• Voidian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    My sentiments exactly. Americans always find a way to make eeeverything about themselves. And then they’re surprised to find Trump as their president. And then, instead of actually doing something about their miserable country, they will dominate every online space with their political shitshow. Most ironically it’s usually accompanied with a significant amount of self-flagellation about what evil imperialists they are. A lot of it. They REALLY need you to see how badly THEY feel about being shitty (not that they’ll take any real action about it). 0 self-awareness. Trump is just the pus-filled cap of an inflamed zit.

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      Oh so sorry to bother you with the power dynamics of the only real superpower that underpins western civilization. But you should realize those same dynamics are at play in your countries, and you will be falling like dominoes, so enjoy it now.

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      Yes, the country with a population equivalent to the 8 highest population EU states is definitely homogenously made up of imperialists who are the same people hating on themselves.

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        No, the imperialistic “I must dominate every space I find myself in” attitude is pretty ingrained in Americans, regardless of if they embrace it in themselves or not. Anything from “I must make everyone aware of how bad I feel about my terrible country” to “I must force every country and culture in the world to follow my value system” to just sucking the air out of any room they’re in by making sure that they are the loudest and most visible person around. They come from a culture where everyone is trying to be the tallest poppy. Most of the world by varying degrees generally trims the tallest poppy. It’s not without issues but I could write a hell of a rant on how the tall poppy thing has been painted in overly negative light thanks to American hyper-individualistic sensibilities worming their way into the general consciousness (and don’t confuse me for a tankie, that’s like cutting the whole field if one poppy grows too tall).

        Maybe not all Americans go out with the intent to conquer. But very few Americans seem to actually ask themselves if maybe for FUCKING ONCE they could just shut the fuck up, sit quietly in the corner and give their attention to someone else. But no, even if magically all Americans took what I just said to heart, they’d FLOOD social media with posts about themselves sitting quietly in the corner. They’d make sure that everyone knows just how quiet and invisible they are. They would keep their mouth shut but paint a massive red circle and arrows on the wall behind them, and they’d definitely try to be better at it than the other guy. This is the American mentality.

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          You’re so fucking spot on. Every single fucking time USA does something evil (so constantly), there’s a horde of americans flooding every single forum/social media/toilet stall, to cry about how much it hurts their feelings. Instead of just fucking off and letting people actually deal with it.

          The danish subreddit used to be (probably still is, idk) flooded by americans making long ass posts every single time Trump opened his shit-filled mouth about the country, begging for fucking forgiveness, like this is in any way about them.