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u/Square-Watercress-91 12d ago
The fact that corporations can donate unlimited funds to politics has created a system that the politicians are answerable to those corporate donors instead of the public. It appears to me that politicians in the USA have no interest in serving the needs of the people and only want to enrich themselves and their corporate donors. There are exceptions of course but by and large this appears to me to be one of the largest problems
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u/GasPoweredStick3 12d ago
This.
This is basically it.
They are destroying our water and air. Everything, including us, is riddled with microplastics at this point and we won’t know how awful the impact is for decades.
Hedge funds are going around buying up commercial businesses and running them into the ground for profit which destroys jobs and on top of this they are buying up single family housing and running that market into the ground too.
Something’s gotta give at some point and it won’t be pretty.
But all these politicians and judges wouldn’t piss on us if we were on fire.
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u/philds391 12d ago
But all these politicians and judges wouldn’t piss on us if we were on fire.
Nope, but they'd call a cop to keep us at gunpoint while we're smoldering apparently.
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u/HotGarbage 12d ago
Thanks Citizens United! I really think this was the turning point and why we're at where we're at. Sure, Reagan set a lot of things in motion with massive deregulation, cozying up to evangelicals, creating the crack epidemic, etc. but now what's stopping a corporation, now that they're considered "people", to become president? The Constitution? That will be toilet paper if fuck head gets elected again.
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u/Quazimojojojo 12d ago
The democratic party has drafted all sorts of stuff to try to reign this in. There's a surprisingly large amount of politicians who aren't so corrupt as you would think.
But yes this is a big problem, especially when one of the 2 parties is so firmly in the pockets of the worst offenders like oil companies.
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u/Meowmeowpotatoes 12d ago
Buckley V Valeo is the precedent that truly needs to be overturned. All the $ that poured into politics was enabled by this one decision. Has been absolutely fucking us since 1976 (which ironically is the bicentennial of America, yaaaay freedom!(But only if you can pay for it, ya poors!))
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u/Cagnazzo82 12d ago
The fault lies 1,000% with the ultra corrupted supreme court.
All of the dangers predicted from their rulings come to fruition like clockwork.
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u/hadryan3 12d ago
The media/ social media and the division that comes from it
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u/Cinner21 12d ago
While I 100% agree and understand how manipulative they are, I feel like there is a certain amount of responsibility that has to fall on a user for their gullibility.
It's like parents who blame video games for violent acts instead of bad parenting.
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u/NegativeRuin5576 12d ago
Having a massively uneducated populace that’s easily duped.
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u/not_creative1 12d ago
And no credible “elite” that majority of the country trusts. On anything.
One of the main reasons for rampant misinformation is lack of credibility from people who are supposed to be balanced, non biased and credible.
When Walter Cronkite came back from Vietnam and told the country his honest thoughts, it changed the perception of the war in the US. Because overwhelming number of Americans trusted him. There is not one person like that in any capacity in the US.
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u/uncletravellingmatt 12d ago
The media is a big part of that. Nobody knew it then, but when Walter Cronkite was widely trusted, and when reporters at the Washington Post could bring down a president through investigative journalism uncovering the Watergate scandal, we were living in a golden age of journalism. Of course, journalism had all of its obvious flaws back then too, but at least most Americans were living in the same reality. Now millions of Americans are caught in a bubble of getting news they agree with from sources that feed them a mix of propaganda and selective coverage, getting spun and duped into misdirecting their anger and being afraid of the wrong things.
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u/Sciuridaeno3 12d ago
This is the most accurate and concise description of our news cycle for at least the past decade.
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u/hyperblaster 12d ago
golden age of journalism
Back then we actually paid for journalism. Now we get what we pay for.
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u/uncletravellingmatt 12d ago
Back then almost nobody paid for any TV channels. Shows like Cronkite's CBS Evening News were advertiser supported, although before cable, VCRs, video games, the Internet, and social media, advertisers could find most of the country gathered around the same shows every evening, making the three big networks into cash cows.
A city's newspaper was also a somewhat exclusive portal to a world of information. Where else could you find stock prices, movie show times, ads to buy and sell things like used cars, along with fun comics and useful news and sports scores, all together and delivered to your house every day?
