r/MadeMeSmile • u/geilelepel05 • Aug 22 '26

Good Vibes This made me laugh

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u/NorwegianCanuck Aug 22 '26

America looks like a third world country from where I live...

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u/buffaloguy1991 Aug 22 '26

America looks like a third world country from where I live

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My conditions are simultaneously hellish but infinitely better than others which somehow makes it worse.

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u/Dudewhocares3 Aug 22 '26

It’s worse to us because it means people can say “well it’s not as bad as this country where you get your head cut off for being gay so shut up”

Which is stupid because problems don’t just stop being problems because others have worse problems.

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u/blaaake Aug 22 '26

Ya take a look at some of the complete squalor some Americans live in and it paints a different picture. America is not Scandinavia, we abandon our poor and mentally unwell people far too often.

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u/Cunnyfunt31 Aug 22 '26

People really don't understand that there are areas of America that are indistinguishable from 3rd world countries. 

Did field work for the decennial Census and it was extremely eye opening.  There's a reason the Census looks for workers with ATVs, small planes, swamp boats, etc.   And while I would always hope that by gaining their trust and get enough info to do the count to prove these people exist would lead to them getting resources, I'd still get this sinking feeling that I'd be the only person the government would send out there until the next Census.

Especially when they aren't doing jack for the people in the cities where it'd be easier to help.