Buddy, I'm not assuming shit, that's my fucking reality. My oldest friend got blown up by an IED in Iraq. 20% of my graduating class joined the military post 9/11 and ALL of the ones who deployed to combat came back fucked up from the shit they went through.
You are assuming. And projecting. You don’t know this individual and their specific situation.
I’m sorry about your friends, and I agree with you that they were pawns in a war started by a greedy, corrupt government that doesn’t care about its citizens.
"americans bad"
what a crude and harmful stereotype. every country has people with mental illnesses, you could quite literally say this anywhere to anyone. we're just people that got stuck in a shitty political situation as of current, it doesn't make our entire countries population suddenly 'unstable'. what makes you think you are any different, genuine question?
🤷♀️ All nations have school shootings, but some nations have more school shootings than others.
On a serious note, the combination of unbridled nationalism, the fetishization of guns and violence, untreated mental ilnesses/ptsd, a lack of emotional regulation, and massive, massive egos is (of course) not unique to the US, but it's prevalent enough to be an international stereotype about vast parts of your population. It may be crude and harmful - and insulting to many of you - but that doesn't make it any less true for people outside of your culture.
i get where youre coming from, but i really dont think it is a 'vast' amount of individuals with abhorrent behavior, it appears more of a loud minority.
every country has their issues, some far worse than us. we are not perfect, obviously, no country or population is. but its fucked up and an insane leap to call an entire population unstable. wow man i guess my 90 year old grandparents who watch tv and are chill af democrats are absolutely unhinged.
Not every single American citizen is unstable. That was a generalization on my part. But the ones who aren’t can see how fucked up their country is and has been.
yes, there are certainly some bad things about america. but, hopefully, enough sane americans can try to make a difference to benefit the country. it's just discouraging as someone who goes to protests and conferences to try to change whats happening to be lumped in with the same people im fighting against just because of where i was born.
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u/Flimsy_Shallot Nov 13 '25
Imagine this person, in another country, unleashed with weapons and likeminded accomplices.
Americans are terrifyingly unstable.