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Following my recent visit to the USA, I have gained a newfound respect for the communists living within the country's borders. It's just unbelievable what you all have to put up with. (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Erika3sis@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Like I won't say that absolutely everything about the USA was bad, necessarily, and I of course have my own biases at play here... But the point sparing the details is really just like, I've spent the past month thinking practically every day about how every single US-based communist really must be working in incredibly trying circumstances, if even just visiting had me feeling lethargic and kinda wanting to go home within a week. Now that I'm back home again, that time in the USA is already starting to feel like a strange dream again.

So, uhh, what are your secrets, basically? Like I'm sure that all the nonsense of the USA feels like less of a burden to put up with if you grew up with it and have spent little to no time in other parts of the world, but still. I honestly do not think I could live in the USA until it is decolonized, but when that happens, it wouldn't be called the USA anymore, anyways.

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[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Around the 1800s, I don't remember exactly when, a French diplomat visited America and wrote about we are all fucked up and stressed all the time. Nothing has changed. We just keep pushing forward till we die mostly.

[–] screwthisdumbcrap@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alexis de toqueville? That'd be the 1800's.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Ahh, good point. I thought it was the late 17s. I haven't bothered to rememebr properly I guess. Thank you.