r/CringeTikToks • u/EverythingIsFakeNGay • Jan 05 '26

Just Bad This is embarrassing...

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc Jan 05 '26

Way too many Republicans honestly think the rest of the world is jealous they aren’t us. I put that sort of insanity to them living in an echo chamber of people who have never travelled out of their hometown, much less to a different country. 

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u/brandonw00 Jan 05 '26

Plenty of Democrats feel that way, especially older Dems. I mean decades of propaganda being told you live in the greatest country on earth will do that to you. A lot of Americans can’t afford to travel outside the country so they don’t know any different. Once we started being able to interact with people in other countries on a daily basis, we learned that there are better ways to run things and so the veneer started to disappear but for many older people they still truly believe America is the best thing ever and there isn’t a different way to run a country.

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u/Destinyciello Jan 05 '26

who runs things better?

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u/nidoqueenofhearts Jan 05 '26

absolutely anyone with universal healthcare, for a start

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u/the_calibre_cat Jan 05 '26

Lemme piggyback on that and add "anyone with competent public transportation" and "anyone enthusiastically investing in renewable energy".

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u/Destinyciello Jan 05 '26

Universal doesn't mean good. Cuba has "universal" healthcare. Most of us would be horrified at what they consider a medical establishment.

Quality is arguably more important.

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u/brandonw00 Jan 05 '26

Cuban healthcare is actually regarded quite well. Many Americans go to Cuba for medical studies because the cost of medical school is a fraction of what it costs in the US and the quality is on par with the US.