Unpopular Opinion

Like it or not, you're a superpower.

What you do, and how you do it matters to the rest of the planet.

We have no choice but to watch, and what we see isn't encouraging.

A single country when it's convenient, 50+ semi independent governments when it comes time to deal with criticism?

There is a trail of corruption, poverty, death and destruction everywhere America gets involved in the world. This country loves war and profits from it. Social reforms are in reverse gear at the federal level. Your healthcare is shite and no one can afford to buy a house. The gap between rich and poor has grown exponentially with the richest paying the least tax. This is a country run by mendacious and violent con men for idiots. Not only do you have a gigantic and corrupt military industrial complex, you also have a prison industrial complex, with more prisoners than any other industrialised nation. America sucks ass bro.

Except the one government at the top is the one that interacts with every other nation on the planet and is usually the one making policies and taking actions that piss everyone else. And like it or not, these policies and actions are decided by the congress and the president, which everyone in the U.S. is responsible for electing the people there. And when you look at that federal governmnt, well let me tell ya that it doesn't reflect very well on Americans.

I can appreciate that some states are better than others, in a similar manner to being able to appreciate that some EU countries are better than others. I've visited the USA and so I've seen first hand the good and the bad.

It doesn't change the fact that globally, you are represented by your federal government and not your local state ones. As an Australian I might expect a foreigner to know our Prime Minister but never a state premier.

From overseas we just see a lot of the insane shit. Politically, the whole world is interested your federal elections because that is what has a chance to affect us. I don't care who the governor of a state is really because they aren't going to be able to declare some insane war or fuck over or save entire countries.

Even when we see state x legalizes y or outlaws z it just blurs together from out here. Much easier to see your own state doing good things when you're inside it.

And yeah, USA doesn't get enough credit for craft beer!

The US is really like the EU both in scale and differences between individual states. National laws are generally just high level and very broad, with the laws most people directly interact with being state, county, city, and other local levels.

As usual, the answer is "It's more complicated than that."

I thiught you guys are united or something. It's in the name

I hate that the US made this post. They suck for doing that

Yes I am having a bad day.

I hope your day improves our the next day is better.

I also hope your governments improve or the next are better, but frankly all your governments suck.

To sum up, nobody likes being generalized.

And, apparently, when Americans say we don't like being generalized, literally everyone else will take offense, and then generalize us.

No they simply come from the rest of the world where it doesnt really matter how u do what u do just that you do it.

This is an extrodinarilly american centered view of the world and failes to see the bigger picture that your fucked up system is just one piece in a bigger pie of global society.

You all fly the same flag its on you for being incapable of self organising. You might not think it but texas says just as much about u as a californian as california says about u. The rest of the world treats america as a monolith because to us from the outside thats all that really matters to us.

Damn near everyone commenting is missing the point

Is this poster’s argument feigning ignorance of distinction between local vs. federal laws?