actually talking about the issue.

[@gibau1000]

It's encouraging to see real Americans tell it like it is.

[@wanderingwarrior5626]

Most Americans, and some foreigners, don't want to hear what the U.S./Americans are really all about, the countrys horrible history, Americans aggressive, violent nature at home, and abroad. And really don't want to hear about all the greed, selfishness, backstabbing, corruption, and unsympathetic attitudes towards others.

[@kgblankinship]

Please read what I wrote above. I've spent decades digging into what my country is about and how it got that way.

[@migueluribe4249]

Hard to believe. Americans seem to be the most brain washed citizens on earth.

[@wanderingwarrior5626]

​@@kgblankinshipI've also spent decades connecting to real history, not the European financial ruling class created crap yo keep their slaves in la, la, land! The U.S. is still a British Crown/Rothschild colony as is Canada. Their puppet George Washington was installed as president, which continues all the way up to today. Fake freedom documents were signed, as GW Bush, Obama basically told Americans. The U.S.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@kgblankinship We Americans already know what our country is really like. And we know all about how other countries say they don't have social problems when they do.

[@brianmac1]

I was stunned when an American woman who lived in New Zealand for several years stated that having a baby in the US can cost around $20,000. In NZ, and in most countries I know about, all birth services are free. I bought collectibles from ebay for about 20 years, and it always amazed me how Americans believed they had the only functional postal system in the world, and many were reluctant to sell outside the US for this reason. I found the USPS reliable, but the UK's Royal Mail was faster and more consistent in terms of delivery times. So you're right, everyone knows the truth except for Americans.

[@Hermit-Crab]

American exceptionalism is real. Americans are truly exceptional in believing that they are exceptional.

[@diegocanale1124]

LMAO 😂

[@hildeschmid8400]

😂😂😂

[@bigverybadtom]

In the fact that we are honest about ourselves, unlike other people who find social problems everywhere but in their own backyards.

[@balajay8921]

@@bigverybadtom but then, you have so many it's hard to miss!😀

[@bigverybadtom]

@@balajay8921 Everybody does, we just don't turn a blind eye.

[@dyske-]

It’s kind of sad that most people outside of the US know this about the US, but most people in the US are oblivious…

[@strider5453]

@@bigverybadtom Tom time to shut up you've made a bit big enough for yourself

[@douglasbell3344]

The US education system is an indoctrination system to keep the masses ignorant of reality

[@rrampage36]

​⬆️HERES AN EXAMPLE ⬆️​@@strider5453

[@Schimml0rd]

It's just like the Germans during WW2. Propaganda is one hell of a drug. It was very effective 80yrs ago, and they've only made it better (mk ultra etc). And US citizens are subjected to it from their first day on earth until their last.

[@BillLaBrie]

Americans are generally very aware that our infrastructure sucks, wages suck, healthcare sucks, our standard of living has been decreasing consistently since the early 1970’s. We’re also aware there’s a shitload of money to be made here if you work yourself nearly to death and have a bit of luck here and there. We know about dreary council flats and the NHS waitlists and punitive taxation and their equivalents around the world. Most of us would rather take our chances here.

[@jimbecker6599]

"We have the best government money can buy." - Will Rogers, American cowboy Philosopher (1879-1935)

[@MarcoMasseria]

Democracy. Rule by Special Interests.

[@universe-juice]

History of the world part 1

[@christianhansen3292]

@@MarcoMasseria oligarchy

[@kgblankinship]

The Republicans here in Oklahoma, since Reagan became president, have paved over his legacy.

[@cheungchingtong]

Take a guess if it is much easier to buy now.

[@percivalgooglyeyes6178]

Patriotism is when arrogance and ignorance come together.

[@diegocanale1124]

@@percivalgooglyeyes6178 shall we say blind nationalism

[@archer494]

exactly. Real patriotism means believing in and doing stuff for your county. In the US today people don't really come together to bring their country forward. It's everone for himself under the guise of patriotism while rejecting everything that is foreign or different. It's a step backward.

[@MacToirdealbhaigh]

​@@diegocanale1124Pseudo Nationalism*

[@peterwarner553]

@@percivalgooglyeyes6178 think that's nationalism

[@aboxofphotons]

@@diegocanale1124 Jingoism.

[@lucyng-pellicioli916]

As a Malaysian, I grew up wishing my ancestors had immigrated to the US instead, I wanted to study in New York and I even wanted to marry an American. Now, 40 years later, America to me is just a giant military industrial complex and oligarchy masquerading as a democracy. And no, I would not want to marry an American.

[@Max2U]

I’m an American, and I wouldn’t want to marry an American.

[@lespaul1755]

Smart choice

[@imamibrahim6282]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sid1gen]

They don't want to marry you, so you have nothing to worry about, lucyng-pellicioli916. Stay home

[@Schimml0rd]

​@@koschmx No, you completely misunderstood the entire comment but nice try, Americunt 😂

[@EndOfThings77]

You didn't mention. America is a land overflowing with laws and regulations but its the land full of lawbreakers. And if you have the money, you hire a cadre of lawyers to argue each word of those laws to your advantage. In short, money makes things right.

[@bigverybadtom]

Ever heard of Epstein, or Spector, or Weinstein, or Skakel, or Cosby? Money doesn't always work.

[@rescuingmodernity]

And by “right”, you surely mean corrupted!

[@bigverybadtom]

Even rich people sometimes get into prison.

[@lostvisitor]

@@bigverybadtom only the dumb ones.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@lostvisitor They can get unlucky too.

[@jonathanchang1574]

11:36 Not to mention, the United States funded the Taliban as a Sunni force to counteract Iran Shia in a proxy war. So actually we spent 20 years fighting our own creation.

[@chuckdavis1323]

You're absolutely correct ! I remember when our corporate controlled media called them the afghan freedom fighters. Not making this up check it out !

[@Houseofweird]

Rambo III didn't age well.

[@MohdHilal]

Thats what it takes to destroy potential competitors

[@bigverybadtom]

I looked it up and we paid very little to the Afghans. Most of their funding came from Muslim countries.

[@enumaelish9193]

​@bigverybadtom Why were they paid at all? Why is "very little" millions of dollars?

[@mrbaker1739]

Americans can have guns and they call that freedom. In Australia we can’t have guns however, my kids can safely walk a mile to school. There’s no risk of a school shooting no school security guards, metal detectors etc. That’s what I call freedom

[@alexisbl3634]

Hey, this sounds like Canada 😂 (we do have guns for hunting tho)

[@reesofraft4166]

And there are sidewalks for that… Had a british friend going to ghe us over christmas.she was complaining that the proposed route to the nearest fast food place (less than 2km away) she wanted to go to was 2,5h walking (8km+) as there were no sidewalks in the 3 closest bridges, everything is foreseen for cars, nothing for walking.

[@martinmurphy9679]

The NRA are a very powerful lobby group in the States. Also, a woman is allowed to choose what's best for her own body in most 1st world countries. The bible belt also has a huge influence in US politics. It's such a strange place.

[@eugenieponleve667]

Same all over Europe.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@martinmurphy9679 The NRA has nothing to do with it. The gun violence happens in the slums and the mean streets, and gun violence outside these places are very rare. In fact the strongest gun laws are in places where there is the most gun violence, and it has no effect.

[@migueluribe4249]

Another myth is that the USA is a Republic. The best definition of fascism was given by Benito Mussolini when he said that fascism should also be called corporatism since it is the merge of government and corporations. Technically speaking the USA is a fascist state.

[@eleghari]

And all doubts should now be removed with the Queen fElon Musk ascending the throne....

[@RodolfoHernandez-r5i]

Industrial Military Complex State....

[@MelioraCogito]

@@RodolfoHernandez-r5i *_Congressional*_* Military Industrial Complex state. You can't have the MIC without a willing, _bought and paid for,_ congress. Eisenhower warned you people, and you failed to heed his warning.

[@sharona328]

I believe we are a corporatist nation, yes? One where government and corporations merge.

[@ronaldcross6082]

CORPORATISM: Someone should make a video explaining this. Thank you

[@sheilafong1594]

You should do one on the American dream. Didn't George Carlin said something like " There is an American dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it".

