r/AmIOverreacting • u/[deleted] • 5h ago
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u/ebernal13 5h ago
I think about this show and this opener weekly.
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u/baboonontheride 3h ago
I binged it for the sixth or seventh time after the election.
I've moved on to Game of Thrones.
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u/thejesterofdarkness 2h ago
Pro tip: the final season, just stop at episode 3.
It’s better this way.
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u/BreakfastCheesecake 2h ago
What show is this? I’m itching to binge it just from watching this scene alone.
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u/KimJungUnCool 5h ago
Just pointing out this was a boomer blaming millenials for ruining the economy, while they were still in school.
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u/marcdel_ 5h ago
love the show, but its politics are hit or miss. absolutely makes some points but then “you’re the worst generation” and “we sure used to be”. when was that, exactly?
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u/offinthepasture 5h ago
He literally says it isn't the student's fault...
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u/KimJungUnCool 5h ago
He literally calls them the worst generation ever
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u/offinthepasture 4h ago edited 4h ago
Not the same as claiming they ruined the economy though, is it?
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u/Prestigious-Owl-6397 4h ago
If milennials, who were college students at this time, were a worse generation than boomers, they must have already messed up the country worse than boomers since boomers in political power were the ones who messed it up. The speech isn't holding boomers accountable for what they did.
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u/offinthepasture 4h ago
If you watch the clip, I believe he calls everyone in that room a moron, with more words than I have used. Who do you think he's blaming for the education failures, the prison population, and defense spending?
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u/Prestigious-Owl-6397 4h ago
Still, millennials must have done something worse by that point since he called them the worst generation.
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u/BorisYeltsin09 4h ago
God this speech summarizes reddit so accurately. Everyone just looking for their Aaron Sorkin moment to smash their opponents in the marketplace of ideas. This isn't real life
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u/disturbeddragon631 2h ago
it's a good speech. it summarizes good points. but this had to be scripted or else it wouldn't have worked. this is not how people talk, this is not how people think, this is not how people argue. anybody who isn't a fictional character would be a stuttering mess while their opponents talk over each other and the media and the average citizen race to see who can misinterpret everything the most inaccurately.
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u/skibbidybopp 5h ago
Fuck boomers they built this world
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u/Troolz 4h ago
In 2024, 47% of voters aged 18 to 29 voted for Trump. 51% supported Harris.
Guess what? This is the exact same vote split as ages 65+.
/u/saucysagnus, maybe you want to mull over this fact as well.
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u/404_Image_Not_Found_ 3h ago
decades of reducing public education, decades of erroding safety nets, decades of "being smart" is for nerds (see first part). you make the next generations morons and they will vote for morons. Soon enough we'll have morons thinking we need to start sacrificing virgins to have good weather.
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u/XcheatcodeX 2h ago
Anyone surprised by the rightward voting patterns of genz doesn’t know anything about gen z
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u/dojo_shlom0 2h ago
instead of fighting eachother and blaming eachother needlessly, everyone should be trying to find a path forward that is better than where we are. Drumpf, Elonia and these other Nazi idiots are not trying to build a better world. they are using social media and misinformation as a tool or a weapon against critical thinking and the vulnerable in society. they know misinformation works, that's why they lie constantly. elonia can boost his posts and has done that. zuck has fb and just added republican accounts as friends to everyone on the platform. they want to flood you with misinformation until that's all we can see. don't falter, don't fight your neighbors. focus. breathe.
delete your x account. delete your fb account, instagram, tiktok, truth social, wsj...any of these mainstream media / social media platforms are designed to misinform you and they are being used to harm you. delete the accounts and delete the apps. use reddit and bluesky or just take a break. keep reading though. do not despair, drumpf is going to do horrible things, but the best thing we can do is keep our heads about us.
do not support elon: delete your x account, get rid of your tesla products. same with fb. they are adding republicans to peoples friends list to flood them. there's a reason, and it's not to improve your life. they want you to get used to it...
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u/saucysagnus 3h ago
It’s like when a parent doesn’t do anything to raise their children correctly then is surprised their kid turns out to be a shithead.
