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Anon visits a bookstore
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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Is this about the US? Is the US alright?
I was in a bookstore yesterday. I did have a chuckle at this self-help book called something along the lines of "How to Politely Tell People to Fuck Off", which proudly stated to be written by a social therapist or some other Pokemon evolution of a psychologist.
Otherwise it was novels from mainstay authors, young adult stuff whose quality was undecypherable from their "my cousin knows Photoshop" covers and a bunch of pseudo-academic highly specific texts from local self-published authors.
I was disheartened to see that the native minority language section keeps shrinking, especially among children's stuff. And while I was looking at that I also noticed the manga section is bigger than the graphic novel section and that is bigger than US comics, which were now nonexistent. More neutral about that one.
You know very well that the US is not alright, lol
Is there a country you would consider alright?
Antarctica
No not really, but most are less fucked up than the USA
We're #1!
Most? Like Venezuela and North Korea? Ethiopia? Yemen? Cambodia? Ukraine? Russia? Sierre Leone? Mexico? Canada? Italy? Greece? Iraq? Iran? Sudan? South Africa? Sweden? Afghanistan? China?
Edit: ITT a bunch of rich trust fund wannabe commies who have never left their affluent neighborhood to visit anywhere except a four seasons in another wealthy country.
More than half of those have higher average living standards than the US.
As a Canadian I'm very confused by this guy, I think he might have brain damage
i count like 5 that probably have a higher standard of living.
a good chunk of those countries are literally at war.
I count at least 7 that probably have considerable human rights violations going on somewhere.
No they don’t
I get you're trying to be clever by listing a bunch of places that the US has either bombed, couped or threatened into destitution but that doesn't really make them less "alright" in the sense we're talking about here. And even for living standards, many of those are much nicer lmao. Then what's left... Yeah Russia also sucks, ok? If that's your bar for a country being alright then we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Lived in Canada and still have a lot of relatives there. They are worse off than the US because of a lot of the stuff Trudeau has done
i think those would probably fall under the excluded category of the term "most"
You really think Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, and even the PRC are more fucked than the US?
i mean, taiwan is facing cold war era shitposting, and im pretty sure the PRC is like, a meme, there's probably some shitposting going on over there with war im guessing.
Idk whether or not it's worse, but there's a good chance it is.
大战还没开始，就一点没有美国现在的糟糕。 真在它们俩国家都没有匈牙利那么乱。
man i love when random lemmy people who are on NSFW instances comment in random languages under my posts, shits always funny.
Politically however it seems to be all right lately.
Bruh
for all the idiots that downvoted this, it's a joke, it's a little thing called "word play"
the joke being "all right" as in, it's all right, literally, not alright.
TBF a social therapist is exactly the type of person that should write that book, they have extensive experience with helping people socialize appropriately, judging by the working title.