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I've wondered how much Serpentza and Laowhy86 understand our domestic politics and the Democrat's alignment with the Left that is destroying so many blue cities and states. Do they understand BLM, DEI, CRT, identity politics that have infected so many of our institutions?
There are far too many people in this country that would be THRILLED to turn it into South Africa. People who share a few things with the people who destroyed things there.
A guy I did work for was in the UK army. He spoke about working in Africa. He said we were digging wells for clean drinking water in the villages in this area. They would fit the hand pumps, so it was easy to use and no need for diesel pumps or electric pumps. The army would maintain the pumps on a yearly basis. A problem they had was when they went to maintain the pumps, they were all gone. People in the villages removed them and sold them for scrap. Some people just cannot be helped. Edit: Instead of hating on me for telling you the story, READ the post! It was a guy who I did work for that told me HIS Experience. He was ex British ARMY. IT WAS THE VILLAGERS THEMSELVES WHO RIPPED OUT AND SCRAPPED THE PUMPS! It wasn't a band of marauding thieves, either.
Same sort of stories i've heard from my friends parents while they were working there too. If you really want an evenings worth of entertainment about the subject, look up a Czech documentary called "Solar eclipse (2011) (Pod sluncem tma)". They installed a solar system for a remote village and went to check on it 2 years later. You can guess the rest :D
I think that’s the wrong take-away. It might also be that the situation was so dire that the thieves saw no other way than to steal the pumps. Maybe it’s a bad decision in the long-term, but maybe it got them through the day. Even CEOs and boards are often bad in long-term decision making.
Sad but its the natural human condition, from like 20 thousand years ago, before "we" learned agriculture, society and building cities and pyramids. They live in a real life zero-sum game, they will literally sell their own children.
As an American when I flew to foreign country for first time (Vietnam) I realized in about 5 seconds that the entire American population had no idea how good they had it (even with all of its flaws).
Not to even yourself out one thing you might consider working on maintaining is grace. I'll assume lady luck smiled at you: you have 10 fingers , 10 toes, got a fair education to make yourself self aware and a decent life. Where many white people go wrong is profound arrogance. They forgetting that western societies also had their own process to get where they are. They comparing themselves with illiterate and preliterate communities and conclude that indeed it is the color of their skin and an inherent superiority that makes the difference. It's an unbridled and unchecked arrogance where in they spectate on other peoples suffering simultaneously deriving a sense of false superiority.
I visited foreign countries, and it is a mixed bag. You can find poor places in the Philipines where people have more community and smile more often than a middle class suburb in the USA. There are things we can learn from them and things they can learn from us.
@destroya3303 my opinion is that I/you/ we can not run away from our character. You are fortunate lady luck handed you a good deck of cards. Sound fairly level headed character wise despite your education, self awareness, wealth and experience. Some people are born unaware and primitive remain so, others find themselves in a cesspool of suffering not of their choosing. You are right. It's a mixed bag. Some who are not self aware are level headed. But it goes both ways. There's westerners who are self aware, educated, wealthy but not level headed character wise. And their character screams from the words they talk.
@@destroya3303 Thank you for that. Americans are so trained to only value materialism. Being poor isn't the worst thing that can happen to people-no love for your fellow man is the worst. There's "community" in the US, but its divided up into "our kind". You get into a neighborhood and you aren't "their kind", lots of bad things can happen. Plus the US is the best at covering up their dirt, better than any country.
Joe Canadian here. I say this often , but I have travelled very many times to the US and have met and interacted with hundreds of Americans from all over. What I have found is that I was always treated honestly and fairly. I always felt safe. If I ever got into trouble I know I would just have to ask for help and it would be given. Americans are by and large polite , hardworking , and in a scrap , I want an American standing beside me. Love my American brothers and sisters !
Ditto. I've travelled and lived in the US. Always loved my American cousins. In 1999, when I moved from T.O to BC, I thought that I would end up in the US. I thought love would call me down. It didn't happen. Between 2017, when Trudeau said Canadians have no identity, and 2019, the country changed so much that I no longer recognized it, and I wondered, as a retiree, whether I should just pack up and go, emulating the marvelous spirit of the people who always treated me so very well. It would be my most courageous act ever. Or maybe staying here to fight for future generations would be. It's a daily struggle.
Thank you, my nabor, from the great white north. I won't say every part of the US is a safe, happy, and clean place. We have our issues, no doubt. Most folks that run into real trouble were looking for something they had no business searching for. That's not to say they deserved what they got. I'm just laying out the facts. If you don't look like an easy target or go looking to do business with criminals you will be fine
I am French. One of my friends had a study buddy (ethology) who had settled in South Africa. He studied primates in a zoology laboratory. He lived 10 years in South Africa. They moved to Cape Town to be in a quieter area. Six months later, he and his wife were murdered in their home by burglars. This beautiful country seems like a nightmare.
@@fredaves268 Sorry for your loss, unfortunately this is a story most South Africans of all races know all too well. Almost everyone has a horrific story to tell about someone they know.
@@DavidAsimov0 One could argue things were already collapsed for the majority long before apartheid ended. Let's not just tell the South African story from only a specific race's point of view.
@@thabzmad7265 problem is not all South-Africans _do_ that, only certain types of "South-Africans". and their victims are usually of the _fairer_ persuasion. stop coping and regurgitate the -integration fairytale- usual official tripe. 🙄
A friend of mine studied abroad in SA for six months in the 70’s. He stayed with a family in Bloemfontein (very upscale), and said all the houses were surrounded by tall walls with broken glass embedded in the tops. Even then, he said there was a palpable sense of unease regarding crime in everyday life.
In the 70s SA was very safe we slept our house doors open , there was law and order people respected the cops . It all went for a ball of shit from the 90s when Affirmative Action Shopping started in ernest.
My wife was born and raised in China (Beijing). Was a student here when Tianenmen thing happened so was allowed to stay here then. She feels like she won the lottery at having been allowed to live here for the last 35 or so years. She's proud to be a citizen and is amazed that US citizens seem to hate this country so much. She loves it with all her heart.
Ditto for my wife. She is from Taiwan. She and her sisters are some of the most patriotic Americans you will ever meet. There are still a sh&^( ton of native born Americans that love this country. You might not know that if you are from one of the deep blue cities where the liberals have sewn their venomous propoganda. I am now a California expat, and a happy citizen of Texas. They do have a lot of libtards here (San Antonio) but at least they are less virulent than the left coast variety. I sure miss the great California weather and the beautiful Northern Cal open spaces, but I would never go back to a place where a large part of the population is clueless. I say that with love as the rest of my family still lives there.
@@Ziguly Every other industrialized country provides healthcare to all its citizens. Housing is becoming unaffordable for most ppl. Life expectancy is actually going down. Wages have stagnated for decades. There are no journalistic integrity standards, meaning that they can (and do) lie. Vlt crm means some cities and neighborhoods are actually worse than many 3rd countries. DEI&CRT means if you’re a whtmale good luck getting promoted or even hired in the first place. From education to health and everything in between things are actually deteriorating.
Most paranoid place I’ve ever been to is a middle class neighborhood in a third world country. The neighbors didn’t have the money to hire paramilitary guards full time (only for night times) or bribe the larger gang bosses not to hurt them. So, they were ultimately at the mercy of everyone: the elites for their very rare middle class jobs, and the local gangs ability to hurt them that week. Needless to say, the walls around their neighborhoods were twice as fortified as in the rich areas, all the neighbors looked at you with suspicion when driving by their houses, and everyone in the neighborhood had very large guard dogs within their already fortified homes. Living in such a low trust society is literally like a prison sentence. Terrible!
You said it brother. Wire fences on the roof delimit our properties because we live wall to wall and need to set up defenses that prevent someone from jumping roof to roof.
I know a South African Boer working in the US, her siblings are still in South Africa. They have a home just like you described complete with a trained Boerbul guard dog. Her brother was killed in front of his children. South Africa is a ridiculous place for white people to live. One of the striking differences between many countries and the US that people can easily see who visit here is the lack of a perimeter wall around almost all houses. Go to Mexico, or the Dominican Republic and you will see thick masonry walls topped with broken glass. Americans never even think about this. But we tend to all have firearms and frequently dogs.
Hey Winston, Your video is inspiring. I live in Australia and I love my country, but I believe there are systematic problems with my country and I want to make real change, rather than just sit there and complain about it. Your video is inspiring. Do you have any ideas of how I can make change?
Actually, many or perhaps most of us have crazy experiences like yours. Not the same as yours of course, but pretty crazy. Some of mine were so nuts I am not sure I remember what happened correctly, I have heard some pretty strange stories from people. You'rs seem crazy, but not nuts, probably :)
I have left. I enjoy peaceful, more affordable and healthier culture of south Spain. After 2020, I decided to choose culture over government. The people I walk by and have as neighbors are more important.
Maybe because the population multiplied many times in a span of 1 day. Millions of African became citizens after being considered animals by the white population.
They would have to admit that genetics are the cause. This would literally destroy their entire worldview. These people think that everyone is a "blank slate" and that genetics do not affect intelligence.
I've corresponded with many white South Africans. Some became close friends. There is NO story detailing the black on white violence that can be exaggerated: The horror stories and misery that come out of SA describing black on white violence are morally inexplicable.
Violence affects everyone in South Africa, in fact the majority of people who suffer are black, and specifically black male ( Be free to research). But it doesn't fit your narrative now does it?
A friend of ours had her baby snatched off South African beach in broad daylight by a black woman, who rapidly ran away with the child, it was only because our friend is an athlete she was able to run her down and retrieve the baby - the police were not interested of course - and she and her family no longer live in SA...
As an ex-intelligence officer, I witnessed firsthand the terrible conditions in Africa, and even in South Africa, and it's gotten much worse in the past 30 years.
I am an immigrant that escaped in 1980 from a n Eastern European communist country and I 1000% tell you that the most Americans don’t have a clue how good they have it. Are there things that need solutions ? Of course - but look at the millions that crossed the southern border - WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS ? If it’s bad here why are these millions risk everything to get here ? I’m puzzled / have no words when I see how not in touch with reality most American are. I am wondering what will take for them to wake up !
@@NCXitlali you ever lived in a poor neighborhood in africa? theres crime plus you dont have the luxory of coming home to a home with electricity or indoor plumbing or clean water
Americans are fully aware of how good they have it compared to countries that are worse than America. But if you are poor and are stuck in a ghetto in America, it is just as bad.
I am a South African living on a farm and I can tell you that things have gotten significantly worse. My wife and I are armed 100% of the time no matter what, we carry guns to church, gym, shops, hospitals. Last year I spent R400,000.00 ($22,000 USD+-) on home security upgrades alone and have to fix it constantly due to attempted entry. Traveling after dark is madness as spiking of tyres has become extremely common and the horror people go through when stationary next to the road is unimaginable to any Westerner.
On of my best friends in school came to the USA from South Africa, he told me about Necklacing. We were 7 years old. The horrors he told me was haunting and enlightening.
@@djshumoomoo4075that kind of hatred has brought SA to its knees. Prior to ‘colonisers’ tribal population was much lower and intertribal conflicts were common. Then white farmers produced enough food for everyone to have a good diet and the population increased overall. It should have been utopia but two stages of greed and hatred ruined the country. First with an unfair apartheid system to oppress the majority of the population for the benefit of a minority greedy elite…stage two, replaced apartheid with a reversal of majority rule accompanied by corruption for a different group of elites. South Africa has been raped twice imho. I was born in Johannesburg in 1960 to poorer white family. We left in 1970 and I cried when we left. I was raised by a Zulu nanny and adored her. If it was safer I would return. I hated apartheid but cry hard that corruption greed and hatred 😢has ruined a beautiful country twice in my lifetime
@@CC-uq4hu SA could never work without apartheid sadly, as white are a small minority and the ones that made SA a success even as a western country in africa. Delete that and the majority would take the farms and more... and make it a corrupt shithole as all the others african nations.
When my Mother came over from South Arica to America, she said for the first time in her life she felt safe, safe to go outside, safe to go to the store, safe to go to school and safe to just be in her home. I'm sad I can't go visit the nation my forefathers made, but I'm still proud and thankful to be American. Happy New year everyone.
You can still visit SA for a vacation but our forefathers failed us so no place to live. Bad things happen when you are there long enough to happen to you, your friends and family.
This is literally because of race. You can't exist as a minority around a sub Saharan black majority. They will eventually exterminate you. No, they are not "equal" to us.
One of my best friends here in Australia is here on a visa from Pretoria. Some of the personal stories she had told me are absolutely horrifying. A lot of her family has been murdered, people tried regularly to kidnap her young daughters, trying to hide from intruders in their home, incredible stories. When they got to Australia her daughters struggled sleeping at night because there wasn't big metal bars on all the windows to protect them 😞
That is sad because of their fears. When my parents moved to east LA area the new house was divided front and back house. My sister and I slept in the back house with no lock on the entry door. That was in 1968. My mom sold the house in 2005 and that door never had a lock. It was just a very safe neighborhood.
there was a push years ago by the liberal government to allow white south african farmers to emigrate here.. but the left and labor party crushed this initiative.. saying they weren't in trouble staying in south africa... but a lot of peolpe knew the truth.. it was similar to the Zambian famers...
When I went to Afghanistan with the RAF one of the civilian contractors was a white South African. Chatted about home. He described how one time he and his wife were robbed at gunpoint driving into their property and car stolen but thankfully they didn't execute them . I joked that here he was in Afghanistan for work and he was likely a lot safer than home in South Africa
The private security companies in SA are basically a para military at this point. They are getting into gunfights on a daily basis, been that way for decades now.
I was born in Johannesburg 1960 we lived in apartments in Cape Town because we were not wealthy white people to afford huge security in a normal house. Every door and window had iron security bars fitted and we had two dobermans sleeping in the apartment with us..trained for attack. The old man next door was stabbed to death in his bed…so we moved in 1970😊
@@MacyP Some hire people with that type of experience but most are just regular people who need a job and can handle the training and stress. It is extremely dangerous work.
