I fucking hate living here. The culture is poison. The economy is a fucking disaster. The education is designed to leave a huge portion of the country illiterate. Every single atom of it is white supremacist. The land is all stolen. The capitalists are completely above the law. Fuck cars. Fuck America,
Thankfully I’ve managed to get myself into a really left wing bubble. The furthest right wing acceptable opinion in neuroscience academia seems to be “Elizabeth Warren types,” with my being an out and proud communist never prompting more than “Interesting! I’d love to hear more about that!” My white upper class professor was like “don’t call the cops unless you really have to, fuck cops.”
When I say shit like “cars bad” “America bad” “cops bad” “just fucking house the homeless jfc” and even “China handled covid way way better than we did” everyone mostly agrees. It’s pretty cool.