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Time to bash Americans again (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Post:"Can someone please tell me why schools in Europe have no security?" Reply:"We have like a whole ocean between us and America... how much more security do you want?"
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[–] 183 points 1 year ago (30 children)

Who the fuck emigrates to Europe as a hardcore American fascist? Seriously? What the actual fuck?

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    We have plenty of fascists here. It's not like the US have a monopoly. We don't quite let them run the show yet, but we're certainly working on it.

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  • [–] 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Spreading the plague, as insects are wont to do.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As an American, I would like to apologize profusely for the rank idiocy of my fellow citizens.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    No need for an apology here, I too am beyond mortified by what my country has revealed itself to be. I do sincerely hope the rest of the civilized world resists the ideology we seem to be exporting before it's too late.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They come here to spread their culture, their ideology of violence and intolerance.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As an American, please enthusiastically tell any American that tries to do this to fuck all the way off and go back to our own shitty country. I don’t want us fucking up your continent too.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Here here. If Europe goes to trash I won't even be able to VPN my way out of fascist bullshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If Europe goes to fash, my options narrow to Japan or SK or A/NZ, and none of those have the same geopolitical weight as the EU.

    The EU is, IMO, the last best hope for democracy in the world these days, in the context of a geopolitically significant polity that is (mostly) cohesive.

    And I hope that statement ages like wine, not milk (or, like the B5 S3 intro)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean Japan's political situation is kind of weird. The LDP has basically been in power forever (with super brief interruptions). It lost power recently though so we'll see what happens I guess. IIUC tho anti-immigrant sentiment is rising (at least partly fueled by the massive waves of shitty tourists IMO), which prob isn't a great sign based on what's been happening in other countries.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I still speak a reasonable amount of Japanese, and am familiar with the social norms. I think I would be fine, despite being white as a picket fence.

    That’s not to say I am dismissing the xenophobia - it’s real, and it’s one of the aspects of Japanese society that troubles me the most, in a general sense.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Could be a military member stationed there. A guy I work with is one of those 4chan "libertarians" and had nothing but "horror stories" about living in Germany. Same guy is terrified to venture into the local major metropolitan area or take the light rail system.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe for a specific job? Booking.com used to heavily recruit US talent to work in Amsterdam. It was usually only for a few years at a time, though, in accordance with Dutch labor and immigration laws.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Not for years and years. Most of the booking.com staff is remote. All the senior staff is outsourced now too and very little is in Amsterdam. If you get a job there, word to the wise, don't compliment the one lady's chickens, she gets big mad.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I’m an American living in the EU, and I’m surprised by that. All the other American immigrants I’ve met so far have been opposed to Trump and Republicans generally. I always figured the conservatives were likely to be buying into AmErIcA iS tHe BeSt propaganda and would thus be uninterested in moving to another country.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Imagine being racist and wanting to enjoy it instead of making it political. In the US it's culture war shit. In Europe you can go to a football match and throw bananas at the black players and it's chill. It's just easier to be casually racist in Europe because racism doesn't exist there, and if it does, it's not as bad as America.

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