People in the States know how fast our country can fall and don’t accept “well, we’ve still got a ways to go” as an excuse for the descent.
The so-called best shouldn’t compare itself to others, it should compare itself to itself from yesterday. And in those regards, we are descending rapidly, especially for those of us LGBTQ+, women and minorities.
Do not forget how fast Saudi Arabia and other countries changed from their liberal views to literal theocracies.
Trans people can't get passports[0]
Literally everything with the word "gay" is being removed from federal ledgers[1, 2]
Initiatives to **penalize** companies that still choose to have DEI hires
greatly impacts anyone that's not a white male. [3]
Anti-Abortion legislation directly attacks women's health, including when there's
a harm to the mother. [4]
Elderly may very well be missing out on their social security payments [5]
Frankly, to imagine that things aren't getting worse for women, bipoc and lgbtq+ people at this point means you've either lived under a rock, in which case, "Welcome! The world is worse now."; you're willfully ignorant of the harm that's being done to so, so, *so* many communities; or, you're acting in bad faith and sealioning[6].
I'm European. We don't have favelas, as far as I've seen. The destitute in my country, and there are plenty, have far higher living standards than in yours.
Take a little drive round Memphis, or New Orleans. The parts you wouldn't normally go.
I'm talking about how bad comparisons of the US are to actual third world countries and your counter arguments is comparison to Europe, a very NOT third world area?
I was a bit angry and wrote a longer post, most of which I thought better of. Apologies if I didn't formally address your concern.
It is my opinion, having travelled a little in Africa and India, that the slums in some of your cities are directly comparable to slums in those places.
I don't have high hopes that this is a productive conversation. Please just know that it's not a uniquely American thing to view conditions on the ground in your country as "third world".
>Nor have you lived in every third world country or experienced every level of American life.
That's what statistics are for. Check how many people from Africa try to move to the US, and then how many people from the US try to move to Africa, to get a fucking perspective.
>So who are you, or they, to say otherwise?
I'm the person with the correct arguments.
> I was mocking your bad post
You don't interact much with people IRL do you? If this is what mocking is to you, repeating what others say. You need to work on your mocking. And on your thought process.
So you haven't been to every third world country and haven't lived in every level of American life, and therefore are clueless to the reality of it. Glad we cleared that up, thanks.
