• ramble81@lemmy.zip
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      13 hours ago

      It really does blow my mind, if you look at graph after graph of the US compared to the world, so much of the world is in line and the US is a constant outlier and yet people venimently state how good things are and “it’s just because the US is so big”, which is a complete fallacy.

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        8 hours ago

        Don’t forget that it was in part religious people who left Europe, because Europe was not religious enough for them, in the 18th and 19th century.