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@twinsthings @wwalsh @tars75 Still keeping pace. And doing better than most major EU economies.

@Anthony94258331 @wwalsh @tars75 Statista, about the US

Such an incredibly insecure nation...I guess that comes with the territory when you're toddlers in world history terms.

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@Anthony94258331 @wwalsh @tars75 You accidentally cut off the top part of your prompt! Will fix that for you

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@Anthony94258331 @wwalsh @tars75 The US has had stagnant wages since the 1970s, several european countries since 2008 So your statement is...shocker...not cotrectly framed

@Heckonomy @ericvideos91 You could do the same.

@Anthony94258331 @ericvideos91 It is 100% true. Use your brain (assuming you have one) and look some shit up.

So many Canadians catastrophize as a way to justify our unacceptable/inhumane wait times “Yeah but I didn’t have to pay $100k” This is propaganda. wtf are you guys talking about? Get health insurance

@Heckonomy @ericvideos91 Only 1% of households actually pay premiums and OOP expenses that exceed 20K in any given year.

@Anthony94258331 @ericvideos91 If you're a family, you'll be paying about $25,572 to $27,000 per year. That is about $2,100 to $2,250 per month. I don't know a single family in Canada that has extra 2+k a month laying around for health insurance that has copays and deductibles, and covers basically nothing.

@Invictussoldeus @L__Macfarlane New Hampshire, Idaho, Hawaii, Massachusetts all have lower homicide rates in 2026 than Estonia, Belgium, and France as a counterpoint.

@Anthony94258331 @L__Macfarlane Yet still much higher that Europe. Almost all European countries have a much lower crime rate than any single state in the US

Nobody in Europe thinks the US lacks wealth, cars or houses. This was not a surprise to anyone. They do think the US has extreme levels of crime and violence, dire health outcomes, authoritarian policing, and a corrupt President — because this is just objectively true.

@Invictussoldeus @L__Macfarlane Definitely not true when talking about overall violent or property crime.

@X__Anderson @Microinteracti1 There is good reason to call this year's study into question. It shows a 45% YOY drop in US median wealth despite nationwide home prices remaining buoyant, a stable job market, and record equity prices.

@Microinteracti1 That’s 2024. In the UBS global wealth report 2026, the difference is even larger.

For the past year, MAGA has been screaming “Europoor” like a cheap car alarm going off at three in the morning. Nobody asked for it, nobody knows how to turn it off. But then along comes this chart. America sits at number four in average wealth. Except “average” is the statistic billionaires hide behind. Put Elon Musk in a room with 500 broke MAGA guys, and on average, everyone in that room is a multibillionaire. That’s the trick! Now look at the median. The actual middle American, the real one with the pickup truck, the missing teeth and the medical debt. Fourteenth place. Behind Belgium. Behind Italy. Behind Spain. And the ordinary European? The man MAGA calls a Europoor pays $9 for his insulin, glances over at the American paying $900 for the exact same vial, shrugs, and goes back to being more than twice as wealthy. He’d feel sorry for you, but honestly, he’s too busy being on vacation. And that gap between fourth and fourteenth? That’s not a statistical quirk. That’s the entire scam laid bare. America’s wealth exists. It’s just not yours. It belongs to about eleven people in Palo Alto, and you’ve been guarding it for them for free, like an unpaid nightclub bouncer, shouting at Europeans on the internet while the owners drink champagne inside. American exceptionalism. No other nation on Earth has ever been this successfully convinced to cheer for its own fleecing. So by all means, keep shouting Europoor. We’ll be over here with our healthcare, our six weeks of vacation, and our double-your-median wealth, trying very hard to hear you over the sound of how sorry we feel.

@X__Anderson @Microinteracti1 Median wealth is also a flawed metric of prosperity as it fails to normalize for varying age distributions, differences in median home price to income ratios, and differences in access to and incentives to take out credit (e.g. mortgage interest deductions).

@X__Anderson @hfbjg53287314 @BenjaminNorton Look at post-tax, post-transfer, post-essential discretionary income. The US is higher than countries like Spain, France, and Italy across every decile.

@hfbjg53287314 @BenjaminNorton United States has the worst income inequality in the western world, which also skews your income figures. Remove the top 5% and it looks quite different.

The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs. US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high. But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's

@chrisanthi_ @XSURVEYS2026 @L__Macfarlane And yet Joseph Stalin and General Zhukov would disagree with that take.

@XSURVEYS2026 @L__Macfarlane You should take your own advice; maybe then you'd know that it was the Soviets who defeated the Nazis and not the Americans.

@X__Anderson @L__Macfarlane Even within NYC, you can compare racial groups within the same income bracket and you'll find Asians consistently at the top in academic performance and life expectancy.

@Anthony94258331 @L__Macfarlane Is that why New York has a life expectancy the same as western Europe when it’s the most diverse city in the US, while white flyover states in the US is closer to Russia in life expectancy? That argument about diversity falls apart if you look at the data more than 5 seconds.

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@X__Anderson @L__Macfarlane Nope, you're making my point exactly. There's significant cultural heterogeneity between whites in different regions as well.

@twinsthings @wwalsh @tars75 Not having stagnant wages for the past 2 decades like the UK, Italy, Spain, and many other European countries.

@wwalsh @tars75 It's, like, congrats. Your multi billion dollar companies make money and artificially inflate your national worth...yay for the m/b/trillionaires! What exactly does that get you as a person, though? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

@BRFCJohn You've got some of the oldest, smallest, and shoddiest quality housing in all of Europe. Your unreinforced brick walls are far more susceptible to heavy wind and provide terrible insulation during the winters and summers.

Americans love taking the piss because we don’t all have air conditioning in the UK. Mate, we need it about a week a year. I’ll stick with opening a window—and solid brick walls instead of those hollow paper-thin ones. 😂