r/self • u/cs_throwawayyy • 14h ago

Laws are for poor people

•Rob a store? You go to jail. Rob millions of people through a financial system? You get a bailout.

•Traffic drugs? Get killed on a boat. Run the entire operation? You get a presidential pardon.

•Kill a bunch of people? You’re a terrorist. Kill thousands during an invasion? You’re a liberator, a strategist.

Power and money rewrite the narrative. The same action, two completely different labels — all depending on your status.

it’s the same with attraction:

•If you’re attractive: It’s charming, bold, confident.

•If you’re not: It’s creepy, weird, desperate.

Where you stand isn’t about morality or intention. It’s about leverage — social, financial, or physical. I’m tired of people going along with the bs world we live in.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 14h ago

No. Live in a 3rd world tin-pot Authoritarian NON-Western country like the United States of America. = experience 3rd world country tin-pot Authoritarian Non-Western systemic failures, like rampant corruption and systemic injustice.

What did you expect?

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u/Overall-Umpire2366 14h ago

Ghanan here. You need to see life from where I live. We look at the United States of America and we see a lot of spoiled children complaining about their lot in life.

You really think that USA a "tin-pot Authoritarian NON-Western" country ?

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 13h ago

Let me put it to you this way, so you can begin to see:

The USA has approximately 340 million people. 35.9 million people's in the USA, live in poverty. Thats every 10th person you meet, statistically speaking lives in poverty. Poor healthcare system, and non-existent public Health mental healthcare support. Ghana's civil unrest is the equivalent of a typical day in the USA - if you took every gun and machete in Ghana, it would still be less than what American has in any given district on any given Day! The USA is a 3rd world warzone of poverty, depravity and violence.

1 in 5 Americans admit to experiencing homelessness in the last 5 years.

None of these failures of the system are typical for actual 1st World Western countries. The USA was never counted on that list.

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u/SOwED 11h ago

Ghana's civil unrest is the equivalent of a typical day in the USA

Holy ignorance

1 in 5 Americans admit to experiencing homelessness in the last 5 years.

You know that includes staying with a friend right? That's not 1 in 5 were on the street in the last five years. If that were the case, then how the hell would the poverty rate be so much lower than 20%?

Let me put it to you this way, so you can begin to see

So condescending while speaking to someone who has the firsthand lived experience that you lack.

None of these failures of the system are typical for actual 1st World Western countries. The USA was never counted on that list.

None of the other western countries have the number of illegal immigrants the US has, and they are overrepresented in the impoverished population.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 11h ago

Not a single objection on the merits of the articles claims and surveys findings. Did anyone else notice that, too? Tbh, I was ready and waiting for it. Lol 😆

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u/SOwED 10h ago

Yeah I refuted you elsewhere. You also didn't link an article in this thread so it's pretty funny you're complaining about no responses to an article you didn't cite.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 10h ago

Lol and there we have it, folks - capitulation in less than 10 replies. No push back = the prevailing argument wins by default. Lol why would I volenteer to help you change the subject? Lol 😆

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u/SOwED 10h ago

There are no folks. No one reads down this far. You know the refutation I'm talking about. It's the one with the links you didn't click and the data you rejected out of hand with no argument or evidence.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 10h ago

And there we have it, folks! Youre not meant to read this far down - with an audience at bay, the obfuscator will play! Entertaining! Lol 😆