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Surprise medical bills; random shootings; a fascist dictator leading the country; the complete and entire erosion of the rule of law

I think we might need a book to answer that. A comment seems insufficient.

Food. Shelter. Healthcare. In a lot of places water. Just staying in general is markedly more difficult.

A friend in the US told me: I cannot work more hours because I need to keep my income at specific range to be able to qualify for provisional or federal medical insurance.

This is so fucked up.

Freedom.

Starting a war, forgetting your gun somewhere and only having your spare one to work with, making the payment on your medical bills, remembering if the McRib is back, worrying that the exploited people who did all the things you don't feel like doing will be deported, and forgetting to tell the President "thank you" every day as a tribute to their brilliant leadership.

Having moved from one to the other

• Health insurance (it's not perfect but it's something)
• Random shootings (they still happen but are not as endemic)
• Corn syrup in literally every food
• Having clean streets (particularly in cities)

Healthcare

....are you joking right now?

Being stuck in a shitty job, because you now have a medical condition, and the insurance of the job you want refuses to cover you.

I do believe the reputational damage caused by the orange one might be one of the things. That and obvious tariff issues. Hopefully it's temporary , or you have people who just don't care.

Getting shot anywhere you go

The chance of a nationwide maple-syrup shortage.

Medical bills and insurance.

Having the most indecent & loudest loudmouths as their leaders.

Civil war

Easy: destroying the world out of sheer stupidity and greed.

Pretending not to be American when travelling abroad.

Joining over half a million homeless feral humans

Avoiding the famous things...

Tracking mud into someone's house. The most striking cultural difference is literally just taking your shoes off as a guest.

Alligators, tropical diseases, hurricanes for the most part.

Flag-worship. Which is ironic because tomorrow is Canada Day, but really the US is on a whole other level.

Government deadlock.

Pennies.

Embargoing Cuba.

A lack of KD but the All Dressed is trickling in.

For one, it being too fucking hot outside. School shootings. Probably some other stuff.

constantly threatened by a right wing party, who has used voter suppression to always win most of the time, and DEMS who are also DINOs , on the right but is elected as a "left" president, but votes with the gop on many things. which is why they dont immediately repeal things like tax cuts, or patriot act, or right now unlikely to repeal anything when palintir finishes all thier databases of individuals in the us. also no healthcare, because Ds would lose thier bargaining chip into getting elected in the future, so its just stringing voters along. also billionaires have significant sway us policy. when both parties are right wing, one is center right but the other is on far right, its very hard to make progress here.

always dealing with how white people behave around POC groups, if you're a pOC some caucasian groups will always give you some wierd vibes, like give you a nasty stare, or immediately try to quickly walk away. also dealing with reverse white flight.

Mom says its my turn to do the america bad thread