Why are americans such bad people?

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[–]HiddenFox 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Only a small percent are and sadly those are the ones we all talk about and remember. I've been to almost every major city on the east coast and spend many winters in Florida near Delray Beach. I never had an issue any more serious then I did in Toronto, Canada. I was very surprised how friendly people in NYC were. We were clearly tourist and people were great giving us advice on how to get around and good places to eat and visit. No one was rude.

99% of Americans and I would say most people around the world are decent just trying to live their lives.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Perhaps. If we judge people solely from our interactions on the Internet, we're going to think everybody is an asshole.

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Everyone is an asshole; it's just that for some people it takes years to show their true face.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

I'm like Trump: An honest asshole. It's the dishonest and phony ones you gotta watch out for.

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You aren't honest with yourself. If you were you would act different.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't think Trump knows the word honest. The US should just ban old people (anyone over 55 when elected) from Congress and the White House. The GDP would skyrocket.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then you'd just have people like AOC and Ben Shapiro in charge of everything.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It seems to me that you are assuming people's happiness is a direct function of the GDP output.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That just tells me that you can't read.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Care to explain? Or are you just upset I challenged your thoughts on GDP?

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Wikipedia is anything but a valid or unbiased source. Regardless, my comment wasn't that serious.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wikipedia is not a source. It's an information article written from a bibliography of sources that are cited at the bottom.

Regardless, there are over 30,000 documented lies that trump has told, so to call him honest in any capacity is laughable.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, and the sources cited at the bottom usually aren't valid, unbiased, well-researched, or credible. So Wikipedia provides summary articles of biased and often inaccurate or false information, which was my main point. And I'm not even trying to defend Trump here; you're just taking one comment way too seriously.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To summarily dismiss something because "all sources that don't agree with my statement must be bad" is just a poisoning the well type of argument.

If there's any part of a wikipedia article you feel is not accurate or biased, you can participate in the talk page and in editing of the article as well. The history of those are publicly available, too.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To summarily dismiss something because "all sources that don't agree with my statement must be bad" is just a poisoning the well type of argument.

Except I literally never said that and you're strawmanning me over some TDS nonsense. All of Wikipedia sucks. It's edited by people with a bias and agenda and gatekept by those same people that don't allow edits that go against their viewpoints. It's no more credible as a resource than Reddit or CNN. They're mostly just opinions. Like I said, I don't really care enough about this to keep arguing about it. I think you just really hate Donald Trump, which is ironic cause you're giving him more attention this way, when I don't even really care about this.