• generalpotato@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lol, no. Been here 20 yrs, pull in great money as a sr software engineer in the valley and I still think America is the land of opportunities and call it home. I started with 0 dollars in my bank with a simple part time job that would pay me $7.25 an hour at my local community college.

    Sometimes, you actually do need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and work hard to get to where you need to be. I’ve seen a lot of entitlement around me and people complaining without doing much of anything to fix it.

    Complaining and not doing anything about it isn’t unique to the US. That said, America still offers a ton of opportunities for those looking to succeed, and there’s a reason why the American economy commands ~28% of the world’s GDP. All things considered and if this admin stays in office for another term, I see the opportunities increasing even further.

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          1 year ago

          You seem to misunderstand, probably because your an American conservative.

          I’m calling you the fucking idiot, you fucking idiot.

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            1 year ago

            And I gave you the benefit of the doubt and actually removed my insult calling you an idiot for making the dim witted comment you made.

            You see the difference a decent education makes? Good job on assuming my political leanings, which btw are not conservative, so you’re wrong there as well.

            Calling you a fucking moron is probably an insult to the term “fucking moron”, but let’s leave it at that so that your room temp iq can comprehend at least this much.

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      1 year ago

      The entitlement is what is killing our country. People just want the nanny state to take care of them.

      I grew up poor, and was told if I did X Y and Z i would be successful. I did those things. I was successful. I had liberal friends who were surviving paycheck to paycheck. I put them on the same plan and they gasp became successful.

      It is why I love immigrants. They don’t listen to people who say you can’t be successful in America. They just come here and crush it.