Years ago I had a young girl coming to my farm to ride horses. She had grown up in South Africa and her parents were trying to sell their house there after they moved here. Some friends of theirs had sent their two daughters to Canada to be with friends while they stayed to sell their assets. Months later nobody had heard from the parents and couldn't get in touch with them. They told me SA was very dangerous.
I remember a high school classmate who fled South Africa, telling me how her mother, sister and herself were tied up and raped for hours by a group of men in their own home and their father murdered. She was never happy and always seemed to hate this world. When this happens the people affected are destroyed.
Excellent video. Thank you for pointing out these facts. Most Americans have NO idea what it's like to live in another country. This is a very important video to share with everybody.
Same thing is happening all over Europe, a kind of self-hatred that promotes the erosion of culture and everything that unites a country. I'm an Immigrant in the UK and I've seen the slow decline of Britain's society in the last 30 yrs. no Country is perfect, but to watch it gradually self-destruct is heart breaking.
This is the part of the picture I think Winston doesn't yet see but he probably will in a couple decades. The reason Americans complain so much and I assume Brits as well is that our Countries may still be highly functional and safe by comparison with South Africa, but they have massively degraded since the eighties or nineties. To me modern America feels terrible because everything is probably 40% worse than it was when I was growing up. To Winston it feels great because it is still 100% better than SA.
Culture is downstream of race. Our biology dictates our behaviour, which dictates what we do and what we'll create (or destroy). Despite the countless NPCs indoctrinated into saying "race isn't real, it's a sOcIaL cOnStRuCt!!", every study actually done on the matter shows widespread differences even among adopted children who were raised right alongside other racial groups. And we see those broader differences in all the crime stats recorded by racial groups, where they tend to be staggeringly huge. This is esp. true of inter-racial crime, ie the targeting of other groups.
@@larion2336 This reads like a precocious 11-year-old who watched a single Steven Crowder video and cobbled together every slightly complex buzzword they learned to write an "insightful" TH-cam comment before learning basic grammar. Leave statistical analysis and philosophy to people who genuinely have skin in the game. It's about learning, not just confirming your biases.
American here. Thanks so much for the appreciation of our nation! We fight to keep out rights. We are pushing to fix horrible things like unlimited campaign donations and Epstein and endless wars and squandering tax revenue and missing public funds. These things can spread like wildfire. Hoping to keep the nation wholesome for decent people like Mr. Winston to enjoy and benefit from. Thanks for the video!
Well, maybe readers of this comment section might understand why Americans "cling to their guns." The police in my city are very good, I am not criticizing them. But, the crime event often happens so fast that even in town with good response times, the police cannot stop the crime in progress.
@@kansashoneybadger7899 There's a saying, "When seconds count, police are only minutes away." Fortunately, for me, I live in a low crime area. I've been in my house for about 20 years and never had any incident occur to my home or around my neighborhood.
Another American here. While I agree with the sentiment, you *have* to be joking about pushing unlimited political donations out of campaign financing, when an oligarch who was an illegal immigrant for 11 years literally just bought the Presidency for $277 million dollars? And the incoming President was not only a close friend and associate with Epstein, but he's on Epstein's flight logs 6 times??
American here. We're not pushing to fix horrible things like campaign donations. An billionaire who was an illegal immigrant for 11 years just bought our Presidency for $277 million.
The crazy thing about the self-loathing rhetoric in America is that it's a minority. A large minority, but a minority nonetheless. Their voices get amplified by the machine that profits from fear. That is the issue.
As a Canadian who used to travel frequently to the US, I have always found small town/ rural Americans to be some of the most welcoming people I have met. However, my rule for travel to any country is to stay out of cities. You tend to meet a better quality of human being in any country if you follow that rule.
I live in Virginia right beside the Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian Trail is about 1 mile from me. I absolutely agree. It is so peaceful here, when I go 40 minutes over the mountain to Charlottesville it’s a nightmare. It absolutely depends where you are at, in the United States. I really hope you enjoyed your stay here.
Yea complaining is the easy part, solutions are headache-inducing, mind scrambling, long form thoughts and ideas that take refinement, honest and open discussion, and time. That is extremely hard for humans in general because as time moves we change, our ideas, our moods, our literal pathways in our brains. The bigger the problem = literally the harder it gets to solve with collaboration. Stay w❤ke
I went to South Africa for a two week long white shark diving expedition and the program head made the decision not to dock and let us stay with the host family like we were originally supposed because it was “too dangerous” (we slept on the boat). Sometimes I think about how insane that entire situation was…we were all there to voluntarily swim with what may be the most dangerous animal in the world (or at least one of the most feared) and that wasn’t deemed the “dangerous” part of the trip. Some parts of the USA are dangerous…but not that dangerous.
I spent 6 years in the United States Marine Corps back in the 80's and 90's and traveled (and lived) all over the world due the fact that I was an aviation electronics technician. I can tell you first-hand that America is where you want to be. After seeing how the rest of the world lives I never, ever, took my country and its freedoms for granted again. I believe every American should be required to live abroad for some time to get an appreciation for how damn good they have it.
I agree if you are not living in or near a blue city like Saint Louis, Kansas City or Detroit. I am similar to you 21 years in the Air Force traveled to 80 countries lived in over a dozen. I currently live in Bangkok, Thailand for the last 3 years and it's probably the safest big city in the world, even more than Tokyo where I lived two years. There is nobody looking to steal your phone here, you can actually leave it on the table with your backpack and go order food. I don't do that because I am an American who is still paranoid about theft and you never know. I plan to move to America in April, I was going to try Tennessee or Arkansas.
@@ShadyD365 America is definitely better than most 3d world and ex communist countries. It is less dangerous than white-settled African countries. So much is true. But it is not better than Japan, W. Europe, Singapore and even Costa Rica. It is not better than Australia or NZ.
My partner and I emigrated from SA to the UK with our son 20 years ago. I had lived there for 40 years, done my conscripted time in the SADF and ran a pretty successful business there. My partner had lived there for about 20 years. When we came back to the UK together, it took her ages to realise we did not need burglar bars on every window, high fences or automated gates. To me, it was like suddenly being able to relax, not peering over my shoulders and treating everyone with suspicion. Even here in the UK, we have it pretty good.
That’s going to get so much worse under Trump/ Musk. Anyone who expects billionaire tech bros to care about your wage slip is on another level of naive.
@@happymaskedguy1943 It's a bad situation when virtually nobody is offering a proper solution, except one, and he and his followers got dragged for it.
As an American, thank you for this, Winston! Glad you decided to call the United States your home, and become a proud American yourself. People like you are part of what makes this country so great! Hope you and your family have a safe and happy New Year! 🇺🇸🎆🎉
i got invited to live in the USA, i thanked and said no way.... i am living in a much better country, we dont invade countries because our president want his name on a hotel!
That was a be happy we aren’t the worst video… but really? Is that who we want to compare ourselves to? Is that what we should do, accept things get worse and worse, as long as we aren’t “the worst”?
We hate what our sell-out "leaders" have done to our once Great Nations. We have every right to hate what they have become. They are all shit now. Be honest.
@serpentza: Happy New Year. It’s your American friend who lives in Japan. Great presentation, and I agree with you. You are our customer, and the customer is always right! Welcome to America, and I wish you and your family a Healthy and Prosperous 2025!
In the 90s, I worked with a co-worker whose family had just left SA for the US. Their standard of living decreased significantly (a lot of having to start over again), but they were damned glad to be here!
I am so very grateful to hear you say what you said. It is sad that so many people think that America should be destroyed. I love my country. Thank you for defending it. I wish more people would do the same.
I'm also a south african and have lived in America for 13 years. I have now moved to the Philippines because I can't afford to buy a house in the States. But if you can afford to live in the States, nothing can compare.
I'm an American expat in the Philippines. Whenever someone online talks about crime or poverty in the Philippines, someone usually says something stupid like, "BuT wHaT aBoUt LoS AnGeLeS?" 🤡 I love the Philippines, but if I was homeless, I'd much rather be homeless in the US.
True, but when we look on countries comparable to the US - basicly European countries - you would definitily rather be in any of those countries, than in the US ;) Let's talk Germany, France and even post-brexit UK, not to mention scandinavia. You basicly have to choose homelessnes. It's a bit more complex, because there are mostly systems that will prevent you to be homeless if you seek for help, but most homeless people in Europe do have problems that make it impossible to seek help. Like psychological issues, drugs, etc. But that homelessness in that scale is even a thing in a country like the US is a problem - and a shame.
Absolutely... I've been homeless in the U.S... you get food stamps, have shelters available nightly, and job placement services. Not to mention it's infinitely safer on the streets compared to ANY third world country. I always knew that but traveling definitely shines a light on the issue.
Same for the people in the comments here trying to go "well, I'm not saying it's the worst but it's going downhill" like...downhill compared to what? Most statistics show the US and most Western countries are improving by various metrics decade by decade, quality of life...safety / lowering crime...etc. I feel like some just are on their phones WAY too much and don't understand that reality is different than social media
"I despise when some American's say that America is the worst country" These individuals have probably never left the US to make such a statement, and have not witnessed how bad some countries are.
@@ChristoffRevan come on dude look at the stats. Many 3rd world nations have far less violent crime than the USA. That's a stone cold fact. India of all places has less violent crime! The USA is beginning to look a lot like Russia.
It has been going downhill. I remember as a young boy, a girl had been murdered in the neighborhood. This hadn't happened for years. Now, murder is more common. As a matter of fact, the county I grew up in, has become a hell hole. Violent crime in Prince George's County Maryland has increased from the same period last year, driven by assaults and domestic violence assaults. No-weapon assaults are up 28 percent, and no-weapon domestic violence assaults are up 36 percent. People are afraid to say it is because the black population has taken over Prince Georges County. Well, this post will probably get removed but someone has to say it. People are afraid of the truth. This suppression of free speech is the reason the US will collapse.
Great video, man. I'm an American, born and raised, but have also seen what life is like outside of this great country and even lived in Central America for a year. I tell you, we Americans are spoiled. We lack perspective. We have no TRUE perception of safety, security, and individual rights...but I digress. Thank you for posting. I hope this video goes viral. People need to hear your message. I'll see you in 2025!
It will not help, America already voted for a President that always says bad things about America. Everyday without fail bashing his own country, even attack his ancestors country Germany.
I am 63 years old and I grew up in Rivonia and later lived in Lonehill, so you and I have had similar experiences in the northern part of Johannesburg (though generationally different). I can attest to everything you are saying and in fact things were actually more horrific than that. Twenty years ago I emigrated to Australia with my wife and young children and have no regrets giving them a much better life relatively free from fear. 🇦🇺🙂👍
Aussie here. Happy to have you. I was disgusted at our criminal government here when they refused to give refugee status to more White SA farmers who were being slaughtered by blacks....and yet they continue to flood us with Indians, Chinese and Arabs. Sickening
As a former Rhodesian an having been to China multiple times I understand what you are saying. I hope and pray that you and your family have a great year.
17:33 You made a great point. I live in Iran. My country is basically a failed state. The economy has completely collapsed. The infrastructure is failing and power goes out everyday. We have a shortage of water, food and medicine. We also have the worst air pollution in the world (although the government is hiding the data). But the Iranian state media never talks about it. Instead they are talking about America's problems, like homelessness or police brutality. This is a really effective propaganda method because it helps the Iranian government hide it's incompetence from the public but also portrays America negatively and demoralizes Americans.
@@bernarddavis1050 As I said, there is no way for me to prove it because the government controls the air quality sensors, and they withhold information, but based on what I saw it is comparable to India and Pakistan. Which is a disaster because Iran has a much smaller population than India and we also have the on of the biggest oil and gas reserves in the world.
I watched a show where a woman was moving to SA from America to be with a man. He had rigged up a system with his garage door to pepper spray any intruder. She thought she was going to be able to go on runs outside by herself at all hours. Add in the rolling blackouts, wheee! She was shocked. She didn’t stay, big surprise. We are so lucky in America but we have to fight to keep it that way, there’s nowhere else to go.
indeed, Not only in SA but also Nigeria. My parents came from nigeria to america and the amount of stories of they have about that country is just baffling. One of them being that they will just see dead bodies on the freeway as there going to school, my ass is privileged and thankful to be in this country despite how many flaws it has
As much as I am grateful for America and its many blessings, there are other places to go, IMHO. We aren't "the last" place, and there are still things about the U.S. that are a major pain in the ___ such as Cancel Culture / Woke extremism / excessive hypocrisy showing up in tribalism on the Left AND the Right.
@@machtnichtsseimann All the places I can think of that might be decent alternatives to USA also have those things now. In many places it's worse, like Australia where I live, we are prob more woke than USA unfortunately, certainly more feminist and our govt is trending towards more totalitarian. Same deal in UK. Maybe there's some European nations that are better... or Japan, which is ideal in some ways, but there you still run into problems with govts and local laws being weird.
I've been watching your videos for a number of years and your talks about China, South Africa and America are good. The world traveling of yours is one of experience of living and being there, giving experiences and knowledge. Keep giving your opinions.
Thank you for this. A LOT of the hate comes from Americans who have never left the country and are totally ignorant about the world outside the US and foreigners who themselves have never visited the America and are just parroting stereotypes they see on the news-and what they hear from these aforementioned clueless Americans.
Living in the Nordics in Europe would shock people from South Africa I think Never seen an assault, never been robbed, never been hit. Even alone on empty street or crossing through a park in the Dark at night It is really a commodity you can’t begin to value
I live in Germany and back in the 90s and the early 2000s there was a big wave of emigration themed reality TV shows running on German TV. Camera teams followed people, mostly families, leaving Germany to move to other countries. The destinations were mostly the classical ones, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but back then South Africa also was a big one, probably No.2, after the USA, on the list, maybe even No.1. Lots of German families moved to SA to open restaurants and jet ski rental services and stuff like that. SA was sold as this up and coming land of opportunity on German TV back then. I often think of that and wonder what happened to those families when I look at SA today and hear Winston talk about it.
