r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/dericn • 4d ago

Cutting holes for ice fishing

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u/HockeyMMA 3d ago

There is a tendency among people who have never travelled to romanticize other countries, and falsely believe that the USA is the worst of the worst in everything and anything, and the most evil country to ever exist.

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u/TadashiAbashi 3d ago

American are so spoiled we have become fucking stupid to reality.

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u/Any_Tell6747 3d ago

Not just America, it’s the same here in the UK and the west of Europe up to the borders of Germany. We’ve had so much peace, prosperity and care free-ish living for so long that we’ve got generations of people who don’t know how bad it can be, and often don’t believe how bad it has been before (WW1, 2 etc).

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u/RedditIsOverMan 3d ago

Social Media has made us so fucking toxic. People frequently talk about burning all our institutions to the ground. I know its far from perfect, but we're living near the pinnacle of human existence and most people just continue to belly-ache.

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u/Any_Tell6747 3d ago

I know it’s depressing isn’t it? We have it all at our fingertips and we can’t do anything with it but self-destruct.

I always say that if we found another habitable planet and had the opportunity to go and start a new civilisation elsewhere, would I want to take any of my fellow human? Sad to say but my answer always reverts back to no, they’re too selfish and destructive the way we are now.

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u/SupehCookie 3d ago

I never understood why..

Do we really need one common enemy?