• MudMan
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    863 days ago

    Is this about the US? Is the US alright?

    I was in a bookstore yesterday. I did have a chuckle at this self-help book called something along the lines of “How to Politely Tell People to Fuck Off”, which proudly stated to be written by a social therapist or some other Pokemon evolution of a psychologist.

    Otherwise it was novels from mainstay authors, young adult stuff whose quality was undecypherable from their “my cousin knows Photoshop” covers and a bunch of pseudo-academic highly specific texts from local self-published authors.

    I was disheartened to see that the native minority language section keeps shrinking, especially among children’s stuff. And while I was looking at that I also noticed the manga section is bigger than the graphic novel section and that is bigger than US comics, which were now nonexistent. More neutral about that one.

          • @[email protected]
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            3 days ago

            Most? Like Venezuela and North Korea? Ethiopia? Yemen? Cambodia? Ukraine? Russia? Sierre Leone? Mexico? Canada? Italy? Greece? Iraq? Iran? Sudan? South Africa? Sweden? Afghanistan? China?

            Edit: ITT a bunch of rich trust fund wannabe commies who have never left their affluent neighborhood to visit anywhere except a four seasons in another wealthy country.

            • @[email protected]
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              133 days ago

              I get you’re trying to be clever by listing a bunch of places that the US has either bombed, couped or threatened into destitution but that doesn’t really make them less “alright” in the sense we’re talking about here. And even for living standards, many of those are much nicer lmao. Then what’s left… Yeah Russia also sucks, ok? If that’s your bar for a country being alright then we’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

            • @Semjaza
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              12 days ago

              You really think Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, and even the PRC are more fucked than the US?