@@Ziegfried82It’s Not that bad. A large percentage of South Africans especially in certain parts of the country live perfectly normal lives more or less. This is fear mongering Kak.
@@r.mariano8118 Even if all the things you hear and see about crime and chaos weren't true, even if one wouldn't have seen the videos of the ruling political party in the country singing songs about killing white people, and leading politicians talking positively about future genocide, even then, the rolling blackouts and only having electricity a few hours each day alone would be enough to prevent people from living "perfectly normal lives" and surely enough to make anyone who moved to SA in the last 20 to 30 years regret their decision. So it seems rather obvious that it is you who is talking "kak" here.
@@r.mariano8118 First off, are you a politician? Secondly, what colour are you? (like it or not, ethnicity has become a more and more divisive thing.... just as we were warned it would, way back in Matthew, chapter 2wenty 4our, 7eventh verse) Thirdly, what on earth is 'normal' about living in constant fear?
Meanwhile, the US has the highest income inequality in the G20 by a long shot. You have 97% chance of dying in the same economic bracket you were born in.
' Monkeys laugh at other monkeys asses not knowing their own looks exactly the same...' East African proverb. It's funny how white racists enjoy looking down on backwards African 3rd world societies. But youll never catch them talking about their own societies and social issues e.g., all the stupid, horrible, backwards, corrupt and evil things that have and continue going on In western societies have done. Take Putin for example because he is white what can we make of his move to send hundreds of thousands of young Russians to die for nothing in Ukraine? All those smug better than all the other races racists have horrible flaws at the historical level, individual level, and social level. They are just very good at musing at illiterate Africans who have little to no self awareness. My what a high standard to place for oneself. Race superiority is an egotistical delusion. All that matters is competition, chaos, individual/social enlightenment, ethics and power
' Monkeys laugh at other monkeys behinds not knowing that their own behind looks exactly the same...' East African proverb. Of course many African societies are backwards. Western societies have had historically many of the evils and problems that they muse at in Africans. Read on the net and you will find a plethora of cases of spurious and gratituous corruption, violence by caucasians to each other. They are just very clever and good at hiding their past flaws as societies and as individuals, at 'rewriting history' to be more flattering to the self. Stop flattering yourselves. Youre just humans who are ahead of the curve which is drawn by the fingers of evolution, chaos, enlightenment, innovation, conflict, power and economic success. Your not 'better than' or special. Lady luck just smiled at tou and threw you on the pleasant side of history unlike some unlucky North Korean peasant. But if you must delude yourself to feel great keep doing so.
he was also right about democracy... men are meant to be ruled by a singular leader. a monarch. a benevolent king is always better than the nameless faceless tyranny of the "system" we have today. the only problem is the mad king.
ancient rightwing propaganda. implying people are not identical and therefore deserve different treatment is an easy excuse for injustices like slavery and war. and just look at autocratic systems and compare them to democracies, it is a joke to say democracy is worse.
Constructive rather than destructive criticism 🙏❤️ Many thanks for spreading this message Winston 🥰 it’s my obsession presently. Much love and support.
Lived in northern Michigan my entire life and I do not take it for granted for one second. Nor would I ever want to be anywhere else. I could complain about a lot of things, but it wouldn't matter. My ancestors came here 6 generations ago from somewhere in the british isles and I live about 10 miles from where my greatest grandpa and his sons logged timber. Got a few native relatives from that time too, but its been bred out of me for the most part, mom's side is german, english and slovak. I dont think there is a very bright future, but I'm thankful to have lived in a great place in a great time and comforted in the idea I will pass before I see what happens next.
I understand what you are saying. The UP and the North mainland are stunning. I'm so grateful for my wonderful childhood and most of my adulthood in the US. Unfortunately, I can no longer afford to live there after working for almost 40 years because the retirement money which I thought would be plenty is no longer enough for me to live well. Sigh... We did have it much better than our kids did. 😢
Back in the early 80s, my wife and I took a trip to the Bahamas with a group that chartered with Arrow Air, and their trusty old DC-8. we rode back to Philadelphia on the same jet. The second the wheels touched the runway the entire cabin broke out in applause. I wondered why that happened, I mean Nassau was dotted with luxury resorts. That experience reminded me of the "Freedom Bird" out of Vietnam in 1969. As soon as we crossed the coastline, everybody cheered. BTW Winston, I probably commented before that we are glad you are here and you and your family are welcome additions to our society.
As a natural born U.S. citizen, I understand America is the most privileged country in the world. The problem is some people feel entitlement and guilt because of this. I'm grateful to have lived here my whole life. We're glad that you're here too, Winston.
It's not about privilege. I think Americans SHOULD feel guilty because your so called privilege comes at the cost of literal genocides in other parts of the world. As tax payers, you have blood on your hands.
The problem isn't so much the people who feel entitlement and guilt, but rather, those that have been brainwashed with marxist/socialist ideology into believing that America and its capitalist structure is an oppressive society. Simply put, those in the 'victimhood class', i.e. antifa, blm, etc.
I wouldn’t agree with most privileged! Definitely not! Most privileged countries are these with free healthcare and a society that cares for you if you fail.
For all the people saying "Americans don't know how good they have it," they are mistaken. Americans know very well how good they have it, and most have some idea as to how they got there and how that's maintained. The only people who don't know tend to be people in college and those who've spent their entire lives in urban/suburban areas. That's why the 2024 election results turned out the way they did.
Those in charge in the United States of Israel, like to insulate/coddle Americans, from seeing how bad things are around the world. BUT, they want us to be completely dependent on gubberment to solve all their problems, entitlements are given out like candy to ignorant children, and hard workers trying to make more $$$, are punished by higher taxes to fund the freeloaders.
totally missed the point that when americans point out how bad america is getting, they are comparing it to what it USED to be 20-30 years ago not a 3rd wold country 🤣
Exactly! That was a horrible comparison, were not the worst, so be happy you’re not. People aren’t happy with how much we’ve deteriorated in the US. I would love to post specifics but CensorshipTube almost always deletes my post when I cite stats and specifics.
Healthcare is a joke. Housing is getting unaffordable for most people. Vlt crm in some cities, is worse than many 3rd wrld cntrs. There is no jrnalistic integrity. Wages have stagnated for decades. DEICRT means if you’re wht, good luck getting a promotion or even hired in the first place. I could go on and on… but CensorshipTube likely won’t been allow this.
Let's be real here though the US has higher violent crime than several 3rd world countries and it's been this way for a long time now. The deterioration continues. The decline accelerates.
@@Ziegfried82 IF you subtract the crime in america that is commited by people sharing similar ancestry to South Africans then the west looks extremely safe.
Exactly. It's so easy to hate on your country when it's the only point of view you ever had. We all know how laughable Canada is right now but I'm still glad to have been born here. But also... I see footage from 30-40-50 years ago, I hear stories from my parents, I notice differences from when I was younger etc. And it's clear this country is no longer what made it so great.
I grew up on the southside of Chicago in the late 90's. And I can tell you from experience: While it wasn't the safest place in the world by any means, it wasn't as bad as people portrayed it. Especially from people who have never even stepped foot in Chicago. And nowadays, it's completely overblown to the point of parody. Chicago is a lot safer now than it was a quarter of a century ago. Yeah, you still have areas that you should avoid, and for good reason, but that's really the same anywhere you go. And if you're a tourist in Chicago, unless you've got a bank balance with eight digits, you're not staying within city limits anyway. You'll probably be staying at a hotel in Bedford Park, Rosemont, Des Plaines or Bridgeview; surrounding suburbs that are actually pretty nice.
My adult son was in the US recently for some academic conferences; never been there before. He went to LA and Chicago, after having been to Rio. I asked him what he thought of those American cities from his limited observations. He said: not so different from Rio; basically, dysfunctional shitholes. Make of that what you will.
@@bernarddavis1050 Anyplace under Democrat control is gonna be like that I'm afraid. I was in San Francisco in the late 90s and early 2k's, and let me tell you, it was a great place to be, even the non-tourist areas. Now you go down there and His Glorious Arrogancy Newsom has made quadruple certain that you are going to be hit by some crime or other no matter where you decide to visit.
@@bernarddavis1050 Absolutely true. Even those people living in those shithole cities like LA and Chicago know it. Since COVID, I have had neighbors buy up houses in my rural area and they've all said cost of living, way of life, stress levels, etc are all so much better than the big cities. The only downside is that all these big city folks are bringing their entitlement and impatience with them.
Tell those young men involved in that life and all the bystanders who are their now that they have no violence, its "Blown Out of proportion" you could not be more out of touch, tell the hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded a year that their is no violence problem in chicago... Also just because you can point at another country and it's worse their, that does not nullify the problems here...
I have just spent three months wandering around China. I found it to be the safest country I had ever been to. I would choose safety over freedom to criticize anytime.
As a former Chinese citizen, I echo your sentiment: I absolutely enjoy my life here in America. People are friendly. The system is by and large fair and square. The scenery is stunning. There are ample resources and opportunities. I will visit other countries (not SA) but will always be happy to return to my adopted home.
@@jasondrummond9451 nah it's par for the course. Unless you haven't been watching lately of course. Dems totally owned by the billionaires now too, what a mess. Complete failure of the two party system.
Nobody thinks America is the worst place in the world. Not even her biggest critics would ever say that. But it is undeniable that America is getting worse by the year and has been since at least 2000, but probably slightly longer. America may be great compared to where you come from, but it is far, far worse than when I was born in the US 55 years ago.
Well the goal is to be eeeeeeeequallllllllllllllllll...that means turning civilized countries into third world lawless slums. You cannot raise the garbage UP, but there's always a lowest common denominator. That is the basics of communism. Next step globalism.
I heavily disagree, the US has improved, sure it’s got its problems but it is an incredible country filled with opportunity and chance. Many other countries in the world cannot offer you what the US can. I do think I understand where people from the US get off thinking it’s gotten worse though, it’s almost like you have to be an immigrant to appreciate and value what the US has. I’ve also noticed that most people from the US do not go out and search for opportunities, they just sit and wait for the government to give them handouts and then blame others when that doesn’t work out. Meanwhile the immigrants see the opportunities they didn’t have back at home and take them. Then people from the US blame the immigrants for taking the opportunities they didn’t want in the first place, then the cycle repeats.
Hello my American elder, i just want to inform you that there is genuinely people living in the USA and were been born there, actively telling themselves and others that America is in fact "the worst place in the word" in fact it's actually a trait that people base their personality on and use as a condition check with friend groups... They exist in an echo chamber, all the while their mindset is reinforced by peers and others (traitors/foreign trolls who benefit if they disrupt the mindset of a countries youth) & essentially brainwash themselves. These people are so far down the victim hole they convince themselves the country is worse than a third world country. The app tiktok is a perfect example of how this is actually occurring right now... In China where tiktok comes from, it is super strict, the algorithm works in a way that is beneficial to the youth, it highlights positive things and pushes a 'healthy' narrative. Buuuut in every other country that China competes with, well all you have to do is type the word tiktok into youtube and you will realise that in every other country tiktok pushes a narrative that is disruptive to young minds. I'm only informing you because i love America and we cannot underestimate the lost individuals who are actively trying to destroy her. Sir please try keep this in mind, a lot of individuals from my generation are so blind and have no pride or integrity. They didn't have anyone telling them how lucky they are and how it's up to them to carry the torch of success for the next generation. Anyway with love and care from Australia, don't underestimate the ability of a gen z individual with the victim mindset. Anyway God bless, i apologise for the lengthy response but i was really shocked and disgusted when i found out that this is a real thing.
So true. I was born and grew up in the Soviet Union. I came to the US in 1977. Soon after I came I saw a cover of some major magazine, which said, "American GULAG." Whatever bad thing exists anywhere in the world, someone here is guaranteed to stick "American" in front of it.
Yeah like them calling Trump our Hitler. They can’t possibly say how many millions of people he killed to be like him so then they say well he will be. But Americans take away from how horrible certain things and people are by pretending we can relate here (when we can’t).
A guy I went to high school with that looked a lot like me was from a family of white South Africans that moved to the US shortly before he was born. We actually looked a lot alike (my ancestors are from the Rhine River valley, just upstream of the Netherlands, so it makes sense). I always joked that he was my closest African American friend.
South Africa and Haiti now have a lot in common and sadly, there are no real and viable solutions to lift both cputries up from the literal hellhole they had become......😮
Thats a very hyperbolic statement.... you can't compare Haiti security situation to SA with a clear mind😂 y'all are so sensationalist. So the US, where there are mass shootings and school shootings almost every week, is in a better security state than South Africa??? Stop spewing nonsense chief.
I'm very hungry that you mentioned South Africa and Haiti .What you purposely forget to mention is the origin of problems .It is impossible to live in peace while five million European invaders controlled the majority of the native lands .with regard to Haiti ,the Americans and the French mercenaries turned the most beautiful island to a war zone .Those people are evil .
i lived in south africa and this resonates well with me man. I remember one day I was in primary school in cape town and I saw a random dude with a machete walk in and just kidnapped my teacher and no police got involved
W😍W! What a beautiful tribute to America going into 2025❤ The way you stood up for the uniqueness of the USA got me feeling so patriotic I sang "America, the Beautiful" all misty-eyed ... Thank you for reminding everyone there's still MUCH to be thankful for in the USA. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, SERPENTZA! Best wishes for continued success with your podcasts ... I'm a regular & faithfully tune in because of The China Show, etc., because of your thoroughness, genuineness and honesty, as well as a perspective that comes from having lived there and marrying into the culture (though I'd prefer your shows were profanity-free; thankfully, it's rare when you let it fly 🙄)
@terywetherlow7970 I "see" your point and "raise" mine - fully 9/10ths of my comment was directed towards the USA-positivity POV of SERPENTZAs post... One sentence expressing a preference does NOT a rail make. Now I'll "call" you - since the early 70s I have walked the talk: was already reducing water waste, recyling and reusing as much as possible, being a good citizen whilst poor & living in a "inner-city" neighborhood, making sure I was part of the solutions and not the problems while always striving to know more and improve. Raised 4 children that way too... I purposefully put my efforts and my money where my mouth is because railing is mostly ineffective - actions talk, BS walks... (If anything, my response to your comment would count more as a rail than my original to SERPENTZA!😏)
I am from the Philippines, it is a beautiful country and feel safe to be herein this country of America 🇺🇸..Drive to the supermarket alone and no one bother you just lovely...Have a blessed New Year's.. Be safe out there...God bless
My friend just married a very nice woman from Manila. The only complaint he had was how damn hot and humid it was. He had nothing but good things to say about the Phillipines. Much love from Minnesota!
