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That word you are looking for is 'maddening'.
This is why so many Americans identify with the Joker, use terms like 'clown world', why I have an extremely dark sense of humor at this point.
Being well-adjusted to a deeply sick and dysfunctional society is not a sign of mental wellbeing.
And yeah, I would have gotten out some time ago now, but unfortunately I've been crippled by injuries, and thus, impoverished by the rest of US society... so I'm here for the long haul, untill I more fully recover both my body and my finances.. though the good news there is I am making good progress... but the bad news is it may take a while longer still.
In the mean time, ... welp, just gotta hope Trump and the Reps don't cancel the Disability Insurance part of Social Security, otherwise I'm homeless in a month or two, and then likely dead or in some kind of prison or internment camp in another couple months.
The current plan for the homeless is, as with brown skinned people, concentration camps.
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Could you explain 'Complaining from a high Niveau'?
I don't know what Niveua means, though I am guessing the phrase is roughly equivalent to 'Get off your high horse' or 'Check your privilege' or 'The view from the ivory tower'...
... which all roughly mean that a person has a fairly decent, wealthy and secure standard of living, and the stuggles of the poor either do not matter to them, or are literally not even conceivable to them, as they've never had to deal with those kinds of problems, and have no idea how difficult it is.
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But uh yeah... America hates the poor, and whats worst is that they've trained most of the poor to hate themselves and other poors, for being poor.
It is so obviously stupid when you break out of that mindset, but, its very well trained into us, very hard for many to escape.
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Regarding Jews/Israelis, I just wanna clarify a distinction there.
I have many Jewish relatives, here in the US.
They all despise what Israel, and Israeli Jews sre doing.
There are in fact more Jews in the US than there are Jews in Israel.
For a great many of them, the actions of the state of Israel do not speak for all Jews, and many US Jews denounce what they have been and are currently doing, many of them have been taking part in and even leading protests against the ongoing Palestinian Genocide.
Hey, no worries!
I think my guesses were fairly close?
Either way, if English is not your first language, you speak it better than most Americans I know, and I appreciate you translating / conversing in it so well... I am of course your stereotypical American who only speaks English, lol.
As to general hatred of the poor... yeah, I know it occurs basically everywhere, to a sickening degree.
I've had many Eurozone online friends over the course of my life, and they've explained to me how in even the highly developed areas of Europe, each different country has their own fun flavor of social ostricization and bureaucratic mess of how assistance is qualified for.
As to the religious angle: I get the sense that we broadly agree, disagree on a few things, and some may be lost in translation.
I totally agree that religious extremism, religiously motivated acts of hatred and violence of all kinds are detestable.
I am an atheist myself, but uh, I realize that though I may disagree ultimately with whatever religion as an explanation for how the world works... many religious people are not extremists, and despise their own religion being tarnished by participating in horrific acts.
But at the same time yes, the absolutely insane irony of Israel, a state made for genocide victims... is now committing a genocide?
Fucking absurd.
Maddening.
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Anyway, I am not sure that the rest of what I'm writing is necessary or relevant, you may already know some of it, but it is hopefully helpful additional context as to how politics and terminology surrounding Jews functions in the US:
In the US we have a term 'Secular Jew'.
Non-practicing Jew, Non-devout Jew, Irreligious Jew.
Terms like that.
What this basically means is, someone who is Jewish by culture, by heritage, who partakes in some level of Jewish customs or traditions... but they are really atheists or agnostics, they do not really believe that the Torah, the Old Testament, is more than an important piece of their history, they do not devoutly follow or study it.
It is quite common in the US that many Jews are this kind of irreligious, and they are often quite politically liberal or left.
Conversely, in the US, on the right wing of politics, we have many, many fundamentalist extremist Christians who believe strongly in an apocalyptic doomsday scenario that very much revolves around Israel, the state, Israel the land, Israel the Jews living in Israel.
So, you end up with this wacky nonsense world where... Jews, left of center, in the US, say 'Israel does not represent all Jews, their actions are very bad.'
And then the other side, the right of center US Christian extremists, say 'Israel does represent all Jews, to criticize Israel is to criticize Jews.'
They say this despite most of the actual Jews in the US saying and believing the opposite.
It is madness.
I get some sense that this also occurs in European countries, but I am not familiar with... to what extent this occurs, I am not familiar with to what extent it is a massive driver of politics in general.