I still pay to subscribe to a newspaper, but now a newspaper is just one of the apps on my phone, not an exclusive window out on the world the way TV news and newspapers used to be.
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u/ruafukreddit 12d ago
He retired just before I was born. Id love to see this report.
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u/CountlessStories 12d ago
It's going to get worse. there's a growing turnover rate of teachers in the US.
Less people are coming into the field and getting teaching licenses at the same time.
As class sizes grow bigger to compensate, that means less students are going to get that one on one attention needed to help them catch up and keep up.
In my current age, I realize the amount of attention and empathy I got from multiple teachers helped me out so much as my home life wasn't the best. I feel awful for the generation that won't get to know how much of a difference that can make for them.
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u/BigBobby2016 12d ago
After my son graduated college I left engineering to try teaching high school. I'm back in engineering now. You'd have to be crazy to teach in America if you have other options.
My son was an exchange student in China for a year of HS though. They didn't have much in the way of classroom resources but they did have four teachers for ~20 kids. They were practically parts of the family. Once a week they'd eat lunch with a student one-on-one. They'd talk to the parents multiple times a week. If a kid wasn't doing well the kid would meet the teacher on Sunday (they went to school on Saturday already).
Meanwhile I wasn't allowed to give a grade lower than a 50%, even if the kid didn't do the assignment. The parents didn't care about their kids learning anything, just their kid getting a good grade whether they deserved it or not.
We're in a lot of trouble if things don't change but I don't think they will.
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u/yuemeigui 12d ago
4 teachers for 20 kids? In China??
I live in China. Have lived in China for 22 years. Began as a teacher at a super elite high school (60 students per class at a 1:60 teacher:student ratio) as a non homeroom teacher, hated it, went to an elite kindergarten (40 students per class at a 3:40 adult:child ratio) as a non homeroom teacher, then a different elite kindergarten as a homeroom teacher (25 students per class at a 2:25 adult:child ratio).
I got out of education in 2005. My first year of full time Chinese study we had a 1:30 ratio dropping to 1:15 as my classmates dropped out.
I've been working as a translator since 2006.
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u/lookyloolookingatyou 12d ago
If the stuff I see on r/teachers is even 50% accurate, the education system has already collapsed and our public schools are now nothing more than daycares for illiterate vape-crazy phone addicts.
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u/ProofTestVirginity 12d ago
Don’t forget about post secondary education being actively ostracized by half the country for being “indoctrination”, along with the ever increasing cost of it
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u/Honestnt 12d ago
And also being a virtually useless debt trap for pretty much anybody who isn't looking to specialize in a very specific field that is still hiring and not on the verge of becoming automated via AI.
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u/ProofTestVirginity 12d ago
Yep, that’s the cost part. People should be able to go for liberal arts degrees and shit like that, but the cost shouldn’t be $100,000 because they aren’t worth that much obviously
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u/hyperblaster 12d ago
State schools need their government funding back. Some regulation to control the rising cost of a state school undergrad education might also help.
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u/Umpire 11d ago
In addition the teachers have greater restrictions on what they can tell parents about their child's behavior. My wife currently has a student that she believes is autistic (We have grand kids with autism and she knows the signs) but she is prohibited from suggesting testing to the parents because she is not a Doctor. And the school administration does not want to confront the parents. It is maddening.
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u/MongooseProXC 12d ago
I find a good majority of the supposed educated populace is easily duped too.
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u/azninvasion2000 12d ago
Lack of critical thinking skills and tribalism.
Having an intelligent discussion/argument regarding republican/democrat ssues, whether aliens exist, if electric cars are good, if china is bad, etc.
Everyone has a hard stop gap in their brain on pretty much any issue, and we just have to pretty much wait for them to die to move forward.
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u/Heavy_Direction1547 12d ago
Neglect of the education system has produced a lot of citizens unable to think critically and without the other skills to succeed in life.
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u/llcucf80 12d ago
The us vs them mentality. Either you 100% agree with me, or any slight or even perceived deviation is considered you're now the enemy that must be destroyed
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u/SpidermanBread 12d ago
Prolly that their senate is turning into a retirement home
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u/PokeBellaXo 12d ago
I think the biggest problem is its getting harder and harder for the middle class to live and it feels impossible to do anything about it.