[@DubboU]

"It's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

[@monichat]

@@DubboU Time magazine once wrote = The american dream is exactly that, a DREAM

[@bigverybadtom]

@@monichat Until you realize you cannot just wave a magic wand to become better off. I remember that movie director Spike Lee, after he made his movie "Doing The Right Thing", complained that he was sick of black directors asking him how to be successful without working for it.

[@DenBlackburn]

Im not from the US but I followed George Carlin, the man was a fantastic, he knew exactly how the system runs, im from the UK and we are given the same BS, years ago I started watching and listening to Carlin, he gave me a better understanding of how things work, the man was pure genius.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@DenBlackburn His material was revolutionary in the 1960's, but nowadays it is old hat and what he was right about we know already, and he was wrong about things too. Look at Dave Chapelle and Norm McDonald for something relevant today.

[@riskyron1416]

America, Land of the Fee, Home of the Knave. That is the reality. I too left the US for good in 2013 and live in real Freedom in Costa Rica/ Also lived in Panama, Ecuador and Nicaragua. all had more Freedom than the US. One idiot in the US told me Costa Rica had the highest Poverty out of 30 top Nations. Really? Costa Rica has just over 5 million people and not an Industrialized Nation. And true is the number in Poverty is less than 1% and mainly Indians living outside society. US Poverty rate on the other hand is reportedly nearly 30%. And over 50% just one pay check away from homelessness. I rent a 7 bedroom/5 bath house on 23 acres for $153 a month. A mop closet in the US would cost more. Electricity is $12 to $15 a month, WIFI $12, cellphone $4 and water/sewer and trash $6. Affordable living is fundamental to Freedom.

[@JohnSmith-xx9th]

Well said!

[@johnp139]

Good, glad to see you go.

[@riskyron1416]

@@johnp139 Yeah and glad to see you stay in your shit hole.

[@riskyron1416]

@@johnp139 Wish I could quit paying US taxes like the $487,000 I did in 2024 to support lazy like you. And regret serving 32 years in the US Army to see people like you throw it away electing a tyrant criminal like Thump not only once but twice. My family arrived in America in 1690. I was the last to leave. No living member of my family remains in the US.

[@focusedeye]

This Canadian is genuinely curious did you already speak Spanish, or like I would be stuck with, learning it on the fly?

[@corringhamdepot4434]

I watched an American KZbinr claim that the US was more free because the UK didn't have a Bill of Rights. When the US Bill of Rights was largely based on our Magna Carta 1215 and our 1689 English Bill of Rights. Americans seem to prefer their myths, over their own history.

[@fred5399]

see 1619 project much hated by right wing americans

[@AXS512]

Your wrong we are exceptional....exceptionally arrogant and warmongering. Have exceptionally expensive education,and health care. Have exceptionally bad scores on about every facet of human progress. And beyond doubt have an exceptional level of overweight people,while also having an exceptionally large military budget.

[@omardabo1287]

😂 that's a good one

[@Peter-tg1oo]

Large military budget because everyone wants the USA to protect them

[@AXS512]

@@Peter-tg1oo That isn't the reason.The real reason is the US MIC. But if it was they are in for a shock. Doubt me,ask the Afghans and South Vietnamese how that worked for them.And now the Ukrainians and Syrians.

[@ralphzoombeenie2330]

@@Peter-tg1oo Protect them from the enemies they create for themselves around the world and the protecting of apartheid/g-side israel. Must be many wanting to even the score.

[@JohnSmith-xx9th]

Yes it’s the MIC. It’s big business and the MIC has a voracious appetite for war. It breathes war.

[@Mr.Heller]

Democracy is "Rule by people", but they never specify which people.

[@ras9875]

for some of by some of

[@eleghari]

Remember the "P" in "We the People" in the Declaration of Independence is capitalized for a reason!!!

[@bigverybadtom]

The USA is and has always been a constitutional republic.

[@andersriksson100]

​@@bigverybadtom Your point? Meaning? That its ok for a fellon to run and win an election?

[@wongjerry520]

Of course, it refers to "rich people".

[@samvigil1333]

Nothing but facts in this video.

[@Guy-d2e]

so you can't spell farce.

[@samvigil1333]

@Guy-d2e Everything in this video is facts go cry about it.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Guy-d2e]

@@samvigil1333 Rubbish.

[@yananneteoh9818]

Asia is where it is free +est. To believe in what one wants including god, gods or godlessness... Thats why Asians have the most number of Daoists, Confucianusts, Nuddjists, Islamists, Hindus, Catholics , Christians, Atheists Agnostics, etc...

[@MetalRocksMe.]

@@samvigil1333😂😂😂

[@Machinesongs-v2d]

I was at a restaurant recently in SE Asia. An American paid the bill with US dollars. He was given his change in the local currency. He said, 'Haven't you got any real money?' Says a lot about how some American people view the world.

[@soriac2357]

I'm not surprised, considering we are talking about people who still think the imperial and US customary system is the only valid in the world and the metric system is only used by some academia people...

[@freeskier64]

It surprises me that he thinks US dollars are “real money”. The paper money I use to play Monopoly is more legit😂

[@kierans1159]

Nearly missed a flight in Brazil because a US tourist was trying to pull the same BS and wouldn't leave until the police were called. All because she didn't want Brazilian Reais.

[@MaggieLarocque]

I heard that often with American tourists in the Yukon. I would not answer kindly.

[@colinfuller6361]

America wouldn’t even be in my top twenty places I would want to live.

[@aaronyaunt9072]

People that have visited America basically described it as “a very rich third world country.”

[@yanglinluo]

No chance mate. Just think about you'd be worry about someone pull a gun out when you are out socialising with friends.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@yanglinluo Gun violence is very rare in the USA outside the slums and mean streets.

[@kevanwillis4571]

​@@bigverybadtom In the U.K. in 1996 the Dunblane School Massacre killed 16 children and a teacher. In 1997, strict gun laws were adopted, no school shootings since. Australia, I believe, also 1996. The Port Arthur Massacre. The government brought in strict gun laws.Very few, if any mass shootings, since. How many mass shootings in the U.S.A. since 1996?

[@lilianamendive6222]

"Gun violence is rare outside slums" Are schools, churches, outdoor concerts, workplaces, movie theaters, libraries, supermarkets, street parades, part of slums and "mean streets"?

[@Glicksman1]

I lived in Denmark and England for a while and traveled extensively in Ireland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, France, and Norway, and I can tell you that all of those people are just as free, and as democratic, if not more so, as Americans.

[@Silverripples]

Not Holland, the Netherlands is the country.

[@AndrewHepburn]

⁠@@SilverripplesSimilarly, not England - our country is called the UK. England is only part of it.

[@Glicksman1]

@@Silverripples While the entire nation is called “Koninkrijk der Nederlanden”, “The Kingdom of the Netherlands”, there are twelve provinces thereof, Groningen, Friesland, Drente, Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland, Utrecht, Noord Holland, Zuid Holland., Zeeland, Noord Brabant and Limburg. When there, I resided in Amsterdam which is in the province of “Noord Holland”, properly called “Holland”.

[@Glicksman1]

@@AndrewHepburn I lived only in England (Harlow and London), but often ventured into Wales for among other things, Penderyn Whisky, and Scotland for among other things, the eponymous beverage.

[@Brozius2512]

@@Silverripples Holland is ok, who gives a damn! Most people know it as Holland! I'm from the Netherlands and I really don't care if they say Holland or the Netherlands.

[@johnbrown40639]

When you are short of something (freedom, democracy, human rights, honesty, integrity, etc etc), you start to talk about it everyday.

[@mqpar5.795]

Yep, when you repeat a lie long enough it becomes truth.

[@ccslink2]

​@@mqpar5.795good one!

[@myleslong5584]

While playing Manager in a couple of service industry jobs,I learned that people don’t say much when things are going well. But,if you hear people talking about your business on the streets,you’ve got problems,more than likely.

[@Schimml0rd]

So true

[@tabkaliO]

The United States doth protest too much.

[@philipberthiaume2314]

I hava a new neighbour who recently got landed status in Canada. I ask how he liked it and his reply shocked me. He said that he can now go outside without fear of violence or being shot, and he meant it...

