Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 15:12     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Everybody I know is so much happier than the Biden misery
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 15:10     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.


Maybe GDP is not actually a very helpful measure?

Europeans generally have less stuff and smaller houses, but they have more leisure time and don’t have to worry about bankruptcy because of a health event or obtaining an education.


Trump is forcing them to pay for their defense and equalize tariffs

They're screwed
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 15:09     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
The US is a bunch of smaller nations standing on each others shoulders wearing a trench coat pretending to be a single nation.

You can't have a national policy for what are essentially dozens of nations. No one ends up happy and every election is eschatological.

It will go on this way until everything breaks up into more coherent and smaller nations.

The good news is that it should only take another decade.

Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 15:02     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.


Maybe GDP is not actually a very helpful measure?

Europeans generally have less stuff and smaller houses, but they have more leisure time and don’t have to worry about bankruptcy because of a health event or obtaining an education.


Nothing stops Americans from getting less stuff. But in Europe, they can't get much stuff, because their HHI are half of American HHIs on average.

Look, Europe has its charms. But most people who would be eligible for immigration to Europe also makes enough to have decent medical insurance and to pay back student loans.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:51     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.


99% of Americans would take Europe over what America is. Europe has healthcare and vacations. America just has a few well connected individuals becoming Billionaires on the backs of everyone else and no upward mobility. Oh and the rich do not pay taxes and are not subjected to the same laws- Epstein and Trump.


99% of americans have no concept of what living in Europe is actually like. Even the "rich countries" of France and Germany would be the poorest states in the US.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:51     Subject: Re:The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
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Anonymous wrote:From what I see, Magnifico MAGA Members are partying like it is 1999. They are having their cake and eating it too, along with a few other cliches.


I dont know magnifico maga members means, but we are indeed having a great run here in magaworld. Crime is being addressed, borders are secure, tax breaks have been extended, the tariffs are shifting some of the tax burden so its not entirely paid by the top earners, no one is asking us to use terms like "chest feeding," and there's a bull market. I have no idea why the OP and everyone OP associates with is so down. It's a great moment in history! Enjoy it!


If that's what you're experiencing for yourself then you are probably quite well off financially, and probably should consider yourself part of the lucky top 2% or so. But unfortunately the remaining 98% of America is not, and you're very much out of touch with the rest of us.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:49     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.


Maybe GDP is not actually a very helpful measure?

Europeans generally have less stuff and smaller houses, but they have more leisure time and don’t have to worry about bankruptcy because of a health event or obtaining an education.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:49     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.


99% of Americans would take Europe over what America is. Europe has healthcare and vacations. America just has a few well connected individuals becoming Billionaires on the backs of everyone else and no upward mobility. Oh and the rich do not pay taxes and are not subjected to the same laws- Epstein and Trump.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:39     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.


For the billionaires, yes.


No, that matters for everyone. Imagine a country is like a household. Richer households have nicer things than poorer households. Parts of Europe are falling far behind; Germans now have a per capita income on par with the people of Mississippi. Being that poor comes at a cost- they've had cuts to health care, cuts to unemployment insurance, etc. You simply cannot be in an economic decline and only the billionaires notice.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:37     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


I’m extremely over worked and underpaid, yet I’m not sad. I find value in all that I have— my demanding job, my family, the occasional opportunities I have to relax.



Not everyone subscribes to the ignorance is bliss philosophy.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:31     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.


For the billionaires, yes.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:31     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


My current goal is to move to Europe.


How will it be better?


At least I will have more than two weeks of vacation a yea, universal health insurance, and public transportation so I don't have to sit in traffic jams twice a day.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:26     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters have just seemed to literally lose their minds and don't care if they drive the US into the ground. Seems like they are determined to turn us into a third world country with a non working democracy.

It is so sad, so preventable, but here we are .


It’s an entire party made up of damaged people. However, they only represent about 30% of eligible voters. If we can keep Trump from cheating (and that’s a big if) we should easily turn this ship around.


It's a party with a few nut jobs, a few Russian moles,and a lot of people with incriminating evidence against them that the moles have revealed to them; that's the only explanation for why they are such slaves to this madness.


Only Democrats are Americans. Republicans are nutjobs and russians. Why can’t a democrat always be president? That’s how our founding fathers intended.


Bingo! This exactly.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:19     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


Europe's average GDP growth over the past decade is almost half of the US's. All that vacation has a cost.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2025 14:18     Subject: The United States is so unhappy now, it’s not the same anymore
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s always been sad in the US. We are overworked. You go to Europe and they have month long vacations for 4-6 weeks during the summer.


My current goal is to move to Europe.


How will it be better?


They aren’t falling into fascism at the same rate? They have a higher quality of life?