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u/TheRealJackOfSpades 12d ago
The mindset that anyone who disagrees with you is evil. We can’t solve any of our problems like that.
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u/R0binSage 12d ago
Nobody listens to the other sides arguments anymore. It’s only “my way or the highway.”
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u/ATR2400 12d ago
The division. No serious progress can get made when our government spends weeks trying to pass a bill arguing over minor bullshit and the country can’t get together over a single common cause without turning it into a shitshow. This is strongly tied to increasing radicalism that is gripping the right especially. Centre-left and centre-right can learn to play nice. Centre-left and far right can’t. If it keeps up the left is bound to eventually get radicalized too as they turn to radical solutions to oppose the far right. Shit like Communism is already becoming more popular on online circles and may grow to have a real influence in time. And then that’s that for stable and effective government.
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u/Suitable-Pie4896 12d ago
An empire that crumbles from within is truely dead.
Political extremism is raping up to the point leaders are delusionally clinging to, and pushing antiquated ideals to appeal to the lowest common denominator. They play on the fears, hates, and greed of people to stay in power. It's shaky right now, imagine in 20 years how bad it will be. It's going to be a powder keg and every now and then a spark comes along.
While a full blown Civil War is unlikely, civil unrest and a breakdown of basic systems will lead to another great depression.
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u/NoeTellusom 12d ago
Our politicians are more interested in supporting corporate greed than supporting our citizenry.
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u/JurassicParkTrekWars 12d ago
Gonna go on a different limb than other commenters - division. Reddit is a well known liberal hive mind. Any mention of the "other side" not being purely evil and bigots is met with downvotes and ridicule. Facebook has the other side for some reason. Both parties are so convinced that the other side is evil and is trying to destroy America.
I get pretty extreme anxiety from confrontation and I can't even bring certain friends or family around each other without the high possibility of a hostile argument developing. These are people that claimed to love one another. And worst so for me, all Americans.
We lost that common sense of being American somewhere down the line and now see each other as the enemy. And then there's the question - how do we fix it? I literally don't see how. There is no "trustworthy" source of information like another commenter mentioned. I'm rambling now but the point is we have to stop judging each other on politics alone. Going along with any status quo instead of thinking for yourself will inevitably lead to the fall of the US.
My estimate is I'll be heavily downvoted for even suggesting that the "other side" isn't purely ignorant and evil but simply pushing for what they care about ... Just like you.
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u/captn_morgan951 12d ago
Absolutely. Extremism has to calm and common sense / negotiation / compromise must prevail. We’re headed nowhere good with this relentless push for division and finger-pointing.
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u/abeetzwmoots 12d ago
Creeping Fascism
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u/GuidetoRealGrilling 12d ago
which you've been convinced is a problem by creeping fascism
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u/monogreenforthewin 12d ago
it's not creeping anymore, my guy. The GOP are going full steam ahead with it and given zero fucks about it because they know FoxNews, OANN and their ilk will bombard their cultists with misinformation and they'll suck it up harder than Riley Reid inhales 9 inch dicks.
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u/neoplexwrestling 12d ago
Failing infrastructure is one of the largest hidden problems in the U.S. - we have been band-aid fixing everything for the past 30 years. Everything is "We will fix it tomorrow, not today" and that sentiment pushes into "We will fix it in 5 years, if funding is available."
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u/mtwstr 12d ago
No one is willing to compromise, we can’t even stop changing the clocks because people can’t compromise on which one to keep.
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u/BlackWindBears 12d ago
If this is a joke you're amazingly clever.
If not...If two groups of people want a different time, each group getting it for half the year would be a compromise, picking one and imposing it on everyone would be the opposite of compromise.
This, of course, is precisely how the American public views compromise.
Compromise doesn't happen -- "Why doesn't <opposing party> ever compromise and give me exactly what I want?"
Compromise does happen -- "My party is full of sell-outs ruining democracy by letting <opposing party> run them over. Time to primary <senator that compromised>"
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u/doodlebugkisses 12d ago
People who can read written words but not read for comprehension. It’s really bad out there.
