Burrrrrnnnnnn

It's probably black not white at this point, not because of bleaching, which did happen, just cause of decay. At least that's what PBS Spacetime told me

Durka? Ooooooh. Not durka. Surrender flag.

Propaganda

What they said is a line from a song we are made to sing as children. They don't really teach us about life in other countries, we have to do that ourselves if we happen to be curious.

They're just getting defensive because someone dared to criticize the U.S., that's all.

It's a big part of our culture, it's even in our theme song

They mean their government is free to do whatever the fuck they want.

Propaganda is why they're deluded to the levels they are.

Americans are by and large poorly traveled and unaware of exactly how badly they have it in America. Something like 1/2 of Americans have a passport, whereas Canada which is right next door is 2/3-3/4.

One of the weirdest things about that is they seem to be proud of it.

To be fair, this image has been reposted around since before 2020

Why would we care about someone else getting our sloppy seconds?

The American dream is to become rich and then do the exploiting yourself.

They may as well just give up with the American dream and rename it the rules of acquisition. At least then they'd be being honest with themselves.

I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United Snakes of America
And to the Repugnant for which it stands
One nation, under God (you fucking heard me!)
Easily divisible, with liberty and all for just us

Did you write this? Well done, if so.

hey now, that's not fair.

It might be a confederate flag

The french flag bears the same colors as the american flag

The Apollo 11 flag may not be bleached on one side.

That's because they put it too close to the lander and it blew over when they blasted off. This is the actual thing NASA kept secret about the moon landings for many years.

Anyway, since that flag's been lying in the dirt for all these years, it may not have been bleached by the sun.

Because the sun quickly bleaches them white as there is no atmosphere to shield against the UV rays.

"Burn this flag, asshole!"
The Sun: "Hold my beer."

*Rich

(That's actually the most important one)

Someone else has already said it's because of Capitalism, and to a point that's true. The other major reason is because of the economics of scale.

Belgium has a population of 11 million, the US has a population of 331 million.

Belgium has an area of 30,000 km^{2, the State of Virginia alone has an area of 110,000 km}2. The metropolitan service area (basically the city and surrounding bedroom communities) of Washington DC is 14,000 km^2 or nearly half the size of all of Belgium.

In 2022 Belgium had ~196,000 immigrants while the US had ~45 million.

Coming back to the question; on Education the 2022 census said that 91.1% had at least finished Highschool and 48.4% had finished at least an Associates degree (or higher). https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/educational-attainment.html

On Social Security 69.8 million people received social security benefits in 2020 (retired, disabled, or other special circumstances).

On Healthcare the US is behind the times in comparison with much of the world, our healthcare is typically tied to employment (your job likely provides your health insurance). While this is the case our taxes are typically lower than most of the countries that are compared to the US, basically instead of paying taxes to get free healthcare we pay for healthcare directly. Even then people can still get access to the ACA (Obamacare), Medicare, or Medicaid. According to the 2022 census 92.1% of the US is insured, though I couldn't find a good statistic on what percentage are under insured (as in they have insurance but really need more). I did find some less than stellar statistics (so take these with a grain of salt) but on average Europeans spend 12.5% of their income on healthcare in the form of taxes while the median (yeah I know it's not the same as average but it was a different source) American spends 11.6% of their income on healthcare in the form of healthcare premiums and deductibles.

In summary the US generally does have pretty good living conditions for the vast majority of people. The problem is that if 10% of the population falls through the social welfare cracks in the US, that's 3x the population of Belgium.

EDIT: I wanted to quickly add, the US gets a lot of flak for being involved in foreign wars, politics, and spending too much on military spending. A lot of people think we should instead pull back that spending and instead fix things in the US. I agree with this sentiment, we do over spend on the military, but the US has also given more money to supporting Ukraine than the next 9 countries combined. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/27278/military-aid-to-ukraine-by-country/

The song is literally American propaganda they make us sing as children...

Interesting. Source?

So paint last time you checked you mean you never checked, and you're talking utter gibberish.

No prison time, but a fine, and community order (I'm unsure what community order is) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

Either way, it's a shitty response by the UK government.

I mean it's a pretty decent joke

This is the internet, you're allowed to type fuck

Or rich, the US is the country that spends the most per capita on healthcare AND they add the necessity of having private insurance over that.

So... 2 out of 3 uhmericans?

Go ahead and pay my $5000-and-growing worth of medical bills this year if you're so rich, Uncle Moneybags.

Oh, and we supposedly have a good insurance plan.

Pour in this case apparently meaning doesn't have potentially 10 grand+ just randomly lying around.