It’s the BS “American exceptionalism” like this country was founded on “hard work” and the idea of “equality” when it was literally founded on slavery and enshrined in the constitution that an entire race of people were considered 3/5th of a person.

Right this very second, the same Republican Party who fights tooth and nail for the right to bare arms is trying not to let transgender people carry guns.

Which industrial country has a higher rate of incarceration than the US? A higher infant mortality rate? Less people covered by health insurance? A lower life expectancy?

There is absolutely no objective quality of life measurement that you can name where the median American citizen is better off than a country in Europe or in Canada or the UK.

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fragmede 6 days ago | parent [-]

Womens suffrage was also not part of the deal in 1776.

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safety1st 4 days ago | parent [-]

Do you guys really not see "I hate slavery and suffrage matters" as a tangent to the original point which was the problem of Big Tech not following the law?

I mean we all hate slavery, there was a funny bit about that in Bad Teacher, but not every discussion has to be about it

	▲	fragmede 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, it's a total derail, but this isn't Metafilter. Threading means we can have totally useless side conversations and anyone that doesn't like that particular sidebar can just click the [-] and move in.