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Thank on your knees to fate that you weren’t born in Egypt
There’s no worse cesspit on earth that isn’t a warzone
Even India is more civilised and even nice folks in comparison
Friend of my friend once said that staying there she will either kill herself, get r**** or join hamas and she eventually joined hamas so yeah
You gotta remember a lot of these countries work with the United States directly and the United States props up kingdoms. We are a imperialist empire and what you went through in Egypt or whoever is a direct result from American interference and imperialism. We are moving away from our soft power and we're going to our wakadoo burger king Hard power, a very clumsy club of buffoons. It is some of these Arab countries that work directly with the United States, that go out and kill American citizens when they're abroad. Along with the Israelis. Some of these Muslim kingdoms and Israel are like peas and carrots. For instance, Saudi Arabia had connections with the terrorist attack that was allowed to push us into a 20 year War for absolutely fucking nothing.. I'm so fucking amazed that people haven't put all this shit together, especially with the whole shit that's going on in the terrorist state of Israel. The Cold War Never ended.. Communism's dead and all we have is capitalist countries fighting amongst each other and the working class getting crushed under the weight. The era that we lived in was the Neo-liberal order, which is coming to an end. Neo-liberalism was a way to put all the wars on pause. What you're seeing in America is liberalism, the pressure valve of capitalism, which was always a bound to blow. Fail and give way to right-wing populism, which leads to fascism, if unchecked. You'll see in a lot of countries, split between two parties eventually. In general, global voter turnout is at an all-time low because people are starting to wake up to the fact that our supposed democracies are nothing but a ruse. Capitalism will set the world on fire and end all human life. Men will become slaves and women will be barefoot and pregnant. I've even listened to CIA analyst talk about how the United States is no longer a democracy. I believe it never was, really. But even they are acknowledging. Egypt warned Israel that Hamas was going to attack. They wanted them to attack, so they could manage perception and commit their genocide. You ain't full of nobody anymore, bud. All these people that go along with this propaganda, they don't realize that there's going to be a boomerang coming right the fuck back and smacking them in the face. The future that these capitalists have planned for you is a future with no autonomy, no prospects, and just more and more work. The United States is no longer going to take care of itself. And the rich people are just going to suck us dry. Where I live there are literal Hooverville's. Work will set you free. Welcome to the new Dark Ages.
My friend is from Egypt and he says the same but I have no idea what exactly is there that is so bad. Can I elaborate.
I've been to Egypt several times, and sometimes I've stayed with people who have moved there.
The impression I get is that there very few ways for people born there to raise themselves up above what I call "The Hustle". There's a state of being where the key to survival is extracting money out of everyone you meet. By fair means or foul, you must make money.
It can be making sure every person that walks into your shop buys something. It can be being a kerb crawling tuk tuk driver pestering walkers by. It can be thieving. It can be taking bribes in local government. Everybody is on the hustle. You can't afford to trust people because they'll take any advantage they can. It's a permanent state of stress and fear.
...and then there are the immigrant whales that move there, buy a big house on the coast and exploit the locals by flashing the cash.
All of that said, when people do manage to find something stable, they're a great people, but there are so few decent ways to make enough money.
Mentality is just merciless and cruel. Years of generational human abuse. Abused become abusers. Corruption, nepotism, patriarchy. On Egypt Facebook your feed is full of videos of animal abuse and laughing smileys in comments. It’s a dark place
I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.
Like, okay, that’s good to keep in mind with respect to privilege and assumptions and such, but like…
I can’t deliver a first-hand account of someone else’s life, and I can’t identify the possible solutions to their problems as well as I can for my own — let alone access their world as well as my own, to try to fix some of the problems.
I think on some level the people who say “focus on those other people’s problems” know that those other problems are less accessible.
It’s not that they want you to do better activism. It’s that they want you to do none.
It's basically whataboutism
I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.
I call this the "children of Africa" -argument. Basically, it's an argument that you can never complain about anything or do anything to better something, because "some kids are starving in Africa"; someone always has it worse. It's purpose is to belittle and brush aside either the problem worded out or the person saying it (or both).
i think the joke here is that a lot of people who come across this do live in America and it implies we all pity them
It's good to put your own problems into perspective sometimes.
