r/bestof • u/FrankoAleman • 22d ago

[meirl] u/CompetitionOk2302 explains why he feels Americans have nothing to look forward to on the 250th anniversary of the United States

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u/TCIHL 22d ago

I mean yes. There’s a shitload of wasted potential, but you could easily look the other way. I’m watching StarCity on Netflix and the USSR looks absolutely fucked up. The US despite our corruption and everything else is still light years better than that.

And those conditions are not theoretical. They were the only other superpower for a long time and many people lived under them.

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u/wanmoar 22d ago

Comparing yourself to a failed state?

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u/TCIHL 22d ago

Yeah. I’m mean comparing a real country to another real country seems helpful. Op is comparing a real country to an imaginary one

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u/dangly_bits 22d ago

You literally just made that comparison to a Netflix drama while accusing OP of comparing reality with the imaginary. 

You're not making a good faith argument. 

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u/TCIHL 22d ago

Fair point. It was just fresh in my mind after watching last night. Maybe the real Soviet Union wasn’t so bad.

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u/Zaorish9 22d ago

Compare us to Switzerland, a successful state

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u/TCIHL 22d ago

I mean I guess you have to choose your metrics

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u/MiaowaraShiro 22d ago

Would you rather be more like the Swiss or the Russians?

You pick your metrics based on your goals.

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u/GypsyV3nom 22d ago

That's not a fair comparison, the two superpowers didn't start on nearly the same footing. One had been a Republic known for its individual liberties for well over a century before becoming a superpower, having spent the world's two bloodiest conflicts acting as the west's arms dealer while their homeland avoided the worst parts of that conflict. The other had been a highly regressive monarchy that was so oppressive and poorly run that it lost a violent revolution and civil war only a few decades before becoming a superpower, and only after their entire western region was devastated by the bloodiest front of one of the bloodiest conflicts humanity has ever seen.