• YeahToast@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    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

    • ddplf@szmer.info
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 day ago

      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!”

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 day ago

        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.