Then why haven't your people risen from poverty, civil war and economic failure? Give up what the European founders created and gave to you in the west and go make your national background great and great again. Simple as that.
Go live in the middle east or Africa or North Korea or China or Russia or Mexico or South America for a year then come back and post your enlightened opinion if America was great, is great and will always be great. Try Cuba and Venezuela too. lol
I'm quoting myself earlier in this thread, because I have no idea what you are talking about "Just to throw out my America credentials: "a few years ago, I ended up homeless. After working 2 jobs (just above minimum wage, that high school diploma really helped) while working on my Bachelors I had my own apartment and turned things around on my own. I've done more to turn around my financial situation than 95% of people who still live with their parents and talk about the poor leeching off the system."
As an American, I can agree that American freedom and quality of life is greatly exagerrated compared to other 1st world countries. But lets not pretend that most other major 1st world powers, the UK included, don't share an equally violent and overall lengthier history of subjugating various peoples to amass power and influence.
At the same time, you have the defenders of this decision trying to say "nothing bad happened until Obama suddenly did a thing" when there have been issues as early as 2003/4 (according to the net neutrality wiki anyway)
I guess it depends on what you consider as being “poor”. I definitely agree that getting sick/injury is probably the only thing you can’t control that will crush your financial situation. But you still will be able to get disability and perhaps social security checks as well. This is what happened to BOTH of my parents. They both get disability and I have to help them with bills and groceries every month, they simply don’t make enough. And they can’t get food stamps for whatever reason. Also with that said, it’s not as easy as you would think to get disability.
Yeah it's a real shit show. It has been an ongoing issue for 15-20 years, but nothing has been in place legally until recently, and it is a shame that 15 years of moving towards progress is being washed away by greed. Shoot, I remember 8-10 years ago Comcast was under constant fire in the media and from consumers for throttling whatever they felt like and lying about it, and it's stupid that we are now returning to a state where they can legally do that again (minus the lying). I'm just saying though, it's a giant step back, but it's not a complete dismantling of the internet like some sensationalists act like.
How about if you try to put yourself through college?
Much like our medical costs, there's no reason for it. The answer is simply that there is nothing that says they can't charge that much, so they do. As much as I support the Pell Grant system (basically a US program designed to give people a chance at college) it's no coincidence that the cost of attending college suddenly went up by the same amount of money the average person will receive from a Pell Grant-there was no law restricting universities from doing that, so they saw it as free money
Funny how you speak, text, write English and have been educated by those very people you seem to silently envy and call oppressors lol. I smell the stench of a indoctrinated liberal progressive social justice warrior wearing the shirt of pro-socialism and the hat of pro-victimhood.
Man I thought I used deodorant this morning
And aren't you Scottish?Man I thought I used deodorant this morning
Wow that was a long lecture and I get you. I'm all for MAGA too. I voted for Trump too and will again. Long live the Republic and the American way of life!
So that's the point of what people are saying here. Not necessarily "FUCK AMERICA" it's more like "America has problems that need to be fixed, but it's still a pretty good place"
House Vote disapproving the FCC's dismantling of net neutrality:
Bullshit.
We might need it lol. Now gonna have to pirate regular internet too this is making breaking the law too vanilla for me
honestly, this is the worst comment in this thread, and this is a thread where a guy said that the wheel is an American invention and tried to backpedal it so you guys are shooting high today. The guys who started talking about America being so great because it's the greatest place to build yourself up out of poverty, are the same people you are in here clearly agreeing with and liking the posts of. But then the people who post FACTS concerning the statements you made are "just looking for an excuse to argue about america"? The problem is NOT the people who corrected misinformation, and the problem isn't even the people who were misinformed - the problem is the people like yourself who willfully campaign against knowledge because you don't like what the truth says. You guys make all these outlandish and incorrect statements, and then as soon as someone says, well, no that's actually not the case I'm afraid, you guys get all butthurt about someone said your country isn't the greatest at literally everything in the world, and turn it into dumb shit like "you guys just looking for an excuse to argue, why do you hate Murica, how dare you say America isn't great because of poverty when there's poor people everywhere", when I literally never did, I just said that poverty is NOT something you can point at as the reason your country is so great, when you guys are so far behind the rest of the 1st world in this aspect and have been since at least before anyone in this thread was born. How is saying ANYTHING else being objective in any way here? It's clearly not.
I don't get what part is "bullshit." The passing of the legal protections are recent, and I've stated across multiple posts that it's shitty that they are being removed so that ISPs can go back to legally throttling/blocking services at will. We are saying the same thing, and even in the post you quoted I even said that this is a "huge mistake" and a "step back in protecting American consumers." I'm just pointing out that, contrary to what several of the dramatic news articles and posts I've seen lately claim, we are not going to some unprecedented form of the internet in America--what it is is a reset to pre-2015, when we weren't protected from this crap.
Okay it’s because I didn’t wanna argue with you. You’re argumentative as fuck and like to type out essays which I frankly don’t have time for. I couldn’t care less what you think. America is shit!!! I don’t care what you think about America it has no affect on me, you’re the one who started a big ass arguement about poverty in a thread about net neutrality you fuckin psycho.
Just going to throw this out there, if you care enough to subtweet some shade you are saying you care.
No I just don’t wanna argue with him. I’m not argueing with the FACTS he presented. I didn’t feel like reading an essay he’d respond with. It wasn’t meant to be some passive aggressive bullshit. I really don’t care.