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by apsurd 907 days ago
it's true that being born in USA and speaking English is such a lottery win.

Being a human is hard and there's misery in everything if you look! I'm a fan of Cornel West so if you ask me "what it means to be human" is precisely to eyes-wide-open lean into the DYING of everything.

So this is not about how great the US is. I'm grateful to have fallen into a language that caters to more people than not. And to be relatively safe insofar as this is just a huge fucking nation and it's hard to invade.

I'm also missing out on a lot of things. But i count my blessings just the same.