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So Luu, if you were given two choices of where you could live, would you choose the ME or the USA?
I'd like to live where the crazies aren't in power. And if in power, can't take people's live or freedom whenever they feel like it. So I guess if I have to it'd be the US since at least there they'll have to bring people before the court and I might be able to afford a lawyer.
Don't get me wrong, the US, and Western civilisation, has a heck of a lot going for it. But the good and commendable things it has aren't what we're reading in the press.
The West aren't great and noble because of its "Christian values". Heck, compare the times when the Christian religious nuts were all over the political map - it weren't so nice for the coloured folks, not so nice for the women of any colour, nor the homosexuals.. .and forget about the natives.
And it's not prosperous and innovative because of "capitalism". Count how many lives have been destroyed since Reagan and Thatcher and their neocons unleash that freedom for corporations to do whatever it is they wanted. Jobs are gone, the environment is going down the tube, workers are exploited and spit out when they cost a few bucks more than a graduate, wages are squeezed while profit and managerial pay skyrockets and the gov't can't tax much of it... Then there's the economic and financial crashes every few years where taxpayers money have to be use to bail out the "capitalists".