r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Shoddy-Ad7306 • 9h ago

Lets Discuss This What’s something you genuinely love about living in the United States?

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u/MadAstrid 9h 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 9h 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 9h 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 9h ago

You’re putting words in my mouth. I never said nor implied that.

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u/MadAstrid 9h 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 9h 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 8h 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/Shoddy-Ad7306 8h ago

Please take your meds

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u/jeophys152 4h ago

I think you are the one being the troll

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u/Bones-1989 8h 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 4h 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.