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Duh. All you have to do is fly from New York to Copenhagen and back to understand how angry and stressed we are, as well as what kind of life would be possible
by anotherthro313 7y ago
Duh. All you have to do is fly from New York to Copenhagen and back to understand how angry and stressed we are, as well as what kind of life would be possible if our nation put caring about everybody's quality of life above power and greed.
- crowdpleaser 7y agoFolks in Copenhagen don't care about everyone's quality of life, they seem to care about the quality of life for their fellow citizens. I don't see the Danish tripping over themselves to help the less fortunate outside of Denmark, but many Americans help out illegals who invade America. I think America could do this but it would require doing something about illegals and like Denmark, getting rid of birthright citizenship and moving towards ethnic homogeneity. America is too diverse for people to really care about everyone else.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoDid you just blame immigrants for Americans being stressed out?
- crowdpleaser 7y agoIllegals aren't doing anything to help American stress levels (unless you're wealthy enough to employ illegals and enjoy the cost savings over Americans). When I try to find parking in a sanctuary city or sit in traffic in a sanctuary city, I wonder how many of those problems would go away if we cleaned house of illegals. If you're an American and traffic, crime, and low wages have you stressed, getting rid of illegals is sure to help. I don't see what's hard to comprehend - scabs stress out unions, illegals stress out Americans
- z2 7y agoThat wasn't the entirety of your message. Could you please explain what you meant by needing ethnic homogenization? If Americans are so busy helping out illegals, then doesn't that invalidate the premise that America is too diverse for people to care for each other?
- crowdpleaser 7y agoSome Americans are helping out illegals, others are trying to help people who are more familar. I'm just saying that Americans care, and America has a system where people can do things voluntarily but it takes a lot of conviction and agreement to force people to do things, and our current social safety net reflects that Americans are generally unwilling to help ingrates and people who are not really like themselves.
- anotherthro313 7y agoUnless you grew up on a reservation, then you too are an illegal.
- jtx22 7y agoExcellent points.
- anotherthro313 7y agoUgh, why don't you go back to 4chan or breitbart or wherever it is you racist pieces of shit spend your time fapping?
- sctb 7y agoPlease don't post any more troll comments. Generic unsubstantive nationalistic or ideological comments are troll comments, whether or not you intend them to be. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- cpursley 7y agoVisiting Denmark (and Finland, Sweden, Netherlands) is what it took to make me realize we're (USA) doing it wrong. Those places just feel... low stress, safe and normal.
- lozaning 7y agoHad to fly to Germany for 3 weeks to help with a product launch last year. If we'd been in the US we'd have been working 15 hour days to ensure we hit our launch date. But since we were in Dusseldorf everyone showed up at 9 and left precisely at 5.