You realise that he is doing just that about South Africa. My whole family (middle class working people) lives in SA and they don't have anything near the stories he just shared. So just don't let one persons experience change your view on an entire country. Yes there is crime but there is also crime everywhere else. Just a question of wrong place at the wrong time. And Johannesburg is worlds apart from the other major cities.
I live in South Africa. Not in a rich neighbourhood and I have never been threatened, attacked or robbed for almost 20years. I have security but generally I am safe. I am so sorry for those that have had bad experiences here but South Africa is a fantastic country. The people are amazing and most of them detest crime. Not sure what to say except not everyone's experiences are the same.
Man, I hear you. When I was younger I held the typical contempt for America that only someone who hadn’t faced real adversity could have. Then I got out, and studied and lived in over 20 countries over a period of 10 years. In both poor and rich countries. I realize now how great the US is. Not only on terms of overall material comfort and things generally working. But our foundation in rule of law, and general sense of social responsibility. The fact that most people will still pull over if they see emergency sirens. Of course you can say things have declined. But I wouldn’t choose any country over the US at this point in my life… even for all its flaws. I just hope we turn around and not follow other countries in their race to the bottom.
The bottom is where we're headed as long as we keep getting distracted by the left-vs-right "lateral violence", rather than the top-vs-bottom "class conflict" that corporations and elites want to prevent us from realizing as they geyser up all the gains to Elysium while we're told to be glad about whatever "trickles down". There's a reason the leftist but populist Andrew Yang gathered a surprising following among the right-wing during his run for President.
The US would be a lot better place if they stopped focusing on their petty culture wars and mindless political tribalism. It's come to a point where either side would gladly welcome the downfall of their country as long as they can pin it on "the other side". The Left-Right divide also exists where I am, but certainly not to this extent. You guys need a richer political climate, although how to achieve it escapes me.
You could start by not threatening to invade other countries. Canadians are NOT amused. Nor are the Danes - who settled Greenland 700 years ago. We are your NATO allies - show some effing respect for our sovereignty.
@@jasondrummond9451Dude, it was literally a joke that Trump made about Canada lmao. As for Greenland, the idea of the US purchasing it has been around for a LONG time...like, since the late 1800s; Trump wasn't asking for anything new here. I don't like him, nor do I like Biden or Harris...I'm tired of the whole tribalistic "us vs them" thing that's happening in US politics, but here's the thing - people need to understand that most of this is just social media wars, the average American isn't fighting people on the streets based on party affiliation lol...and before you go "well I've seen a bunch of videos of x, y, and z" well, the US is literally the third largest population in the world, there's going to be a lot more videos online of things in the US then in a lot of places simply due to the large population. It doesn't mean that everything is falling apart or that everyone is crazy like social media would want you to believe
My guy's entire thing is about criticising china so they can improve but if Americans do the same thing to their own country then they are entitled. Superb logic 👍
@ Chinese don't accept criticism. The U.S. allows it, and cowardly social justice warriors pile on and criticize the U.S. as a result. If China tolerated criticism, you might have a point, but the society and CCP cannot accept criticism. A brave country doing the right thing can tolerate criticism, and smart people in that country can say the criticism is not constructive. China? No criticism is allowed at all. You are not making a reasonable point.
It's not just America. It's anywhere white majority. White culture is gifted and cursed with self-reflection and empathy. Many times to a fault. Not saying other people don't have that, but this is why you see what happens in America, why you see the UK harm their own economy by abandoning their power, why France allowed itself to be flooded with bad migrants even before this decade, why German cops will get stabbed protecting migrants who are actually the aggressor in a fight, etc.
@@MOI-qq8zc Have you watched the video? Did you read the comments? Did you know tha South Africa has one of the greatest murder rates in the world? You are so ignorant it's not even funny
We still go through that hell in South Africa. We just moved into our house when our neighbor's son got shot by someone jumped the fence. This year my son's friend' father was shot on a Sunday evening in front of the family in a home invasions.
It's getting worse. I don't know what's going on or what shifted, but the violence is escalating exponentially. In the last 6 - 8 years, we went from being tied up and robbed, or having a gun pointed in our faces and our cars stolen, but we walked away alive. Scarred but alive. These days, criminals simply shoot us on the spot, even if we are cooperating, then they steal everything. We have zero respect for human life in this country.
SA Citizen here. My wife just got her green card. Waiting for my spousal VISA at the moment. Its been 7 years in the making at the cost of a small home and 2 years mostly separated from one another. Its been tough. Just got back from 3 months in the US. The best part was surprisingly the people. Americans are awesome. So friendly. My wife didn't feel safe in SA. My wife is important to me. She now feels allot safer in the US. The future looks bright. We've lost SA friends over our view of SA. They're just jealous. Some people are stuck and will simply shoot down the US at every opportunity they get. Human beings are interesting. They will do anything to justify their predicament instead of being honest with themselves and others. I've lived in SA my whole life and never had anything bad happen. You don't need a crystal ball to see where its headed. We are simply creating more options for ourselves which I believe any sane person would do if they had the opportunity. These dam SA politicians will be the first people out of SA once they've finished with the country
I love being American. That said, I don't believe in "which country is best." Our government and our citizens have made so many missteps, but I would never want to live ANYWHERE else. Thank you for your perspectives. I appreciate your experiences and commentary.
I was born in Korea and have lived in several countries of Latin America, and have traveled all over the world, over twenty countries, and I can tell you, as a citizen of the U.S. for over 50 years, the USA is still the best country to live in. “Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad - greater even than the bounty of our material blessings.” - Farewell address, Jan. 14, 1981. President Jimmy Carter; passed away today, 12/30/2024.
As a lifelong American, I think one of the major issues we have is complacency. The whole "greatest nation on Earth" mantra only works if you back it up and keep it. And in my 38 years, the number of problems we've let sit on the back burner or let snowball... Things are nice, until they aren't. I'm grateful to have been born here over LOTS of other places, and I do think this is probably still one of the best places in the world to be. BUT, we gotta maintain it and not get lackadaisical with blind national pride and "rest on our laurels". Order and goodness are constant works in progress. Good video, btw! 👍
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I've wondered how much Serpentza and Laowhy86 understand our domestic politics and the Democrat's alignment with the Left that is destroying so many blue cities and states. Do they understand BLM, DEI, CRT, identity politics that have infected so many of our institutions?
Nice to have you in our great country, brother. Always love your content!
depends where you in an america never in a leftist ran area winston because its just like SA in the leftist ran areas
I thought you looked weird in this video and couldn't put my finger on it. Then you mentioned the suit. What happened to the suit?
There are far too many people in this country that would be THRILLED to turn it into South Africa.
People who share a few things with the people who destroyed things there.
Anyone that violates the innocence of a child should not be allowed to continue breathing.
Only breathing in incarceration !
So all the Anglo-Europeans have to end their parents/grandparents???
adults too..or anyone for that matter.
One religion just lowered the age of consent to 9
@duckaroobonzai2648 you're not allowed to say that
A guy I did work for was in the UK army. He spoke about working in Africa. He said we were digging wells for clean drinking water in the villages in this area. They would fit the hand pumps, so it was easy to use and no need for diesel pumps or electric pumps. The army would maintain the pumps on a yearly basis. A problem they had was when they went to maintain the pumps, they were all gone. People in the villages removed them and sold them for scrap.
Some people just cannot be helped.
Edit: Instead of hating on me for telling you the story, READ the post! It was a guy who I did work for that told me HIS Experience. He was ex British ARMY.
IT WAS THE VILLAGERS THEMSELVES WHO RIPPED OUT AND SCRAPPED THE PUMPS!
It wasn't a band of marauding thieves, either.
@reallycrafty5276 germany returned the benin bronzes and they were melted down or went missing into private collections lol
Same sort of stories i've heard from my friends parents while they were working there too. If you really want an evenings worth of entertainment about the subject, look up a Czech documentary called "Solar eclipse (2011) (Pod sluncem tma)". They installed a solar system for a remote village and went to check on it 2 years later. You can guess the rest :D
I think that’s the wrong take-away. It might also be that the situation was so dire that the thieves saw no other way than to steal the pumps. Maybe it’s a bad decision in the long-term, but maybe it got them through the day. Even CEOs and boards are often bad in long-term decision making.
Sad but its the natural human condition, from like 20 thousand years ago, before "we" learned agriculture, society and building cities and pyramids. They live in a real life zero-sum game, they will literally sell their own children.
What do you benefit from telling lies @@Norf.F.C.Zoomer
I love how youtube allows you to say murder, but not grape. TH-cam censorship is crazy
Did you say drape, grape, ape or rape?
The Whitest Kids You Know? Comedy Troupe. That’s why. 😂 (My guess.) The Grape Skit. Don’t look it up.
@BespokePlanet lol never heard of them
Lol ya you can say shit or asshole but not mrdr
The fact censorship has been normalized to the point that the criticism is the level, not the ffact it exists at all is the criticism
As an American when I flew to foreign country for first time (Vietnam) I realized in about 5 seconds that the entire American population had no idea how good they had it (even with all of its flaws).
Not to even yourself out one thing you might consider working on maintaining is grace. I'll assume lady luck smiled at you: you have 10 fingers , 10 toes, got a fair education to make yourself self aware and a decent life. Where many white people go wrong is profound arrogance. They forgetting that western societies also had their own process to get where they are. They comparing themselves with illiterate and preliterate communities and conclude that indeed it is the color of their skin and an inherent superiority that makes the difference.
It's an unbridled and unchecked arrogance where in they spectate on other peoples suffering simultaneously deriving a sense of false superiority.
I visited foreign countries, and it is a mixed bag. You can find poor places in the Philipines where people have more community and smile more often than a middle class suburb in the USA. There are things we can learn from them and things they can learn from us.
@destroya3303 my opinion is that I/you/ we can not run away from our character.
You are fortunate lady luck handed you a good deck of cards. Sound fairly level headed character wise despite your education, self awareness, wealth and experience. Some people are born unaware and primitive remain so, others find themselves in a cesspool of suffering not of their choosing.
You are right. It's a mixed bag. Some who are not self aware are level headed. But it goes both ways. There's westerners who are self aware, educated, wealthy but not level headed character wise. And their character screams from the words they talk.
Should have gone to Europe, no actually please stay in America.
@@destroya3303 Thank you for that. Americans are so trained to only value materialism. Being poor isn't the worst thing that can happen to people-no love for your fellow man is the worst. There's "community" in the US, but its divided up into "our kind". You get into a neighborhood and you aren't "their kind", lots of bad things can happen. Plus the US is the best at covering up their dirt, better than any country.
Joe Canadian here. I say this often , but I have travelled very many times to the US and have met and interacted with hundreds of Americans from all over. What I have found is that I was always treated honestly and fairly. I always felt safe. If I ever got into trouble I know I would just have to ask for help and it would be given. Americans are by and large polite , hardworking , and in a scrap , I want an American standing beside me. Love my American brothers and sisters !
Feelings mutual...Georgia here.
Love our Canadian brothers up north. We got your back, man, you are welcome in our land any time 👊
Yes.. You are correct in your observations.. Only Hollywood plays up on the bullshit...
Ditto. I've travelled and lived in the US. Always loved my American cousins. In 1999, when I moved from T.O to BC, I thought that I would end up in the US. I thought love would call me down. It didn't happen. Between 2017, when Trudeau said Canadians have no identity, and 2019, the country changed so much that I no longer recognized it, and I wondered, as a retiree, whether I should just pack up and go, emulating the marvelous spirit of the people who always treated me so very well. It would be my most courageous act ever. Or maybe staying here to fight for future generations would be. It's a daily struggle.
Thank you, my nabor, from the great white north. I won't say every part of the US is a safe, happy, and clean place. We have our issues, no doubt. Most folks that run into real trouble were looking for something they had no business searching for. That's not to say they deserved what they got. I'm just laying out the facts. If you don't look like an easy target or go looking to do business with criminals you will be fine
I am French. One of my friends had a study buddy (ethology) who had settled in South Africa. He studied primates in a zoology laboratory. He lived 10 years in South Africa. They moved to Cape Town to be in a quieter area. Six months later, he and his wife were murdered in their home by burglars. This beautiful country seems like a nightmare.
Yeah everything just collapsed when apartheid ended.
@@fredaves268 Sorry for your loss, unfortunately this is a story most South Africans of all races know all too well. Almost everyone has a horrific story to tell about someone they know.
@@DavidAsimov0 One could argue things were already collapsed for the majority long before apartheid ended. Let's not just tell the South African story from only a specific race's point of view.
@@thabzmad7265 problem is not all South-Africans _do_ that, only certain types of "South-Africans". and their victims are usually of the _fairer_ persuasion. stop coping and regurgitate the -integration fairytale- usual official tripe. 🙄
@@thabzmad7265the blacks having political power has ruined SA... only a fool would argue any different.. Are you?
A friend of mine studied abroad in SA for six months in the 70’s. He stayed with a family in Bloemfontein (very upscale), and said all the houses were surrounded by tall walls with broken glass embedded in the tops. Even then, he said there was a palpable sense of unease regarding crime in everyday life.
