It’s like watching a car repeatedly drive straight into a wall. It’s unexplainable, it looks like it hurts a lot, but ultimately it ends up being darkly, ironically funny.
From my personal experience being an American on tumblr is like being the person in the BACK of the car praying that the person driving will STOP ramming into the wall.
A lot of us know this shit is stupid and we’re looking out the window like “LOOK THOSE OTHER CARS ARE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD LETS BE LIKE THEM”
But the driver is like “FUCK YOU! BUILT FORD TOUGH! USA USA USA DONT LIKE IT, GET OUT!” but the doors are locked and the car is now smoking and threatening to catch fire.
Reblogging for the followup comment! ‘cos that’s exactly what it’s like.
Literally ^
As a Canadian we have a front row seat to this stupidity.
We fund health care with taxes so that everyone can go to the hospital when they need to without bankrupting themselves. People always complain about wait times in Canadian hospitals but that is because everyone who needs an operation is getting one. If you don’t want to wait and you want to act like an American and spend thousands of dollars just to get it done a week from now instead of a month, go right ahead.
What is really stupid though is the gun laws. Canadians don’t feel the need to carry a gun everywhere with us because just about no one else has one. People with guns are either police officers or criminals. If you have a gun and are not in law enforcement it’s assumed you’re a gang member.
Except in the country they have hunting rifles. They go out to the middle of the woods and use them, or defending houses from wild life. All you have to hear is the story of how a bear walked into my uncles basement for a good reason to have a rifle on hand when you live in the middle of a forest..
More people die from being shot in a week in Chicago than all of Canada in a year. Americans always argue they need a gun to protect themselves but it is just because everyone else has one.