Why America is the World’s Most Uniquely Cruel Society

[Danbones]

Helping others that's what the US is known for.

Hmm, they missed Libya, and Syria, and Afghanistan..

 

[Murphy]

Help the two killed in the bomb blast?

 

[Durry]

All they have to do is help Mayanmar

Why ??

 

[Cliffy]

Why ??

There is no way for a racist, white supremacist, bigot will ever understand what it is to be a compassionate human being.

 

[Murphy]

Says the bitter, old man with a violent temper.

 

[Cliffy]

 

[Murphy]

Poor Cliffy, he doesn't understand that the world looks at him with pity.

I know it's hard to be the only one in your circle of friends. :lol:

 

[Cliffy]

 

[Murphy]

I'm the only one that brings you happiness, Cliffy. That's because I'm the only one that answers you.

I understand pain and recognize the signs of your illnesses. I will say "You're welcome" in advance of you thanking me for the time I give you each day.

Happy to be in your head all day, every day. :lol:

 

[darkbeaver]

There is no way for a racist, white supremacist, bigot will ever understand what it is to be a compassionate human being.

Nonsence, we understand that a future depends on us, there is no more compassionate human being than us whites, devoid of colour we persevere, we don,t need the sun, we rule, eventually we will eat this planet and all you brown people

 

[Walter]

Americans are the freest most compassionet most patriotic most democratic kindest tallest first to help poor countrys smartest and enjoy the higest standard of living anywhere in the solar system. I heard that on American TV.

I heard it on Canadian radio.

 

[darkbeaver]

Old Sol when he comes up I prostrate myself and bang my head against the terra ferma, better than the terra ferma banging me I think.
Do I reaLthink? No it,s realy my diet,

 

[Cliffy]

 

[OmegaOm]

Cliffy is not talking about the american people. They all mean well like most people.
Its just that America is controlled by the military complex. Same with NRA, both weapon supporters.
The people have no voice. But they believe they do. Same thing like most countries just that this country America likes to make bombs and use them. 160 billion on military, while Russia spent 60 billion. America has always been involved in a war. I wonder why.

 

[Murphy]

Cliffy is not talking about the american people. They all mean well like most people.
Its just that America is controlled by the military complex. Same with NRA, both weapon supporters.
The people have no voice. But they believe they do. Same thing like most countries just that this country America likes to make bombs and use them. 160 billion on military, while Russia spent 60 billion. America has always been involved in a war. I wonder why.

Ah, I see. So, what country is Cliffy talking about?

 

[Colpy]

Or, How Punching Down Became a Way of Life

Any theory of being American must explain one salient and striking fact: cruelty. America is the most cruel nation among its peers — even among most poor countries today. It is something like a new Rome. It has little, if any, functioning healthcare, education, transport, media, no safety nets, no stability, security. The middle class is collapsing, and life expectancy is falling. Young people die for a lack of insulin they cannot crowdfund. Elderly middle-class people live and die in their cars. Kids massacre each other in schools — when they’re not self-medicating the pain of it all away. The combination of these pathologies happens nowhere else — not a single place — in the world. Not even Pakistan, Costa Rica, or Rwanda. Hence, the world is aghast daily at the depths of American cruelty — yet somehow, they seem bottomless.
(Of course I don’t mean that all Americans are cruel. I just mean that in the same way we say countries have attitude, dispositions, that there’s such a thing as a French or German national attitude or disposition, so, too there is an American one. Nor do I mean America is “the most cruel society in the world”. Can we really ever judge that? But it is uniquely cruel — a kind of special example — in weird, needless, and singular ways.)
Let me throw that into relief. Scandinavians are the happiest, longest-lived, and most prosperous people in the world because they do not punish one another constantly — but lift one another up. But Americans do not believe this reality. The underlying sentiment that unites America’s manifold problems is a myth of cruelty.
So. Where did the myth of cruelty come from? That is the question before us if we really want to understand America. I’ve wondered since I was a kid, to be honest. I thought, once, it was about capitalism, patriarchy, race, once. But now I think that while those are expressions of it. That something more primary, fundamental, and unique happened.


more: http://eand.co/why-is-america-the-worlds-most-uniquely-cruel-society-f67afc5c6b9a

Cliffy, you really need to get off the drugs, go see a nice psychotherapist, and try to get back in touch with reality.

In 2017, the USA gave over 2.5 Billion dollars to world food aid, well over twice that given by the number two donor....

Contributions to WFP in 2017 | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide

The USA is second in giving foreign aid for development, after the EU (28 countries)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors

Then the writer accuses the USA of being more cruel and violent than Pakistan, Costa Rica, or Rwanda.......cherry picking school shootings to prove their point.

Murder rates per 100,000

USA: 4.88

Rwanda: 4.51

Pakistan: 7.81

Costa Rica: 11.77

Global Average: 6.2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

The writer accuses the USA of ignoring the health of its citizens. But the USA ranks 31 in life expectancy, out of 183. Not perfect, but much of that is life style (smoking/obesity), there are not people starving in the streets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

This is demonstrated by the excellent survival rate of US citizens that have cancer..........tied for fourth place among the best countries in the world..........despite their unusually high rates of smoking and obesity.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/...ates-than-the-rest-of-the-world/#26611ea74b67

We'll leave it there.....but the obvious conclusion is that the article above is absolute bullshyte.

 

[mentalfloss]

In terms of foreign aid, percentage of GDP is more appropriate than total amount if you want to argue who's more altruistic.

 

[Walter]

In terms of foreign aid, percentage of GDP is more appropriate than total amount if you want to argue who's more altruistic.

That would leave the US in...first place.

 

[Colpy]

In terms of foreign aid, percentage of GDP is more appropriate than total amount if you want to argue who's more altruistic.

That would leave the US in...first place.

Actually, it leaves the USA in second place, after the EU..........but that hardly supports the accusation that the USA is uniquely cruel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors

BTW, virtue-signalling Canada is in ninth place by GDP.

The US gov't gives generously to the world.

As well, in the USA private donations to charity per capita have taken either first or second place in the world for the last four recorded years running, and you arrive at the inevitable conclusion that the USA is a generous society, not a cruel one.

 

[Walter]

Actually, it leaves the USA in second place, after the EU..........but that hardly supports the accusation that the USA is uniquely cruel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors

BTW, virtue-signalling Canada is in ninth place by GDP.

The US gov't gives generously to the world.

As well, in the USA private donations to charity per capita have taken either first or second place in the world for the last four recorded years running, and you arrive at the inevitable conclusion that the USA is a generous society, not a cruel one.

EU is not a country. That would leave the US in...first place among all other countries.