It’s all fun and games until you run to us for bombs 😂
Which were mostly the product of European minds.
And yet Europe continues to be unable to defend itself and USA leads the way.
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It’s easy to boast about your country’s defenses and what not when your country hasn’t been regularly in devastating wars on their own territory.
The USA does have some brilliant minds of it’s own, don’t get me wrong. But most, if not all technology the USA has is either derived or completely developed by Europe, from Germany, the UK, or even France.
👌👍 I’m sure it has nothing to do with the anemic funding or the 70 years America has spent making sure it can project power anywhere on the planet.
Good Lord 🤣
Can we not import this braindead rhetoric from reddit too.
… You really think this place is more enlightened than reddit? It’s identical except for the number of people.
Why not? This thread hits literally every other obnoxious take on the topic.
I’m not sure if you know this but there is a way going on in Eastern Europe. And if you weren’t aware the US is the primary support. More than doubling both humanitarian and weapons aid the EU and individual countries have scrapped together.
I’ve definitely triggered the EUs in this thread about sneaking Americans 😂
I believe this is no longer quite true. It’s also incredibly petty.
The US is certainly the largest singular military donor, but that should surprise no one. But in terms of longer term support EU countries in Central, Northern Europe and the Baltics are committed to supporting Ukraine and the numbers show it.
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
Being proud of being the sole reason a proxy war can continue is not a good thing.
That’s where you’re wrong.
That’s what got us Bin Laden, the Balkans wars, and a bunch of horrible terrorism everywhere.
Seriously. Trace what happened to the mujahidin leaders, and the weapons we gave them. I think you’ll be surprised at the destruction they wrought all across the globe.
While you’re at it, check out what the Ukrainians think the percentage of weapons we are giving them end up getting to the soldiers. Also, check out why they just fired the head of their recruitment centers. Also, the Defense Minister.
I swear, everyone is all like “TANKIE TANKIE” to anyone with an attention span longer than 6 months. Most of them don’t even know what that word fucking means.
At least there isn’t the stupid “red-brown alliance” smear for anyone that doesn’t agree with the literal State departments propaganda. If you were all alive in the 80’s, you’d be cheering on the death squad contras, and worshiping Reagan.
Add another tankie to the ban pile
I welcome your hate.
Do you remember when being a liberal meant being anti-war? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Yeah, and the biggest threat to Europe couldn’t invade a corrupt and relatively impoverished country with less than a 10th of its military strength that it shares a border with and has direct rail routes into. And that was before we started to send weapons to Ukraine.
So I’m sure the only thing stopping Putin from taking over Europe isn’t the UK, France or Germany, each if which has a military on par with Russia.
An american saying “don’t come to us for bombs” is like a mexican saying don’t come to us for tacos.
I think they’re referring to vietnam when the french requested the ? Eisenhower admin to nuke dien-bien-fu.
As a european, this applies to both sides lol
as a southamerican I remind you that there are more than two sides.
As a southafrican I remind you that reddit is bad and your pfp should not contain a reddit character
Ah yeah of course
IIT: dozens of extremely sensitive Americans not getting the irony
IIT = In intergalactic thread?
Well… Obviously… erm… Yes, obviously I’m using the original latin form. Of course.
We’ll show you how much we can take a joke by down voting this comment!
(Yes, this comment will be downvoted too)
Didn’t vote + outplayed + you predicted wrong + go touch grass
You sure showed me the error of my ways!
I’ll just say that I’ve had different experiences for the most part.
Same. In most of the interactions I have had with Americans here (including myself), they have been generally pretty aware of the faults of the United States and willing to admit to them.
I call BS. I feel it’s more popular than ever to dunk on the US. Like, there’s still a sect of 'MURICAN PATURYOTS that get big mad, but most of us are well aware of reality.
Meh. Little dogs gotta bark.
On the internet, maybe?
So far my impression has been that this is less of a problem on Lemmy compared to other places
Americans when literally anything
How do you know somebody’s American without meeting them first?
You hear them.
Unless we’re talking protesting or voting. Then they’re asleep.
Nah. Democrats protest, Republicans vote. Funny how one of those groups wields a grossly exaggerated amount of political power.
I’m American and I can confirm this is true
THIS IS BULLSHIT!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!!!
WHAT? CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!
As long as your country has no oil, you can insult them without fear of retribution
There is a % of people in every country no matter what, trash talk and think their country is the best. They are often closed minded and ironically the type of person that others like them in other counties talk trash about. Best not to stoop down and let that % do what they are gonna do.
Uh, what? I live here and I shit on it all the time.
It’s very much more of a
American criticises America: crickets
Non-American criticises America: hooooo boy here comes the nationalism
Yeah. as an American I shit on America more than anyone. I got no idea what Op is talking abot.
