Not even waiting for Trump to get elected before they turn on a group they claim to defend from Trump

  • Krem [he/him]
    hexbear
    103
    26 days ago

    Chanting, "Death To America" while you're holding your Starbucks you got on 24th and Lander, in your Levi's and your Nikes, before you head to Applebees for a beer and some riblets, is the stupidest bullshit I've ever heard.

    You like this lifestyle? It doesn't exist in 90% of the world. Maybe pump the brakes on hating the nation you live in that affords you perhaps the highest quality of life for the general population in the entire world?

    improve-society but also rebbitor seems to think it's 1924 and the US is more advanced and has higher living standards than the rest of the world? like people don't wear jeans and sneakers in 90% of the world? like there aren't hundreds of millions that have better lives then the average USian, like the USians also haven't forcibly exported their garbage "culture" to 199 countries in the world and there are sniff shtarbuchs koffie and macdongle's in every shopping mall in asia and europe?

    • BountifulEggnog [they/them]
      hexbear
      86
      edit-2
      26 days ago

      I love that all the things he named are just consumerist garbage. No mention of Healthcare, time off, affordable housing, a social safety net, none of it. Nothing that actually matters. And I have to wonder why he didn't 🤔

      Also this lifestyle makes me want to die.

      • @assyrian
        hexbear
        66
        26 days ago

        it's really a perfect summation of American culture. there's no actual culture to be proud of - the American lifestyle is just a bunch of shitty brands (that exist everywhere) and food that kills you.

        • riseuppikmin [he/him]
          hexbear
          53
          26 days ago

          The softest ban I ever got on reddit-logo was in some post about how "it's not okay to say america doesn't have culture" where I said I agree and that its culture is vapid consumerism

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
        hexbear
        15
        25 days ago

        America is best because of things for sale there. Exclusive and amazing things like....coffee, pants, shoes, beer and meat. The only thing 'american' about it is the specific brands he brings up. So what if my coffee isn't Starbucks, my shoes aren't Levi's and my pants aren't Nikes and why the fuck would I want my ribs from Applebee's if I ate meat in the first place? The fuck kind of own do they think this is? You can get stuff that's widely available most places but you won't be able to look at the same logo?

        "You're lucky you live here pal, it has brands I've identified with because that's literally all America has"

    • Guamer [she/her]
      hexbear
      64
      26 days ago

      That first guy is projecting so hard, bet that's his personal Applebees order when he eats there every week. It's weirdly specific.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
      hexbear
      56
      26 days ago

      fucking hate this lifestyle and im not alone

      western people be like "we are the best and everyone loves it here" meanwhile in the west suicide is an epidemic

    • footfaults [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      52
      26 days ago

      You like this lifestyle? It doesn't exist in 90% of the world. Maybe pump the brakes on hating the nation you live in that affords you perhaps the highest quality of life for the general population in the entire world?

      Warmed over "love it or leave it" talking points from the Iraq War

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
      hexbear
      35
      26 days ago

      Well, they did cheer when McDonald's pulled out of Russia as if that were some keen death blow

    • riseuppikmin [he/him]
      hexbear
      29
      26 days ago

      There's a small chance that post might be parody because I can't genuinely believe that even the worst of the burgoid empire would be willing to defend riblets

    • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      19
      25 days ago

      It's always confused me how Americans seem to think the rest of the world live in mud huts and are medieval peasant farmers or something. Like they just flat out don't seem to understand that other countries exist in the 21st century. I guess that's the only way you can compare the "American lifestyle" to another country favourably, if you pretend the rest of the world is stuck in the 1500s.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
      hexbear
      17
      26 days ago

      I realize, objectively, that putting all the most annoying internet commenters up against the wall first would be horribly inefficient, but I really don't know what else we could do.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
      hexbear
      10
      25 days ago

      It's so funny that the average American doesn't even consider that there might be people who don't like the ”lifestyle” of garbage fast food treats.

    • @frippa@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      5
      25 days ago

      You like this lifestyle? It doesn't exist in 90% of the world.

      Oh no, people having their cultures? We must stop this, they hate us for our cheeseburgers!

      But TBH I'd rather take a minuscule 40sqm apartment in a well-connected and technologically avant-garde Chinese metropolis over a comically enormous US house 30 minutes from everything good in life, and that probably costs more than a big-ass apartment in a Chinese city.

      But what do I know? I hate freedom and America, I should go to the DPRK since I don't like the west.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    88
    26 days ago

    Oh my god, these people. I can't stand it. They're calling the demonstrators "conservative Muslims." There's a claim in there that these chants are a response to American laws against racism, and implications that American Muslims want to kill all Jews.

    This is outright Nazi ideology and I hate all of these people. They can't for a single second think about why Muslims in Michigan might dislike Joe Biden. Their minds can only imagine they hate Biden because they want to be Republicans. It's good team bad team stuff again.

    I shouldn't even be surprised. I remember when liberals not even 20 years ago were always defending their American patriot credentials based on how many Muslims they wanted to kill.

    Also, death to America

  • NewLeaf [he/him]
    hexbear
    57
    26 days ago

    The amount of 9/11 style rhetoric coming from libs is... Well not that surprising actually. I thought more people thought like me when it came to that stuff. I'm not special. I'm not more educated than a lot of people. I consume the same media as everyone else...

    How are people so bloodthirsty

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
    hexbear
    55
    26 days ago

    Libs when they support a genocide and people call them shitty for it. surprised-pika

  • princeofsin [he/him]
    hexbear
    51
    26 days ago

    Never seen undocumented central Americans doing that... Just saying.

    This person 100% says the N word

    • @taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      7
      25 days ago

      Lmfao I love how they start theory crafting with no evidence. I guess if you hate Amerika you're Muslim or something?

      We don't need a religion to understand how shit this country is

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
    hexbear
    34
    edit-2
    26 days ago

    I think your link is a unique "share" link used for tracking who clicks on it

    https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/18u7q0v/reddit_now_tracks_whose_links_you_click_and_this/

    Don't use the share function/button of websites, just take the link you want to share from your browser's URL field directly like this:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1c3rgkj/white_house_condemns_death_to_america_chants_at/

    (you can also leave the part at the end (after the last slash) out if you want, I think it's called a "slug": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_URL#Slug)