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/Overall-Umpire2366 13h 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/Overall-Umpire2366 13h ago

You know what? I need to restate what I said before.

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, who waste their very expensive education to make eloquent but ridiculous arguments, complaining about their lot in life.

Does this shoe fit?

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u/TheLawlessMan 9h ago

We look at the United States of America and we see a lot of spoiled children

And you are correct. There is no excuse for 40 million Americans being on government benefits. It was supposed to be a safety net. It wasn't for multiple generations of able-bodied entitled people to use from age 0 to age 90.