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Spark Your Soul πŸͺΆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸͺΆ @hey-nunya-business.bsky.social

...heating up, but we live on a different planet. We don't have uniquely American stresses in the rest of the West and Europe to contend with. We largely don't need to worry about our kids dying by gun violence, being one broken leg from total bankruptcy, or live in a culture where these things...

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Spark Your Soul πŸͺΆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸͺΆ @hey-nunya-business.bsky.social

...are so normalised that they're just a fact of life for the average American. Of course we have our own stresses, life isn't a peachy ride for anyone, but we have the advantage of a very different standard of education and the extra capacity to look outside our own lives to see what is going...

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Spark Your Soul πŸͺΆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸͺΆ @hey-nunya-business.bsky.social

...on in the wider world, and the capacity to pay attention to it. Yes, Americans are largely just now realising that they've been in steadily heating water for decades, but it's a little much to ask the frog in a pot to juggle while riding a unicycle and still realise the water is hot as fuck πŸ’œ

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