• ZapataCadabra [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I honestly can't fathom a nation being dumber than America. Maybe that's my American exceptionalism talking but we really are dumb.

    • WideningGyro [any]
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      11 months ago

      There is something to be said for being openly and unashamedly dumb. I feel like us Europeans have this holier-than-thou superiority complex while still being dumb and horrible as shit. But then again, could also be my bias speaking. I would still rather live here than in the US for material reasons.

      • Moss [they/them]
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        11 months ago

        Europeans really do think that they're better than Americans because they have healthcare, and pretend racism and homophobia are American inventions.

        • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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          11 months ago

          Don't forget bad cops. Only US cops are bad and racist, our cops are wholesome 100. Never mind that just a few years ago it came out that like half of all German police stations had secret far-right Whatsapp group chats, just ignore that bit, our cops have a modicum of trigger discipline and don't blatantly gun down black people in the streets so that must mean they're epic Marvel Avengers.

          • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            to be fair, as a bleak ameroid, if we suddenly got universal healthcare and the cops stopped gunning down minorities in the streets with absolute impunity, i would think the Kingdom of Heaven had arrived.

    • peppersky [he/him, any]
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      11 months ago

      As a german, the least I can say that we at least have the decency to all hate ourselves openly