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Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?

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[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

The USA, for all its faults, remains the standard against which other countries measure themselves (and find themselves lacking).

This statement - do you not see how that's an incredibly arrogant and patronising thing to assert?

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Please explain why I'm incorrect.

[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" (Hitchen's razor), you made the claim.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, I explained my reasoning.

[-] inasaba@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You're incorrectly assuming that something has to be incorrect to be chauvinistic.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Chauvinism is defined as "excessive or prejudiced support for their own cause or group". Excess and prejudice are incorrect bases for an opinion.

And if I'm not wrong, then what is your objection?

[-] inasaba@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I am not going to debate over semantics with you.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

You already started.

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