[@glenn6583]

@@philipberthiaume2314 I can too. In the sometimes troublesome city I live in, I mostly feel safe. I don’t believe the devisive BS fed to us by the sold out crappy news organizations that are heavily influenced by the dishonest rich and powerful. Jesus said to love your neighbors. Not to fear them because you have more than they do.

[@bigverybadtom]

Only if you move into a nice neighborhood instead of a slum. Outside the slums and mean streets, the USA is as safe as anywhere else.

[@aloysiuslaw42]

And many Canadian moved to USA😂

[@bigverybadtom]

@@aloysiuslaw42 Not everywhere in Canda is paradise.

[@aloysiuslaw42]

@@bigverybadtom in general Canada really not good especially recently

[@matthiaskanta624]

You can't even have a beer in the park in most places in the "free" US.

[@TripBitten]

Can't have someone having a good time!

[@sciagurrato1831]

Ticketing the public for minor infractions of local statues is a major source of revenue to local governments.

[@zombies4evadude24]

Hell I can’t even lie on the ground to read a fucking book in the U.S. The police can call it “camping” if they assume you are a homeless person and threaten to charge you. I am also African American so there’s that.

[@tamjansan1154]

But you can buy drugs in that same park for sure.

[@kgblankinship]

America's Puritan heritage reflected in prohibition laws.

[@knucklehoagies]

The US is also the only country that taxes it's residents even if they live and work in another country. And that the only way to escape it is to renounce your citizenship entirely.

[@sword7872]

Yes the bully gets every foreign shareholder to fill up a form stating that they are not US citizens. Very annoying for us.

[@TripBitten]

Yes, one of the reasons I'm working to get my EU citizenship. It is stupid....

[@MarcoMasseria]

Not true. Israel does too.

[@2_Rupee_Bharat_Bot]

Canada also taxes her citizens if they work overseas.

[@moestietabarnak]

@@2_Rupee_Bharat_Bot IF they still have 'residents status' ... you can remedy that, but then you lose the universal healthcare coverage etc. normal do not receive taxpayer benefit if you're not paying taxes.. well, you do keep it if you don't works and don't earn money.

[@MMaximuSS1975]

As I've said before. The only thing America is #1 at is saying "We're #1!"

[@Brozius2512]

@@koschmx My experience tells me otherwise! How many Americans claim on the internet that they are the greatest country is enormous.

[@JamesCrichton-m1g]

I have been told often in the USA by extremely patriotic persons that there is no need for them to travel; they have the best of everything. During my working life I visited over 130 countries and have learned a great deal from other cultures.

[@janemiettinen5176]

An American actually told me he doesn’t need to travel, because he can order ‘international’ foods and visit Little Italy or Chinatown any time he wants. He was totally serious and even doubled down, when people told him thats not even close to actually seeing other cultures.. You cant visit Portuguese family and say you’ve seen Portugal and its culture now. Just.. no. He also pulled the freedom card on me, a Finn, going as far as “You’re being oppressed, but just don’t know it, because you’ve never seen the American version”. He got roasted pretty hard by fellow Europeans and more educated Americans, but of course there were few ‘patriots’ defending him (this was well before the even more insane maga-patriots were withed into existence). We have very differing understanding of what patriotism, democracy and socialism is too..

[@leec6707]

I saw a comment by someone saying that if people listed 100 places they wanted to visit, nearly all would be in the US! How deluded can you get?!

[@llamagirl2679]

@@JamesCrichton-m1g Me too! I have lived and travelled all over the world. Experiencing different cultures enriches your life! I made sure to take my kids abroad twice a year so that they could see different countries and experience all the different cultures. Now they are doing the same with their own kids. I can’t imagine never leaving my own country.

[@siamakgarmroudi4779]

You forgot to mention that US has 907 military bases outside the country, China has 1 in Djibouti, Russia has 1 in Syria. US spends 75% of world’s military spending, China 10% , Russia 4%. The money that could have spent on healthcare, education, high speed trains, childcare, affordable housing, reducing child poverty and infrastructure.

[@brankobelfranin8815]

No we dont spend 75% of the worlds military spending

[@ralphzoombeenie2330]

@@brankobelfranin8815 Add the "security services" HS, CIA, NSA, NED and shadowy State Dept. discretionary budgets and its well over $1.3Trillion per annum.

[@ohmikesroh5904]

​@@brankobelfranin8815 NO. 907 out of 909 bases, is 99.77%, not 75%...you are totally right.

[@monichat]

What about the homeless in USA ?????

[@leondee918]

​@@monichatno worries about the homeless, they're growing bigger and bigger every year. You won't lack them after all

[@rxvaque]

It's called predatory capitalism!

[@kgblankinship]

I'd recommend James K Galbraith's book "The Predator State" (2008).

[@artpan4376]

And it's biggest achievement, the world where everyone hates everyone.

[@sinamark-com]

specifically a capitalistic corporate kleptocracy!

[@jobbailon3257]

Neoliberalism

[@tonyjones1560]

I'm African American. We tend to lose our illusions about "the land of the free and the home of the brave" when we're still children, and usually the process is painful and insulting, even when it's not actually lethal.

[@prettybrwneyez7757]

Yep! Exactly why I knew early on in life I wasn’t staying. Left years ago and not looking back.

[@shawnmccants6643]

This ish right here👆

[@bigverybadtom]

Liberia was a nation founded by the USA for freed slaves who wanted a home in Africa, and some went there. And they ended up buying black slaves for themselves.

[@designsonq1]

@tonyjones1560 Yup. I got sat down early & was told, "freedom" means their freedom to do to people like you so that they & their children can have it better. They don't pay taxes to see you able to compete with their legacy. See all of those prisons they're building? If you don't conform & support their crappy system- that's where they put you & they will break all of their own rules to get you there & twist their own beliefs to justify keeping you there- no matter how much the free housing, education, food & healthcare looks like "SoCiAlIsM". It works on the Rich v Poor level as well, because we are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but racism is the easy sell to get people to support this sht.

[@ShabanAjeti]

You're american nothing Else.

[@justincredible.]

The electoral collage makes a mockery of democracy

[@gondwanaland3238]

So does rampant gerrymandering, voter suppression, highly political justice systems and the one I really fail to understand, is a federal election conducted using 50 differing laws.

[@bigverybadtom]

The idea is that one or two cities don't select the President but the whole country does. You want fairness and complain when you get it.

[@MaggieLarocque]

@@bigverybadtom The idea is supposedly ONE person, ONE vote but you geniuses decided that that is not fair because she people live in urban and others in rural settings. Sorry you believe your farmers uneducated rubes who need assistance in the voting process and need a way to cheat the system. No other country has that problem.

[@sunnavailable]

Freedom to pick an idiot for a president

[@bigverybadtom]

We didn't make that mistake in 2024. We learned our lesson.

[@victorlewis3251]

@@bigverybadtom How DOES that kool-aid taste, Sparky? It´s going to be awfully bitter awfully soon, but you´ll blame that on everyone except tRumphole Thinskin, his puppet masters, Musk and Putin, and the Repuglican lick spittles too afraid to defend democracy.

[@slygeebee7575]

​@@bigverybadtommaybe, but still support a deeply flawed political system.

[@BigKahuna-es9so]

​@@bigverybadtomtrump is an idiot. Deal with it.

[@davidburke2697]

@@bigverybadtom Trump is a zionist pig, like the rest of them.

[@agentchaos3947]

The crazy thing is that some Americans will call you un-American for stating the truth.

[@PatrickKogut-b2m]

Not at all, I call him unAmerican because he doesn’t live here he gave it up , he really quit. However being American is speaking your opinion when you feel to do so. And this guy is doing just that..

[@bigverybadtom]

Or maybe because you are not telling the truth even if you think you do.

[@CentristDad155]

No we don't care what you think and we would be wondering why you're jabbering at us about something that doesn't concern you

[@andrewh.8403]

The King has no clothes...

[@kayellai5278]

Unpatriotic too.

[@duanekaaz3159]

I'm 50 years old.... in a Dead end Job. And no money saved up. I Can't get outta here. Life Story

[@TripBitten]

Sorry to hear that, but sadly it is true for many people in the US. Just doesn't seem like much hope.

[@lunarminx]

It's only going to get worse before we have our own revolution soon.​@@TripBitten

[@tamjansan1154]

Iike majority of Americans.

