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People Share 35 Things Americans Don’t Understand But Should

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While it can be pleasant to think that you and your household is an island, conventional wisdom and actual life experience would show that it’s simply not true. This becomes particularly visible whenever there is a major or minor election or just when the local intersection gets some slightly more complicated rule applied to it.

Someone asked “What's something current day America needs to understand?” and people shared their examples. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments below.

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#1

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should YOUR OPINIONS AND FEELINGS ARE LITERALLY NOT THE SAME AS ACTUAL ESTABLISHED FACTS.

They’re just not.

F*****g IRKS me. The pure confidence some of you have saying whatever you feel like, and believing that deserves the same platforms as actual educated experts.

No-Consideration8862 , Getty Images/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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#2

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Knowledge is not elitism and not trusting experts will literally k*ll us all.

Feminizing , Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

103points

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#3

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should You are not temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

You are closer to being homeless than to being a millionaire.

A poor white person has more in common with a poor black person than with a rich white person.

Class solidarity above all else.

ShaftManlike , Getty Images/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

97points

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#4

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Once freedoms are lost they are likely gone for good. A democracy is not guaranteed and is fragile. It takes checks and balances to make sure there is no overstep. Unchecked power will destroy this experiment called the United States of America.

ehrabak , Fred Moon/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

92points

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#5

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Russia is not a friend of Republican nor Democratic party nor the people of that matter. The goal of Russian state is to cause chaos and polarization within US. Well, this goes to anywhere in the world. Divide and conquer.

LolSumor , Michael Parulava/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

91points

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#6

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Social media is not your friend.

Jfonzy , Nathan Dumlao/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

80points

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#7

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should The politicians/party you vote for are not immune to criticism. If anything, you should hold your own politicians to a higher standard. They’re supposed to represent you, not the other way around.

MrDankSnake , Getty Images/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

75points

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#8

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should The importance of education.

HippoPebo , Andy Quezada/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

75points

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#9

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Social media is designed to get you to engage with it and use it. It is not a source of news. It is a source of propaganda.

AspectTemporary824 , Edmond Dantès/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

74points

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#10

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should That we no longer live in a country that was established for the people, by the people. It is a business, and has been run into the ground. Good luck everyone, may the odds be ever in your favor.

fuzzylilbunnies , Nout Gons/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

67points

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#11

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should We are *very* dependent on what happens in the rest of the world.

Americans seem to want to believe we can put up the walls and forget about the rest of the world. But from the temperature of the ocean to the price of semiconductors, what happens across the world affects us. Instability in countries across the world affects us. We're the world's biggest economy, everything we do has international implications and those go both ways.

We do not get to opt out. Any attempt is just surrendering control.

GrinningPariah , Joshua Earle/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

65points

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#12

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should That those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it.

illegallysmolkate , Caleb Fisher/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

65points

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#13

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should How important it is to follow the global news to understand what can hit home. For example, most economies had high inflation after covid, not just the Biden administration.

Topbernina , Ono Kosuki/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

65points

Sand Ers 3 days ago

That circles back to the "education" point. An ignorant and incurious population won't look, and won't understand it when told.

26points

keyboardtek 3 days ago

In high school they need ed to teach how to recognize the signs of how an authoritarian leader comes to power. Trump will be the major topic if we ever return to democracy after his four years.

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Libstak 3 days ago

This should read, America is not the centre of the world. The American President is not responsible for world economics, wars in other countries between 2 3rd parties, global pandemics .. sick of the idea that it's all driven by America, IT IS NOT.

5points

E.V. 3 days ago

Yup. Other countries were hit with inflation before the US did but somehow Biden gets blamed for it. Lol

2points

Sand Ers 3 days ago

Not "somehow". Explicit lies intended to undermine his presidency.

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Westy 2 days ago

The US economy post-pandemic has demonstrably outperformed most of the the other G7 nations - a very important, easily illustrated point Kamala Harris was incapable of effectively presenting during the campaign.

1point

Heras buddy 2 days ago

The first 2 years of almost every Presidential term is influenced by the previous president policy.

1point

El Dee 3 days ago

Most world leaders can do little to improve their country's economy. Of course they CAN do a lot to make it worse..

