Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?

• valtia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s actually the point of this exercise? Trying to scrape together reasons to be proud of living in a fascist dictator state, “not everything is that bad”, just reads like cope. Yeah sure, there are some decent places in the US, but even those could be much better than they are. Every facet of life in the US is being held back by the fascism part, even whatever “good” parts we can brainstorm up

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some people just have a mentality of pure negativity.

  I once dated a doctor, who was a fellow at the best hospital in the world, who had a pretty amazing life, from my perspective. They grew up with wealthy parents, they went to Standford, for free, and had a degree from Harvard Medical school, and they’d completed their residency and had a salary of about 250K at the age of 30.

  From their own perspective, they hated their life. Nobody likes them, they were a failure, they were poor and struggling, etc. etc. The same rhetoric you get from so many people here. And I’m sure when I walked away from them because of their extreme self-negativity, they thought I was just also another mean terrible person to them.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know if you live here or not. I’m trying to stay hopeful that this regime will fall apart sooner rather than later.

    Don’t call me a prisoner of my own mind. Don’t insult my intelligence. It isn’t naive or dumb to hope that things can be better, or to go looking for them.

    What OP is looking for is assurance that America isn’t an unredeemable bad guy. You know what I see? Someone rapidly realizing that their reality is propagandized nationalistic pride, and trying to claw it back, exactly the way I was ten years ago.

    Of course there are good things about a place. But the good things that OP listed were features that have persisted in spite of my country’s dogma, imperialism, and conservatism. Don’t get it twisted.

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  • TractorDuffy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is so sad!

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah it was brutal. She was a really good doctor too. But just… had zero perspective on her life and was super bitter than other people had more money than she did.

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• GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only good I’ve seen have been the sporadic and broken bits of a resistance that have managed to not get arrested yet. And I’m not talking about the democrats that are larping as real people for the votes.

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