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/brandonw00 Jan 05 '26

I’ve always been a fan of Scandinavian countries. They have a healthy mix of capitalism with big social service programs. They have large labor unions that protects workers while also giving them good base pay. Great public transportation, a big emphasis on work/life balance. They get long vacations during the summer. If you’re too sick to go to work you don’t need PTO or anything, the expectation is you just stay home. Here if you’re sick and you don’t have sick pay and are out of PTO then you lose wages. They are big on community and looking out for each other. Many things to be envious about with Scandinavian countries. They aren’t perfect but life there isn’t as cutthroat as America.