Violence is rare here. If someone gets stabbed it is national news and the whole country talks about it for a month.
And actually you can get a gun in most of the eu, it is just not as easy as in the US, people just don't feel that they need them.
If you're refering to the shooting in Norway that was pretty much the only time such an event happened here, which is also the reason why the police was unprepared. Compare that to the hundreds of school shootings in America and we can start talking about who has it worse...
One event in 2011, since then nothing, before then barely any as far as i am aware. Meanwhile the US had more mass shootings than there were days in a year in 2019 alone.
of course it is way safer if every idiot can run around with a gun, of course, that is why there are so many deaths from crimes in Europe and so few in the usa o wait it is exactly the other way around
Are you really comparing one event only in the history of Europe with hundreds of mass shooting that happened in US? Jesus fuck, sometimes I think Americans are just plain stupid, there’s no other possible explanation
Europeans have the biggest sense of entitlement. It only took us a little over 200 years to have the largest economy in the world, meanwhile Europe is only just catching up. They pretend to not need us for anything, but I wonder what would happen if we pulled all our troops out from our installations over there.
Well your economic development started with you lending a shit ton of money to Germany (and other European countries) after WW2 for reparations. Also, it's a shitty measurement that tells you almost nothing. We do not need your troops, you have about 60k stationed in all of Europe and they are not going to save us from anything serious, they just commit warcrimes through drones they control from there anyway.
Unfortunately for the USA, there are so many different things wrong that are quite embarrassing for having such a huge economy. It's quite a pitty that only very few of the flaws are repeatedly pointed out on this sub.
Workers' rights are a mess. Workers' unions are always squashed, workers don't get a say in what the company they work for is supposed to do. No fucking paid sick days, no paid vacation, no paid parental leave and you're legally not guaranteed to get your job back after parental leave. The American people are the most overworked people. Inequality is soaring due to a number of reasons. As an example, schools only get access to funds through the taxes of the district they're in. Therefore, poor neighborhoods create bad schools which as a result creates a vicious cycle. Americans are the leading nation in terms of obesity. The government's response to Corona was embarrassing thus far. Institutionalized racism. Unsupervised and unregulated lobbyism. A bi-partisan system, not focused on improvement but on keeping power. One of the worst press freedom in the Western World. A huge gap between rich and poor for the Western world. I could probably list many more things with more time but you get the idea. I personally know very few people who would like to live in the USA.
It's okay that your country is flawed "insight is the first step to recovery". Nobody here is saying their country is perfect because such a country does not exist. We Germans have numerous problems, too. Our internet services are incredibly expensive while simultaneously being pretty bad measured by EU standard, our main railroad company is pretty shitty, we have problems with right wing extremists in our military and police, we have very corrupt politicians in our most voted party, digitalisation is a joke etc.
We don't need the USA. We're not entitled, we know our weaknesses. It's just the fact the for years Americans bragged and were always like "America First" "We're the greatest nation in the world" I mean hell, the NBA champions are called "World champions" by you. It's just nice to sometimes get back at these annoying patriots.
While I agree that there a lot of people who are quite annoying, the entire first half of your third paragraph is almost completely wrong. Meanwhile, it's been proven that for public school systems, pumping money into schools does not improve performance. We've been dumping money into the school system since the 70's, and yet test scores haven't improved. The response to COVID was abysmal, for sure, but the thing about America is that we give a lot of power to the states. The Federal government is already very limited in power, and it doesn't help that this past election cycle was one of the most divisive in our history. Institutionalized racism over here is heavily exaggerated. I won't bother going over the rest in that paragraph because I don't have the energy to, and you're right about most of it.
Although a bit of a correction. There is a difference between annoying patriots and nationalists. The people touting "America First" and all that bullshit are nationalists, not patriots.
Racism is mostly gone or maintained only in the household. Also, don't pretend that Europeans aren't some of the most racist people on the globe. The third biggest party in EU Parliament are literal Nazis.
Education system is fine on its own. We have the best Universities across the board, hence why we get numerous immigrants yearly just to get an education here.
What's shitty about the retail stores? That's a broad statement, not even sure what it's referencing.
The minimum wage thing is a fair point, but we're working on it. The biggest opposition about increasing it is whether we should increase incrementally or all at once.
The US has some of the best and most well paying jobs on the planet. We have literally everything over here.
The electoral college existing makes it not fine, a two party systems makes it not fine. Southern states not teaching evolution makes it not fine. Retail stores treating their employees like crap, absurd profit to sale price etc, the USA also has an extreme wealth inequality problem.
I've lived there, I've experienced it first hand, and let me tell you Europe is a utopia compared and we have our own problems as well
Explain, in detail, what you think is wrong with the Electoral College.
Parliament is literally a bunch of different parties with hardly any different ideological beliefs unless you're comparing conservative/liberal parties.
There are only two states in the South that don't make it a requirement to teach evolution, and they aren't the states you likely had in mind when saying that. They're Louisiana and Oklahoma, and despite not being a requirement at the state level, the vast majority of schools still teach evolution.
Retail store employees are unskilled and easily replaceable. If they are so unhappy with their conditions, they should go elsewhere. Most retail store employees are just as entitled as the customers they serve, despite being quite a few pegs below them in social and economic value.
It's the goal of a business to make money. You don't sell a product at a reasonable price because it's a nice thing to do. You sell a product at the highest price that people would buy it for.
They also are having a very hard time, and aren't going against the USA. There's a difference going against a piss poor excuse for an army as Syria instead of a western power
When you look at the numbers an armed populace could be comparable to a national army, at least in terms of headcount. If you (conservatively) assume that only 1% of a country's population would take up arms, even then they would outnumber their armies. Take the US for example. If we assume that only 1% of the population take up arms (~3.3m), they would already outnumber the army (~1.3m). And that is without taking into account army defection rates if the government does go rogue. In reality, we know that roughly 30% of Americans are gun owners so the civilian army should even greatly outnmber the military in reality if citizens are given the chance to own a gun.
No they elect officials that we know are narcissistic selfish fucks but that know they need to do at least some good to keep being re-elected. You want to wage a war against a strong western government with just your guns? Look at how that’s gone in the past, you need a foreign power backing you to have even the slightest hope. Hell, look at Syria, they had the whole west backing them with guns and launchers and still got crushed. If you get to that point, the fuckup is long past
Syria wasn't just a civil war. There were like 20 different factions fighting against each other too...
Also, i find your defeatist attitude rather pathetic. I would rather have guns at hand in case they are needed rather than admit defeat and surrender weapons by default.
Idk why you are getting so many downvotes. People need to realize that children dying is not a fucking joke. Americans don’t say “at least we aren’t starving” to make fun of third world countries.
Then vote for a politician that will control guns. You don't see school attacks in any other country (or at least its extremely rare) and the USA is the only country to have such stupid gun laws, its a correlation you can't ignore
I didn’t say we needed to control guns. I actually support the right to have them. It’s not a gun issue it’s a mental health issue. You need to go stick your head back up your ass before you say something else that’s stupid.
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u/Radiant-Relation-359 Mar 13 '21
At least we don’t have school shooting