If enough locals had their way, we would return to an independent republic
Am I allowed to complain since I live in the USA ?
Do what I do. Grit your teeth and avoid the headlines. Check in daily but don't get sucked in. Check the uplifting news to feel better.
Actually fr! Studied a year there and I had no driver license back then… Which was fuckin painful as there was little to no other infrastructure! It was also fun to start uni with a 2 hour consultation about school shootings…
But the worst thing? They fucken start every conversation with a ‘how are you’ and look at you like you are boinkers if you say anything aside from ‘good’! Well I am not fuckin good at most times…
Lived in multiple eu countries as a contrast and its incomparably worse, while there is an amount of money I would go back temporarily but I would never settle down there
Wait, so y'all don't have to lie and tell people you're doing good? This is an American thing?
Yeah...
I am an American but have had a lot of friends from all over the world.
We are kind of exceptional in the extent of normalized, utterly disingenuous 'standard social interactions and phrases' that we use.
We talk like NPCs using throwaway, canned dialogue lines, and if we don't do NPC talk, well then that is actually viewed as antisocial...
Even though basically everyone else in the world would view this all as the opposite, inverted. Such forced bullshit conversations are generally viewed as bullshit and disingenuous.
Land of the individual!...
So long as you conform to various social norms that are so routine most of us don't ever even stop to question their prevalence or function.
I hear ya, but I gotta say, America ain't nothing compared to Japan in that regards. They have actual standardized stock phrases for all types of interactions, at work and at home. I have been in meetings where some participants literally didn't utter a single word that resembled an original thought, and it was completely acceptable.
That is very true, Japanese corporate business culture is on a whole other level.
Somewhat ironically, all my experiences with actual Japanese people are via Karate... in the Dojo, very strict, formal, no nonsense.
But uh, just casually hanging out? At least the ones I knew,... much more rowdy, haha.
Unrelated to my earlier Karate experiences, about a decadr after I'd gotten my black belt, and had since laid off Karate a bit... I once randomly befriended a Japanese man... who claimed he had been an actual Yakuza, a Yakushi... he explained to me that he had fucked up some operation, and instead of losing a finger, his superior struck him with the blunt side of the... I guess it would have been a waki-zashi?... stuck him on the knuckle, and that finger of his was pretty messed up.
He took that, and permanent exile from Japan, over... losing a finger, and then likely just getting killed... he'd pissed off another group pretty severely.
... We then got to talking about Anime, Yokai, and of course Karate... said he was a 4th Dan, 4th Degree Black Belt and uh... yeah, he was very, very significantly skilled in a few basically play fight, not even proper sparring bs we got into a few times.
Initially, he said he wanted me to prove I wasn't bullshitting about my black belt. Gave him my Style and as much family lineage of it that I remembered... and he then, almost totally without warning, threw a punch right at my face.
I did nothing. Didn't move at all.
His fist stopped about a half centimeter from my nose.
He laughed, said 'You blinked', I laughed, and he believed me after that.
I have a coworker who greets me with "Hi, what's up? How's it going?" and then just continue walking without expecting an answer. It's such a pet peeve of mine, lol. We're not Americans, we live in Europe, and this person is definitely an exception, but it still catches me off guard every single time.
You see, "how are you?" Isn't a genuine quotation, it's just a way of saying "hello" and feigning interest in someone's well-being. In all actual fact, nobody gives a shit.
Just say "fine" and move on.
I say “doing alright, how about you”l and that usually covers it
This is so strange of you start to think about it: A whole country decided to ask about your feelings, which is a super deep question. But it doesn't accept anything other than "fine". Like, you are not greeting someone by wishing them well, or peace or welcoming them, but by demanding a fixed fake answer that everything is offs. It makes the one who greets look like they care. But they usually do not. So every conversation has to start with a lie by the person who was greeted first.
There's a lot more thats superficial about America if you keep looking.
We are so fucked.
If you think the USA's domestic policy is terrible and social murder, wait till you find out about its foreign policies. They do social murder too, but regular murder, mass murder, and terrorism sponsored by the richest nation are also on the table.