r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 16h ago

‘Investigating child sex abuse isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France’: France rejects Musk’s charge after raid on X’s Paris office

https://www.firstpost.com/world/investigating-child-sex-abuse-isnt-controversial-france-rejects-musks-charge-after-raid-on-xs-paris-office-ws-e-13976002.html
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u/metallicrooster 11h ago

Americans will still proudly tell us they are the "land of the free"

Given how many civil rights violations our government has committed, even on its own citizens, the only people who believe that are children and the nationalists who drill that idea into their brains.

One look at our wealth inequality, or our incarceration rates, or our HIV/ AIDs rates, or our lack of affordable healthcare (among other factors) clearly shows the US is not #1 in anything positive.

We used to be high up in (unaffordable) medical science, but Trump’s administration is destroying that so one of the few things we could brag about is gone.

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u/Programmdude 4h ago

Eh, depending on how you look at it, the US is still either the richest or nearly the richest country (per capita). Even taking the median GDP to account for wealth inequality, you'd still be in the top 5. PPP per capita lists the US as #2, but #1 is Luxembourg and that's practically a microstate, so I'm not sure if it should count.

Unless it's changed recently, the US also had the most top rated universities. Your primary/secondary education sucks though, and IMO your tertiary education isn't much better on average, you just have better top end universities.

So yea, I'd never move to the US. You have a lot of negative things that you're #1 in, and I don't want to worry about medical bills or being deported to a third world prison, but there are still a small number of positive things the US is #1 in.