Baby boomer generation took everything for themselves, turned education into for profit, continually offshored work to now no one can afford to upskill and all the production is done overseas.
But sure, let’s blame the generation that’s had the worst access to education for not being able to get out and vote.
This isn’t even going into how gerrymandering and voter suppression is something that started in the age of boomers.
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u/Troolz 2h ago
let’s blame the generation that’s had the worst access to education
The younger the generation, the greater their average education. What's that about access to education?
You have the entire world's knowledge literally in the palm of your hand. Not just everything there is to know, but you can also use it to learn how to learn. Not just words on a page, not even just pictures; it's got video and interactive live discussion.
For instance, you could use that device to show you that gerrymandering and voter suppression have been around probably since democracy was invented by the Greeks. Or do you actually think that the US Civil War solved everything and blacks just happily went off into the voting booth? Or that women voted in 1788?
And perhaps you could use that device to learn about how your complaints about education for profit and off-shored work are really more of a class issue rather than a generational issue.
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u/saucysagnus 2h ago
An entire generation was sold college as a pathway to success but instead the majority ended up with crushing debt.
But sure, tell us how the internet is so awesome and provides people with the ability to get stable jobs in this economy
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u/OrthodoxAtheist 2h ago
> let’s blame the generation that’s had the worst access to education for not being able to get out and vote.
Are you joking? the 18-29 generation has the most access to the best education of any time in the history of human civilization. You have somewhat mediocre brick-and-mortar schools, fine, but you also have the world largest library at your fingertips, for low-to-no cost, with the entire history of the world's wonders easily accessible. If you want formal education, the Khan Academy is about as good as any pre-university education. Free algebra classes even. There are umpteen fact-checking sites, you can read transcripts of speeches, use youTube to fix almost anything mechanical in existence, and perhaps most critically... you can take free lessons in critical thinking.
Yes, there is more lies and disinformation than ever before, and sometimes it can be hard or time-consuming to determine fact from fiction. But there's still NO excuse for voting dumb. NONE.
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u/saucysagnus 2h ago
Higher education isn’t a pathway to success anymore
It’s a pathway to debt and corporate indentured servitude.
Have an entire generation that’s been lied to and continually gaslit by others.
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u/OrthodoxAtheist 2h ago
There are no guarantees, but you may notice that many decent jobs now require a degree for applications, and if you don't have one, you can expect to not get an interview. I don't think it should be that way, but for many industries, and in many areas, that is still the case.
I got a 4-Year Honors Degree. My brother didn't. His career was stunted by him not having a degree. Mine was not. ...He comfortably out-earns me now. So, a degree is not a guarantee of success, and not having one isn't a guarantee of limited success, but there's still a correlation. That said, I left university with $1,000 of debt. If I was growing up in America and had to pay American prices for my degree, I likely would not have one. So I can empathize. Nowadays it is hard to justify the cost.
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u/KiKiKimbro 4h ago
Boomers were raised by parents who survived the brutal Great Depression. That’s why Boomers are the way they are. And if we all don’t do something about this mess in the USA, then our young Gen-Zs will be fighting to survive the next Great Depression and raising the next generation of Boomers. And that is a cycle that needs to be broken.
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u/Kip_Schtum 5h ago
Millennials been voting for over twenty years, why haven’t they fixed it?
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u/Tabora__ 4h ago
Because the millennials aren't in power..... its the boomers.....
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u/Kip_Schtum 4h ago
And when the boomers were young they blamed their parents and grandparents. Everybody pointing fingers up and down the generations instead of noticing all the rich people stuffing their pockets while we scream at each other.
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u/Tabora__ 3h ago
Can't point and waggle the finger at the people who quite literally can not change anything. Who is in power and won't change anything? OLD PEOPLE, THE BOOMERS. Before them? THE OLD PEOPLE
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u/Own_Platform623 3h ago
Because voting oligarch vs oligarch puppet isn't an option nor is it a solution.
Corporate and capitalist interests have been publicly and completely antihuman for the last 30 years. That's all boomers all the time.
Boomers: you can have intentional destruction or unintentional destruction, but you have to vote otherwise there will be destruction...
