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Because I bet if you look at actual data you’ll find it’s just a poor school without a nice playground. Sad and could be fixed sure, but nobody is dying, nobody is screeching except the guy who had to go out and find the worst example they could 🤷
Your comment made me research your comment history, and it comes up to me as a miserable series of negative wording that contributes nothing of value or interest to the communities.
I don't want and need such sentiment, and that's the reason why I will block you after sending this comment. Blocking users in my eyes is a very important feature of the Fediverse and makes it palpable and nice. Other big platforms shove bullshit down your throat and are regulated top down - the Fediverse is different. I love it.
I wish you all the best and hope your life or at least your sentiment improves in the future. Have fun.
I have them tagged as "Dumbass AI Defender" and I can't remember the comment that spurred that on but I do remember it being exceptionally dumb
Oh no, did I ruin the circle jerk? How many deaths at this school??!??? Is is really a death trap?
Great point, if they're poor its fine because poor children don't deserve happiness. The kids who get hit by cars or get sick from air pollution are statistically insignificant. It almost definitely won't happen, and if it does, it doesn't matter so long as they live to become workers and buy Amazon items, which is most important.
/s
Edit: like the person you responded to, I'm also blocking you now. They stated my reasons very well, and more kindly than I would.
Oh right, the roads made them poor 🤣
You're kind of a shitty person
Kind of? LOL! I'd say extremely.
They cant see your comment.
And this attitude, friends, is why the United States is a shithole country.
I bet if you had gone to school here, you would be singing a different tune.
As a thinking-out-loud digression, there was that movie several years ago, The Corporation, which took the idea of corporate personhood a step further, and psychoanalyzed them. (Spoiler: Corporations are extreme sociopaths.) I've talked to my brother, the professional therapist, about applying the same lens to cultures, and we agree: The United States is a deeply traumatized culture.
There are probably lots of reasons for it (settled by unpleasant weirdos who were kicked out of Europe, founded on genocide, slavery, a civil war, waves of immigrants who fled traumas in their home countries, etc.), but whatever the cause, this sort of shut-up-and-deal-with-it attitude that we don't deserve a better physical environment feels like a trauma response at a societal level. (Also, see: The "I fear other people and don't want to be near them" criticism of public transit.)
I’m an American immigrant in Germany, and looking at American culture with a bit more distance… yeah, 100%.
Personal space and general public respect are two areas where I notice it most- Germans are not an especially friendly or warm people (not a criticism, just a somewhat hackneyed observation), but they don’t require as much personal space, and even with a significantly more formal culture, strangers still yell at/aggress each other more frequently on the street, when someone’s doing something dickish or stupid, even in places big enough to be cities, but not big enough to give no fucks.
I was once awoken at ~4am by college kids drunkenly ringing everyone’s doorbells up and down my street. My first thought was, ”they’re gonna get shot.” My second thought was “they’re not gonna get shot- they’d probably be more polite if that was a risk.”
I think that explains the larger pattern as well: Americans are wary of each other. Not always, obviously, but generally speaking, anyone could be armed and anyone could be having a bad fucking day- I think that lurks in people’s subconscious and colors how people treat each other.