• Mrfiddles@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    Started looking for places to move to in 2017 because we lived in a red state and the writing was on the wall. Settled on the Netherlands and moved in 2019. Getting through covid was a bitch and I’d feel a lot better if the Dutch hadn’t also just elected a right wing nut job, but my mental and physical health are noticeably better. Once you get out you really realize how toxic American culture is. It’s like swimming downstream from a mine your whole life and then suddenly getting air lifted to some Icelandic spring.

    • Johannes Jacobs@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl
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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, we laugh about the orange baboon up there, but we have our own chimpansee down here :( we’re in no way better then the Americans in that regard.

      I dont read the papers anymore, i dont watch the news anymore.

      Humanity is sick and rotting, and i dont think we’ll ever rise above that. Humanity will ruin itself and the planet.

      But yeah… Other then that i’m very peachy and positive :)