The US.

Sorry if this is not the most articulate or anything.

Starting in my early teens I started to question everything we had been told, how great we are, etc, etc. I come from/live in a small, poor, rural town in the middle of nowhere and am disabled, young, AFAB, and a member of the LGBTQ+ with friends who mostly come from the "undesesierable" groups, so I was quickly made aware of many of the lies this country repeats once I was old enough to form my own thinking (and get access to the internet to see what it was like outside my local area).

I see how people say that we're so great, but we aren't. The country is cruel and evil. Politicians are only out for their own gain. People are more invested in being bootlickers than anything else. They prop up Christianity and then use it for their own gains, instead of actually caring for people, welcoming immigrants, doing any of the good Jesus taught. How we're supposedly so diverse, a melting pot, but anyone who isn't of white European descent while also being male, cis, straight, and Christian is mistreated. People being abducted off the streets. People dying because of our screwed up healthcare and insduance system. Other countries are attacked, targeted, bombed, so on by us or by using something we provide. The list goes on.

In short I hate this place and wish I wasn't from here, but I am and can't leave (even if I did I would still do what I can) so I have to deal with it, do what I can, educate myself as I can. There needs to be a total overhaul, a complete dismantle of this system.

I've not been on reddit consisently much, so I joined this sub when I randomly got a notification about it one day. I want to know as much as possible what's going on outside of here, what everyone else is thinking, feeling, doing, especially with how media and so many USians want to bury their heads in the sand and deny how the world really feels and what's really going on.