[@middleagebrotips3454]

The middle class does all the work and pays all the taxes, and the poor is there to scare the middle class to keep showing up to those "jobs" - George Carlin I guess I'm squarely in that middle class.... I have savings but I'm very stressed about falling poor

[@monichat]

@@TripBitten Some years ago I read in American Time magazine (quoting from memory) ''The American dream is exactly that, a DREAM'' - I would add that for some it is a nightmare - Am not American but I have relatives living in the US

[@CurtisThomas-l9p]

2. Democracy: the US isnt even in the top 20 of most democratic countries, in fact on the Democracy lndex it is in the second tier level grouping of failing democracies. US democracy is so "best" that no other country uses an electiral college like the US does. Also, the US has overthrown or subverted more democratically elected governments than Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Cuba and Venezuela COMBINED (yet constantly berates these for being enemies of democracy and calls itself "the guardian of democracy"). The US also suppirts 70 percent of the world's dictators or undemocratic regimes.

[@francescathomas3502]

There is a book called "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" in which an american is sent to these govts (Some of those listed above) to make them vulnerable so that USA can blackmail them, and manipulate them into doing whatever the USA wants. The USA is nothing but a Bully!! The sequel to this book is The NEW Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The authors name is John Perkins. He now lives in South America somewhere - for his own safety.

[@patrickporter1864]

Allan dulles head of the cia even organised a coup in a Central American state To save his familys investment in a fruit company.

[@Da1its0Uf8oma]

Every country has its own flaws. For someone from India, we know ours is not perfect. The more I age, I noticed, USA is just a financial system morphed as a country, brainwashed by the media so much, that they do not even know they are the brainwashed people on the planet. You folks talk about freedom, democracy and one of the greatest countries in the world, yet you don't have something basic as public transport, health care, etc., despite all the wealth. I found it very funny, the moment, anyone points out these, people instantly call them communist or socialist.

[@robertlawson4295]

Great comment. Then we have, "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country" Likewise, as you say, "USA is a corrupt gangster financial system masquerading as a country." ha ha ha

[@erzsebetnilsson580]

Even if they have a king !

[@davebicker8618]

Wise words indeed. Sadly, so many Americans don't recognise that the corporations are shafting them for a pastime. Meanwhile, they stick flags outside their homes, send their children to school with bulletproof backpacks and happily eat food that contains chemicals banned in other countries. Land of the free. Land of the free market most definitely.

[@MaggieLarocque]

The difference is that Americans BELIEVE FERVENTLY in all those myths. They believe their country is the only free place on earth. They believe all of it! THAT is the point.

[@vincewhite5087]

When Americans talk about WW2 they forget much of the free world was fighting before they came in & fought along with them.

[@bigverybadtom]

And a lot of it was losing. If it weren't for our help they would have been unlikely to ultimately defeat Japan or Nazi Germany.

[@JBofBrisbane]

​@@bigverybadtommyth #7.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@JBofBrisbane 100% pure truth bubbo.

[@Dordordord]

If wasn't the US supply steel, oil, cotton, rubber, copper and many other military used stuffs to Japan, China won't hurt that deep, they only stopped that after Pearl harbor

[@sylvaincroissant7650]

​@@bigverybadtomthat's bs. And if anything, Russia won WW2. The US did comparatively very little.

[@tedtratt9553]

Australian who has had an interest in American politics for decades. Never been there , don't want to go there. A country with every advantage ruined by excessive Capitalism and BS, which really could be the greatest country but isn't. Listen to this man and you will know why. And now you have elected an ideology of greed and hate manipulated by big money and put off progress for another 4 years. Hopefully you will get there one day.

[@FrankMcDonnell-v1o]

Largely thanks to an Australian billionaire, who is possibly the most evil and destructive human being of this era.

[@MervinDeJager-o2s]

Yea, just ask Crocodile Dundee mate

[@hildeschmid8400]

Everything you said is true, @tedtratt9553. We're heading into troubled times again.

[@nicko8580]

You should go there before you spout off. Yes it's flawed but also great. What do you think Aus would be like with 200 years more colonisation and 15 times the population?

[@heatherhoward2513]

​@@nicko8580What are you on about? 200 years more colonisation? I just know you're from the USA. Of course you love your own country, as I love mine, but I'm also able to see its faults and try in some small way to right them. One way is to be informed, questioning of what you are told and finding out the actual truth. And voting. However, one thing I am happy about is that we do not have to stand there and "salute the flag" anymore. I always thought that was daft, even as a kid.

[@williamfrazier4797]

I left the U.S. in 1967 and have been in Canada since then. You are right on all 5 points.

[@GrinningZaguate]

Lived many years in the USA and gladly left 20 years ago. Whenever I return to see family and friends, I am always shocked at how much worse it’s gotten. The poverty, the ignorance, the crime, and the insecurity.

[@llamagirl2679]

@@GrinningZaguate I feel the same!

[@somluck2813]

I find it surprising that US fought a war for Independence against the notion of Monarchy but the US President to pardon people including friends and family. The US Constitution allows the US President to act and behave like a King. On the other hand in countries with Monarchy eg Australia, Canada, UK, Japan, there is absolutely no way the Monarch can pardon anyone. 😂

[@tamjansan1154]

Royals have power behind the scenes, all US president go to see the Queen / King, not other way arround.

[@JohnSmith-xx9th]

US President should only pardon a turkey. Nothing more 😂

[@kgblankinship]

The president is not a king, but Republicans since Nixon became president have been working toward it.

[@laowantongchau]

​@@JohnSmith-xx9th He certainly did...for a second time.

[@jimbocho660]

They fought a war against having to pay taxes for their own defence against the French.

[@jasonryan3506]

Thank you for this video. It is so sad that most Americans are not aware of what the government is doing. I hope change one day happens.

[@George-k6o9t]

Some Americans are even unaware that they have homeless living in tents (if they are lucky enough to afford even a tent). when I asked some of my relatives in the U.S. about the crumbling infrastructure, the tent cities, etc, their reply to me is, "What homeless? What falling bridges? What disrepaired roads? What police brutality? What gun violence?" It is like they are living in some alternate world, an alternate society. I don't live in the U.S. and have visited it several times but it seems that I either know more about the dystopian society the U.S. has become or else I am the one living in a different world.

[@kgblankinship]

Not true. Americans are aware and most don't mind.

[@jeffbrownell279]

Unlikely as they just voted to make it worse.America is a tribal country and they won't change their mind even if it causes them harm.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@kgblankinship Whether we mind or not, these problems will always exist. Other nations have these problems too, we are simply open and honest about it.

[@dwwd-i4r]

Most Americans are interested in parties, reality shows, sports, and everything about themselves.

[@Gofstr]

I love it when US Americans claim they are the greatest country in the world...they aren't even the greatest country in North America. And I'm not even Canadian.

[@Moseeplo]

This fallacy of "America is No.1" is a fallacy of people who have never been out the Country. I served in Japan. When I re-enlisted (for their convince) I bought a radio with a keyboard on it. When I went to my girlfriend's apartment, I vised the burger joint across the street. I got my food, went upstairs,ate and showered before I realized I left my new radio down stairs on the bench outside the restaurant. This was well over an hour. I went outside, looked over the balcony, and it was still there. They aren't much on stealing. Years later, while living in Miami, Fl., my apartment was broken into 2 times. America isn't as great as some people think it is. We can't even stop crazy people from killing children in school.

[@bigverybadtom]

Japan has its slums and mean streets and crime and homeless people too. Just because you cannot see them does not mean they aren't there. Oh, and there have been some mass killings over the years.

[@Moseeplo]

@@bigverybadtom That's possible. I never saw it. Where did you see the homeless, and criminals? You do know, they do not "have the right to bear arms". The police are un-armed as well, sorta. Swat has guns, regular police has these stupid long sticks to beat your ass with. Where did you see homeless people?

[@wf645]

@@bigverybadtom That is still way FAR FAR FAR lesser than US ! US is now a dysfunctional country ...

[@dmfwlr264]

​@@Moseeplo hello?.......hellooooo!...😂😊

[@bigverybadtom]

@@Moseeplo Duh, there are KZbin videos showing them. You must be blind like Papa Joe Paterno was with his assistant coach.