Nothing to compare to the crime today.
In the 70s SA was very safe we slept our house doors open , there was law and order people respected the cops . It all went for a ball of shit from the 90s when Affirmative Action Shopping started in ernest.
A country names serial assault? That's a new one. 😂
can't remember seeing such things in 1980s, which part of Bloemfontein?
hhahahaa I laugh because you just described Brazil where I live.
My wife was born and raised in China (Beijing). Was a student here when Tianenmen thing happened so was allowed to stay here then. She feels like she won the lottery at having been allowed to live here for the last 35 or so years. She's proud to be a citizen and is amazed that US citizens seem to hate this country so much. She loves it with all her heart.
Ditto for my wife. She is from Taiwan. She and her sisters are some of the most patriotic Americans you will ever meet. There are still a sh&^( ton of native born Americans that love this country. You might not know that if you are from one of the deep blue cities where the liberals have sewn their venomous propoganda. I am now a California expat, and a happy citizen of Texas. They do have a lot of libtards here (San Antonio) but at least they are less virulent than the left coast variety. I sure miss the great California weather and the beautiful Northern Cal open spaces, but I would never go back to a place where a large part of the population is clueless. I say that with love as the rest of my family still lives there.
God bless our Chinese Americans, they deserve the best and so grateful to have them!
35 years ago, that is 1989. She must know what happened in Tian'an'meng Square and left China
The left oriented citizens have almost all the microphones.
she married up. way up LOL
Thanks!
Wow, good on you for giving Winston a Christmas present!
You feeling rich. Did a double take
I’m an immigrat to the U.S., and I can attest too many Americans have no idea how lucky they are.
I do. That's why I dont want immigrants.
@@Ziguly Every other industrialized country provides healthcare to all its citizens.
Housing is becoming unaffordable for most ppl.
Life expectancy is actually going down.
Wages have stagnated for decades.
There are no journalistic integrity standards, meaning that they can (and do) lie.
Vlt crm means some cities and neighborhoods are actually worse than many 3rd countries.
DEI&CRT means if you’re a whtmale good luck getting promoted or even hired in the first place.
From education to health and everything in between things are actually deteriorating.
You are correct, and there is too much infighting within America. People need to chill out and be grateful.
because they are uneducated about the world around them. The Educational System is a failure!
@@nigeltheoutlaw
I like the immigrants.
Most paranoid place I’ve ever been to is a middle class neighborhood in a third world country. The neighbors didn’t have the money to hire paramilitary guards full time (only for night times) or bribe the larger gang bosses not to hurt them. So, they were ultimately at the mercy of everyone: the elites for their very rare middle class jobs, and the local gangs ability to hurt them that week. Needless to say, the walls around their neighborhoods were twice as fortified as in the rich areas, all the neighbors looked at you with suspicion when driving by their houses, and everyone in the neighborhood had very large guard dogs within their already fortified homes. Living in such a low trust society is literally like a prison sentence. Terrible!
You said it brother. Wire fences on the roof delimit our properties because we live wall to wall and need to set up defenses that prevent someone from jumping roof to roof.
what country or place is that
I know a South African Boer working in the US, her siblings are still in South Africa. They have a home just like you described complete with a trained Boerbul guard dog. Her brother was killed in front of his children. South Africa is a ridiculous place for white people to live. One of the striking differences between many countries and the US that people can easily see who visit here is the lack of a perimeter wall around almost all houses. Go to Mexico, or the Dominican Republic and you will see thick masonry walls topped with broken glass. Americans never even think about this. But we tend to all have firearms and frequently dogs.
@@陳善賢you may see this in almost any African Country and throughout the western hemisphere south of the US border.
@DavidDrew-n6z BULLSHIT! BARBADOS, GRENADA AND ANTIGUA HAS NONE OF THESE ISSUES.
Hey Winston,
Your video is inspiring. I live in Australia and I love my country, but I believe there are systematic problems with my country and I want to make real change, rather than just sit there and complain about it. Your video is inspiring. Do you have any ideas of how I can make change?
I'm glad you came to America because we need more people like you here.
Usa is a cesspit. I’ve been there a few times and travelled and I can tell you it is a failed state.
Actually, many or perhaps most of us have crazy experiences like yours. Not the same as yours of course, but pretty crazy. Some of mine were so nuts I am not sure I remember what happened correctly, I have heard some pretty strange stories from people. You'rs seem crazy, but not nuts, probably :)
USA!
I have left. I enjoy peaceful, more affordable and healthier culture of south Spain. After 2020, I decided to choose culture over government. The people I walk by and have as neighbors are more important.
Amen to that!!
Why can't people admit that South Africa crime, infrastructure etc failed after 1994? Yeah the truth is harsh
No different than why they have to ignore why Zimbabwe failed lol. The truth hurts!
Doesn't fit the approved narrative.
To be fair, they also can't admit to the massive improvements in infrastructure and fall of crime in Rwanda since 2000.
Maybe because the population multiplied many times in a span of 1 day. Millions of African became citizens after being considered animals by the white population.
They would have to admit that genetics are the cause.
This would literally destroy their entire worldview. These people think that everyone is a "blank slate" and that genetics do not affect intelligence.
I've corresponded with many white South Africans. Some became close friends. There is NO story detailing the black on white violence that can be exaggerated: The horror stories and misery that come out of SA describing black on white violence are morally inexplicable.
Why don't those people LEAVE that God-foresaken place?
The s a me problem seems to increase every year in American big cities.
Violence affects everyone in South Africa, in fact the majority of people who suffer are black, and specifically black male ( Be free to research). But it doesn't fit your narrative now does it?
Same. I'm working on a plan to build a small town for SA refugees (the good ones) here in Texas.
@@robertstilson2901 Nothing said or done for poor black folks who are the majority affected by the most horrific of crimes?
A friend of ours had her baby snatched off South African beach in broad daylight by a black woman, who rapidly ran away with the child, it was only because our friend is an athlete she was able to run her down and retrieve the baby - the police were not interested of course - and she and her family no longer live in SA...
Believe me not all Americans despise America. There are many that love and appreciate the blessings of America and I’m one of them.
As am I.
@@eternalhigh05 I love America too
@@rufangzhao555 You don't sound American
I love my country, I question my government. This is as the Founding Fathers intended.
At least more than half love America lol. The other part is actively trying to turn it into SA.
As an ex-intelligence officer, I witnessed firsthand the terrible conditions in Africa, and even in South Africa, and it's gotten much worse in the past 30 years.
Likewise building a better infrastructure most difficult, thus many don’t want to invest businesses there.
it depends where in Africa, absolutely absurd to think it’s the whole continent.
@@Mr.Universe 100% true, it's only 95% of Africa.
Bruh you need to be specific. Where in Africa?
@@yarenot9878 other nearby countries like zambia, zimbabwe, and angola i assume
I am an immigrant that escaped in 1980 from a n Eastern European communist country and I 1000% tell you that the most Americans don’t have a clue how good they have it. Are there things that need solutions ? Of course - but look at the millions that crossed the southern border - WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS ? If it’s bad here why are these millions risk everything to get here ? I’m puzzled / have no words when I see how not in touch with reality most American are. I am wondering what will take for them to wake up !
@@pcionr you clearly never been to a poor neighborhood in the USA and it shows. It's not as bad as Russia but gun violence and drugs are common.
@@NCXitlali you ever lived in a poor neighborhood in africa? theres crime plus you dont have the luxory of coming home to a home with electricity or indoor plumbing or clean water
Not “most Americans”, but millions, mostly Democrats.
Americans are fully aware of how good they have it compared to countries that are worse than America.
But if you are poor and are stuck in a ghetto in America, it is just as bad.
@@NCXitlali the hoods are 10x as dangerous as any neighborhood in Eastern Europe
I am a South African living on a farm and I can tell you that things have gotten significantly worse. My wife and I are armed 100% of the time no matter what, we carry guns to church, gym, shops, hospitals.
Last year I spent R400,000.00 ($22,000 USD+-) on home security upgrades alone and have to fix it constantly due to attempted entry.
Traveling after dark is madness as spiking of tyres has become extremely common and the horror people go through when stationary next to the road is unimaginable to any Westerner.
On of my best friends in school came to the USA from South Africa, he told me about Necklacing. We were 7 years old. The horrors he told me was haunting and enlightening.
Ah yes necklacing.....a killing method developed by Winnie and Nelson Mandela.
Yep. Winnie Mandala was famous for it,bella.
What is necklacing
@@roselee4445 Just forget it. You dont wanna know and if you come across videos it can mentally affect you very badly.
And Winnie Mandela invented necklacing, and that was basically a form of killing white people before they turned to use that on gays
I've worked in SA and the tension and paranoia were constant.
Colonizers should always feel unsafe.
@@djshumoomoo4075 lol, go enjoy your TB in your hut.
@djshumoomoo4075 It was everyone.
@@djshumoomoo4075that kind of hatred has brought SA to its knees. Prior to ‘colonisers’ tribal population was much lower and intertribal conflicts were common. Then white farmers produced enough food for everyone to have a good diet and the population increased overall. It should have been utopia but two stages of greed and hatred ruined the country. First with an unfair apartheid system to oppress the majority of the population for the benefit of a minority greedy elite…stage two, replaced apartheid with a reversal of majority rule accompanied by corruption for a different group of elites. South Africa has been raped twice imho. I was born in Johannesburg in 1960 to poorer white family. We left in 1970 and I cried when we left. I was raised by a Zulu nanny and adored her. If it was safer I would return. I hated apartheid but cry hard that corruption greed and hatred 😢has ruined a beautiful country twice in my lifetime
@@CC-uq4hu SA could never work without apartheid sadly, as white are a small minority and the ones that made SA a success even as a western country in africa. Delete that and the majority would take the farms and more... and make it a corrupt shithole as all the others african nations.
When my Mother came over from South Arica to America, she said for the first time in her life she felt safe, safe to go outside, safe to go to the store, safe to go to school and safe to just be in her home. I'm sad I can't go visit the nation my forefathers made, but I'm still proud and thankful to be American.
Happy New year everyone.
You can still visit SA for a vacation but our forefathers failed us so no place to live. Bad things happen when you are there long enough to happen to you, your friends and family.
So glad you and your family are here and your mother feels safe😉
What an irony
This is literally because of race.
You can't exist as a minority around a sub Saharan black majority. They will eventually exterminate you.
No, they are not "equal" to us.
South Africa wasnt made by your forefathers. Your forefathers stole that land and created a fascist regime. That land never belonged to you.
One of my best friends here in Australia is here on a visa from Pretoria. Some of the personal stories she had told me are absolutely horrifying. A lot of her family has been murdered, people tried regularly to kidnap her young daughters, trying to hide from intruders in their home, incredible stories. When they got to Australia her daughters struggled sleeping at night because there wasn't big metal bars on all the windows to protect them 😞
That is sad because of their fears. When my parents moved to east LA area the new house was divided front and back house. My sister and I slept in the back house with no lock on the entry door. That was in 1968. My mom sold the house in 2005 and that door never had a lock. It was just a very safe neighborhood.
there was a push years ago by the liberal government to allow white south african farmers to emigrate here.. but the left and labor party crushed this initiative.. saying they weren't in trouble staying in south africa... but a lot of peolpe knew the truth.. it was similar to the Zambian famers...
When I went to Afghanistan with the RAF one of the civilian contractors was a white South African. Chatted about home. He described how one time he and his wife were robbed at gunpoint driving into their property and car stolen but thankfully they didn't execute them . I joked that here he was in Afghanistan for work and he was likely a lot safer than home in South Africa
Yeah SA is a lot worse than most countries in the world, super dangerous. The USA on the other hand is the most dangerous 1st world nation by far.
The private security companies in SA are basically a para military at this point. They are getting into gunfights on a daily basis, been that way for decades now.
I was born in Johannesburg 1960 we lived in apartments in Cape Town because we were not wealthy white people to afford huge security in a normal house. Every door and window had iron security bars fitted and we had two dobermans sleeping in the apartment with us..trained for attack. The old man next door was stabbed to death in his bed…so we moved in 1970😊
@@SquidMissile1Do they hire former paramilitary or national militaries?
@@MacyP Some hire people with that type of experience but most are just regular people who need a job and can handle the training and stress. It is extremely dangerous work.
Years ago I had a young girl coming to my farm to ride horses. She had grown up in South Africa and her parents were trying to sell their house there after they moved here. Some friends of theirs had sent their two daughters to Canada to be with friends while they stayed to sell their assets. Months later nobody had heard from the parents and couldn't get in touch with them. They told me SA was very dangerous.
Then what? The parents didn't make it? What happened to the daughters?
….and????
Don’t leave us hanging
I remember a high school classmate who fled South Africa, telling me how her mother, sister and herself were tied up and raped for hours by a group of men in their own home and their father murdered. She was never happy and always seemed to hate this world. When this happens the people affected are destroyed.
Not all cultures are equal !
What color were the rapists?
Couldn't imagine the constant pain of that
@@westsun3181It really doesn’t need to be said. I think we all know.
Excellent video. Thank you for pointing out these facts. Most Americans have NO idea what it's like to live in another country. This is a very important video to share with everybody.
Bullsh
Same thing is happening all over Europe, a kind of self-hatred that promotes the erosion of culture and everything that unites a country. I'm an Immigrant in the UK and I've seen the slow decline of Britain's society in the last 30 yrs. no Country is perfect, but to watch it gradually self-destruct is heart breaking.
and its our own people who are doing it....left woke politics
No what you've seen is videos on Twitter about the UK while doom scrolling. People not online all day are not aware of this societal breakdown.
@@josephberrie9550 I don't think so.
@@josephberrie9550from what i've heard, it's as much conservatives as it is labour who's screwing over the country
This is the part of the picture I think Winston doesn't yet see but he probably will in a couple decades. The reason Americans complain so much and I assume Brits as well is that our Countries may still be highly functional and safe by comparison with South Africa, but they have massively degraded since the eighties or nineties. To me modern America feels terrible because everything is probably 40% worse than it was when I was growing up. To Winston it feels great because it is still 100% better than SA.