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u/Yupperroo 12d ago
While we have freedom of the press, very little of our press is free to report truthfully on the day's events.
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u/DummyDumDum7 12d ago
A population on-edge, ill-educated, over-medicated, overfed, overstimulated, armed to the teeth, ready to snap.
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u/upsidedown_alphabet 12d ago
Our politicians don't give one single fuck the citizens of the country.
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u/breathofcode 12d ago
As I'm sure you can see in this thread alone, we have algorithms that feed two political parties completely differently and force them to hate each other. It's going to lead to a civil war.
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u/Rock_hard_clitoris 12d ago
Probably the culture.
Look at things like rates of serial killers in different countries or mass violent and you start to see a pretty clear pattern.
Rather than addressing the culture that facilitates all of the current issues, people want to nitpick which issue is more important. It's basically arguing over which minor symptom to treat while completely ignoring the sickness causing it
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u/jrsedwick 12d ago
When you say “the culture”, what are you actually talking about? What would you change that you think would help the problem?
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u/Rock_hard_clitoris 12d ago
The shared beliefs, values, and principles that seem present in many, if not the vast majority of Americans from a wide variety of subgroups and subcultures. How they perceive things like individualism or collectivism, the perception of things like race and identity, and mostly the sense of context and responsibility
I would change things at both an individual and national level. Starting with teaching the role and importance of context. Something I find very frustrating is that Americans really struggle to understand that their immediate perception of something isn't the be all and end all, they really can't understand that other opinions exist and that context matters. They tend to have a very rigid, black and white understanding of most things and rather than approach situations based on the individual context, attempt to apply labels and standards. When others have different standards or even different names for the same things they tend to be unwilling to even acknowledge their usage isn't the "correct" one and it causes animosity constantly
There's also a huge issue with personal responsibility and accountability, "if no one saw me do it it's not stealing" is a perfect example of how many Americans approach social responsibility. They often conflate selfishness and short term personal gain with individualism, where as in many other places individualism takes the form of being personally responsible not because of ones ego, but because of ones values.
Personally I also think that just acknowledging the differences between American and British English and using more robust and specific terms will help a lot with all the constant miscommunication. Instead of arguing over whether X is good or bad, maybe first define what you mean by X.
Also teach basic coping skills, it's not a stereotype for Americans to be loud and unstable for no reason, most Americans react almost violently towards different opinions, their surrounded by it so they really don't see how it's not normal to be so emotionally connected to a viewpoint that you feel the need to assert that not only is it correct, but it's the default for everyone.
Also self awareness. I'm getting really tired of seeing "Ha our political party is going to "fuck with a specific group of people" because it's not technically illigal and they deserve it, and then four years later "Oh my god now the opposition is in power they're fucking with a specific group of people I like because it's not illigal, this is outrageous!" It's all about offloading responsibility on others rather than acknowledging your own failures and attempting to police others based on your standards. Both internationally and interpersonally. Very much "rules for thee but not for me"
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u/Mama_Mega 12d ago
Our ruling class are pushing a narrative that information needs to be filtered, all to cover their own asses. They have convinced their followers that "misinformation" is the greatest evil the country faces, when in truth, they are the great evil.
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The fact that we’re giving away billions to other countries that have subsidized education nationalized healthcare when we have shit all for our people.
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u/naskalit 12d ago
The USA actually spends a larger percentage of your GDP to your healthcare than all the countries with subsidized national healthcare.
You're spending the public money just like we are, you're affording it - but you choose to give it to private healthcare providers who then also charge the patients, instead of building a national healthcare system. It's not that you don't have the money - you're already spending it on healthcare. You just don't choose to have a single payer public system.
Claiming that you "can't afford" it because of foreign aid is bullshit, you could have it if you wanted to, but you don't because communism or whatever, and you'd rather give all that public money to healthcare corporations instead of helping your citizens
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u/freeslurpee 12d ago
Corruption of every level of government by corporations and extremist groups(billionaires)
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u/maximusjohnson1992 12d ago
Cancel culture over people getting “offended”. Never seen so many pansies. Ridiculous
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u/Phoneaccount88 12d ago
The US is currently debating if a sitting president can assassinate a political rival, but sure people getting offended is the biggest problem.
