Is the USA a “functioning” state with all the oppression, racism, greed, invading other countries out of monetarian interest and environment destruction?

I hope you realize that this is an incredibly privileged take. The US is rife with issues, but the hardships experienced by the average western citizen doesn't even compare to the suffering that you would find in, say, Pol Pot's Cambodia, or (to a less extreme extent) Maduro's Venezuela. To compare what a US citizen deals with on a daily basis due to capitalism to what a citizen of any of those countries had to go through is very reductive and may be perceived as disrespectful to many who had to live those experiences.

[–] proletariatnerd@iusearchlinux.fyi 17 points 1 year ago (26 children)

The US is rife with issues, but the hardships experienced by the average western citizen doesn’t even compare to the suffering that you would find in, say, Pol Pot’s Cambodia

I have some fellas from Detroit that would disagree.

[–] Cowbob45@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (24 children)

My dude you need to stop right now before you end up saying that genocide isn't that bad. Because that's what Pol Pot did.

[–] Definitely_me@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Implying the us is better than Cambodia because Cambodia committed genocide is very weird, considering that the US did so too

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