1point

Jac Carr 10 hours ago

Just said this above; Republicans have no concept of a world outside America

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#14

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Just because someone is different doesn't mean they are an enemy.

Kyounokaze , Wonderlane/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

61points

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#15

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should That you need to do your research BEFORE the election, not after.

SacluxGemini , cottonbro studio/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

61points

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#16

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should America needs to understand that empathy and open dialogue are key to bridging divides, not just picking sides.

BellaSmith11 , Simon Joseph/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

55points

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#17

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Voting in your local elections is more important than voting for president. Want that police reform? Education funding spread out? Someone in congress who wants to put on term limits? Local elections.

Specialist-Ad-6957 , Ahmed/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

54points

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#18

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should You can't vote away economic forces. The post ww2 economy is gone for very explainable reasons. Coal mining and steel plant jobs are going away for very explainable reasons. Nobody is at fault. Nobody has stolen anything. People want to vote away having to adapt to the future and this is simply not the way.

majinspy , Charlie Harris/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

51points

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#19

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Equality doesn’t mean someone else is getting more or special rights than you. Also that people need to mind their own business and focus on themselves instead and let people live their lives.

aryn505 , Usman Yousaf/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

51points

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#20

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should How to listen, and that words mean exactly what they mean not what you feel they mean.

Volantis009 , Nini FromParis/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

48points

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#21

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should How government works. How power is divided, how rules are made and enforced, how the court system works, and how each of these institutions can be manipulated to disproportionately benefit one side or another.

pr0crasturbatin , michael schaffler/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

44points

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#22

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Tariffs.

Trolling_For_Peace , Mohamed hamdi/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

41points

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#23

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should It can be hard to recognize propaganda and disinformation.

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41points

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#24

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should That one can be against violence and still be fine with defending themselves.

Alternative-Demand65 , Zachary Ferguson/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

39points

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#25

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should That's being Christian isn't the be all end all of every Americans lives.

phageblood , Karolina Grabowska/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

38points

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#26

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should America needs to understand that we’re more divided than ever, and listening to each other, even when we disagree, is the only way forward.

MayaWright1 , Wesley Tingey/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

38points

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#27

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Real solutions to the most important problems are almost always slow, frustrating, complicated, long term, unsexy. By the time they have worked people aren't even happy about it because they forgot about the problem. If someone arrives with a bunch of simple satisfying solutions to all problems they're ignorant or conning you.

GargamelLeNoir , LARAM/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

36points

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#28

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Tariffs raise consumer prices.

DickRichman , Felix Fuchs/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

35points

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#29

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Keeping a democracy requires work and participation, lest you would rather have no voice any longer. Apathy is going to destroy this country.

ronswanson11 , Getty Images/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

34points

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#30

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Other people matter too.

dylanmierzwinski , Hasibullah Zhowandai/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

32points

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#31

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should We are being manipulated by foreign enemies to hate each other. No other military in the world comes close to our power. China and Russia both know this, so they are using online armies to enrage us online. Sadly, it’s working and could have catastrophic consequences if our simmering fury ever boils over into widespread violence.

mk*llham , DON JACKSON-WYATT/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

31points

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#32

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Just because your government is doing it and not you, doesn’t mean you can ignore it.

TraiditionalRedditor , Getty Images/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

30points

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#33

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Taxes.

I’m an American living in Europe for 8 years, I’m repeatedly told how nice it must be to have free schools, healthcare, transport, etc.

We have all this because we pay around 40-50% income tax & 21% sales tax where I live.

It all comes back to taxes.

(PS… most of these aren’t free, just heavily subsidized and made affordable).

Familiar-Adeptness-7 , Ahmet Kurt/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

29points

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#34

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should The power of genuine empathy and open dialogue. A little more willingness to listen and to consider perspectives outside our own experiences could really help bridge divides, reduce misunderstandings, and ultimately foster stronger communities.

Ok-Hour414 , Ave Calvar/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

28points

#35

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should Voting is important. Dedicating time out of your day to understanding the issues is important. It's also okay if you don't have time to understand everything, and it's okay if you don't vote on everything and only vote on what you do understand. But voting matters.