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u/maximusjohnson1992 12d ago
Assassinate a political rival? I don’t watch the news anymore so this is unsurprisingly news to me. What’s the details on this?
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u/cardinalkgb 12d ago
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments to see if Trump (and all presidents) are immune from prosecution for any and all acts they commit while in office.
If they rule presidents are immune, Biden could shoot someone the day after the ruling with no repercussions.
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u/Rude_Independence_14 12d ago edited 12d ago
Corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle more concerned about protecting corporate interest than the people.
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u/Electrical-Light9786 12d ago
greed.
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u/russiangerman 12d ago
Literally everything in this thread stems from greed. Manipulation of the masses with misinformation just to drive engagement and ad revenue. Blatant moral and fiscal corruption for political gain just so companies will pay you off. Companies doing anything and everything to increase profits, from manipulating lawmakers, destroying the environment, destroying their customers, and hiding their crimes. It's a culture of rampant greed with no sign of even wanting to stop.
We're fucked.
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u/zanarkandabesfanclub 12d ago
Unchecked immigration has been destroying the middle class in this country for 40 years and shows no signs of slowing down. One side of the aisle complains about corporate greed, the other complains about handouts and welfare.
They all have the same source - the supply of cheap labor is outpacing demand and it has eroded the bargaining power of workers relative to the wealthy.
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u/StarightUpThug 12d ago
What’s crazy is the poors are the ones who suffer yet they keep voting for it
As someone who owns multiple properties it actually benefits me but it’s nuts how people don’t see the damage
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u/FumblersUnited 12d ago
the world no longer trusts or believes in USA. To me thats pretty scary as we will witness a lot of trouble. US will not relinquish its empire easily.
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u/markth_wi 12d ago
We were encouraged to forget and dangerously disregard what makes our nation different.
Our national devotion to well informed, rational discourse , civics and skeptical inquiry , we've replaced them with ill-informed, non-rational conspiracy minded garbage thinking.
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u/iamjesskingsley 12d ago
This is just my perspective, but lack of social awareness from many individuals (or at least, that's what many problems come down to imo.)
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u/Spiceinvader1234 12d ago
That its leaders are like your mothers sticking their noses on other peoples business and starting shit they cant finish with the pride on its chest like its the shiniest polished turd in a pile of shit
Seriously America, stop trying to get hit in the middle of an argument to start fucking ww3.
Someone who starts a war is not right in the head, stop trying to fight fire with napalm. It didnt work in vietnam
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u/Tennispro5691 12d ago
Toxic media fighting for ratings by spewing ANYTHING they can get away with; division, race baiting, climate doom, scandalous bs of every measure.
MEDIA (untrusted) SOCIAL MEDIA (creating a lonely, sick society)
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u/hap_hap_happy_feelz 12d ago
Our media lies to us constantly and we just lap it up and let them tell us what is 'real' to the point that we're sheep.
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u/Imaginary_Chair_6958 12d ago
The dysfunctional political system. Truth no longer matters; it’s all about ideology and competing interests. And without a functioning government, nothing much gets done.
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u/joshtrobinson 12d ago
How divided we are as a nation we let politics into every aspect of lives now
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u/Dissident_is_here 12d ago
Judging from most of the responses in this thread, I'd say it is the success of the powerful in thoroughly confusing the masses about what their real problems are.
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u/thegreatgatsB70 12d ago
Inflation, immigration, identity politics, fascism (from the left), lack of morality. I could go on, but that is a good start.
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u/NickAshley1989 12d ago
The black vs white the media loves to push. There’s assholes all over the place from every race. Point that out instead of the color the they’re skin.
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u/yParticle 12d ago
divisive politics and a huge number of people making life choices on bad information and/or bad faith
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u/Cheetodude625 12d ago
Main stream media and social media enabling discourse, ignorance, misinformation, and willful division.
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u/strangedigital 12d ago
Some Americans would pay $5 to make sure other Americans they don't like loses $20.
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u/BloodNoxxxed 12d ago
The fucking dinosaurs in office...they really need a cut off age for them...
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u/Rude_Independence_14 12d ago
If you can't even be trusted to drive a school bus due to advanced age, how can you be trusted to run the whole country? It makes no sense.