Not all cultures are equal.
Races*
Culture is downstream of race. Our biology dictates our behaviour, which dictates what we do and what we'll create (or destroy). Despite the countless NPCs indoctrinated into saying "race isn't real, it's a sOcIaL cOnStRuCt!!", every study actually done on the matter shows widespread differences even among adopted children who were raised right alongside other racial groups. And we see those broader differences in all the crime stats recorded by racial groups, where they tend to be staggeringly huge. This is esp. true of inter-racial crime, ie the targeting of other groups.
@@larion2336”NPCs”
How chronically online are you? Get a grip!
@@larion2336 This reads like a precocious 11-year-old who watched a single Steven Crowder video and cobbled together every slightly complex buzzword they learned to write an "insightful" TH-cam comment before learning basic grammar.
Leave statistical analysis and philosophy to people who genuinely have skin in the game. It's about learning, not just confirming your biases.
People being terrible people has nothing to do with any culture, growing up poor in a poor country does that to a person
American here. Thanks so much for the appreciation of our nation! We fight to keep out rights. We are pushing to fix horrible things like unlimited campaign donations and Epstein and endless wars and squandering tax revenue and missing public funds. These things can spread like wildfire. Hoping to keep the nation wholesome for decent people like Mr. Winston to enjoy and benefit from. Thanks for the video!
Well, maybe readers of this comment section might understand why Americans "cling to their guns." The police in my city are very good, I am not criticizing them. But, the crime event often happens so fast that even in town with good response times, the police cannot stop the crime in progress.
@@kansashoneybadger7899 There's a saying, "When seconds count, police are only minutes away." Fortunately, for me, I live in a low crime area. I've been in my house for about 20 years and never had any incident occur to my home or around my neighborhood.
@@brianschuetz2614 Ditto in AUS
Another American here. While I agree with the sentiment, you *have* to be joking about pushing unlimited political donations out of campaign financing, when an oligarch who was an illegal immigrant for 11 years literally just bought the Presidency for $277 million dollars? And the incoming President was not only a close friend and associate with Epstein, but he's on Epstein's flight logs 6 times??
American here. We're not pushing to fix horrible things like campaign donations. An billionaire who was an illegal immigrant for 11 years just bought our Presidency for $277 million.
The crazy thing about the self-loathing rhetoric in America is that it's a minority. A large minority, but a minority nonetheless. Their voices get amplified by the machine that profits from fear. That is the issue.
yes, we are fed more propaganda currently than any time previously in history
The large "self loathing minority" is just as big as large "over proud, arrogant " minority in america.
That would be the Left, Marxist Democrat tyrants.
As a Canadian who used to travel frequently to the US, I have always found small town/ rural Americans to be some of the most welcoming people I have met. However, my rule for travel to any country is to stay out of cities. You tend to meet a better quality of human being in any country if you follow that rule.
I live in Virginia right beside the Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian Trail is about 1 mile from me. I absolutely agree. It is so peaceful here, when I go 40 minutes over the mountain to Charlottesville it’s a nightmare. It absolutely depends where you are at, in the United States. I really hope you enjoyed your stay here.
Small town Michigan here ✋️🙂
Yupp cities are where the blacks and Hispanics stomp around
More stories. Love this format.
Cities are where the rats and cockroaches live
Canadian here. People think Complaining is intelligence, unfortunately finding solutions is boring but shows true intelligence
Perfect
....Sure Canada.
The crime rate of Canada is higher than the US. The 95% Canadians, living in crowded areas, within 5 miles from the US border line.
Yea complaining is the easy part, solutions are headache-inducing, mind scrambling, long form thoughts and ideas that take refinement, honest and open discussion, and time. That is extremely hard for humans in general because as time moves we change, our ideas, our moods, our literal pathways in our brains. The bigger the problem = literally the harder it gets to solve with collaboration. Stay w❤ke
No, complaining is being french. Those ppl love their w(h)ine LOL
I went to South Africa for a two week long white shark diving expedition and the program head made the decision not to dock and let us stay with the host family like we were originally supposed because it was “too dangerous” (we slept on the boat). Sometimes I think about how insane that entire situation was…we were all there to voluntarily swim with what may be the most dangerous animal in the world (or at least one of the most feared) and that wasn’t deemed the “dangerous” part of the trip.
Some parts of the USA are dangerous…but not that dangerous.
I spent 6 years in the United States Marine Corps back in the 80's and 90's and traveled (and lived) all over the world due the fact that I was an aviation electronics technician. I can tell you first-hand that America is where you want to be. After seeing how the rest of the world lives I never, ever, took my country and its freedoms for granted again. I believe every American should be required to live abroad for some time to get an appreciation for how damn good they have it.
I agree if you are not living in or near a blue city like Saint Louis, Kansas City or Detroit. I am similar to you 21 years in the Air Force traveled to 80 countries lived in over a dozen. I currently live in Bangkok, Thailand for the last 3 years and it's probably the safest big city in the world, even more than Tokyo where I lived two years. There is nobody looking to steal your phone here, you can actually leave it on the table with your backpack and go order food. I don't do that because I am an American who is still paranoid about theft and you never know. I plan to move to America in April, I was going to try Tennessee or Arkansas.
Totally agree😉
Apart from Health Bills ??
Most of Europe have better systems.
And dont need to shoot CEO's to make it better.
@@g4joe point
@@ShadyD365 America is definitely better than most 3d world and ex communist countries. It is less dangerous than white-settled African countries. So much is true.
But it is not better than Japan, W. Europe, Singapore and even Costa Rica.
It is not better than Australia or NZ.
My partner and I emigrated from SA to the UK with our son 20 years ago. I had lived there for 40 years, done my conscripted time in the SADF and ran a pretty successful business there. My partner had lived there for about 20 years. When we came back to the UK together, it took her ages to realise we did not need burglar bars on every window, high fences or automated gates. To me, it was like suddenly being able to relax, not peering over my shoulders and treating everyone with suspicion. Even here in the UK, we have it pretty good.
it has got worse in the last 20 years.. I was born in scotland in 1952 and the uk was very very safe then and the cities were busy and vibrant
Depending on where you are, some places are awful.
Not from what I've seen lately..the UK has deteriorated considerably in every aspect.
UK is surely safer than Zuid Afrika, but with all the Islamic migrants and illegal migrants, it's not as safe as it ought to be.
What is your son like does he have work??
I would never want to live in South Africa especially not now which is shame because its a beautiful country but the corruption has ruined it
Would you like to go back to the Apartheid era?
what about the corruption in america imported by south africa
@@kamikazilucas China owns South Africa
@@chrisgreene2623 Supposedly many South Africans would. At least there wasn't ethnic cleansing like there is now.
@@chrisgreene2623 if you are white, yes.
I think you get it wrong, We don't hate America. We remember what it was and hate the direction it is going.
Exactly
Facts. People don’t want to tear down the system. They’re calling out the bs about the system. Inequality getting worse. Life becoming unaffordable
That’s going to get so much worse under Trump/ Musk. Anyone who expects billionaire tech bros to care about your wage slip is on another level of naive.
@@happymaskedguy1943 It's a bad situation when virtually nobody is offering a proper solution, except one, and he and his followers got dragged for it.
As an American, thank you for this, Winston! Glad you decided to call the United States your home, and become a proud American yourself. People like you are part of what makes this country so great! Hope you and your family have a safe and happy New Year! 🇺🇸🎆🎉
i got invited to live in the USA, i thanked and said no way....
i am living in a much better country,
we dont invade countries because our president want his name on a hotel!
he's paid by cia or soros to smear china
Actually it was the exploitation of a vast continent and the profits of two World Wars ,these made America great
@@mariamavrou668 Crawl back under your rock.
@@mariamavrou668 I hope you don't live in America. If so move to a nice place like Cuba with plenty of opportunities and freedoms.
Self hatred is not only in USA but in the whole West .
That was a be happy we aren’t the worst video… but really? Is that who we want to compare ourselves to? Is that what we should do, accept things get worse and worse, as long as we aren’t “the worst”?
Because the US main export is culture. Currently it's absolute poison, so anyone buying it will also suffer.
We hate what our sell-out "leaders" have done to our once Great Nations. We have every right to hate what they have become. They are all shit now. Be honest.
not in me or Trump or douglas murray or turning point usa
islam has more to be ashamed of more than anyone else
@serpentza: Happy New Year. It’s your American friend who lives in Japan. Great presentation, and I agree with you. You are our customer, and the customer is always right! Welcome to America, and I wish you and your family a Healthy and Prosperous 2025!
In the 90s, I worked with a co-worker whose family had just left SA for the US. Their standard of living decreased significantly (a lot of having to start over again), but they were damned glad to be here!
I am so very grateful to hear you say what you said. It is sad that so many people think that America should be destroyed. I love my country. Thank you for defending it. I wish more people would do the same.
Agree😉🗽
They don't want to destroy it. They want to pillage it. Oh wait, that basically means destroying it.
@@shychameleon Also agree !
MAGA!
I'm also a south african and have lived in America for 13 years. I have now moved to the Philippines because I can't afford to buy a house in the States. But if you can afford to live in the States, nothing can compare.
Do you have any solutions for helping Africa?
What do you do in the Philippines, if I might ask?
Western Europe is better
switzerland and a lot of other western europe are better than america for living
I would recommend Australia, but housing costs here are bananas now
I'm an American expat in the Philippines. Whenever someone online talks about crime or poverty in the Philippines, someone usually says something stupid like, "BuT wHaT aBoUt LoS AnGeLeS?" 🤡 I love the Philippines, but if I was homeless, I'd much rather be homeless in the US.
True, but when we look on countries comparable to the US - basicly European countries - you would definitily rather be in any of those countries, than in the US ;)
Let's talk Germany, France and even post-brexit UK, not to mention scandinavia. You basicly have to choose homelessnes. It's a bit more complex, because there are mostly systems that will prevent you to be homeless if you seek for help, but most homeless people in Europe do have problems that make it impossible to seek help. Like psychological issues, drugs, etc.
But that homelessness in that scale is even a thing in a country like the US is a problem - and a shame.
Absolutely... I've been homeless in the U.S... you get food stamps, have shelters available nightly, and job placement services. Not to mention it's infinitely safer on the streets compared to ANY third world country. I always knew that but traveling definitely shines a light on the issue.
Yeah, go live on the streets of San Francisco
I dont want be poor in cold place i'd rather stay in tropical country wwhere everything grows 😂
Man I despise when some American's say that America is the worst country, those people will always remain ignorant and dense.
Same for the people in the comments here trying to go "well, I'm not saying it's the worst but it's going downhill" like...downhill compared to what? Most statistics show the US and most Western countries are improving by various metrics decade by decade, quality of life...safety / lowering crime...etc. I feel like some just are on their phones WAY too much and don't understand that reality is different than social media
"I despise when some American's say that America is the worst country"
These individuals have probably never left the US to make such a statement, and have not witnessed how bad some countries are.
@@ChristoffRevan come on dude look at the stats. Many 3rd world nations have far less violent crime than the USA. That's a stone cold fact. India of all places has less violent crime! The USA is beginning to look a lot like Russia.
It has been going downhill. I remember as a young boy, a girl had been murdered in the neighborhood. This hadn't happened for years. Now, murder is more common. As a matter of fact, the county I grew up in, has become a hell hole. Violent crime in Prince George's County Maryland has increased from the same period last year, driven by assaults and domestic violence assaults. No-weapon assaults are up 28 percent, and no-weapon domestic violence assaults are up 36 percent. People are afraid to say it is because the black population has taken over Prince Georges County. Well, this post will probably get removed but someone has to say it. People are afraid of the truth. This suppression of free speech is the reason the US will collapse.
@Ziegfried82 False, but keep living in your delusional world where "US bad".
Great video, man. I'm an American, born and raised, but have also seen what life is like outside of this great country and even lived in Central America for a year. I tell you, we Americans are spoiled. We lack perspective. We have no TRUE perception of safety, security, and individual rights...but I digress. Thank you for posting. I hope this video goes viral. People need to hear your message. I'll see you in 2025!
It will not help, America already voted for a President that always says bad things about America. Everyday without fail bashing his own country, even attack his ancestors country Germany.
So, what makes the USA great, and Central America terrible. Can you answer without using the words Europeans or White people? 😁
The same also applies to Western Europe.
God bless America.
You're a good man, Winston.
he is a crook
He is not a crook. He provides the truth.
He's wonderful guy, and we are lucky to have him in the US
I am 63 years old and I grew up in Rivonia and later lived in Lonehill, so you and I have had similar experiences in the northern part of Johannesburg (though generationally different). I can attest to everything you are saying and in fact things were actually more horrific than that. Twenty years ago I emigrated to Australia with my wife and young children and have no regrets giving them a much better life relatively free from fear. 🇦🇺🙂👍
But Australia is becoming more and more black and brown.
Aussie here. Happy to have you. I was disgusted at our criminal government here when they refused to give refugee status to more White SA farmers who were being slaughtered by blacks....and yet they continue to flood us with Indians, Chinese and Arabs. Sickening
As a former Rhodesian an having been to China multiple times I understand what you are saying. I hope and pray that you and your family have a great year.
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17:33 You made a great point. I live in Iran. My country is basically a failed state. The economy has completely collapsed. The infrastructure is failing and power goes out everyday. We have a shortage of water, food and medicine. We also have the worst air pollution in the world (although the government is hiding the data). But the Iranian state media never talks about it. Instead they are talking about America's problems, like homelessness or police brutality. This is a really effective propaganda method because it helps the Iranian government hide it's incompetence from the public but also portrays America negatively and demoralizes Americans.
If you are a real Iranian then I'm a Martian. Nowhere has worse air pollution than New Delhi.