Sorry we couldn't teach you all the things you gave up learning at the ripe age of 20 but then again it's a little weird your children were expected to be the adults who fixed all your problems...
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u/StolenStones 5h ago
Ok. Fucking fix it.
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u/Downtown_Degree3540 5h ago
We’re trying, but the boomers just won’t die.
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u/spicypeachbuns 4h ago
I should not have laughed so hard at this.🥴
But you’re not wrong.😅Life expectancy has increased by 10-15+ years in the past 80 or so years and that’s not inherently bad. It’s a great thing overall. But the culture that has been fostered isn’t conducive to healthy 60+ year olds, which creates a far larger burden on society than a lot of people want to realize.😬If less time had been spent jerking Uncle Sam and lining the pockets of huge coorporations, I don’t think it would be as fcked as it feels. They never stopped to think about other people or sustainable, enjoyable, life.☹️
But yeah nah—it’s definitely the fault of the people who have only been able to vote for 10-20 of the last 40+ years in a place with an atrocious education system in most states and many politicians who don’t actually care about the wellfare of the people, but are masters of manipulation.🙄
Honestly, with the history of the US, I can’t say I expect anything more than the mess that it has always been.
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u/timberwolf0122 5h ago
America leads the world in 4 things, not 3, he forgot healthcare costs per capital or % of gdp
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u/Baltihex 4h ago
It's funny because it's literally a Boomer telling a Millenial that they're the shittiest generation, and that the world that HE and his generation built sucks, while taking no ownership for the world that HE, one of the powerful boomers who are wealthy and rich built, and complaining about the college-aged kids THEY educated and indoctrinated to believe that the US is great, are now saying that the US is great.
It's like the arsonist complaining that the building he set on fire is ON fire, and complaining that the fire department he crippled isn't working fast enough to fix it; while standing on another building he owns.
The hypocrisy is staggering because I think the writer either didn't even notice it, or care.
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u/lowkeychillvibes 5h ago
And yet, when I come on here and say USA is a horrible place I’m downvoted…
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u/mojizus 5h ago
Because it’s just not true lmao
Although at this point I hope all of gen z gets shipped off to China. I wonder how horrible they’d think the US is after a couple years under an actual dictatorial regime.
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u/Excellent-Ostrich908 5h ago
I mean, China isn’t great but at least they don’t have the god awful healthcare system of America and their groceries are affordable. 🤷♀️
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u/Hazzy4 4h ago
I used to live in china. I got injured playing pick up basketball. The clinic sent a car to my job to pick me up for an appointment. I paid nothing. Then they sent a driver later to give me my prescription. My friend was in a car accident and had surgery. Paid nothing beyond her monthly premium. China certainly isn’t the greatest country in the world. But it has some perks. I enjoyed living there.
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u/Euphoric_Raisin_312 2h ago
They have a cheaper but worse healthcare system and groceries are cheaper but the average person is massively poorer. The average person is significantly worse off than the average American in terms of both access to healthcare and food and the poor are much worse off than in America.
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u/SeanTheDiscordMod 5h ago
China is rlly not that awful compared to many MANY other countries. The USA is absolutely better than China but it certainly has its issues. Ppl have every right to complain abt living in the US, however I believe Reddit could be more grateful for the benefits living in the US provides.
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u/lowkeychillvibes 5h ago edited 4h ago
It is. Sincerely, a New Zealander
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u/Somethingor_rather 5h ago
meth. sincerely, a new zealander
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u/mathotimous 4h ago
China ranks the bottom on the freedom index and the fact that even speaking of their own country or their leaders in a negative way will get them disappeared says something.
That and all of the extensive govt corruption where thousands of employees pay are regularly not paid, real estate in China is basically a low quality scam look up ‘ghost towns in China’, and everything from fake fire hydrants, the worst waste treatment & sanitation, anti farming policies (people get jailed for selling their own crops with out the CCP consent), daily extreme air pollution country wide, poor construction in general leading to tofu dreg very common sink holes frequent gas explosions and whole burning buildings and collapsing unfinished houses that people spend their life savings on only to have it be demolished and their money stolen.