[@donsland1610]

On my first visit to the USA in 1978 I was shocked by the disparity in wealth. I had never seen such poverty in Europe that I saw in the black areas of Jacksonville Florida and I don't believe it's much better now. The ignorance and arrogance of people was disturbing to say the least and as I travelled all over America I realised that it was universal there.

[@bigverybadtom]

There are plenty of very poor Europeans and even they admit it. You haven't traveled much I assume.

[@Schimml0rd]

​@@bigverybadtom not as disgustingly poor and post apocalyptic as in the us 😂 I've seen stuff straight out of Fallout.

[@Brozius2512]

@@bigverybadtom You do realize that the US has the most medical bankruptcies in the world? Also the US has the highest educational debt in the world. Also over 100 million US citizens have a medical debt.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@Schimml0rd You have a very sheltered life if you think severe poverty doesn't exist outside the USA.

[@jimjacobs2817]

@@bigverybadtom According to the OECD, the US has a poverty rate of 18.1% as opposed to the highest poverty rate in Europe (Latvia) of 16.9% [In 2022 -- the latest data for both] [UK = 11.8%; Canada = 11.9%; Sweden = 8.4%; France = 8.3%; Ireland = 7.0%]

[@TruthTellerTH-k3w]

Myth #6: The world's greatest healthcare system!

[@petermcgill1315]

Surely no one believes that one.

[@TruthTellerTH-k3w]

@@petermcgill1315 You'd be surprised.

[@KenGraham-m2p]

Yes it is....for the rich. That is why all these foreign dictators come to the USA for treatment of their cancer. For the average working man........terrible. Deductibles and co-pays are so high for families that insurance coverage is almost nonexistent.

[@MaggieLarocque]

That is not a myth. I have NEVER heard ANY American claim that.

[@pyrola4593]

As a US citizen, I know all of these.ponts and it is absolutely true. Despite the myth of America, it is easy to see through if you open your eyes. I wish more people would open their eyes and realize there is a better way.

[@techtoth1]

Italy here. I don't think there's a single democracy in the whole world that isn't actually an oligarchy. Aristotle was right. I think that until people succeeds in separating financial power from politics, there will never be a democracy. Obviously, because political parties need money for their cmpaigns, they'll always be tied to money groups. It's symbiotic for them. People will never have true power. Which, imho isn't that bad either, as they tend to be moving like a herd. Because people don't value culture enough. Only culture and historical knowledge can set you free from lies and fan-like behaviours. When you act like a fan, swallowing every lie your party feeds you, just to "win" over the opponent, there's no democracy. Just herds of enraged, incapable of analysis, absolutists who will always be manipulated. The solution? Hey! There's no solution! Look at history: it's always been the same for centuries and centuries. Just brief, lucky times in limited areas, when an illuminated ruler actually loved the country and did the best possible to elevate it. Just tiny lights in an ocean of darkness. And on this optimistic note: God bless us all, because we really need it.

[@luisanthonychau]

That's why moral is very important. If most sheep in a herd have good moral, you are more likely to have a morally sounded leader.

[@tamjansan1154]

That would be easy to fix, candidates can have equal public media time access to compete for free.

[@WingBroJoseph]

You guys had a great run under Mussulini

[@kgblankinship]

You're taking Aristotle out of context. Republics, that is, representative democracies, didn't exist during his time.

[@migueluribe4249]

When large corporations finance candidates of both parties, it doesn't matter who wins, since they will owe their loyalty to those corporations. We live in a fake system.

[@geddon436]

I really want Norway's system of government here in the U.S., but, I know it will never happen

[@migueluribe4249]

Americans will consider it communism. They are too brain washed.

[@xiangquny]

Maybe the Norway system only works in small country which is not so diverse.

[@thorin1045]

@@xiangquny or maybe it only works if you have a massive income compared to the economy of he country for free. norway was not as fun or wanted before the free oil and gas money. yes, they clearly used it better than almost an other country in similar situation (almost every middle eastern oil country could and should be like norway, but not) but they would be much different without it, so not clear why and what works there.

[@andrewlim7751]

It's a socialist system .... politically incorrect. 😂😂

[@Alan-lv9rw]

We can’t have what Norway has because we’re not all white and Protestant. We have too many third world cultures here.

[@erikstumer4896]

I agree with you 💯. I left the US 23 years ago and already realized it while living there in the 80s and 90s. Leaving the US was the wisest decision that I've ever made.

[@Julia3455-r5l]

Where are you from? Tell me one better country than USA lmao.

[@eleghari]

Same here...visited again 3 months ago and it has gotten worse 🤭

[@eleghari]

​@Mike-h8mToo many to list 🤭🤣

[@bigverybadtom]

@@eleghari In other words, you cannot answer the question. Sorry Charlie.

[@FerryIrawan-s1d]

​@Mike-h8mthe list will be a long one

[@BarryRerack147]

It bends my head that you dont want nationalised healthcare for you, your spouse, your parents, your kids, your kids kids, your brothers and sisters just in case somebody else might get something "for free" and that's sOcIaLiSm

[@EsmondLyons]

The USA isn’t a country with a military, it’s a military with a country.

[@bigverybadtom]

We didnt' ask to become the world's p[olice, but nobody else is willing to do the job.

[@debli9871]

I agree with you. America is a hard place to live I just don't believe in America anymore.

[@Naturalworldlives]

The world is turning its back on the place. We don't want it.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@Naturalworldlives You say you don't, but we Americans know better. You need us to survive and always will.

[@samsmom1491]

​@@bigverybadtom You are an excellent example of American arrogance.

[@Roger-qp3lg]

​@@bigverybadtomNazis had a similar mindset. Romans also. Howd it work out for them?

[@glennreed5181]

@@bigverybadtom Your endless arrogance proves so many points.

[@michaelpidgeon4348]

The USA to me is working its way towards Georgian England, or pre revolution France.

[@George-k6o9t]

Exactly! Took the word right out of my mouth (or typing fingers).

[@wwatson8891]

USA is in the condition of france around 1750. Luigi seems to almost lit the fuse and the ajigarchs are frightened. They will now resort to draconian measures to intimidate the unhappy citizens but that will only exacerbate the problem, then, eventually, the 'jacobins' will take over. Hopefully it won't get that bad

[@kgblankinship]

I believe it's becoming more like early colonial America - where business operates unrestricted and in New England where it was theocratic. The model for early colonial Massachusetts was John Calvin's theocracy-plutocracy in Geneva during the previous century. It's shedding its legacy of the Enlightenment, as business and the religious right are vehemently opposed to it. Anything that came out of the Enlightenment, Republicans regard now as 'Marxist, socialist, and communist.' They will soon turn on the Constitution, which is a product of that era.

[@bigverybadtom]

Pre revolution France is more accurate. Ordinary Americans have developed a growing hostility for super rich people who sneer at us and show hostility to us who are poor. They may talk about social concern but we know they are not sincere. They do not practice what they preach and we would not care if these people disappeared. They need us and we don't need them.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@wwatson8891 Yes, we ordinary Americans are very unhappy with wealthy limousine liberals who complain about how wasteful we are and live luxurious lives themselves. They sneer at us for not being rich like them.

[@bruce8321]

What drives me nuts is when I hear ''only in America'' This phrase is used all the time to mean no other country has the ability to allow its people to work hard and rise to a high level. My country Canada and many others offer the very same opportunity. A major part of this ignorance is simply that most Americans dont even have passports and use them to travel the world. They are stay at home and know nothing about geography. Most Canadians and other countries have passports and travel and see the reality.

