AskBeehaw

2013 readers

28 users here now

An open-ended community for asking and answering various questions! Permissive of asks, AMAs, and OOTLs (out-of-the-loop) alike.

In the absence of flairs, questions requesting more thought-out answers can be marked by putting [SERIOUS] in the title.

Subcommunity of Chat

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org

thrawn21@beehaw.org

I apologize for my ignorance but, is the US really this bad and if so, why aren't more people banding together and doing something about it? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 days ago by BevelGear@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

61 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago

Because that would be inconvenient.

American culture is everything available at all times everywhere, and if it isn't it is a tragedy.

American propaganda playing on wide screen TVs 24/7, social media fills in the gaps.

It really is easy to see but hard to pinpoint on a personal level unless you are affected by whatever is currently happening that is the disaster/crime/injustice.

Long answer short: enough of the people are comfy in their worlds to give 2 shits.

I am an American native, EU resident visiting family for the first time in 6 years and....it's overwhelming to me.