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This list is rather incomplete. As an American, I'm angry because: 1. I'm 31 years old and not even halfway through paying off my student loans. 2. I can have
by Zikes 11y ago
This list is rather incomplete. As an American, I'm angry because:
1. I'm 31 years old and not even halfway through paying off my student loans.
2. I can have anything taken away from me at any time with little to no legal recourse.
3. My constitutional right to privacy and to refuse unreasonable searches no longer exists.
4. If I am ever charged with a crime, I will face a justice system that is entirely stacked against me, and regardless of the crime or my guilt I will be coerced into agreeing to a plea bargain.
5. A cop could shoot me in the back in broad daylight, on film, with witnesses, and most likely only wind up with a paid vacation as punishment.
6. If I ever become suspect in a crime of national security I will likely be tortured, physically and psychologically, for years at a time.
7. My government is torturing people right now, and the most I can ever hope to do about it is to eventually elect someone that will put a stop to it.
8. My government is supporting the monopolization of internet services and suppressing initiatives to make internet service fair and reasonably priced.
9. Every new copyright law is designed to further suppress fair use.
10. Institutionalized bribery and corruption at every level of government means that without money, my voice will likely never be heard.
- dev1n 11y agoThis is a nicely written summary of what I feel most of HN understands is wrong with America. However I have never seen it written in such a succinct manner before. And all in one place!
- kenshi 11y agoCurious why this has been downvoted? It is clearly someone expressing their opinion/reasons why they are angry. Whether or not you agree with all the listed items is another matter?
- easytiger 11y agoApart from #1, none of them actually affect his/her day to day life. It is just a fiction
- Zikes 11y ago2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture#United_States 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Global_surveillance_disclosures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Global_surveill... 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargaining_in_the_United_States#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargaining_in_the_United_... 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner 6. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-cruel-inhuman-treatment-un http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning... 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#Torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#... 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_broadband#Legal_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_broadband#Legal_issu... 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Intellectual_property_provisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Inte... 10. http://thedailycoin.org/?p=62014 http://thedailycoin.org/?p=62014
- easytiger 11y agoHow have any of those affected you? You state you are worried they might happen, not have been subject to.
- gedy 11y agoI'm not dismissing your points, but note that much of humanity still would like to come here for: 1) No warfare destroying their homes 2) Low corruption in day-to-day needs 3) Plenty of food and clean water 4) Children able to grow up without disease 5) Warm shelter etc And our ancestors would be impressed too.
- golergka 11y ago> 1. I'm 31 years old and not even halfway through paying off my student loans. Why did you take them? Disclaimer: I'm not an american, and this is an honest question. I always see that about US and don't understand why people get angry at someone else for their own decision.
- Zikes 11y agoThe entire time I was growing up, I was told it was "college or bust". I was never told that it would be "college and bust", but that seems to be the reality. Kids were told over and over that a college degree would ensure their future success, that they'd be practically guaranteed to get a career that made paying their student loans trivial, on top of a nice house and a car because that's the American Dream, isn't it? It's easy as an adult to look back on it and say "wow, that was a big mistake", now that I know how jobs and the economy actually work, but first we had to unlearn everything our parents, teachers, career counselors, and college financial advisers told us in the first place.
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- VLM 11y agoIn the USA we have a public education system that strongly indoctrinates our youth (and their parents) for 13 years that kids must go to college and must get a degree or they are utterly worthless, given that its "pay or die" they'll pay anything. Will not talk about apprenticeships or the trades upon pain of being fired from the educational establishment. With a side dish of propaganda that all educational debt is good productive debt. There's also a widely held misconception that high paying jobs are magically handed out with each diploma, so an increase in the number of diplomas issued magically means high paying jobs are created, which is tragicomic.
- buckbova 11y agoI went to JC then a state school. I was able to work and pay as I went. Thus no loans. But I might not have as prestigious of a degree or as good an education as the OP.