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US is better than Europe! - Chris Arnade Walks the World

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(Warning: The headline is engagement bait. Read below for a more nuanced discussion. Well, hopefully it is more nuanced.) Every few weeks Twitter gets caught up in a fight when someone proclaims that Europe is better than the US, or vice-versa1. I usually stay away from these dust ups because it’s an ignorant debate. The question is badly defined, subjective, and impossible to answer, so the fights devolve into two groups talking past each other, until someone eventually drags out a picture of Breezewood, and then for all effective purposes it’s over2. To the pro-Europe side, Europe is a cornucopia of crime-free, gothic-cathedral-having cities with great public transportation, quaint row homes, and sensible policies on guns, health care, and child care. America, in contrast, is a dystopian landscape of depressing suburbs with oversized cars, soul-sucking strip malls, and people shooting up drugs and each other. To the pro-US side America is a land of hard-working, money-making, indepen

US is better than Europe! Or so say some people, at least by their actions Chris Arnade Apr 15, 2024 170 29 11 Share (Warning: The headline is engagement bait. Read below for a more nuanced discussion. Well, hopefully it is more nuanced.) Every few weeks Twitter gets caught up in a fight when someone proclaims that Europe is better than the US, or vice-versa 1 . I usually stay away from these dust ups because it’s an ignorant debate. The question is badly defined, subjective, and impossible to answer, so the fights devolve into two groups talking past each other, until someone eventually drags

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