Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?

  • Mane25
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    The USA, for all its faults, remains the standard against which other countries measure themselves (and find themselves lacking).

    This statement - do you not see how that’s an incredibly arrogant and patronising thing to assert?

      • Mane25
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence” (Hitchen’s razor), you made the claim.

      • inasaba@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        You’re incorrectly assuming that something has to be incorrect to be chauvinistic.

        • Melllvar@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Chauvinism is defined as “excessive or prejudiced support for their own cause or group”. Excess and prejudice are incorrect bases for an opinion.

          And if I’m not wrong, then what is your objection?