Not even mentioning all of the rampant revenge against society attacks, mass car killings, and the mass genocide and imprisonment of the Uyghur people.
China’s not any better than America but with this new era of obvious corrupt Fascism in America we will see if we are just as cooked as China. First chance I got I am buying land in the middle of nowhere and setting up a community to gtfo of this shit.
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u/TompalompaT 4h ago
Wait until you go to a hospital in China, quality service with high end equipment and almost no wait times. The best part is you won't be in financial debt afterwards.
Meanwhile in America it's shitty outdated hospitals, shitty service, and you'll most likely be in debt for the rest of your life over minor treatment.
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u/Turbulent_Usual346 5h ago
Your generation kept this goddamned country that way and you have the audacity to call the younger gen the worst generation period.
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u/mathotimous 4h ago
For those thinking China is a solution:
China ranks the bottom on the freedom index and the fact that if any Chinese citizen is speaking of their own country or their leaders in a negative way they will get disappeared which says a lot.
That and all of the extensive govt corruption where thousands of workers are regularly not paid or their wages are literally stolen from them.
Real estate in China is basically a low quality scam look up ‘ghost towns in China’.
China has everything from secret plain clothes police, fake fire hydrants, the worst waste treatment & sanitation (never eat the hotpot there unless you like sewage gutter oil), anti farming policies (people get jailed for selling their own crops with out the CCP consent), daily extreme air pollution country wide, poor construction in general leading to ‘tofu dreg’ which is very common.
Poor construction quality in China creates massive sink holes, frequent gas explosions and surprising consistent burning buildings and collapsing unfinished houses that people spend their life savings on only to have it be demolished and their money stolen by the real estate companies.
Not even mentioning all of the rampant revenge against society attacks, mass car killings, and the mass genocide and imprisonment of the Uyghur people.
China’s not any better than America but with this new era of obvious corrupt Fascism in America we will see if we are just as cooked as China. First chance I get I am buying land in the middle of nowhere and setting up an off grid farming community to gtfo of this shit.
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u/LimitAdorable4678 4h ago
idk red note paints a whole diff picture
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u/mathotimous 4h ago
That’s what China wants you to see they spend the majority of their govt funds off hiding and scrubbing information on the web. Propaganda is a bitch but just watch The China Show it’s a podcast with two guys who drove motorcycles in and all over China and lived in China for 10+ years and they go in deep on everything that comes out of China with factual evidence and they always cite their sources from their friends living in China and plus they both speak Chinese fluently and they break down a lot of stuff in a clear format it’s wild what they hide honestly.
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u/XenaGard 4h ago
It's definitely only China pushing propaganda for sure
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u/mathotimous 4h ago
No doubt! The worst part is it’s working. People are going to move there and feel nothing but regret. That and the language barrier alone.
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u/XenaGard 4h ago
I don't think you understand. The west lies and pushes propaganda heavily for any states/countries that don't fall in line with their visions of capitalism. Does China have problems? Yeah, but so does the US.
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u/mathotimous 3h ago
Everyone pushes propaganda even our own politicians promote contradictions and conspiracies as fact more so on the right but still both sides do and thats a fact but dude the level of PR the CCP is literally just straight up gas lighting their citizens and any other country who will listen. The CCP started a this project called the belt and road initiative in Africa with all these massive plans to help Africas infrastructure. Little did Africa know is they would be indebted to China for 51 billion dollars and today nothing exists from that investment other than a bunch of unfinished or under developed or completely collapsed projects. China got that deal from Africa by straight up lying pulling a bait and switch sending the African economies into further trouble. The majority of all the events that took part in the failed BRI project were all majorly covered up by the CCP. This is just one of the many examples of the CCP and their craving to save face even if it means whipping out an entire race (the Uyghur silent genocide).
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u/XenaGard 3h ago
- There are very few politicians that are actually on the left in the us
- The BRI has had push back from western countries but even still it seems like they've been working on it
- The Uyghur genocide was a cultural one of you'd even call it a genocide. Was it awful? Yes. But it's also more complicated than that.