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25points

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#36

People Share 35 Things Americans Don't Understand But Should History.

ki15686 , Clarisse Meyer/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

12points

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I am a writer at Bored Panda. Despite being born in the US, I ended up spending most of my life in Europe, from Latvia, Austria, and Georgia to finally settling in Lithuania. At Bored Panda, you’ll find me covering topics ranging from the cat meme of the day to red flags in the workplace and really anything else. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, beating other people at board games, cooking, good books, and bad films.

I am a writer at Bored Panda. Despite being born in the US, I ended up spending most of my life in Europe, from Latvia, Austria, and Georgia to finally settling in Lithuania. At Bored Panda, you’ll find me covering topics ranging from the cat meme of the day to red flags in the workplace and really anything else. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, beating other people at board games, cooking, good books, and bad films.

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I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

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Tams21 3 days ago

This should be titled "43 things everyone needs to understand". There are very few things that apply explicitly to Americans and ignorance and misinformation can be found everywhere.

29points

Paul Rabit 3 days ago (edited)

Seriously - what a hate-click bait.

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Lotekguy 3 days ago

Many of these are such obvious common-sense statements they shouldn't need to be proffered. Yet here we are, and those who should heed them most won't read them or recognize how far they are from living these principles.

9points

Carl Roberts 3 days ago

Whoa...I think BP actually went a full 2 weeks before posting this latest "America bad" listicle

7points

Forrest Hobbs 23 hours ago

This list reads like a list of things that Americans think Americans need to know about - not so much "America bad", more "Americans trying to teach Americans".

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Pittsburgh rare 3 days ago

I'm honestly scared because they appointed Health Secretary an antivaxxer nutjob and my spineless country has never had serious health control in the borders so we're going to be the entry door for illnesses that were almost eradicated.

6points

Sand Ers 3 days ago

I have to admit I'm at a loss as to why the Nazis want to reestablish and spread deadly diseases that had been nearly eradicated. But they've been arguing for it long enough to make it clear that it's intentional, and not just a side effect of some other goal.

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Forrest Hobbs 23 hours ago

It's not the borders that need controlling in event of a pandemic, not these days - by the time you know you've got a problem, it's too late for things like that. It's the internal population that needs controlling, and the US has in the past done very well at implementing such controls (and, for that matter, compulsory vaccination). The 1918 flu outbreak was dealt with in the US by strict internal controls. "In 1918, a San Francisco health officer shot three people when one refused to wear a mandatory face mask. In Arizona, police handed out $10 fines for those caught without the protective gear. But eventually, the most drastic and sweeping measures paid off. " https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/

0points

Gozer LeGozerian 3 days ago

This comment has been deleted.

-2points

Mari 2 days ago

Nothing about the climate change denial?

2points

Mike F 2 days ago

That ship has sailed. There are a whole new batch of BS ideas to quarrel with.

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Brian irby 3 days ago

What a condescending article. Most of the people I voted for, including for the presidency lost, but that's democracy. We aren't on the verge of a hellscape. Republicans will overreach (just like the Biden administration) and then they will lose power. I've been voting for thirty years, we haven't careened off a cliff yet.

1point

antoinette maldari 3 days ago

yet...

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Tamra 3 days ago

We haven't had a convicted felonious demagogue with borderline sanity in power before. If ever we careen off a cliff, it will be in his bumbling, power hungry hands.

2points

Jac Carr 10 hours ago

You've never given permission for a bigoted, narcissistic, compulsively lying rapist to have another go at plundering the country before

0points

Becky Samuel 2 days ago

You just don't see the drop yet. You're already half-way over the edge. I just wish you weren't taking so many others down with you.

0points

Gozer LeGozerian 3 days ago

There sure are some maga bots busy downvoting everything here

1point

Ionescu Popa 3 days ago

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nuberiffic 1 day ago

I'd add: your casual attitude towards guns is sickening. These are incredibly dangerous, lethal weapons: yet you can just stick one in your pocket and go to McDonald's

0points

Smeghead Tribble Down Under 2 days ago

One thing Americans seem to have a mental block about - active shooter drills in schools shouldn't be accepted as normal. Cannot and will not ever understand the American obsession with guns. And when there's a mass shooting? All run out and buy MORE guns! It just short-circuits my brain. No guns = no mass shootings. It really, truly isn't rocket science.

