I recently went on a bit of a complain-a-thon on Twitter, which means that in three weeks’ time, I’m going to want to reference it and won’t be able to find it. Thinking ahead this time, I’ve decided to store the rant here, where it can be stored in a way that’s nice and tidy.
BEWARE: ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT AHEAD.
I've repeated this over and over, but it clearly needs another run:
America is bad at all the things it's proud of being good at.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
Capitalism and free markets? America has enshrined businesses' rights to lie about products, removing customers' informed choices.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
Medicine and healthcare? While R&D is through the roof, Americans pay many times more for pedestrian shit, because Bad At Capitalism.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
Education? While highly prestigious R&D schools exist, schools are run on Capitalist models – which again, America's Bad At.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
Democracy! Fewer than half of Americans vote in half the elections. The electoral college system makes votes fundamentally inequal.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
States' Rights? Well, states can rearrange the rules of what they can do, and rich people can move, so states basically own poor people.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
Freedom! A national spy network, an international intelligence community that has *created dictatorships,* nonstop history of slavery.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
Liberty! Well, depending on how you define it. Danes can smoke weed and don't invade other countries.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
Justice! America imprisons more of its population than any other developed nation, and overwhelmingly minorities.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
For All! And by that we mean wealthy corporations, and the white people who run and own them.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014
I love Americans. Most of my friends are Americans. America? Stop running an Alpha Model Democracy and treating your people like shit.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) March 17, 2014