DEAR AMERICANS, PLEASE DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME. i love the individual americans i've met over the years ♡
weirdest thing about the usa: american exceptionalism. it looks more and more bizarre to me the older i get. it's like everyone is brainwashed and honestly believes that "usa number one" and it's super creepy, unintelligent, and not self aware at all. having pride in your country is great, but believing with all your mind and heart that the concept of countries is a race, a competition, and anerica is in first place, because it's *better than every other country* is psychotic.
the date thing (it's day month year, you mongoloids). it's ridiculous. the imperial system - deeply, disturbingly dumb. if you suggest any changes, 99% of people will have a complete meltdown and say that any changes are the devil trying to trick you and destroy the entire nation and it's way of life.
the rest of the world only tolerates america's literal insanity because america gives us some cool stuff. a whole bunch of truly great movies, tv shows, the iphone i'm typing this on and - most importantly. but when trump was lying and saying he was building a wall, the rest of the world were laughing and half-joking with some version of: "while 'building the wall' (lol) please just keep going! don't stop at mexico, you need a wall *all the way around* that loony bin of a country. and then put a secure lid on top. we're all sick of americans infecting the rest of the world with their stupidity, degeneracy, and their never ending ridiculous politics." no one is sane there - it's all one team vs another team (cunt vs cunt) and the way people follow their "sides" so unquestioningly it could be called sheep behaviour but i think sheep are sweet and groovy buddies so it's plain old inability to think from themselves.
Honestly find it a bit strange that flying the flag of your nation bothers you this much. If it makes you feel better I fly it upside down a lot here lately.
@Billy_Hughes you do? i don't get defensive about much. i love australia but i don't make a thing out of it. it just happens to be where i was born and i see a lot of beauty in it.
at least no one in my suburb has a freaking flagpole attached to their house so they can raise the flag of australia. when i lived in the netherlands i only saw flags out on queens day (i wore a shirt that was half orange half dutch flag on queens day one year lol). in fact i don't know if i've ever seen just a regular boring old suburban house with a flag hanging up out the front on either continent i've lived on. almost every photo/video i see of american homes, they have the stars and stripes out the front flapping in the wind. that fact creeps me out massively and i'm not sure why. it legit makes me feel uncomfortable 🥺
disclaimer: this all might be due to my retardation of course (*≧▽≦)ノシ))
I know j, she's a good egg. We don't see eye to eye on many issues. I feel her little rant is like tormenting White South Africans for abolishing apartheid. Although all this gay stuff I'm pretty sure came from America, one way or another. But it's cruel to blame Americans
@Billy_Hughes thank you so much, kind sir! that's actually a compliment i get a lot and i love it every time - "you're a good egg". best compliment ever ☻
i think people commenting skimmed what i wrote cos they missed half of it. i did mention that i love individual americans.
i mean, *this is all part of american exceptionalism* - if anyone says anything they dont like about america, americans can't let it slide. it's like north korea or something but with the whole fantasy of "usa number one!" being the object of worship instead of kim jung il.
why take do yanks take it so personally the way they do? it's bizarre. everyone likes some countries and not others, but if anyone dares say what the dont like about usa? americans act like i slapped their grandmother and slept with their dad. it will never not be very very weird. and that's what the quote poast was about after all; weird stuff
C What you say is pretty fair during the bush administration but Most Americans on fediverse are deeply concerned about the crappy state America is in, beyond that really they're just watching their formerly exceptional national acutely decline W