0points

Kevin Hickey 3 days ago

Americans need to understand that gasoline is a finite resource.

0points

Guess Undheit 3 days ago

Yanks still "think" there are always and only "two sides" of every discussion. WRONG. There is only one side on some (all people deserve human rights, including abortion, LGBTQIA people, etc.) and MANY sides on other issues. "Binary thinking" is ignorance.

0points

Verena 3 days ago

The major problem for everybody living in huge countries is the distance to other cultures. This is one of my top 5 why I love to be an European. It is very hard to not come into active and close contact with entirely different cultures and languages. Spending holidays in a different country is fairly easy and not very expensive. The next border is usually a max 2 hour drive away. Physical shopping across borders is common, working in a different country than you were born in is nothing special. This results in a basis of at least knowing and often understanding that different lifestyles are nothing to get upset about, it is normal. And it makes it easier to "shop around" for better solutions to all kinds of poblems. You just see that a different approach does work.

0points

Brian Garcia 3 days ago

Normally don't post too often here, tends to be an anti-American rant on too many articles. Cool, I get it. But your supposition is beyond reproach. We have a huge country, not by choice...any many of our states are exceptionally diverse and different in character, norms, and traditions. The insane notion that the U.S. somehow "picked" its geography is asinine. We have four borders...two oceans, the United States of Mexico, and Canada. If you want to deride the U.S. for other reasons, hey...that's your prerogative. But to slap down due to geography realities is just simple-minded. What you're celebrating is geographical and historically based, don't pretend to suggest you somehow had a voice in it. Been to Europe...love it, Asia...love it, much of Mexico...love it. So much bashing on our country...we're big, diverse, and quite spread apart. Please don't take that to mean that we don't appreciate other cultures, lifestyles, travel, etc.

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Justin Tyme 2 days ago

One thing Americans should understand: Bored Panda hates you.

-2points

Ionescu Popa 3 days ago

smart, but self-interested. not what to do for the best, but what to do for your own best. most of them will not even secondarily move few rocks for the real good. its only good point is that it's more authentically patriotic that the usual shtshow, though not necessarily less self-serving. the problem down here is that anyone's efforts, including the government's or deep state's, can change little in general, and even less in a good sense - the bad things were born collective, systemic, self-learning and self-regulating. as matrix puts it: we tried more scenarios; fastest, they revolted against the best utopias.

-2points

Tams21 3 days ago

This should be titled "43 things everyone needs to understand". There are very few things that apply explicitly to Americans and ignorance and misinformation can be found everywhere.

29points

Paul Rabit 3 days ago (edited)

Seriously - what a hate-click bait.

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Lotekguy 3 days ago

Many of these are such obvious common-sense statements they shouldn't need to be proffered. Yet here we are, and those who should heed them most won't read them or recognize how far they are from living these principles.

9points

Carl Roberts 3 days ago

Whoa...I think BP actually went a full 2 weeks before posting this latest "America bad" listicle

7points

Forrest Hobbs 23 hours ago

This list reads like a list of things that Americans think Americans need to know about - not so much "America bad", more "Americans trying to teach Americans".

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Pittsburgh rare 3 days ago

I'm honestly scared because they appointed Health Secretary an antivaxxer nutjob and my spineless country has never had serious health control in the borders so we're going to be the entry door for illnesses that were almost eradicated.

6points

Sand Ers 3 days ago

I have to admit I'm at a loss as to why the Nazis want to reestablish and spread deadly diseases that had been nearly eradicated. But they've been arguing for it long enough to make it clear that it's intentional, and not just a side effect of some other goal.

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Forrest Hobbs 23 hours ago

It's not the borders that need controlling in event of a pandemic, not these days - by the time you know you've got a problem, it's too late for things like that. It's the internal population that needs controlling, and the US has in the past done very well at implementing such controls (and, for that matter, compulsory vaccination). The 1918 flu outbreak was dealt with in the US by strict internal controls. "In 1918, a San Francisco health officer shot three people when one refused to wear a mandatory face mask. In Arizona, police handed out $10 fines for those caught without the protective gear. But eventually, the most drastic and sweeping measures paid off. " https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/

0points

Gozer LeGozerian 3 days ago

This comment has been deleted.

