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    16 days ago

    I’d love to make fun of European politics, there’s no shortage of embarrassments.

    not my fault my fellow Americans elected king dumbass.

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      Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hang on a second. We didn’t elect a king. You don’t elect a king. We elected a dictator.

      There’s a difference.

      Kings are born royalty. This jackass got elected. We CHOOSE him. This is OUR fault. Whereas with kings, nobody chooses them. They’re just born into that role.

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        I don’t think we did though. Before even one vote was counted he was bragging that the results don’t matter because he has all the votes he needs. He literally announced that he’d rigged an election and nobody did anything about it.

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          He literally announced that he’d rigged an election and nobody did anything about it.

          That’s not true, tons of voters heard that and stayed home to make sure he’d win and be the first republican in decades to win the popular vote.

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        Of course you can elect kings. It’s called elective monarchy, there have been a few of those throughout history.

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    I assume it’s because the life in Europe is better so people don’t need to escape their reality as much. You can go out and see a cool castle or ride a train or go check out a new country. And then you can get really, really, really good food that won’t give you diarrhea like the food here in the US.

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        Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.

        What’s the difference between the US and Germany?

        In Germany the ICE will probably not show up at all to take you away.

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      Well yeah, if you only go to McDonald’s or Taco Bell then you’ll get diarrhea, but there’s plenty of food and restaurants around the entirety of the us that has phenomenal food. However looking at your post history proves to me you don’t care about facts and only about insulting people and their ideals, and seemingly everyone on the internet enjoys nothing but shitting on Americans no matter the circumstance, so I know this will fall on deaf ears.

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        Ouch!? You have very curious reading comprehension skills, it appears. I’m not shitting on Americans, i’m shitting on the relatively weak and ineffective governments at the local state of federal level, which tend to only serve the interests of folks with large amounts of money. I have a relatively sensitive stomach and I have been sick from all kinds of restaurants across the US.

        You see, when you pay people minimum wage or less so in the case of tipped workers, their motivation to clean up and provide a great sanitary environment for everything is arguably lessened, don’t you think? Further, our education system, being largely designed by large corporate interests aims to produce ignorant workers, people addicted to fast food, sugar and its derivatives. People who think food should be as cheap and fast as possible, as convenient as possible, and not worthy of sitting down and spending time, contemplating cooking it, growing it, eating with family, et cetera.

        I remember walking around in Zwolle, Netherlands. I remember being embarrassed because I was the only one walking around while eating something. Everyone else sits down to eat. I never saw anyone eating in their car. Or eating while driving. I’m just saying this is illustrative of the difference between the US’s fucked up food culture and the rest of the world’s more mature and established food culture.

        Have you ever been to Japan? Have you ever been to Europe? Have you ever been to South America? I have and I can tell you, on average, they truly respect food. Just walk through the center aisles of any American supermarket and tell me if those products suggest a culture which honors and values food? It’s my humble opinion that no, not really.

        If I’m full of shit and I’m doing something wrong, I am all ears and willing to do better, I promise you. You’re gonna have to be real and not just throw daggers like that.

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        14 days ago

        taco bell doesn’t give me diarrhea. it’s not the firmest bowel movement, but it’s certainly not diarrhea.

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        Si lo sé, soy uno de esos. Pero igual, si el gobierno no inspecciona las operaciones de los restaurantes, igual te da diarrea. Las veces que he ido a Europa he regresado en mejor condición de estómago.

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    I’m American, but I’ll try to fill the gaps for a bit.

    WHAT is the DEAL with this plentiful health care!? It’s like…I’m thrivin’ over heeeere!

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      “What is the deal with…”

      Is it just me, or is that a really hack thing to do in standup comedy? lol

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        Its literarary shorthand for “this comic is bad at their job.” No comedians actually say that, unless they’re referencing a hack comedian.

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        “How about those comedians that say ‘What is the deal with…’? They’re trite I tell 'ya. Trite!”

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    Just take a look at the large communities on Lemmy:

    • News: American
    • Politics: American
    • Memes: American AND political

    I could not find any European meme community at all, and if there was one, I have a hunch it would be flooded with things Trump said or Musk said or whatever is new on Netflix. I guess news about the Circular Economy or the microplastics regulation, being rolled out slowly and in phases, though absolutely affecting EUropeans’ everyday lives, are just not quite as entertaining from an existentialist POV.

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      Eh, I give it a 4/10 right now. There’s still some cool stuff to do and plenty of great people around, but generally, can’t recommend it if you don’t have to.

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    I encourage Europeans and non Americans to post things that are relevant to their lives. I’m American and post things that are relevant to my life and that I have an opinion on. I’m curious about people’s opinions on things that I’m uninformed about.

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    15 days ago

    The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?

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    Hungarian here, I still couldn’t convince my leftist friends in facebook group chats to leave that garbage site… Many of them are even IT professionals.

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      15 days ago

      Unfortunately it became big because it is more convenient than having several separate tools for using the Internet.

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    “USA stuff” is affecting the whole world right now. You are coming to check out an English based social network for non-“USA stuff”. What did you expect?

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      I genuinely do not understand what the complaint is. If people are interested in non US things, please, by all means go discuss those things, but please don’t act like it’s weird how it is now.