Americans do a lot of stupid things, but they are most likely to be self critical in this space. I think this meme should talk about Western Europe instead, because they have many problems, but they are so often never willing to accept criticism. They’re quick to call the US racist, but in my experience, Europe has so much racism it’s crazy it’s viewed as this anti racist place.
Ask any “America is so racist” European about their thoughts on the Roma people
Or turks. Or Moroccans. Or Africans.
Or other Europeans. Damn Europeans, they ruined Europe!
I (a US citizen) literally didn’t get a job in Germany because one member on the team objected because I didn’t speak German yet. The company is “English first” and I worked in the US division previously. So yeah, Europeans are certainly as capable of being racist. And they didn’t even try to hide it!
Ah yes, the English language speaking race
I see you deal in absolutes. The person wanted a fluent German speaker despite being an English first company. Put it together in your head.
Yeah, it’s racist to hire another more qualified candidate that can speak multiple languages in a setting that would benefit from that skill…
Idk about OP, but from my experience, you can speak German perfectly correctly, but have an accent, and that will make your job search many times harder, because they know you’re not “German”. I highly doubt this is about skill.
Clearly you must have all the details about where I worked and applied already. What an amazing ability!
Is that racism?
Easily could be, since race is a social contruct. See the Irish not being “white.” Probably just nationalism though.
I’m not sure what are you talking about. I’m Spanish and the first people to criticize Spain is Spanish people. Probably you’ve never even heard of all the problems our country has. Unemployment, corruption, house okupation, lots of small crime, mafia related crime for all the drugs trying to enter Europe, lots of immigration as Spain is one of the doors to Europe… I can go on. For all of these there’s a lot of debate and not much being done so far…
Bueno momento para visitar España?
More or less, just keep a good eye on your wallet and it should be fine.
I’m American, from South America. I think maybe the post refers to the gringos :-)
🤔 I once called a pothole a ‘Colombian speedbump’ and my local relatives could not appreciate it. QED
Laughing about yourself (or your own country) is sadly not a skill everyone possesses. People who can are the best :D
You haven’t seen Voronezh speedbump.
That is not a speedbump, it is russian artisanship to produce a detailed 3d artwork version of this:
I remember episode of Galileo about this. This one probably made in Moscow or Petersburg.
Bruh who you talkin bout I don’t give a shit about this fucked up country
Then why dont you leave it?
Do you realize how difficult it is to move from one country to another? It’s expensive as hell, and if you’re a US citizen you still owe taxes on money you make while living abroad.
Additionally, the cost to renounce US citizenship is the highest in the world by a large margin. $2350 + exit taxes, as of this writing. https://common.usembassy.gov/en/renounce-citizenship/
Next highest is Jamaica at $1040 as of this writing. https://congenjamaica-ny.org/renunciation-of-jamaican-citizenship/
The USA is an inescapable hellhole for the poor, so think for a few seconds before you make another shit comment like this.
You only pay the US taxes if you’d owe more to federal tax than you’re paying to the host country, but yeah.
Alright, fair. I know already after the other 400 replies saying the same exact thing.
speaking as someone married to an American who migrated to my country… the cost of renouncing your citizenship is far cheaper than the backward arse tax system that applies to US citizens regardless where they live, and the need to pay someone to do your taxes for you even if you owe nothing.
Once you get citizenship elsewhere (if you can) I’d recommend renounce US on sheer economic grounds alone
Where else is there really to go? You have to be rich to expatriate.
Tons of migrants aren’t rich and are still capable.
its pretty much the only way you would move to a first world country is be rich. most countries only take a certain number of people with certain skillsets, and have limited quotas for unskilled migration via things like spouse/family. anyone who thinks someone can just pick a country and move there is either stupid or naive
Well i guess im the latter now
I was a bit harsh but nah mate your all good. we all gotta learn at some point
Primarily because it’s really difficult to move countries. Even when an other country is “better”, by whatever metric you may choose, the high switching cost makes the move worse for individuals unless staying in a country is really really bad. That threshold is typically when subsistence in the country of origin becomes untenable, often due to war or famine.
ok then
Half the population has less than 1000 bucks in savings and doesn’t have a degree like an MD that would bump them to the top of the list as far as citizenship elsewhere. How do you propose people make this happen? The people who are most disadvantaged are those who would have the hardest time doing so.
Bruh take a look at the downvotes on this post compared to other posts.
Those are the people I’m talkin bout.
“Everyone who disagrees with me is Hitler: A guide to online discussion”
You would say that, wouldn’t you Hitler!
Maybe people are downvoting because it’s just not a very good meme?
No, it’s the children who are wrong.
Gringos are an special kind
I know you, hi! 👋
It’s exciting when I see users I recognize 😋
hi
Well thats a Same moment.
