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The US is not a mono-culture and most of us (unfortunately not all of them voted) are against most of the things we as a country are ridiculed over.
I swear, replace “US” or “Americans” in some of the stuff Europeans are posting/commenting with any other country, and those would sound xenophobic AF. But somehow, because 'Murica, it gets a pass.
This is a widely recognized principle: kicking those above is OK, kicking those below isn’t. The US is the most powerful country in the world, its culture dominates the globe, and celebrates that fact. So they are OK to kick.
So Europe acknowledges that USA is superior?
Close the thread, we got 'em
How would people who live outside of Europe know what Europeans are not ready to hear? As someone who lives in the U.S. I know only a couple of people IRL who live in Europe.
The thing my European friend was not ready to hear was that all his complaining about the social programs in his home country and the high taxes and so on comes across as entitled and spoiled. Because he’s never lived without the benefits of a state that will provide healthcare and so on, he is free to complain about his privileges and glorify the U.S. as a place where individual citizens fill in the responsibilities that the government should fulfill. He sees this as an unmitigated good, because he thinks it means more civic engagement.
What he doesn’t understand is that this results in most people falling through the cracks, and until he falls through one of those cracks himself it won’t be real to him how bad it is to not be able to afford losing wages because you are sick or injured, or what it’s like when you can’t afford to see a doctor when you break a bone or get so sick you can’t leave your house.
That said, I’m not sure every European needs to hear this, or that they’re not ready to hear it - just this one person seemed to be a little delusional and to have idealized the U.S. as some kind of right-wing libertarian utopia.
How would people who live outside of Europe know what Europeans are not ready to hear?
-Goes on to do exactly that
Bröther
You take your lööps for granted, Eurøpeans. Your Sïster grows weary.
A Møøse once bit my sister…
Yall need ac. Get with the fucking times bro. Every summer yall just dying over there. We aren’t fixing global warming in this lifetime just buy an ac unit
Don’t have one, don’t need one
You say that now. Where do you live, Finland? :|
As someone who has an AC, I have 2 thoughts.
- It’s not useful for summer, I have never used it to cool a room, opening the windows works fine.
- It is cheaper than a normal heater, and works slightly better in the earlier months of winter. Right now, it is too cold outside for it to work at its best efficiency, using a normal heater is better in this case.
We had ours installed back when the price of gas from Russia skyrocketed, it was way more affordable to use it for heating then.
There is pretty much no place in Europe where a heat pump would not be more efficient.
That’s pretty much a form of having AC… All these people saying otherwise clearly haven’t lived in an environment where it’s hot as shit. Hoo boy are all these folks going to realize how wrong they are when they discover what the wet bulb temperature is, and exactly how much energy humanity has put into our environment since the stert of the industrial revolution.
The Europeans have had -many- centuries longer to screw -everything- up in -every way- and then, eventually, regret it. A bit. So, like most of us humans, who learn most lessons the hard way, they have finally settled on something they can live with … and they call it civilization. With pride.
Amongst those living there who don’t know all of that history - like most humans - they assume that things got that way reasonably. And brag about it as if it was true.
Unlike the middle East - which has had -millenia- longer to learn - and which was, is, and it seems always will be, screwing everything up in every way. While they all point their fingers elsewhere. And build very large monuments to survive them.
Lol at the casual racism of claiming “middle east is screwing everything up” as is they haven’t been manipulated, exploited and intervened on for the past couple of centuries by EU and USA for their own benefits. What drivel!
I don’t think the EU has existed for most of the last couple centuries, and EU itself hasn’t poked its nose in the Middle East much.
Don’t be deliberately obtuse. Obviously I meant the European nations which now comprise the core of the EU. You realize the age of colonialism and later on the age of imperialism was a exclusively European phenomenon, yes?
exclusively European phenomenon, yes?
Definitely mostly European, but Japan imperialism still happened
Sure, but obviously it’s not pertinent to the middle east.
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Too many people smoke in Europe and it’s too widely accepted.
Coming from northern Europe, we are usually surprised to see so many smokers when we vacation in the more southern parts of Europe. It used to be common here too, growing up in the 90s. But it just stopped. Very rarely do I see anyone with a cigarette, even outdoors. Cigarette butts are a rare find on the ground.
I’m happy about it. I hate smoking. But the snuff pandemic has to stop too. Many of my friends use it, and have for decades. I don’t understand why people don’t just choose not to put toxins in their body. So stupid. And they even pay to do it, too. A significant amount of money. So mf dumb.
I don’t understand why people don’t just choose not to put toxins in their body.
It’s because it’s addictive.
I never tried cigarettes nor snuff. Spoiler: I didn’t get addicted, because I chose not to put it in my body.
No one has ever offered you cocaine have they :|
