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Europeans wanna talk bad about America/Americans when they haven’t even lived here like….girl our COUNTRY is almost the same size as your entire continent….no geographical literacy? name every state in America rn and then come back to me😐
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Anonymous 3w

I’ve lived across both the US and EU and let me tell you, the US is so far behind so many key metrics and living standards, it does not compare. Unfortunately, too many Americans barely travel to know how much better their life could be… if only they demanded more from their gov. Not to say EU doesn’t have anything to learn from the US, and bureaucracy is so much more frustrating. But nowadays living costs are through the roof in the US but living standards are comparatively so poor.

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Anonymous 3w

So true 😭 I've been able to travel around the country (New England, the southwest/California, and Michigan) in the past few years and there's such a difference between regions that many people just don't comprehend

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Anonymous 3w

Worth doing a search, there are multiple EU level and country specific studies.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

i mean there’s not really much we can do. we can vote. that’s about it though

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Of course there is, starting with mass protests and demanding real change. With more educated and young people in politics, like many in Europe. With a public that cares to vote but that is also valued and protected to vote in the first place, not rezoned to benefit partisan interests, and given a day of holiday to do just that, vote. Unfortunately voter oppression started decades ago in the US. And it’s about time Citizen United is repealed entirely. Don’t just sit there, get involved.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Of course living standard metrics are going to look different on paper when you're comparing a country of 330+ million with small state-sized (many even smaller) countries

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

I’ve been all over the world and met people who have lived all over the world and Europeans are the ONLY ones who think that Europe isn’t a dump

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Europe is rampantly racist, corrupt, disgusting in terms of hygiene, they don’t take care of their streets or buildings, and they think they’re countries are better because they lean slightly more left sometimes

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Across G7 nations and investment areas, clearly defined at equal state. There’s a reason why the US is failing at many of those metrics.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Have you ever considered the fact that Europeans have a slightly higher gdp per capita because Europe is one of the worst places for low income citizens to live?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

So now your argument is that you’re equal? Not better? Crazy how quickly that flipped. Being a good investment area is a measure of how easily you can extract wealth. That’s not a good thing

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

we can’t mass protest. 90 percent of the government and 50 percent of citizens are against protesters. people get shot by law enforcement for going to small peaceful protests. our government is not afraid to use military force on unarmed people

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

The US has a higher GDP per capita and lower incomes have far higher benefits in the EU.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Our ADMINISTRATION is against protestors

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

No, they don’t. Not unless you’re a citizen, which is impossible to get in the Eu and either way no, living in a 90 yo brick box with no air conditioning and unsafe drinking water is not better than low income conditions in the us

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

NOBODY agrees with you. Talk to people from Africa. Talk to people from Asia. From the Middle East. Europe is a dump

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

You have to pay to use public restrooms. And half the time they don’t even have toilet seats

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

There are barely any trash cans outside because your cities can’t afford the dump trucks

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Yeah because the U.S. isn't a welfare state, most of the EU is. Welfare states have their advantages and disadvantages. But it's easier for a poor person in the U.S. to start a business and make money than in much of Europe

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Living standard metrics tend to be biased towards welfare states. Welfare states help poor people by giving out more benefits. The U.S. helps poor people by having fewer legal/bureaucratic obstacles to starting a business/keeping money without having to pay higher taxes. Both systems have advantages and disadvantages, but it doesn't imply that the U.S. is "behind" Europe

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

The millions of immigrants coming from all of the locations you mentioned disagree with you, considering they are in Europe for a better life.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Demented opinion considering how clean EU cities and high environmental standards are instead of the US gutting them for corporate interests. Plus we don’t have medical bankruptcies or the homelessness of US cities because of the social safety nexts that make EU a far better society.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

The immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia going to Europe solely to collect welfare, as well rape and murder women and children. Their presence alone has caused drastically increased crime rates in every European country they go to.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

See you’re saying that your continent is higher for environmental standards and ignoring the obvious facts that I mentioned earlier. Your cities are disgusting, not clean. Pollution sucks but it doesn’t make the U.S. a worse place to live. And those immigrants that go to the Eu do it because the Eu is closer and cheaper to get to. And yet we still get more immigrants than you guys

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

Rampant racism, as noted above

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

It may be racist, but is factual. Many countries that were once lauded as being the safest in the world like Ireland and Sweden are now major hotspots of violent crime. The only factor that has changed is immigration, particularly from the third world.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

Because they’re running from a country without a government capable of keeping them safe. The goal of a government is to help people not push out anyone who resists

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

The major US cities I’ve lived in have not been cleaner than the major EU cities I’ve lived in. Your assertion of EU cities being dirty is factually incorrect considering EU has better waste infrastructure and higher rates of recycling. Plus the US generates higher waste than EU households.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Lmao again with the bullshit. The recycling has nothing to do with anything. And clearly you haven’t lived in both types of cities, because Europe is so disgusting most travellers don’t go back

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Grafitti everywhere, toilets without toilet seats, trash everywhere because you don’t have any trash cand

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

Stop believing disinformation talking points and look at large scale studies across EU that have shown no correlation between non-EU immigrants and crime.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Get back to your fentanyl crackhead buddies

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

And your paramilitary harassing citizens

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Why fentanyl and crackheads? Because there’s an addiction problem is the U.S.? Like I said, Europe is a shithole. You all act so liberal and pc until someone actually stands up to your bs and calls your country a dump, and then you lash out

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Just happy I wasn’t born in the armpit of the western world

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Right, because Europe has NEVER had any bad administrations in the last couple decades

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Source?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

I’m surprised you were able to type all of that out without being shot by some nutjob

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

I agree with the sentiment but there’s no way you posted a grok screenshot

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

Racist^^

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Aside from your boring subjectivity, evidence and data repeatedly awards European countries with the highest quality of life scores globally, whereas as per my points above there is limited social protection or services in the US. And those are facts whether you like it or not.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

You might be surprised, American education alone is a major culprit of the current and future problems the country will face.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Easy way to bring multiple studies together, just showing you the way 😆 i’ve read related briefs before and it checks out

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