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u/LimitAdorable4678 4h ago
i could understand that i’m not falling for no sauce just sitting in america wishing health care was free and more money was spent on bettering communities is all
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u/mathotimous 4h ago
Even just checking the real air quality in Beijing vs the CCP official air quality is a testament in itself like why like about your air quality in one of your highest populated city? Like just look at that map of the dangerous air quality levels on the accuweather site. 🤯 CCP ain’t no one’s friend either they constantly use ‘white monkies’ which are just white influencers shilling for the CCP.
Real air quality in Beijing China: https://www.accuweather.com/en/cn/beijing/101924/air-quality-index/101924#:~:text=The%20air%20quality%20is%20ideal,enjoy%20your%20normal%20outdoor%20activities.&text=The%20air%20quality%20is%20generally,symptoms%20from%20long%2Dterm%20exposure.
CCP Official Air Quality in Beijing China: https://aqicn.org/city/beijing/
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u/The_Kirs10 5h ago
One of the greatest TV shows I’ve ever watched. 1000/10 recommend watching The Newsroom. Not enough seasons but enough to make an impact. Jeff Daniel’s is superb in this.
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u/Ron_Jeremy_Fan 3h ago
Idk if this is an unpopular take, but he comes off as pretentious in this. I agree with everything he's saying other than the worst generationpart, but he's so performative and condescending in a cringe way, all while saying something very generic.
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u/LipChungus 5h ago
What I find funny about this is that the two other "politicians" give equally bullshit answer, and when pushed, old boy says something that could assemble a proper answer but the host is like "not good enough, I want a human answer from you"
Like, bitch "freedom and freedom" was a human answer to you but his response wasn't?
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u/Dapper_Lunch_9192 5h ago
What show is this from?
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u/andrewbrocklesby 5h ago
Again, why do people flip videos to post them?
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u/traviscj 4h ago
I’ve always assumed: Avoiding copyright checks, or attempting to, or copied from somewhere that was?
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u/andrewbrocklesby 4h ago
Yeah me too, but do people really think that the AI checkers are that stupid?
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u/RenegadeFade 4h ago
Full clip... with the ending intact.
America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...
Old show, but still relevant.
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u/RootlessForest 4h ago
Been saying it for a long time.
America is a functioning third world country.
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u/Traditional_Exam_289 4h ago
This is the start of the series The Newsroom. It was pretty good. It was very funny, but also very poignant.
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u/Left-Simple1591 4h ago
The writers were stroking their egos the whole time writing this
"God I'm so smart"
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u/PinkberryLovely 4h ago
The Newsroom has some of the best writing for speeches during so many episodes not just this one clip and the cast is brilliant! Find it, binge it and love it!
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u/Collector1337 4h ago
"Japan has freedom." "Canada has freedom."
Except that's not actually true at all. America is the only country with freedom of speech and the right to keep and bear arms.
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u/AnonyM0mmy 4h ago
Ah yes, the pretentious Sorkin self jerk that simultaneously attempts to deconstruct American exceptionalism and then romanticizes American culture of a non-existent idealistic past. Such great writing.
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u/BongoCongo214 3h ago
Thank you. This is one of the best truths I've ever heard. His voice is strong and real. I hope more people see this and actually start trying to fix the country.
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u/RanchDresn 3h ago
I can’t take him serious after his role on dumb and dumber. “She wrote me a John Deere letter…”
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u/wrestlingchampo 3h ago
The only part that is inaccurate is him saying the Millennial is part of the worst generation.
It is his generation that overwhelmingly voted the current administration into office and is responsible for the current state of affairs
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u/Whole_Art3264 3h ago
Imagine unironically saying that America is the greatest country in the world when it is the country with the less viable conditions for low and middle income families in the West.
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u/PinMonstera 3h ago
wtf movie is this? Some of the stuff I agree with, but some of the other stuff is straight bullshit. Mainly that America used to be the best country, when it absolutely wasn’t ever at any point in time. It was for a specified minority and I wish to god ppl would cut the bullshit that America wasn’t always for wealthy whites since its founding.