-2points

Mari 2 days ago

Nothing about the climate change denial?

2points

Mike F 2 days ago

That ship has sailed. There are a whole new batch of BS ideas to quarrel with.

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Brian irby 3 days ago

What a condescending article. Most of the people I voted for, including for the presidency lost, but that's democracy. We aren't on the verge of a hellscape. Republicans will overreach (just like the Biden administration) and then they will lose power. I've been voting for thirty years, we haven't careened off a cliff yet.

1point

antoinette maldari 3 days ago

yet...

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Tamra 3 days ago

We haven't had a convicted felonious demagogue with borderline sanity in power before. If ever we careen off a cliff, it will be in his bumbling, power hungry hands.

2points

Jac Carr 10 hours ago

You've never given permission for a bigoted, narcissistic, compulsively lying rapist to have another go at plundering the country before

0points

Becky Samuel 2 days ago

You just don't see the drop yet. You're already half-way over the edge. I just wish you weren't taking so many others down with you.

0points

Gozer LeGozerian 3 days ago

There sure are some maga bots busy downvoting everything here

1point

Ionescu Popa 3 days ago

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nuberiffic 1 day ago

I'd add: your casual attitude towards guns is sickening. These are incredibly dangerous, lethal weapons: yet you can just stick one in your pocket and go to McDonald's

0points

Smeghead Tribble Down Under 2 days ago

One thing Americans seem to have a mental block about - active shooter drills in schools shouldn't be accepted as normal. Cannot and will not ever understand the American obsession with guns. And when there's a mass shooting? All run out and buy MORE guns! It just short-circuits my brain. No guns = no mass shootings. It really, truly isn't rocket science.

0points

Kevin Hickey 3 days ago

Americans need to understand that gasoline is a finite resource.

0points

Guess Undheit 3 days ago

Yanks still "think" there are always and only "two sides" of every discussion. WRONG. There is only one side on some (all people deserve human rights, including abortion, LGBTQIA people, etc.) and MANY sides on other issues. "Binary thinking" is ignorance.

0points

Verena 3 days ago

The major problem for everybody living in huge countries is the distance to other cultures. This is one of my top 5 why I love to be an European. It is very hard to not come into active and close contact with entirely different cultures and languages. Spending holidays in a different country is fairly easy and not very expensive. The next border is usually a max 2 hour drive away. Physical shopping across borders is common, working in a different country than you were born in is nothing special. This results in a basis of at least knowing and often understanding that different lifestyles are nothing to get upset about, it is normal. And it makes it easier to "shop around" for better solutions to all kinds of poblems. You just see that a different approach does work.

0points

Brian Garcia 3 days ago

Normally don't post too often here, tends to be an anti-American rant on too many articles. Cool, I get it. But your supposition is beyond reproach. We have a huge country, not by choice...any many of our states are exceptionally diverse and different in character, norms, and traditions. The insane notion that the U.S. somehow "picked" its geography is asinine. We have four borders...two oceans, the United States of Mexico, and Canada. If you want to deride the U.S. for other reasons, hey...that's your prerogative. But to slap down due to geography realities is just simple-minded. What you're celebrating is geographical and historically based, don't pretend to suggest you somehow had a voice in it. Been to Europe...love it, Asia...love it, much of Mexico...love it. So much bashing on our country...we're big, diverse, and quite spread apart. Please don't take that to mean that we don't appreciate other cultures, lifestyles, travel, etc.

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Justin Tyme 2 days ago

One thing Americans should understand: Bored Panda hates you.

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Ionescu Popa 3 days ago

smart, but self-interested. not what to do for the best, but what to do for your own best. most of them will not even secondarily move few rocks for the real good. its only good point is that it's more authentically patriotic that the usual shtshow, though not necessarily less self-serving. the problem down here is that anyone's efforts, including the government's or deep state's, can change little in general, and even less in a good sense - the bad things were born collective, systemic, self-learning and self-regulating. as matrix puts it: we tried more scenarios; fastest, they revolted against the best utopias.

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