There is some weird obsession on the internet about proving the U.S. is the worst at everything.

Believe me, the majority of “The rest of the world” does not protect its citizens from harmful food contamination.

darth_avocado 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You’re the worst at everything when you’re the only one measuring it. There are parts of the world where vegetables are grown next to where factories dump toxic waste. Pretty sure no one is measuring that.

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llbbdd 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I attribute a lot of it to the principle of "punching up".

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rootusrootus 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Agreed. Nobody really talks about most other countries, while the US is pretty much top of the list of nearly every topic. So we're constantly a target.

	▲	dylan604 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> while the US is pretty much top of the list of nearly every topic s/is/was The US is trying really hard to lower its position on these lists. The US has not been near the top of reading/writing/arithmetic in a long time. The US is undoing a lot of federal regulations by eliminating/reducing agencies meant to regulate things like EPA, FDA, Dept of Education.