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I learned a long time ago that in the USA the packaging is always far greater than the content.
And it seems to apply to everything, be it political, to personal conversations (example: greeting someone with hey how are you, but actually getting an answer to that question is not interesting, just reply with "great, you?"). Or from people praising their city ... but totally glossing over the very large populace of homeless living under bridges.
"We have the best medical care system in the world" ... but that it's only for the top 5% and the rest actually get to see/pay the insane bills is quickly ignored.
And in movies/television it is also very much present. So, yeah, I don't expect much from the folks shouting about their amendments or hugging their guns under the pretense of fighting off a dictatorship...
The US is number ONE...in bullshit.
If you're a Trump-loving magat, then you only care about virtue signaling and performative bullshit when Hollywood celebrities, Democrats, and online socialists do it...and completely ignore that Trump-lovers and Trump himself love performative bullshit and solely prefer a different -- crueler and more toxic -- variety.
It's an aesthetic land full of people who see nothing wrong with screwing over any number of others as long as it leads to fortune, fame, power, or the grand trifecta. Morals, values, and virtues have long since been thrown out as fictional concepts unworthy of any potentially damaging action to uphold or analysis over whether they were lost in any exchange.
yeah, only Americans are narcissistic pieces of shit. nobody else in the world does it, and if they do they learned it from Americans.
America is a vile cesspool of indecent human beings that are a mockery of what non-americans are really like.
am I doing this right?
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I'm not indicating that narcissism and lack of empathy are exclusively American things, but instead that it's a pervasive and near dominant mentality in America.
"Greed is good" is practically our country's mantra. The golden rule here is whoever has the gold makes the rules (quite literally).
That's not an American thing. It's a human thing.
it's quite literally been the rule since wealth and power have been synonymous.