[@learningisfun2108]

Well, ….. I use “only in America” as a derogatory statement. Like, “Only in America would they vote a moronic grifter as president…….Twice!” Or, “Only in America are guns plentiful but healthcare scarce”. 😂

[@adamslaney5638]

Its kind of true, only in America is there a mass shooting almost everyday

[@George-k6o9t]

Very true. My family lives in the U.S. but not I and the reason is that I have literally SEEN with my own eyes just how they have all been indoctrinated and changed over the years into following and believing in the U.S. myths. It all began when they moved from a former British colonial country to the U.S. while I stayed put where I am for educational reasons AND the fact that I was already being aware of some of the myths of the U.S. that I felt were not quite right. This was the era of the Vietnam War when the U.S. was pushing a narrative about "fighting the evil Communists" as though the conflict was being instigated by some big foreign power outside Vietnam trying to conquer this tiny innocent country that just wanted to be left alone and democratic. In all reality, this was totally false - the U.S. was involved in Vietnam for its own hegemonic reach when Vietnam was just trying to be free and independent of ALL foreign powers and domination - first by the French and then the Americans. All of the events of the 1960s brushed away the veil of secrecy of what the U.S. was and is and as I learned more and more of the truths, it became a country that I wanted to avoid if I valued MY peace of mind and life, security and beliefs. Along the way, I also discovered many insidious truths about the U.S. and how its portrayal of itself to the world has all been a facade, a mask, a painting aided by the reach of Hollywood and the powerful mainstream media of the U.S. My attempts in trying to persuade my family members otherwise have failed because by the time I dug up the truths of the U.S., they were already well indoctrinated in just the few years they were there. I was accused of being a "Communist" in the 1980s just for speaking the truth when I didn't even know how to join any political party. I have been to the U.S. on many occasions over the decades to visit the family and yes, the U.S. has its own unique beauties and achievements. No country is ever 100% all bad and evil. There are always small pockets of gems to be found. However, amidst the crime rate, the proliferation of firearms in private hands, the constant mass shootings, the lack of a universal healthcare system, the suspicious looks from the local police, the lack of any news in the local newspapers of events outside the U.S. and the constant pushing of a nationalistic hubris, when I returned from the U.S. back to my own country of Australia, I found myself breathing the real air of freedom on the first day when I landed home and went on a walk at night throughout my city, completely unafraid for over 6 hours to past midnight, unchained. That was when I knew that the U.S. is actually still a slave nation. Not in so many words nor physical action but mentally and psychologically, of its people.

[@plaubelmakina8916]

That’s some rather heady words for Australia, considering how it is just a vassal state of America and the UK. Some of the actions of your government during COVID was criminal. I wish Australia was independent, but it just ain’t so.

[@George-k6o9t]

@@plaubelmakina8916 Do qualify your charge that my government during COVID was criminal. In what terms were they criminally negligent? Which specific state was criminal as each state had a different policy in how it handled COVID19. Yes, I also wish that Australia is independent of the U.S. and less of a lackey. However, its leadership has always been under the thumb of bigger powers - first with the United Kingdom and then, infected by the U.S. Americana virus ever since WW2, it has become beholden to the U.S. for "protection". With the implanting of their spy bases and now, military base with thousands of their troops on our land, plus the taking over of our banks and other financial institutions, the buying up of our assets and most successful companies, and flooded with their very powerful and smooth talking marketing and advertising gurus from Madison Avenue, we have become more and more entrenched into the U.S. cabal. There are still some resistance - such as the underhanded insidious methods the U.S. NRA has tried to undermine our national decision to control the spread of firearms especially during our elections. Keeping our people safe from the spread of firearms is a highly emotional one and so has out Universal Healthcare Medibank System - again, something that the U.S. Big Pharma companies have been trying to undermine. and get our politicians to change it into the U.S. system. Just as Americans themselves have been indoctrinated by their mainstream media, a compliant education system and Hollywood movies, so too, have many Australians, lured by the glitzy lights of "the light on the hill" and fancy high-sounding words of "freedom" and "democracy" - as has many other countries around the world especially those in the Anglo-European sphere of influence. They tend to see the U.S. through 'rose-colored tinted glasses" with twinkly bedazzled eyes. Few without the proper education have been able to see through the facade, the veil that hides the real face of American falsehoods.

[@Tom-if9hc]

Australia is becoming a part of China

[@bigverybadtom]

You did not inherit the brains of your family. If you want slave nations, look at the Mideast. And you have problems too, even if you turn a blind eye to them.

[@Roger-qp3lg]

​@@plaubelmakina8916i agree Australia can be better. But it it is still 100 times better than USA.

[@iamcanadianedmonton]

I concur with you. I was also very pro-American until about 2008. I changed my opinion after I started visiting China yearly. I couldn't believe the progress there. Then I thought maybe communism/market capitalism wasn't as bad as portrayed. how could I fault a govt if people's living standards kept improving?? After all, this is what we want, constantly improving living standards. love from canada.

[@TripBitten]

I think more people should travel to China and other countries to get out of the bubble. It is easy to think "your the best" if you have nothing to compare to and the media says "your the best". Travel is the best way to open your mind and learn about other people and places.

[@Cobalt-88]

From the point of view that China is monitoring and acting on it to fulfill a mandate of producing positive changes for the people, China is way ahead of the US in democracy. The standard of living and quality of life of people in China has been rising steadily for 40 years. Part of this is providing a country where everyone is safe (from crime, drugs, poverty, etc). No one is safe in the US, so people are not free at all, being constantly faced with drugs, guns, crimes. Only 2 murders out of 10 are even investigated in the US. China has eliminated most poverty and has a health plan for everyone where in the US, 1/3 of people are living marginally, with no health care either. Really third world. Lastly, everyone has access to an affordable and good education in China, where in the US education is spotty and way too expensive at the post secondary level. Just sayin…

[@Cobalt-88]

Thank you for making many excellent points. I agree with you on much of what you have said. The US is in most ways now now a failed state (well, a democracy and welfare state for corporations). I am so thankful that the world is finally waking up. I thank independent news for that.

[@ralphzoombeenie2330]

@@TripBitten As an international pilot I saw that contrast almost daily and now retired I prefer to take my vactions in China where I can walk safely at midnight and dont fear the police, eat well and travel cheaply in clean surroundings. Where the government from personal observation works for the benefit of the people not for self interest and corporate donars.

[@louarmstrong6128]

Do you know that you can't touch, not just drink, 55% of the water in China, and 80 % of the ground water...it's so polluted over there

[@karlyap3011]

Thank you for the truthful video. I agree with your honest assessment as a US citizen. In future, please leave the illustration, especially charts, longer on the screen so that we can read it as you explain.

[@ruthtowinthisyear]

The fact that they call their country America, speaks volumes. America is a continent as far as I know.

[@ianmayes8072]

And got its name from an Italian bullshitter...

[@pigbearcub]

The USA occupies a continent. Travel 500 miles or 1200 kilometers from Britain and you will pass thru France into Spain. Travel the same distance in the USA starting in Texas and you will still be in Texas, and will have covered only a quarter of the distance across the USA.

[@ianmayes8072]

@@pigbearcub Size is not everything. The USA is only part of the North American Continent. The larger part of the land mass is Canada. What is your point?

[@pigbearcub]

@ianmayes8072 my point was comparing the USA to the size of individual European countries

[@pigbearcub]

@ianmayes8072 and how geography influences attitudes. The USA dominates an entire continent culturally, if you think of the USA and Canada together. So Americans for instance tend to be arrogant about things like learning a language other than English.

[@Chiller11]

It’s a shame more Americans don’t travel abroad. Travel gives one a wider perspective and allows first hand evidence regarding alternative systems of governance and economics.

[@bigverybadtom]

You can learn as much from reading literature and watching videos of various countries, where they tell about what is really going on there, rather than showing you tourist attractions.

[@stananderson4524]

@@bigverybadtom Exactly. Too many people go as tourists, and not see how the country works.

[@FerryIrawan-s1d]

They are too poor to travel overseas

[@Schimml0rd]

​@@bigverybadtom the problem with watching videos online and taking them as truths named it easy to misguide gullible ppl like you 😂 As long as you like the person talking you'll believe everything 😂 And have no way of seeing the truth for yourself ;)

[@Schimml0rd]

That's why they're held poor and with such few vacation days. Nobody who ever saw anything of this world would ever advocate for the us again.

[@jotsingh8917]

The rule of Law. The president elect proves that it has the VERY best Legal System Money can buy.

[@guerillagardener2237]

That's the problem with America, they are so fixated on the money but not the principle underlying it.

[@prettybrwneyez7757]

💯💯💯

[@bigverybadtom]

You know that Charlie Chaplin was a British national who grew up in extreme poverty? He had a very good reason to be fixated on money because he knew how awful life was like without it.

