Politics_Observer wrote:I think it's important for Americans, to listen to others around the world and what they think about our country. I am not saying we should be overly worried about it, but we should listen to what other people have to say, try to learn from it and become a better country.
We do need to worry about your reputation to some degree. We can't just completely ignore our reputation and let it go totally down the tubes. Some of the opinions of the Europeans in the videos are not well-informed, but some of the others, there is probably some element of truth.
One thing I have heard is that European governments subsidize healthy food. So, it would therefore make sense that healthy food is cheaper in Europe and would have less of a problem with obesity. This is not the case in the United States. Healthy food is not subsidized. Hence, why poverty and obesity are linked in the United States. However, I can't say for sure if this is true for all of Europe, some of Europe, or none of Europe.
The USA is a superpower, for a while after the fall of the ex Soviet Union and before the meteoric rise of China the USA was the only superpower in the world. It threw its weight around all the time. And allowed itself to be increasingly corrupted by private companies who were multinationals to influence public policy. It got corrupted with legal bribery basically.
The USA also has made conscious decisions to allow the destruction of small farmers and local farming. For about 60 years now it has been active in destroying any form of really slow, healthy mass food production. It does this to boost profits and the US Dept of Agriculture is incredibly influenced by huge agribusiness giants like Con Agra foods, Monsanto and many others. They are basically evil those corporations. But Monsanto takes the cake. They strong arm people all over the world to buy seed that is infertile and that you can't use at all without explicit permission. There was a corporation in Bolivia who wanted to patent rainwater from the sky. the rainfall is private and anyone collecting water illegally could be jailed and fined. When you want to privatize every plant on earth and force people to use your system or starve to death and your entire food system is dependent on one industry that controls everything and gets violent and aggressive if it does not have its way? You are talking criminal mentality. Which Monsanto is. But? The USA system of government worships and kisses ass to profit at any cost. Even if it ships jobs off to the PRC and Mexico because of cheap labor and higher profits margins. Even though it destroys worker protections and union jobs and stability for American workers.
Even though the food it produces is toxic or flavorless and cheaper to produce but does nothing for health over the long term.
Profit or death. That is the problem with these fucking people. But the Americans keep going like sheep, oh, our capitalism is wondrous. No need to change these greedy corrupt shit taking over our lives, with antibiotic chicken problems and methane-producing beef, and pork with possible pandemic viruses and health problems galore related to lack of vitamins, healthy foods available to consume at reasonable prices locally, or education for families on how to budget for food and healthy recipes for kids, etc. No. No investment in that. Just follow the stupid advice of the big corporations with huge factory farms and who are depleting the topsoil, creating droughts and feeding us shit, and paying nothing to a bunch of Central Americans and Mexicans who they want to insult and exploit at the same time. Fuck that mentality!
Again, Puerto Rico is vulnerable. Do not have political reps with voting power or pressure on the culprits. Keep accepting that shitty lack of political rights and all of the Puerto Ricans are going to be victims of abuse by these greedy corporations. We are expendable guinea pigs without being able to sue the US government. Ignore us. Kill us. Turn us away for another one hundred years. When the Boricuas finally stop the brainwashed shit about us being part of the US as equal partners? You will see the RAGE that creates. Lying fucking people need to be held accountable.
And the gung ho Yankee people who refuse to face the truth of the abusive shit the US government engages in by being paid off by these greedy capitalist pieces of shit companies need to be held accountable.
The great irony is that if people do think of Amerindian savagery they often think of the Apaches, while the Apaches were actually soft, semi civilised, do gooders compared to their Comanche neighbours.
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