@@bernarddavis1050 As I said, there is no way for me to prove it because the government controls the air quality sensors, and they withhold information, but based on what I saw it is comparable to India and Pakistan. Which is a disaster because Iran has a much smaller population than India and we also have the on of the biggest oil and gas reserves in the world.
I'm sorry to hear that! Persians are great people (except my ex, haha), wish Persians to break free soon!
Thank you for sharing this! God bless you
Sure, sure, your comment sounds 100% legit, totally not propaganda.
Thanks
I watched a show where a woman was moving to SA from America to be with a man. He had rigged up a system with his garage door to pepper spray any intruder. She thought she was going to be able to go on runs outside by herself at all hours. Add in the rolling blackouts, wheee! She was shocked.
She didn’t stay, big surprise.
We are so lucky in America but we have to fight to keep it that way, there’s nowhere else to go.
indeed, Not only in SA but also Nigeria. My parents came from nigeria to america and the amount of stories of they have about that country is just baffling. One of them being that they will just see dead bodies on the freeway as there going to school, my ass is privileged and thankful to be in this country despite how many flaws it has
@@ronel7836 I walked too school most my life in SA. I've seen 2 bodies next to the road while walking.
As much as I am grateful for America and its many blessings, there are other places to go, IMHO. We aren't "the last" place, and there are still things about the U.S. that are a major pain in the ___ such as Cancel Culture / Woke extremism / excessive hypocrisy showing up in tribalism on the Left AND the Right.
Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world.
@@machtnichtsseimann All the places I can think of that might be decent alternatives to USA also have those things now. In many places it's worse, like Australia where I live, we are prob more woke than USA unfortunately, certainly more feminist and our govt is trending towards more totalitarian. Same deal in UK. Maybe there's some European nations that are better... or Japan, which is ideal in some ways, but there you still run into problems with govts and local laws being weird.
I've been watching your videos for a number of years and your talks about China, South Africa and America are good. The world traveling of yours is one of experience of living and being there, giving experiences and knowledge. Keep giving your opinions.
He gives his experiences,you form an opinion.
As an ex-South AFrican I feel your pain my brother. I was blessed and fortunate to moved many years ago to Australia.
Who’s betting that the intruder and the rapist were black?
Race(genetics)🧬 matter!
"did it just git dark in hear?"
It isn’t a function of race, it’s a function of generations of beliefs, and each person’s own free will. It’s a human problem.
Oh boy
Thank you for this. A LOT of the hate comes from Americans who have never left the country and are totally ignorant about the world outside the US and foreigners who themselves have never visited the America and are just parroting stereotypes they see on the news-and what they hear from these aforementioned clueless Americans.
How about the non Americans who never miss an opportunity to besmirch US?? It feels like extortion.
I'm an American who's lived outside the country for decades. America SUCKS. It treats its citizens like crap.
Living in the Nordics in Europe would shock people from South Africa I think
Never seen an assault, never been robbed, never been hit. Even alone on empty street or crossing through a park in the Dark at night
It is really a commodity you can’t begin to value
Not in Malmö then
Yet.
Not in Gothenburg, I see.
Not in Molenbeek then?
Just wait. Your immigrants are just around the corner
I live in Germany and back in the 90s and the early 2000s there was a big wave of emigration themed reality TV shows running on German TV. Camera teams followed people, mostly families, leaving Germany to move to other countries. The destinations were mostly the classical ones, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but back then South Africa also was a big one, probably No.2, after the USA, on the list, maybe even No.1.
Lots of German families moved to SA to open restaurants and jet ski rental services and stuff like that.
SA was sold as this up and coming land of opportunity on German TV back then.
I often think of that and wonder what happened to those families when I look at SA today and hear Winston talk about it.
Nothing good. The ones that survived the ordeal likely fled back to Germany.
@@Ziegfried82It’s Not that bad. A large percentage of South Africans especially in certain parts of the country live perfectly normal lives more or less. This is fear mongering Kak.
@@r.mariano8118 Who payed you to write this?
@@r.mariano8118 Even if all the things you hear and see about crime and chaos weren't true, even if one wouldn't have seen the videos of the ruling political party in the country singing songs about killing white people, and leading politicians talking positively about future genocide, even then, the rolling blackouts and only having electricity a few hours each day alone would be enough to prevent people from living "perfectly normal lives" and surely enough to make anyone who moved to SA in the last 20 to 30 years regret their decision.
So it seems rather obvious that it is you who is talking "kak" here.
@@r.mariano8118
First off, are you a politician?
Secondly, what colour are you? (like it or not, ethnicity has become a more and more divisive thing.... just as we were warned it would, way back in Matthew, chapter 2wenty 4our, 7eventh verse)
Thirdly, what on earth is 'normal' about living in constant fear?
Happy New Year Winston and family 🌹 can't wait for the tour 🇺🇲 God bless America and the rest of us 🦘🏴🌞🏖️🌊⛵🏏🤠
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” Aristotle
Meanwhile, the US has the highest income inequality in the G20 by a long shot. You have 97% chance of dying in the same economic bracket you were born in.
' Monkeys laugh at other monkeys asses not knowing their own looks exactly the same...' East African proverb.
It's funny how white racists enjoy looking down on backwards African 3rd world societies. But youll never catch them talking about their own societies and social issues e.g., all the stupid, horrible, backwards, corrupt and evil things that have and continue going on In western societies have done.
Take Putin for example because he is white what can we make of his move to send hundreds of thousands of young Russians to die for nothing in Ukraine? All those smug better than all the other races racists have horrible flaws at the historical level, individual level, and social level. They are just very good at musing at illiterate Africans who have little to no self awareness. My what a high standard to place for oneself.
Race superiority is an egotistical delusion. All that matters is competition, chaos, individual/social enlightenment, ethics and power
' Monkeys laugh at other monkeys behinds not knowing that their own behind looks exactly the same...' East African proverb.
Of course many African societies are backwards. Western societies have had historically many of the evils and problems that they muse at in Africans. Read on the net and you will find a plethora of cases of spurious and gratituous corruption, violence by caucasians to each other.
They are just very clever and good at hiding their past flaws as societies and as individuals, at 'rewriting history' to be more flattering to the self.
Stop flattering yourselves. Youre just humans who are ahead of the curve which is drawn by the fingers of evolution, chaos, enlightenment, innovation, conflict, power and economic success.
Your not 'better than' or special. Lady luck just smiled at tou and threw you on the pleasant side of history unlike some unlucky North Korean peasant.
But if you must delude yourself to feel great keep doing so.
he was also right about democracy... men are meant to be ruled by a singular leader. a monarch. a benevolent king is always better than the nameless faceless tyranny of the "system" we have today. the only problem is the mad king.
ancient rightwing propaganda.
implying people are not identical and therefore deserve different treatment is an easy excuse for injustices like slavery and war.
and just look at autocratic systems and compare them to democracies, it is a joke to say democracy is worse.
Constructive rather than destructive criticism 🙏❤️ Many thanks for spreading this message Winston 🥰 it’s my obsession presently.
Much love and support.
Smith & Wesson does not recognize signal blockers...
No, but remember, the law might not be on your side... And do you really want to end up in a South African Jail?
Better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by 6
Better than being dead
@@MrZnarffy Silencers and wildlife make no such thing as evidence..........
@@nobody46820 Tell that to yourself in Jail.
I'm extremely keen to see some of this new content!
Lived in northern Michigan my entire life and I do not take it for granted for one second. Nor would I ever want to be anywhere else. I could complain about a lot of things, but it wouldn't matter. My ancestors came here 6 generations ago from somewhere in the british isles and I live about 10 miles from where my greatest grandpa and his sons logged timber. Got a few native relatives from that time too, but its been bred out of me for the most part, mom's side is german, english and slovak. I dont think there is a very bright future, but I'm thankful to have lived in a great place in a great time and comforted in the idea I will pass before I see what happens next.
Ok boomer
lol we’re gonna be just fine, long after you’re gone.
@ won’t be what it was though, and we just gave it away
I understand what you are saying. The UP and the North mainland are stunning. I'm so grateful for my wonderful childhood and most of my adulthood in the US. Unfortunately, I can no longer afford to live there after working for almost 40 years because the retirement money which I thought would be plenty is no longer enough for me to live well. Sigh...
We did have it much better than our kids did. 😢
@ you have NO idea
Back in the early 80s, my wife and I took a trip to the Bahamas with a group that chartered with Arrow Air, and their trusty old DC-8. we rode back to Philadelphia on the same jet. The second the wheels touched the runway the entire cabin broke out in applause. I wondered why that happened, I mean Nassau was dotted with luxury resorts. That experience reminded me of the "Freedom Bird" out of Vietnam in 1969. As soon as we crossed the coastline, everybody cheered. BTW Winston, I probably commented before that we are glad you are here and you and your family are welcome additions to our society.
Yes, I feel uneasy in most foreign countries, You feel freedom as soon as you arrive in USA
Because people clap like idiots if a pilot does his job. Like .. always
As a natural born U.S. citizen, I understand America is the most privileged country in the world. The problem is some people feel entitlement and guilt because of this. I'm grateful to have lived here my whole life.
We're glad that you're here too, Winston.
LMAo privileged how? We have so much more and everything is Better here in Europe xD
Murica is a shithole just like south africa.
Everybody is dealt different cards in life, that is how life works. Never feel guilty for being privileged.
It's not about privilege. I think Americans SHOULD feel guilty because your so called privilege comes at the cost of literal genocides in other parts of the world.
As tax payers, you have blood on your hands.
The problem isn't so much the people who feel entitlement and guilt, but rather, those that have been brainwashed with marxist/socialist ideology into believing that America and its capitalist structure is an oppressive society. Simply put, those in the 'victimhood class', i.e. antifa, blm, etc.
I wouldn’t agree with most privileged! Definitely not! Most privileged countries are these with free healthcare and a society that cares for you if you fail.
Winston, your the man. Happy New Year. Stay Awesome!
For all the people saying "Americans don't know how good they have it," they are mistaken. Americans know very well how good they have it, and most have some idea as to how they got there and how that's maintained. The only people who don't know tend to be people in college and those who've spent their entire lives in urban/suburban areas. That's why the 2024 election results turned out the way they did.
Those in charge in the United States of Israel, like to insulate/coddle Americans, from seeing how bad things are around the world. BUT, they want us to be completely dependent on gubberment to solve all their problems, entitlements are given out like candy to ignorant children, and hard workers trying to make more $$$, are punished by higher taxes to fund the freeloaders.
totally missed the point that when americans point out how bad america is getting, they are comparing it to what it USED to be 20-30 years ago not a 3rd wold country 🤣
Exactly! That was a horrible comparison, were not the worst, so be happy you’re not. People aren’t happy with how much we’ve deteriorated in the US. I would love to post specifics but CensorshipTube almost always deletes my post when I cite stats and specifics.
Healthcare is a joke.
Housing is getting unaffordable for most people.
Vlt crm in some cities, is worse than many 3rd wrld cntrs.
There is no jrnalistic integrity.
Wages have stagnated for decades.
DEICRT means if you’re wht, good luck getting a promotion or even hired in the first place.
I could go on and on… but CensorshipTube likely won’t been allow this.
Let's be real here though the US has higher violent crime than several 3rd world countries and it's been this way for a long time now. The deterioration continues. The decline accelerates.
@@Ziegfried82 IF you subtract the crime in america that is commited by people sharing similar ancestry to South Africans then the west looks extremely safe.
Exactly. It's so easy to hate on your country when it's the only point of view you ever had. We all know how laughable Canada is right now but I'm still glad to have been born here. But also... I see footage from 30-40-50 years ago, I hear stories from my parents, I notice differences from when I was younger etc. And it's clear this country is no longer what made it so great.
I grew up on the southside of Chicago in the late 90's. And I can tell you from experience: While it wasn't the safest place in the world by any means, it wasn't as bad as people portrayed it. Especially from people who have never even stepped foot in Chicago. And nowadays, it's completely overblown to the point of parody. Chicago is a lot safer now than it was a quarter of a century ago. Yeah, you still have areas that you should avoid, and for good reason, but that's really the same anywhere you go. And if you're a tourist in Chicago, unless you've got a bank balance with eight digits, you're not staying within city limits anyway. You'll probably be staying at a hotel in Bedford Park, Rosemont, Des Plaines or Bridgeview; surrounding suburbs that are actually pretty nice.
My adult son was in the US recently for some academic conferences; never been there before. He went to LA and Chicago, after having been to Rio. I asked him what he thought of those American cities from his limited observations. He said: not so different from Rio; basically, dysfunctional shitholes. Make of that what you will.
Every city has a bad neighborhood.
@@bernarddavis1050 Anyplace under Democrat control is gonna be like that I'm afraid. I was in San Francisco in the late 90s and early 2k's, and let me tell you, it was a great place to be, even the non-tourist areas. Now you go down there and His Glorious Arrogancy Newsom has made quadruple certain that you are going to be hit by some crime or other no matter where you decide to visit.
@@bernarddavis1050 Absolutely true. Even those people living in those shithole cities like LA and Chicago know it. Since COVID, I have had neighbors buy up houses in my rural area and they've all said cost of living, way of life, stress levels, etc are all so much better than the big cities. The only downside is that all these big city folks are bringing their entitlement and impatience with them.
Tell those young men involved in that life and all the bystanders who are their now that they have no violence, its "Blown Out of proportion" you could not be more out of touch, tell the hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded a year that their is no violence problem in chicago...
Also just because you can point at another country and it's worse their, that does not nullify the problems here...
I have just spent three months wandering around China. I found it to be the safest country I had ever been to. I would choose safety over freedom to criticize anytime.
As a former Chinese citizen, I echo your sentiment: I absolutely enjoy my life here in America. People are friendly. The system is by and large fair and square. The scenery is stunning. There are ample resources and opportunities. I will visit other countries (not SA) but will always be happy to return to my adopted home.
Well done !