[@johnhall42]

I think health care deserves a mention. The idea that an injured American will beg you to NOT call an ambulance because it would cost them thousands of dollars they cannot afford and society thinks it would be ‘communist’ to have it any other way, is in equal parts astonishing and disturbing.

[@MW15962]

It's a clear sign the oligarchy is working as intended.

[@Jackson-T23]

You hit the nail on the head with American exceptionalism. To start, the term itself is ethnocentric because the United States is not America. Every country in the western hemisphere is an "American" country. The only thing I would rank the U.S. #1 is military, but that's not hard to accomplish when you consider the amount of money we spend. The U.S. is not ranked #1 in education. We are one of the only developed countries that does not offer it's citizens healthcare. Our average life expectancy has been on the decline for years and isn't even in the top 20. Our foods are extremely unhealthy and loaded with high fructose corn syrup. If you ever traveled abroad you'll quickly realize how awful everyday U.S. food quality is compared to just about every other country.

[@oswaldoramosferrusola5235]

Education?. I am talking about high school education. The US must be very low in the ranking

[@Paul77ozee]

Give me Australian cane sugar over corn syrup any day.

[@Schimml0rd]

​@@Paul77ozee How about ACTUAL food? 😅

[@danielpitsios683]

Don’t worry, the rest of the world knows about all this, it you guys that don’t and that’s hilarious 🤣

[@ianmason.]

Well the "western hemisphere" starts about 100 yards west of where I'm currently sitting. England and Scotland (mostly in the western hemisphere) aren't "American", nor are Wales, Ireland, Iceland and Greenland. Nor Portugal,most of Spain, Morroco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Lione, Liberia, or Cote d'Iviore, and so on.. Most of these aren't even close to the Americas. American geography education strikes again.

[@zeissiez]

The saddest part is, Americans have to live outside to see the real America.

[@bigverybadtom]

Sorry Charlie, we know it already. We are not brainwashed but use our brains.

[@Brozius2512]

@@bigverybadtom By some of your comments here, it really doesn't show that you are using your brain.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@Brozius2512 Ah yes, fling poo when I crush you argumentwise. Reality sucks dunnit?

[@9064peterpan]

" one of the greatest war crimes ever, the 2003 plunder and pillaging of Iraq, the malicious destruction of a country and its peoples based on lies." Robert Billyard

[@bigverybadtom]

The lie is yours bubbo. Iraq was a shithole before 2003 and the Iraqi people did NOT want Saddam Hussein back. Reality sucks dunnit?

[@bigverybadtom]

We never plundered or pillaged Iraq. In fact the Iraqis very much wanted Saddam gone. Reality sucks dunnit?

[@heatherhoward2513]

​@@bigverybadtomweapons of mass destruction. A big fat lie. Usa went in, boots and all and dragged our stupid government with it. They were NOT invited in to get rid of Hussein.

[@Roger-qp3lg]

​@@bigverybadtomyou really need to stop watching American corporate media. They have really brainwashed you.

[@francescathomas3502]

@@bigverybadtom There were NO WMD in Iraq which is why Dubya Bush invaded Iraq - so yes the USA was very much involved in the Malicious destruction of Iraq!!!! The whole (rest of the) world outside of the USA watched it happen.

[@drummerboycroy]

It is astonishing to live in the US with these painfully simple truths and yet be surrounded by so many lulled into complacent acceptance of our current reality.

[@ganeshcsaiisc]

I am following just for the graph at 12:45, Its an eye opener for me. I always thought American Govt(AKA American Oligarchs) has been doing unnecessary wars(to make more profits for its arm industry lords) only after second world war when they became super power. But I didn't know they have been doing these rogue things since the beginning. One more point I would add is (6)Neo-Liberalism, because it seems to be the way American Oligarchs invented to make working class people from third world countries their slaves. I am an old millenial born in India staying in US from last 6 years, I am seeing how Indians are becoming more and more slaves(working more than 8 hrs, minimum wages stagnant, etc) to American Companies, this is worst of medieval slavery+colonization.

[@douglashogg4848]

You need to read “War is a Racket” by General Smedley Butler. He served in the marines from 1910 to 1930. Butler states all this overseas intervention is for the benefit of American corporations, mainly the United Fruit Company at the time of writing.

[@ganeshcsaiisc]

@@douglashogg4848 Sure Thanks!

[@DeanNataro]

Capitalism should be regulated and controlled. But, as Lenin and others have pointed out, whatever concessions you may get from capitalists are temporary and will get reversed as quickly as possible - sometimes very quickly, sometimes after a longer struggle. But the end is always the same. This is an essential problem with trying to regulate capitalism. The only controls and regulations that capitalism truly accepts are those that it imposes on others.

[@bigverybadtom]

It is in every capitalist country. The government is bigger than any company.

[@bigverybadtom]

You need to get out more. Governments are far stronger than any private companies, if you knew how things really worked.

[@Schimml0rd]

​@bigverybadtom 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@Schimml0rd]

​Wake up buddy

[@swedesurfer]

Excellent video. But all of us that are from Europe and live in the US know this already. This is a video that should be shown to US Americans. Its like flat earthers they probably will not believe it or ignore it. The only thing America is "better" at is gun ownership and violent crimes. Something to be real proud about !😢 Well, after 30 years im out of here and moving back to Europe !

[@laowantongchau]

Not likely. Those who control the main stream media in the US would never allow the showing of the video...for obvious reasons.

[@francescathomas3502]

@@laowantongchau Independent media will show it!!! Podcasts and left wing Media. Legacy or MSM is a lost cause sadly. They have all kissed the ring or bent the knee.

[@erzsebetnilsson580]

They still try to spreding their JUNGLE LAW !

[@bigverybadtom]

And find all the violent crime there. I've heard Europeans who are there complaining about it.

[@SongSo-i5i]

Sooooooo true. Everybody who believe America is the only great country in the whole wide world has never been outside of it.

[@bigverybadtom]

I have been outside the USA and don't find the world outside to be any better than the USA is. The outside world has problems too. We are simply honest about ourselves.

[@GRAHAMEDWARDS-c9k]

You are being conned into believing that you are getting the best education the world can give, and yet you voted for higher food prices. Which only goes to prove that there are two words that will never go together, and they are Educated and American.

[@bigverybadtom]

We already have high prices and we can thank Biden for that. You aren't so educated yourself.

[@GRAHAMEDWARDS-c9k]

@bigverybadtom I know you have high prices ,but I in the Uk have prices that are 30%cheaper than you. Check out Magenta Otter travels where she does a shop in Aldi USA and Aldi UK, and you will be totally shocked by the difference in price.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@GRAHAMEDWARDS-c9k I was in the UK on vacation in 1999 and I don't get the idea the economy there changed much. I thought you supposedly had the higher inflation recently? As for education, I have heard the rumor that Americans are far less educated than other nations, but I am not convinced it is true.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@GRAHAMEDWARDS-c9k I admit it was in 1999 when I visited the UK and prices were high then. And I thought inflation was supposed have been worse in the UK than in the USA? Am I missing something?

[@georgelimlosuy]

The American people elect their leaders but their leaders don’t work for them. They work for the big corporations who control them by their campaign donations. The aims of big corporations in most cases don’t coincide with those of the common people. Their aim is to maximise profits and make the most from the consumers. The defense industry wants to make lots of money. So they encourage the US military to engage in wars or create wars to maximise their bottom lines. So, the US military is in perpetual wars worldwide and maintains thousands of military bases worldwide. Meanwhile the American public are getting nothing much from their elected government. Wages are stagnant, unions are busted, healthcare is expensive, education in general is of poor quality, etc. etc. The US prides itself of its democracy system but it looks like it is not beneficial to the major of the people. But through propaganda by the controlled media, the public has not cue of what’s happening. The only thing that is propping the US government is the ability to print the US Dollar. Without that, the US would be a failed state with trillions of debts which it cannot pay. However this special benefit of the dollar will not go on forever. Other nations are now trying not to use the dollar because of the stupid Biden administration which weaponise the US Dollar against its adversaries like Russia and Iran.

