Can please someone tell these Americans we have cars too lol

@Reject Ah yes, that's not debatable. I mean over here cities and the road network in generally largely precedes the invention of cars; on the other hand the guy is literally saying that nowhere outside the USA you can jump on your car and go for a trip lol

@Elessar I’m glad that daft tallywhacker only had a single like. Americans are strange. They’re so obsessed with the idea of their own freedom that they’ve never had it. They’re controlled by it.

@Reject I think those, that minority of nationalist, are just echoing the propaganda they're exposed to. They themselves don't have a definition for freedom - and the easiest way to make the castle of cards collapse, in general, is asking what they think makes them more free than Europeans or Canadians or any other western country. Some will go silent or deviate, some will go generically with "at least we're not communist!" (and good luck trying to understand what is communism to them), or "we have guns!!" or even "unlike you I have freedom of speech!!". B*tch, if I didn't have freedom of speech I wouldn't be having this conversation with you 🙆‍♂️

@Elessar From what I’ve seen, the general philosophy here in the west is to achieve desire. Own that gun. Buy that car. Whatever it may be. That’s freedom to us. I believe that’s a flawed way of thinking because a life of desire only makes you a slave to it.

@Reject having lived in Japan for a few years I was surprised how easy it was to live without owning a car, and how quickly I got used to it.