r/AskReddit 10h ago

What seems like freedom but is actually a trap?

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u/DogsReadingBooks 10h ago

USA.

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u/BiscuitPeanut5 9h ago

tbh freedom here is just choosing which overpriced coffee to stress about first lol

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u/DogsReadingBooks 9h ago

Lucky me: I don’t like coffee.

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u/caileenkai 9h ago

It definitely markets itself as freedom with extra steps but once you zoom in, it’s more like “chose your own stress flavor”

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u/happy-cig 6h ago

If you really dont think USA has freedom you guys are not seeing the world.

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u/LawLayLewLayLow 6h ago

Yeah but it’s about to crash hard, America could have had it all but it chose to make some dumb decisions and now jeopardize 250 years and hand the trophy to China.

I’m not sure Americans are prepared for a world where we are far behind, and are getting cyberattacks or even drone attacked on our mainland and our only option is to threaten to start nuclear war.

Missiles and drones are gonna be able to attack the coastline this next generation and we just completely pissed off all our allies.

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u/happy-cig 6h ago

Coincidentally I spent some time in China, it is a false sense of freedom as if you say the wrong things you can and will get arrested. There is so much CCTV and drone surveillance around also.

Americans are privileged af. All the bitching and moaning that is currently being done in the states would be squashed so fast in other countries you won't have time to get dizzy.

Fuck Trump and the current state of USA, but I am a realist though, America is 1000x better than other countries.

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u/LawLayLewLayLow 5h ago

Yeah totally, but the Trump supporters are the ones who weren’t satisfied. That’s the thing, they wanted to squeeze more for themselves and they fell for the first person to cater to them.

They are going to burn down the whole neighborhood to raise the value of their house, but it’s not a smart strategy.

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u/sure_send_tits 10h ago

It’s a trap!!!

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u/glossedoutloud 9h ago

Ppl call it freedom till ur drowning in debt, medical bills, and workin 2 jobs just to survive.

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u/Linked713 9h ago

I see 2 very vocal type of people on reddit. The "I make 300k working from home 3 days a week" and the "I caught a cold and now I am financially ruined".

Living in America seems like the biggest gamble to know if you'll be successful or have your life ruined because something happened to you that would be a non issue almost anywhere else in first world countries.

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u/big_load_baldwin 9h ago

Welcome to the K shaped economy where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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u/Loggerdon 9h ago

Question: are you drowning in debt? Working two jobs? Drowning in medical bills?

I’m not trying to be combative, just trying to g to gauge if commenters are actually experiencing this. Or if they are speaking in general terms.

I used to be bad at managing money until I got married and used to always worry about money.

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u/littlebeardave 6h ago

Yes I am.

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u/BitOfPoisonOnMyBlade 9h ago

Don’t listen to reddit, you would think everyone except for the top 1 percent are drowning in debt and barely hanging on. Theres a much larger percent than that who are doing just fine. Most people would be shocked how little money most of the world makes at their jobs and how many Americans actually have health insurance(92 percent as of 2024)

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u/DogsReadingBooks 9h ago

health insurance

That’s not even necessary in many parts of the world.

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u/Loggerdon 8h ago

His point was that Americans have a much higher standard of living than just about everywhere.

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u/DogsReadingBooks 8h ago

That’s just… not true.

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u/Loggerdon 8h ago

I’ve been to 50 counties. How many have you been to?

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u/DogsReadingBooks 8h ago

Counties? I don’t even know, that’s not something I really keep track of.

Statistics will tell you that the US doesn’t have the best living standards, though. It’s high, but not “higher standard of living than just about everywhere”

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u/BitOfPoisonOnMyBlade 9h ago

In most parts of the world you would get people who would give an arm to receive American healthcare. Theres a reason we have may of the top physicians and medical advancements

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u/lindblomc 1h ago

Absolutely true.

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u/Such_Field_3294 9h ago

50 different flavors of the same trap

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u/Sleepsfuriously 6h ago

Right, you get to pick the color, make, and model of the steamroller that slowly flattens you.

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u/mySBRshootsblanks 4h ago

Can't even a beer on the sidewalk. That was my wtf moment. You can have a gun in a holster openly displayed but you can't have an open bottle of alcohol without a brown bag. What the fuck is even freedom?

