• HrabiaVulpes
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    14 小时前

    And americans will tell you it’s because they are better or different.

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      13 小时前

      I’m not even American, but what the fuck are you even talking about, no one’s saying that

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        13 小时前

        Also not American. You don’t think there’s a perception that American is the greatest country in the West? It comes off thick with a lot of topics even discussed on the fediverse. A good clip that I enjoy watching every now and then https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk

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          12 小时前

          Everyone knows about the American exceptionalism, but it exists despite these horrid humanitarian conditions, not because.

          No one’s gonna say “yeah I’m happy with being forced to eat dirt, I’m superior to you, that’s why!”

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            11 小时前

            I’m sure many Americans would crow about these more positive things if they could but think about those posts that unironically brag about how “X about to find out why Americans don’t have healthcare” while showing a picture of an airborne orphan crusher, or something.

            It’s all part of their true grit machismo, like hell yeah most brutal capitalist hellscape imaginable, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Honestly they revel in it.

            It’s like Canadians and their cold winters.

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        12 小时前

        You dont know this but some Americans are profoundly stupid. By some I mean more than any body can manage.

        So just because you dont ride in those circles, dont think for a moment american exceptionalism isnt some sort of self defeating pride that will soon have my country on its knees.

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          12 小时前

          You dont know this but some Americans are profoundly stupid.

          Isn’t this the case basically everywhere? Is there a culture or country that doesn’t have profoundly stupid people in it?

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        There are plenty who don’t, but there are an unfortunately large number who do

        They’re stupid, indoctrinated, uneducated etc. but they’re very real

        I’ve had people from all over the world tell me that the US is the greatest country in the world,

        They were all stupid, racist and had never been there