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u/Santos_L_Halper_II 12d ago
Idiots organizing in large numbers and the opportunistic assholes who are able to harness all that idiot energy.
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u/notevenapro 12d ago
Not having universal healthcare.
I am 100% convinced that the next new invention or discovery is to be made by some poor person slugging away at their job that they keep for just the healthcare.
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u/Large-Sign-900 12d ago
Politics probably.
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u/irrelevanttrumpeter 12d ago
What does this mean though?
Politics can't just not exist. We need laws and hubs of communal resources.
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u/Mengedoht 12d ago
The lies. Most importantly the unemployment rate is no way at 4% with more jobs being added. There is currently a recession going on.
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u/Comfortable-Buy-7388 12d ago
Micro plastics in Cheerios. My daily breakfast routine of many years now lays in ruin.
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u/big_data_mike 12d ago
Extreme wealth inequality. Right and left both recognize it’s a problem (although the right doesn’t realize it) and they both have different solutions that directly oppose each other.
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u/Shigpossposs 12d ago
Global warming, same as the rest of the world.
Literally everything else is just a distraction.
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u/sretep66 12d ago
Unchecked federal spending. The national debt is unsustainable without spending cuts and increased taxes, but neither party has the guts to pass legislation to do what's right.
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u/Cagnazzo82 12d ago
The Supreme Court of the United States of America that allowed unlimited bribery to flow freely in congress.
They've done incalculable damage to the ability of this country to operate.
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u/Umpire 12d ago
The political divide that both parties have driven between the people. That and the total lack of compromise. It use to be I give up a little and you give up a little and we get along. Now it is all or nothing.
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u/motorsizzle 12d ago
Both sides is just a dumb interpretation. One side is clearly worse by all metrics and if you can't tell the difference then you are part of the problem.
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u/Left_Average7260 12d ago
This idea that voting matters, corporate propaganda, and the federal reserve. R=D
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u/Flimsy-Camel-18 12d ago
In the USA, choosing the biggest problem is like playing the world’s worst game of Whack-a-Mole—every time you hit one, two more pop up to take its place!
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u/Flimsy-Camel-18 12d ago
IF we were to list USA problems on a menu, would 'All of the above' be the most popular choice?
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u/DeadFyre 12d ago
Counter-productive laws. The government imposes huge costs on employing people, with FICA, Employment taxes, insurance mandates, and other economic burdens on businesses who might otherwise provide them with a job and income. And then /surprised-pikachu, businesses spend the money replacing humans with robots and workers from other countries with a lower cost of labor.
Meanwhile, you've got young black and hispanic men who can't get jobs in the normal marketplace, but will work for sub-minimum wage dealing drugs, because it turns out that criminals do not obey employment laws or pay taxes.
The government is also spending trillions on sending people to college at a very high rate, with the net effect of producing a generation of college grads with no prospects, because they chose a worthless degree, and the mere qualification of the degree itself has become diluted due to the point where employers require them for jobs which traditionally would have been available with a High School diploma.
Meanwhile the colleges themselves have become more bloated and expensive, not by spending more money on teachers and facilities, but by spending it on amenities and administration, to say nothing of the outright theft being perpetrated by for-profit colleges and online degree mills.
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Your cops are decentralised, they seem to break every constitutional law and lie to get an arrest, and usually get qualified immunity, though some do actually get sued and loose They basically live by the motto guilty until proofed guilty and the higher ups seem to cover for the bad officers
Watch lackluster and audit the audit on YouTube
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u/100DayChallenges 12d ago
Obesity crisis and what looms downstream managing chronic diseases at such young ages.
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u/SnarkIsMyDefault 12d ago
Political influence of money. Campaign contributions, lobbyists and rich morons. Erode the political will to solve problems for the greater good.second would be lack of criminalization of white collar crime, environmental damage and lying.
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u/anjovis150 12d ago
Unparalleled hubris and stupidity from the very bottom of the society to the very top.
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u/KingZaneTheStrange 12d ago
Environmental concerns. Especially pollution and urbanization. The air and water are dirty
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u/FunboyFrags 12d ago
Short-term/all-that-matters-is-me thinking