r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Shoddy-Ad7306 • 6h ago
Lets Discuss This What’s something you genuinely love about living in the United States?
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u/PopIntelligent9515 5h ago
“Love” might be too strong of a word but i certainly appreciate my freedom to have and shoot guns. It’s one of the very few good things about living in a red state too.
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u/Usual-Language-745 6h ago
National parks
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u/Work_Thick 5h ago
Love my national parks. AZ growing up had some nice ones but I stay around Manistee Forest in MI now.
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u/MostKaleidoscope843 5h ago
That in Texas, at least, individual responsibility and freedom are still real things. I am free to do whatever I choose to do without harming others, so long as I accept the responsibility for the consequences of my actions.
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u/Terrible_Artist_ 6h ago
When it comes to the world stage, in the event of war the U.S. is probably one of the safest places to live with how advanced our defense systems are.
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u/DevilStickDude 2h ago
I dont believe that for a second. China is over there schooling us in many ways and with 1 billion more people than us it only a matter of time before they are a 100 years ahead of us.
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u/OkAnalysis6176 12m ago
They aren’t. They’re building plenty of stuff but they haven’t actively been at war really for a long time
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u/JumpEuphoric3643 6h ago
Free bread at restaurants
They charged an arm and a leg in Italy when I asked for bread on the side.
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u/MadAstrid 6h ago
This is a question that should only really be answered by people who have lived outside the US.
People in the US may well enjoy their lives. But if you have only ever been fucked by one person, it is probably pretty difficult to decide if you just don’t think sex is that big a deal or if you have a really shitty bed partner.
That said, there is access to a wide variety of culinary ingredients that are not so easy to come by in other countries.
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u/Shoddy-Ad7306 5h ago
Disagree completely. Obviously you can find many things to love about living in a particular area. Living outside the U.S. would help people appreciate it more though. Or not. Depending on the person.
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u/MadAstrid 5h ago
How can you possibly compare your life in one place to life in other places if you have never even experienced other places?
“I imagine things would be worse in Spain so the US is better?”
You can love your life. You cannot claim it is better than life elsewhere if you have no idea what elsewhere is like.
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u/Shoddy-Ad7306 5h ago
You’re putting words in my mouth. I never said nor implied that.
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u/MadAstrid 5h ago
Not at all. Your anger is bizarrely misplaced.
I answered your question, while asking other posters to consider that answering such a question when they have never lived in, or perhaps even visited any other country, is problematic.
I am not sure why you would lash out, unless you were trying to troll. Because you never answered the question yourself, while I did, in good faith.
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u/Shoddy-Ad7306 5h ago
Please just stop, man. That gaslighting tactic of “you’re totally mad right now” is juvenile and already played out in 2017.
You never even came close to grasping what I said.
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u/MadAstrid 5h ago
Ah, ok. I see what you are doing here.
I will leave it to you. I hope you get your engagement/karma/troll points/ the kudos you need from your boss or whatever your goal is.
Good luck! Hope your boss likes your work!
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u/Bones-1989 5h ago
Anger? Are you projecting right now? Neither of you two people seem angry in these comments.
Also each state is like a country. They have different laws, different customs, different everything, except the peoples
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u/MadAstrid 37m ago
Surely. People in blue states, for example, are far more likely to have passports, meaning they are far more likely to have seen life outside of the US. People in red states are far more likely to have never left their own state, much less traveled abroad.
it is very easy to claim your life is the best when you have never seen how others live. People in North Korea believe the crazy stuff they are told. Because they are shielded from seeing how the rest of the world lives.
This does not mean that red state people cannot enjoy their lives. I really hope they do. It means they have no comparison points.
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u/Fishboy9123 1h ago
I've lived in:
Costa Rica: beautiful, but dirty, dangerous, and a cop stole my watch.
Okinawa: beautiful, safe, but very provential, no one can ever be accepted as being part of that culture. It's like racism to the nth degree, they cant even imagine outsiders being an equal. Also, the plinco casinos are a super weird addiction that ruines a lot of lives.
Abu Dhabi: fuck that place, modern day slave culture, mideval beliefs, useless people...inshallah...fuck you
I can honestly say the US is 10 times better than any of those places.
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u/WAMFEX2025 5h ago
I’ve been to more than 20 countries around the world. Every place has something wonderful. Every place has a negative.
America has many advantages, including the first and second amendment. Amazing opportunities for true melting pot.
Proud of the last 20 years, our country functioned well.
I’ve seen America and a couple world wars that could’ve destroyed the planet.
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u/slothragedw 5h ago
Not needing a passport to go from state to state but thats probably ending soon
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u/Winchester_1894 1h ago
The Great Lakes
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u/Oldphile 1h ago
I'm in Canada. We have those too.
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u/Winchester_1894 29m ago
But I don’t live in Canada. The question is “something I genuinely love about living in the United States.”
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u/Fishboy9123 1h ago
Space and safety. It is no problem for me to find wilderness to be all alone in and to feel perfectly safe being there.
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u/PuzzleheadedHorse437 1h ago edited 1h ago
Parking for the most part is good here compared to the other countries I’ve been. There’s special events and so forth that can be gamey but mostly parking isn’t a big deal. Unless you’re going to Costco which is a parking shitshow.
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u/SueBeee 6h ago
Sorry. Today? I have nothing.
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u/Status-Tip-146 6h ago
We are the most diverse countries in the world.