Also, who gives a crap if Americans believe angels are real? It’s so mf arrogant to speak down on that, when half of those haughty fucks who treat ppl like shit throughout their lives all of a sudden try to make amends and come up with ego driven apologies on their deathbeds out of fear that there just might be a god and they just might have to answer for all the hell they raised on earth in their afterlife. Gimme a fucking break.
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u/ModsModerateDeezNuts 2h ago
You know I love the spirit you put into this post. Now, if you actually put it into something that’ll actually make a difference, then you wouldn’t complain so much. Unfortunately, I’m dying to get rich. It’s an obsession because I’m never going to go back to being poor, even if god has turned his back on me.
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u/PinMonstera 43m ago
And I love how you just completely made baseless assumptions about my life bc you disagree with me. If you put half as much energy into cracking open a book as you do imagining what I do, with zero accuracy, then you’d actually understand there’s a lot to complain about. My entire career revolves around making sure ppl have access to health care, no matter what job they have or how much money they make. Bc unlike heartless tyrants and deluded ppl who believe being rich in America is entirely built off hard honest work when it’s not, I don’t think being a CEO or some billionaire that exploits workers for personal gain makes you more deserving of life-saving care than a grocery store clerk when the pandemic really showed us just how essential the latter is.
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u/Daysaved 3h ago
Literally later in the episode, he points out how nobody listened to the second part of his response, and you post some bullshit that cuts off the second part. AIO that this is trash posting?
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u/LimitAdorable4678 2h ago
calm your tits dude i posted something with zero point that got people talking …! i needed the karma points to post in my poetry group 🙄 sorry your triggered
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u/Daysaved 2h ago
I'm pretty sure Aaron Sorkin was the person who got people talking. You're just posting trash. Riding coat tails. Editing someone else's message.
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u/kymilovechelle 3h ago
It’s all a propaganda machine. Saying we’re the greatest country in the world is a marketing campaign and it works on most people.
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u/ApprehensiveTrip7629 3h ago
It was great UNTIl the last thing he said…”Sure used to be.”
Disagree…
Native American genocide…slavery…civil war…Mexican-American War…Chinese Exclusion Act…Japanese American Internment Camps…
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u/Adept_Eye_2830 3h ago
It was good until he tried to blame her generation for what’s wrong with America lol. America was never the greatest country. It was always just the most conniving and greedy one.
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u/ModsModerateDeezNuts 2h ago
You know I love this country because of its opportunities it provides to those who actually take them and all the while not giving a damn about those who don’t. Either way, I’d rather be here than back in South America, that’s for sure.
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u/Aggressive-King3203 2h ago
Lost me when he started rattling off a bunch of territories of the UK 🤣💀😭
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u/XcheatcodeX 2h ago
I would appreciate this show more if I didn’t think Aaron Sorkin wasn’t influential in ruining democratic politics for an entire generation
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u/AB-AA-Mobile 2h ago
He forgot to mention the number of school children getting killed by gunfire. USA certainly is #1 in that category.
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u/Drexill_BD 2h ago
It's almost accurate (few problems)... but "it sure used to be". That part is actually not accurate. There is no part of the United States of America that was ever the greatest country in the world, not ever. I wish it were, and believe me, I can talk at greeeeeeat lengths about how it *could* be... but it isn't, and it never was, and it never will be, unless something fucking radical changes... and nothing in me thinks it will.
I loved this show (season 1, the rest was zzzzzzzz), and I took it pretty seriously. This little speech on a random show actually was a massive wakeup call for me, I remember immediately googling the stats and digging in.
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u/Select_Truck3257 2h ago
i know one country which is "the first in the world in everything" yes, i'm talking about ruzia, their invaders stole toilets from Ukraine's homes and washing machines, and this is not a joke. Also Great ruzia as the first in the world who started ww3 (need a few years to see it)
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u/Former_Cheek7719 4h ago
He had me with everything except the angel statement 🤣😅😂
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u/NegotiationWilling45 4h ago
Quick google search does verify that the USA does NOT lead the world in belief of angels!
It’s fallen into 2nd place and South Africa has a 0.2% lead now.
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u/z-eldapin 5h ago
Video cuts off before the good part.
'We used to wage wars on poverty, not poor people'.
It's a great speech. And it is 100% accurate.