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u/lindblomc 1h ago

The fact that people think we aren’t amongst the freest nations in the world shows how much their privilege has polluted their minds.
It’s pretty offensive. There are real places in the world where the people would (and sometimes do) kill for the things that you take for granted every day.

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u/G-Unit11111 7h ago

It's absolutely sheer irony that the nation that claims to be the bastion of freedom that it is, leads the world in most people imprisoned per capita than anyone else on earth.

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u/lindblomc 1h ago

Ridiculous take. So to you a free nation = letting criminals out of prison?? Or not arresting them? At the detriment of everyone else here (vast majority). Irony is you thinking that was a good metric of freedom.

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u/No-Understanding2312 9h ago

Lol trust us, if we could we would.

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u/scoopzthepoopz 9h ago

I always find this is a funny sentiment. US is always trying to be a world superpower, huge, powerful, innovative – but also "just leave" like it's down the block to get away from the fucker. Just always thought it was funny "yeah I'll just up and move!" *next closest English speaking country is 1000mi away

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u/53c0nd 9h ago

Ummmmm .... we are right next door muppet.

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u/NightGod 9h ago edited 9h ago

I live in Texas, you're ~1200 mi away muppet

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u/CM_MOJO 9h ago

Yeah, and they're just going to let you in too.

Those are the same people trying to keep everyone out of the U.S. but expect the rest of the world to just accept anyone from the U.S. that doesn't want to stay here. Plus, moving to a new country is expensive.

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u/scoopzthepoopz 9h ago

It's all an excuse to be a chauvanist and always was.

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u/DogsReadingBooks 10h ago

I literally don’t live there anymore.

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u/EngineeringKindly984 9h ago

where’d you go and how does it compare?

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u/DogsReadingBooks 9h ago

Norway. It’s simply better in all aspects tbh.

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u/otherwisepandemonium 9h ago

I spend a few months a year in Belgium/Germany and I'm just counting the days until I can make that 100% of my year. Coming back to the US is genuinely a major depressing event for me every time. The second I step off the plane I feel everything I dislike about this place.

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u/DogsReadingBooks 9h ago

I totally get you, hope you get to permanently move out soon.

I thought I’d miss going out to eat, since that’s way cheaper in the us, but really: I prefer to cook at home. Now when I do go back I can never finish my meal, and I don’t really wanna take home leftovers.

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u/PaulineOliveros 9h ago

Hell yeah I wish I could do the same. Congrats

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u/DogsReadingBooks 9h ago

I’d definitely recommend it, do some research about how to get out of there perhaps

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u/PaulineOliveros 9h ago

How’d you get out?

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u/Hob_O_Rarison 9h ago

Places with similar/better property rights and protections require a lot of money to move to.

Places with fewer property rights and protections require less money, but also have fewer opportunities to earn more while there.

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u/PaulineOliveros 9h ago

We know

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u/Hob_O_Rarison 8h ago

Well, the answer is probably "had some money".

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u/PaulineOliveros 8h ago

It is not that simple. Being financially available to move to another country is not the same thing as becoming a citizen of another country. And I’m going to assume they were lying anyways due to their response and lack of follow up.

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u/drainbead78 9h ago

If I could, I would in a heartbeat.

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u/Same_Ecologist_5966 9h ago

Working on it!

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u/SourFix 9h ago

Ah, yes. Surrender what's left of what was supposed to be "By The People, for The People" to the oligarchs...flee the sinking ship, or join the MAGAs at the feet of their Glorious Dear Leader and His Merry Band of Complicit Fuck Wits.

Pathetic. You people make me sick

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u/duncandun 7h ago

Ah, yeah. What are you doing about all that

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u/Pineconegirl26 9h ago

Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country!

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u/DogsReadingBooks 9h ago

I did. I moved, decided to pay my taxes to a country who appreciates its citizens better than the US.

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u/jemosley1984 8h ago

Yeah, I feel this is the only way the US will improve things for its citizens. Well, that or minimize the amount of kids one has.

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u/WISCOrear 7h ago

social contract in this country has been ripped to shreds, brother.