It just feels difficult to have meaningful conversations on here sometimes. Like yes I dislike America, but I don't need to act like nothing good has ever come out of it. Maybe China is better than America, but I don't want Xi nuking American cities. I don't think war is suddenly cool and good because Ukraine has some nazis in it. Not everyone I disagree with is some bumbling mass of idiocy, a lot of times we just differ on certain core values.
To be fair, America's oldest cities do have some amazingly beautiful cathedrals, parks, and museums that have not (yet) been torn out for chain restaurant strip malls
Unspoiled natural beauty is the best thing about America. Had some out of county folks stay with us and they were fascinated by the variety of birds and thought squirrels were super cute and interesting. 🐿️
As jank-ass as America is a country, truly the best thing they ever did was declare vast swathes of the country as national parks which would not be developed. They haven't been too good at not leasing over chunks of that unspoiled land to oil interests as neoliberalism has proceeded but still. Most other countries just don't have that much national park acreage unless the land is literally impossible to develop (thinking of Arctic Circle land here).
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I already feel like that in my own city - I walk around and see all this beautiful architecture and infrastructure and social investment from 80-100 years ago and it's like, damn, the 1930s is really the last time we did anything other than build disposable buildings for chain restaurants and spend the profits on war. Everything since then rests, unsustainably, on the back of that era.
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That's the part I feel most acutely aware of haha, every time I'm in a tunnel I'm like "wow they dug this without computers I sure hope someone from some criminally underfunded agency has looked at it since then and someone is listening to their recommendations :oh-shit: "