[@Chichina-h6u]

I'm south American, and I have always thought the same things you have explained here, but many times born US citizens not only are not aware of these myths, but they reject, and stubbornly deny opening their eyes when hearing these explanations. It has happened to me too many times. Another thing I would like to add to this video about popular myths among most Americans is that life style and quality is second to none and obviously if you are in the USA for whatever reason, it means that the country you came from barely have potable water, which is very false, ignorant and arrogant. Along this line most Americans believe (through brain wash) that their system is the best in the world. More so, most American ignore how come the USA became a superpower after the two World Wars, now in decline, and what happened with its former gold-backed Dollar when Nixon was in power, its following degrading, debt-based economy, and consequential demise. Finally, the education undergraduate, and graduate in America is also a myth in many cases in my opinion, compared to quality (not expensive) foreign schools.

[@karengerace7506]

This guy Knows little history. His statements are opinions only and faulty

[@Schimml0rd]

​@@karengerace7506 which guy? Tom?

[@francescathomas3502]

@@karengerace7506 And you being the wonderful Fully literate American are going to fault the OP on his English? Typical arrogrant american. You hate hearing any other language if its not english. And you hate hearing any other accent, if its not american. Right? Anyone who moves to the USA will be required to learn english fast. And learn to speak it the american way. You will not be permitted to learn your own culture at all. NO, you must become an american ASAP. That is how arrogant and ignorant these americans are. I have had arrogant Americans tell me on the phone, to "Call me back when you speak proper english". I do speak proper english. It is my native tongue. I just happen to have an accent that is NOT American. They dont even try to understand me!! They expect me to talk like them and act like them. No thanks.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

America is a poor country with a few rich people. Its the land of the exploited not the land of the free.

[@bigverybadtom]

We are a lot wealthier than most of the world. You need to get out more.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

@@bigverybadtom Some of you are wealthy. Many of you are poor, yet you still vote for the orange man

[@bigverybadtom]

@@jjsmallpiece9234 You obviously have no idea what the USA is like. Do you live in Dubai or something?

[@夢裏不知身是客]

US’s facade is crumbling…

[@夢裏不知身是客]

@ Really? Is that why the U.S. tries so hard to suppress China?

[@melosova-suav8930]

@@koschmx Focus Forrest! This video is about the United States.

[@夢裏不知身是客]

@@koschmx Yours is also one person’s opinion.

[@夢裏不知身是客]

@@koschmx You are adding a lot more fuss…

[@melosova-suav8930]

@@koschmx You’re one of sensitive type that can’t stand to look into the mirror.

[@pandapandering3985]

Myth #8: Equality and justice for all!

[@Tj123-h4f]

Miguel i hope i move to a tropical country one day soon! America is not for me as a African American! The food is killing us, mass shootings every often, social life is dead, dating and marriage is dead, and freedoms are not there! Their are countries that are more free than the United States! I might move to Fiji or samoa 🇼🇸!

[@TripBitten]

Hopefully you can find a better place in the near future. It isn't working for many people and I don't think it will change much in the coming years.

[@MarcoMasseria]

How there is not an exodus of Black Americans to Belize is beyond me. English language. Tropical setting. Every issue currently found in Belize can be solved. I hope that helps TJ. It can happen! Good luck.

[@prettybrwneyez7757]

@@MarcoMasseriaBelize is beautiful but expensive.

[@bigverybadtom]

It should be noted that Liberia was established as a place for black Americans to go if they did not want to live in the USA. And they would end up buying their own black slaves.

[@Schimml0rd]

​@@bigverybadtom it's almost like their minds were poisoned by their exposure to us "society"

[@alisonauchterlonie8212]

Even this intelligent and sensible speaking gentleman said “I am not a Communist or a Socialist”, as if those things are the worst anyone can be. Most of the countries that are doing best in supporting their people tend to be more Socialist leaning.

[@iamcanadianedmonton]

you must be busy with the renovation !!! have a good cup of coffee. love from canada.

[@TripBitten]

Yes, it's going slower than expected, but we are busy. Thanks for the coffee!

[@Nancyr-x8o]

ong my grandparents lived in Edmonton

[@Mike_2501]

I’m an American, I’ve lived in America for 42 years, and I’ve known since I was about 19 years old that “American Exceptionalism” was a myth. I moved to Europe last year, and it confirmed everything I suspected: there are a lot of things that are better elsewhere. Food, healthcare, education, elections, policing, infrastructure, all sorts of things. America is behind on so many things, and there’s no reason to be. It’s really a shame that our elected leaders allow corporations and billionaires to run our country into the ground and make life worse for Americans all in the name of profits.

[@flovv4580]

Greed

[@bigverybadtom]

And there are no millionaires or billionaires or corporations in Europe. People who actually live in Europe would laugh at your naivete.

[@pernilsson2394]

The most funny thing about USA, for me is the hostility against tax funded healthcare, education and public service but at the same time having the worlds largest tax funded military. Another thing i find funny is americans very often talk about community projects, helping the poor, art, disaster help and so on. A tax funded welfare state is nothing more than giant "community project", where everybody pitches in and help each other.

[@jean-philipperottiers614]

So true 😅

[@Darryllicht47]

I want to add- not only are we not the most free, we're the LEAST free using the metric of incarcerated and/or jailed- in raw numbers and per capita.

[@johnp139]

Yet there are still so many criminals ON THE STREETS!!!!

[@gerritgovaerts8443]

The whole idea that free markets are always superior is debunked even in neo classical economic theory . There are multiple examples of market failures .

[@kgblankinship]

Anyone who has taken a few economics in college here in the states knows that one has to regulate capitalism so that it doesn't become monopolistic.

[@lenroddis5933]

You nailed it. I asked one American who was crowing about American freedoms to name just one freedom that was unique to America. No response. It happens time and time again.

[@bigverybadtom]

Okay, then name a country which has a freedom that the USA doesn't have. I won't hold me breath..

[@lenroddis5933]

@@bigverybadtom What 'freedoms' does America have that aren't found in other countries? That should be a simple question for you to answer.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@lenroddis5933 You failed to answer mine. But there are speech restrictions in many parts of the world that do not exist in the USA, under the guise of "hate speech". And the people in those countries know this.

[@lenroddis5933]

@@bigverybadtom "Hate speech" You mean like Musk calling somebody 'paedo-guy' when they declined his 'help'. He claimed it was unoffensive SA street talk, but I was living in SA during the same period as Musk and it most definitely was not. I don't believe that these things, or outright lies should fall under the umbrella of legally protected 'free speech'. How is it anything but detrimental to society to protect Musk's tweet: [How can this be called a “continuing resolution” if it includes a 40% pay increase for Congress?] when the actual figure is 3.8%?

[@rattywoof5259]

@@bigverybadtom I live in a country where I'm free to get ill or have an accident without any fear of financial hardship. I can also walk the streets of my town free from any fear of being shot by either criminal or policeman. I can cross the street anywhere without it being regarded as an offence.

[@abel6846]

The only other countries where they pledge allegiance to the flag/state are Myanmar and North Korea. Think about that.

[@steveinglis4009]

Seems spot on to me. Sadly the war in Ukraine being the classic example. The destabilisation game gone seriously and tragically wrong. Corporate America runs America which includes the military Industrial complex.

[@dyingfromthelying]

That's because America is not a democracy. It is a corporate authoritarian system cosplaying as a democracy.. billionaires run the world. In fact, we elected billionaires to save us from the billionaires. Which makes a lot of sense to me...

[@hautaukhang1808]

If you cannot even openly criticize Israel and openly support Russia in the US what freedom are you talking about Uncle Sam?

[@laowantongchau]

You are allowed the freedom to support Is-real 😅

[@hautaukhang1808]

@@laowantongchau So it is double-standard. The "champion" of freedom of speech is cherry picking. 🤣🤣

[@laowantongchau]

@@hautaukhang1808 As usual 😂

[@chuckdavis1323]

Don't criticize israel. You will be banned from the internet.

[@seanabbott798]

Who went to jail for an anti-Israel Pro-Russian stance? Your freedom of speech does not protect you from mine, only from jail.

[@Tzuau78]

It would be so hard, to be a proud US citizen and at the same time do a post of its considerable imperfections and realities. I appreciate that you did this. I am an Aussie and I love Australia… but it is, of course, not perfect.

[@marmac83]

Aussies can be just as bad... "We're the lucky country." "Why?" "You're un-Australian c_nt!"