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Americans are just by and large awful people. So what if it kills more people and is awful for the environment, it makes me feel safer.
You're so transparent it's not even funny. Your bait is weak. Kindly fuck off.
On second thought, I take that kindly back. Just fuck off.
You're delusional when faced with facts. What, you gonna tell me these big ass trucks and SUVs arent awful for the environment, or that pedestrian deaths arent skyrocketing?
What facts have you presented other than your generalized opinion? I'll wait.
Pedestrian deaths
Awful for the environment
Americans being by and large pieces of shit mostly buying SUVs
Some form of "_____ are just by and large awful people" is an extremely common but rationally indefensible belief. The probability of man-made borders and categories accidentally separating the good from the bad by coincidence is effectively zero.
American attitudes are the result of incentives. Getting people to believe things can be very profitable, and American companies spend many billions of dollars getting Americans to believe that a bigger vehicle is a necessity with a wide ranging campaign that includes both traditional ads and product placement in music and movies. The same would happen anywhere else where a sufficient opportunity to profit exists.
Americans doing awful things because they saw ads for it isn't really improving my view of them.
Who are your people?
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
individualism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race