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The United States is a country. You don't get to pretend that it's not just because it's internally chaotic. The United States is the parts that make it up. Explaining why it is dysfunctional doesn't stop it from being dysfunctional. And it is dysfunctional...
That isn't the point of my post. Yeah, it a country and it's fucked up. But what you think of as dysfunctional we call that the feature. That's literally the point of the whole shebang. But yeah it's also dysfunctional but I wasn't talking about that. It's about broadstoked accusations of "Americans" who are 320M people in the most diverse country in the world that chaps my ass, especially coming from a bullying, superior, dick in a turtleneck (my Eurodouche stereotype of choice).
What’s the point of the post then? That some regions are a little less fucked up? That you are all distinct cultures in your 50 states of native genocide?
All your comments are referring to the smug Europeans, without even realizing that Europe is actually not just a supranational government but individual, actually cultural distinct, countries. You know, with traditions, customs, language, social order of their own, usually for a few hundred years longer than you people even ran off, because you couldn’t be capitalist or religious enough over here.
All your country is, is the sum of the worst parts of Europe wrapped in nazi germany derived military superiority (in keeping with the generalized cliches).
Is your goal to get more people in the U.S. to want to leave NATO and for them to want to supply Russia with equipment and buy their oil and further ignore Israels murders of innocents/genocide you are on the right path.
Most people don't care about details. "Enemy of my enemy is my friend" is as advanced as the standard person gets.
These discussions provoke Europeans to speak down on people in the U.S. whether or not they know who they are speaking to and pit them against each other. Notice you don't see much about Russians calling Americans idiots, because they want to be seen as not the ones generalizing and name calling. Russia wanted the Republicans/Americans in general to believe Russia is not that bad, and Ukraine as a threat.
All it took was Zelenksy to be taken out of context the other day and poof, I heard people saying Ukrainians want to spit on Polish people and Americans no matter what we do. No mention of any things bad Putin has said or did.
Discussion is needed, but when we start to generalize and name call we aren't being productive.
American here, these discussions have absolutely no bearing on anything. The US propaganda machine will keep churning regardless of what any of us think, our lawmakers are only doing the bidding of the corporate ruling class and if they try to go against that grain they're blackballed from politics basically forever. I'm glad some Europeans see through the propaganda but many non-Americans truly don't understand how bad it is here and still to this day move here seeking "freedom" that no longer exists (and arguably never did). Honestly the guy who made this post is at best a bad faith troll parroting twenty year old talking points to distract people and piss them off. Anyone with access to Google should know that the cultural distinction between the bay area and Chicago are smaller than the distinction between Sussex and Manchester. Calling OP a fucking dumbass is both an understatement and unproductive, but it's no less productive than any comment actually trying to change OP's mind about such an uneducated opinion.
Lol I'm super dumbass! With the opinion that people should mind their tongue and not talk down to us like they anything about us besides BBC and Marvel. Hyper dumbass!
I've almost never felt like a European was talking down to me. If you feel like you're experiencing that often, maybe there's a reason. I know self-reflection is hard for you, our school system propagandizes our children to never do such a thing, but I believe that you can change for the better.
Glory to be you. I guess you've never been in a service industry with a large amount of European customers always coming through, eager to explain why their country is superior and why mine sucks, or been on an online post involving American politics. Hell, I guess you've never been to the post you're in right now, because there's several condescending and ignorant comments from Europeans here literally right now.
You presuming to know my ability to introspect is an amateur insult and a your assumption that my experience with people talking down to me is based on me being stupid or something isn't where my wrath comes from. I explained it. In my post. That you're in.