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I love how the U.S. spent like 90 years building up soft power around the world and we are giving it all up in like a 3 month span.
Every person in charge of an agency, is literally not qualified to run a grocery store let alone the agencies they run.
Its alll about loyalty now, and its going to send the U.S. back into the dark age.
We were already a 3rd world country in comparison to most of our allies. Now we are speedrunning becoming a 7th world country
That's dumb, leave the U.S. sometime. Despite the problems in the U.S., we are still one of the richest countries on the planet. I went to a plant in Mexico for work a few years ago, and there were people living in sheds with no running water, entire neighborhoods of that. Outside of homeless people, even our poorest people have it better than a lot of other countries.
I live in the EU now, coming from the US. The US is almost comically backward. The effectiveness of its propaganda is incredible, that the people living there really don't know what the rest of the world is like. Yes, I have been to Mexico. I've also been to towns in northern New Mexico where the majority of the population doesn't have electricity or phone service. I've been to countries where much of the population lived in poverty, but most of them they still had phones at least. I'd say the US is currently just above mid tier from the perspective of median income vs cost of living. In the developed countries I've been to, even when they have lower incomes, they at least have much lower cost of living to make up for it. The US has got to be the most expensive place I've ever spent time in, except maybe Denmark. So yes, income is high, but I doubt seriously that there are many places less affordable for median-income residents, at least in the developed world.