America's founding, culture and people are absolutely wonderful. It's the damned government and corruption at the highest levels that get me angry!!
It always has been government and corruption and always will be.
"ZOG". It's called "ZOG".
And now the incoming cabinet is composed exclusively of billionaires. Gonna get a lot worse.
@@jasondrummond9451 That's been true for decades. It's no different now.
@@jasondrummond9451 nah it's par for the course. Unless you haven't been watching lately of course. Dems totally owned by the billionaires now too, what a mess. Complete failure of the two party system.
Nobody thinks America is the worst place in the world. Not even her biggest critics would ever say that.
But it is undeniable that America is getting worse by the year and has been since at least 2000, but probably slightly longer.
America may be great compared to where you come from, but it is far, far worse than when I was born in the US 55 years ago.
People kept dumb so assets sent to Israel. They use feminism and woke politics
Well the goal is to be eeeeeeeequallllllllllllllllll...that means turning civilized countries into third world lawless slums. You cannot raise the garbage UP, but there's always a lowest common denominator.
That is the basics of communism. Next step globalism.
I heavily disagree, the US has improved, sure it’s got its problems but it is an incredible country filled with opportunity and chance. Many other countries in the world cannot offer you what the US can. I do think I understand where people from the US get off thinking it’s gotten worse though, it’s almost like you have to be an immigrant to appreciate and value what the US has. I’ve also noticed that most people from the US do not go out and search for opportunities, they just sit and wait for the government to give them handouts and then blame others when that doesn’t work out. Meanwhile the immigrants see the opportunities they didn’t have back at home and take them. Then people from the US blame the immigrants for taking the opportunities they didn’t want in the first place, then the cycle repeats.
Hello my American elder, i just want to inform you that there is genuinely people living in the USA and were been born there, actively telling themselves and others that America is in fact "the worst place in the word" in fact it's actually a trait that people base their personality on and use as a condition check with friend groups... They exist in an echo chamber, all the while their mindset is reinforced by peers and others (traitors/foreign trolls who benefit if they disrupt the mindset of a countries youth) & essentially brainwash themselves.
These people are so far down the victim hole they convince themselves the country is worse than a third world country.
The app tiktok is a perfect example of how this is actually occurring right now... In China where tiktok comes from, it is super strict, the algorithm works in a way that is beneficial to the youth, it highlights positive things and pushes a 'healthy' narrative. Buuuut in every other country that China competes with, well all you have to do is type the word tiktok into youtube and you will realise that in every other country tiktok pushes a narrative that is disruptive to young minds.
I'm only informing you because i love America and we cannot underestimate the lost individuals who are actively trying to destroy her.
Sir please try keep this in mind, a lot of individuals from my generation are so blind and have no pride or integrity. They didn't have anyone telling them how lucky they are and how it's up to them to carry the torch of success for the next generation.
Anyway with love and care from Australia, don't underestimate the ability of a gen z individual with the victim mindset.
Anyway God bless, i apologise for the lengthy response but i was really shocked and disgusted when i found out that this is a real thing.
Europe has gone down since 2000 too. Could this be cyclical?
Happy,NewYear!
So true.
I was born and grew up in the Soviet Union. I came to the US in 1977. Soon after I came I saw a cover of some major magazine, which said, "American GULAG."
Whatever bad thing exists anywhere in the world, someone here is guaranteed to stick "American" in front of it.
Because USA controls other countries e.g. overthrowing their governments.
Yeah like them calling Trump our Hitler.
They can’t possibly say how many millions of people he killed to be like him so then they say well he will be. But Americans take away from how horrible certain things and people are by pretending we can relate here (when we can’t).
A guy I went to high school with that looked a lot like me was from a family of white South Africans that moved to the US shortly before he was born. We actually looked a lot alike (my ancestors are from the Rhine River valley, just upstream of the Netherlands, so it makes sense). I always joked that he was my closest African American friend.
South Africa and Haiti now have a lot in common and sadly, there are no real and viable solutions to lift both cputries up from the literal hellhole they had become......😮
Thats a very hyperbolic statement.... you can't compare Haiti security situation to SA with a clear mind😂 y'all are so sensationalist.
So the US, where there are mass shootings and school shootings almost every week, is in a better security state than South Africa??? Stop spewing nonsense chief.
I'm very hungry that you mentioned South Africa and Haiti .What you purposely forget to mention is the origin of problems .It is impossible to live in peace while five million European invaders controlled the majority of the native lands .with regard to Haiti ,the Americans and the French mercenaries turned the most beautiful island to a war zone .Those people are evil .
Wow!!! Really? Could you help us to understand in what ways?
Very well said. Thanks, my African-American brother!
i lived in south africa and this resonates well with me man. I remember one day I was in primary school in cape town and I saw a random dude with a machete walk in and just kidnapped my teacher and no police got involved
Never ever let them take away our ability to defend ourselves.
This. 100%
but youre ok if a corporation takes it away or does whatever they want on their property
@@ZararPolookyou’re putting words in his mouth
@@ZararPolook What are you even talking about?
@@ZararPolook Ok, pinko.
W😍W! What a beautiful tribute to America going into 2025❤
The way you stood up for the uniqueness of the USA got me feeling so patriotic I sang "America, the Beautiful" all misty-eyed ...
Thank you for reminding everyone there's still MUCH to be thankful for in the USA.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, SERPENTZA! Best wishes for continued success with your podcasts ... I'm a regular & faithfully tune in because of The China Show, etc., because of your thoroughness, genuineness and honesty, as well as a perspective that comes from having lived there and marrying into the culture
(though I'd prefer your shows were profanity-free; thankfully, it's rare when you let it fly 🙄)
Gladys: I truly wish the folks who rail against obscene words,would use their energy to rail against obscene actions.
@terywetherlow7970
I "see" your point and
"raise" mine - fully 9/10ths of my comment was directed towards the USA-positivity POV of SERPENTZAs post...
One sentence expressing a preference does NOT a rail make.
Now I'll "call" you - since the early 70s I have walked the talk: was already reducing water waste, recyling and reusing as much as possible, being a good citizen whilst poor & living in a "inner-city" neighborhood, making sure I was part of the solutions and not the problems while always striving to know more and improve.
Raised 4 children that way too...
I purposefully put my efforts and my money where my mouth is because railing is mostly
ineffective - actions talk,
BS walks...
(If anything, my response to your comment would count more as a rail than my original to SERPENTZA!😏)
Wow, you really made a great point by your examples!!!
I am from the Philippines, it is a beautiful country and feel safe to be herein this country of America 🇺🇸..Drive to the supermarket alone and no one bother you just lovely...Have a blessed New Year's..
Be safe out there...God bless
My friend just married a very nice woman from Manila. The only complaint he had was how damn hot and humid it was. He had nothing but good things to say about the Phillipines. Much love from Minnesota!
Patriots love America and will fight to keep it great.
Elon and Vivek will outspend the patriots and overrun America with H1B immigration.
Me and The Don will MAGA!
Criticizing in order to destroy.
Criticize and give a solution.
These quotes will forever be in my mind.
I'll never forget that.
You realise that he is doing just that about South Africa. My whole family (middle class working people) lives in SA and they don't have anything near the stories he just shared. So just don't let one persons experience change your view on an entire country.
Yes there is crime but there is also crime everywhere else. Just a question of wrong place at the wrong time.
And Johannesburg is worlds apart from the other major cities.
I live in South Africa. Not in a rich neighbourhood and I have never been threatened, attacked or robbed for almost 20years. I have security but generally I am safe. I am so sorry for those that have had bad experiences here but South Africa is a fantastic country. The people are amazing and most of them detest crime. Not sure what to say except not everyone's experiences are the same.
Man, I hear you. When I was younger I held the typical contempt for America that only someone who hadn’t faced real adversity could have. Then I got out, and studied and lived in over 20 countries over a period of 10 years. In both poor and rich countries.
I realize now how great the US is. Not only on terms of overall material comfort and things generally working. But our foundation in rule of law, and general sense of social responsibility. The fact that most people will still pull over if they see emergency sirens. Of course you can say things have declined. But I wouldn’t choose any country over the US at this point in my life… even for all its flaws. I just hope we turn around and not follow other countries in their race to the bottom.
The bottom is where we're headed as long as we keep getting distracted by the left-vs-right "lateral violence", rather than the top-vs-bottom "class conflict" that corporations and elites want to prevent us from realizing as they geyser up all the gains to Elysium while we're told to be glad about whatever "trickles down".
There's a reason the leftist but populist Andrew Yang gathered a surprising following among the right-wing during his run for President.
The US would be a lot better place if they stopped focusing on their petty culture wars and mindless political tribalism. It's come to a point where either side would gladly welcome the downfall of their country as long as they can pin it on "the other side". The Left-Right divide also exists where I am, but certainly not to this extent. You guys need a richer political climate, although how to achieve it escapes me.
Trump and MAGA reject democracy rule of law
You could start by not threatening to invade other countries. Canadians are NOT amused. Nor are the Danes - who settled Greenland 700 years ago. We are your NATO allies - show some effing respect for our sovereignty.
@@jasondrummond9451Dude, it was literally a joke that Trump made about Canada lmao. As for Greenland, the idea of the US purchasing it has been around for a LONG time...like, since the late 1800s; Trump wasn't asking for anything new here. I don't like him, nor do I like Biden or Harris...I'm tired of the whole tribalistic "us vs them" thing that's happening in US politics, but here's the thing - people need to understand that most of this is just social media wars, the average American isn't fighting people on the streets based on party affiliation lol...and before you go "well I've seen a bunch of videos of x, y, and z" well, the US is literally the third largest population in the world, there's going to be a lot more videos online of things in the US then in a lot of places simply due to the large population. It doesn't mean that everything is falling apart or that everyone is crazy like social media would want you to believe
There are a lot of Americans who criticize the U.S. purely because they believe it makes themselves appear enlightened to do so.
Sucks how if anything appears to be a trend or too many people bandwagon on it the BS stamp comes flying down.
(This is me)
My guy's entire thing is about criticising china so they can improve but if Americans do the same thing to their own country then they are entitled. Superb logic 👍
@ Chinese don't accept criticism. The U.S. allows it, and cowardly social justice warriors pile on and criticize the U.S. as a result. If China tolerated criticism, you might have a point, but the society and CCP cannot accept criticism. A brave country doing the right thing can tolerate criticism, and smart people in that country can say the criticism is not constructive. China? No criticism is allowed at all. You are not making a reasonable point.
@@Jimmyknapp2 Except social justice cowards tend to pile on to feel approval from their echo chamber.
It's not just America. It's anywhere white majority. White culture is gifted and cursed with self-reflection and empathy. Many times to a fault. Not saying other people don't have that, but this is why you see what happens in America, why you see the UK harm their own economy by abandoning their power, why France allowed itself to be flooded with bad migrants even before this decade, why German cops will get stabbed protecting migrants who are actually the aggressor in a fight, etc.
0:50 Let me guess, firearm ownership or legal self defense is also severly limited or outright illegal
Yes
Is the zombie apocalypse on its way to your house lol?
Every failed state does that to keep the citizen in terror of the monster.
@@MOI-qq8zc Have you watched the video? Did you read the comments? Did you know tha South Africa has one of the greatest murder rates in the world? You are so ignorant it's not even funny
My aunts lived in Johannesburg for decades. They moved back to Europe early 90's
We still go through that hell in South Africa. We just moved into our house when our neighbor's son got shot by someone jumped the fence. This year my son's friend' father was shot on a Sunday evening in front of the family in a home invasions.
I'm so sorry you went through that. God be with you
It's getting worse. I don't know what's going on or what shifted, but the violence is escalating exponentially. In the last 6 - 8 years, we went from being tied up and robbed, or having a gun pointed in our faces and our cars stolen, but we walked away alive. Scarred but alive. These days, criminals simply shoot us on the spot, even if we are cooperating, then they steal everything. We have zero respect for human life in this country.
SA Citizen here. My wife just got her green card. Waiting for my spousal VISA at the moment.
Its been 7 years in the making at the cost of a small home and 2 years mostly separated from one another. Its been tough. Just got back from 3 months in the US. The best part was surprisingly the people. Americans are awesome. So friendly. My wife didn't feel safe in SA. My wife is important to me. She now feels allot safer in the US. The future looks bright.
We've lost SA friends over our view of SA. They're just jealous. Some people are stuck and will simply shoot down the US at every opportunity they get. Human beings are interesting. They will do anything to justify their predicament instead of being honest with themselves and others.
I've lived in SA my whole life and never had anything bad happen. You don't need a crystal ball to see where its headed. We are simply creating more options for ourselves which I believe any sane person would do if they had the opportunity. These dam SA politicians will be the first people out of SA once they've finished with the country
I love being American. That said, I don't believe in "which country is best." Our government and our citizens have made so many missteps, but I would never want to live ANYWHERE else. Thank you for your perspectives. I appreciate your experiences and commentary.
Love your country, every day. Respect your politicians, only when they deserve it.
Thank-you for all your insights and coverage. Happy New Years from Florida/South Florida.
I was born in Korea and have lived in several countries of Latin America, and have traveled all over the world, over twenty countries, and I can tell you, as a citizen of the U.S. for over 50 years, the USA is still the best country to live in.
“Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad - greater even than the bounty of our material blessings.” - Farewell address, Jan. 14, 1981. President Jimmy Carter; passed away today, 12/30/2024.
As a lifelong American, I think one of the major issues we have is complacency. The whole "greatest nation on Earth" mantra only works if you back it up and keep it. And in my 38 years, the number of problems we've let sit on the back burner or let snowball... Things are nice, until they aren't. I'm grateful to have been born here over LOTS of other places, and I do think this is probably still one of the best places in the world to be. BUT, we gotta maintain it and not get lackadaisical with blind national pride and "rest on our laurels". Order and goodness are constant works in progress.
Good video, btw! 👍
And the main problem is that there are people who look at countries like South Africa and say, "hey, let's do that!"
Blind national pride = chauvinism