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If the mexicans are gone, then who makes our delicious food?

The same also applies in austria/germany: if the muslims were gone, who'd make our kebab?

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

    They don’t know or choose to forget that Irish, Italian, Polish, etc. immigrants were considered “not white” and “not American” too.

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

    If they understood anything about history they wouldn't be conservative.

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

    Don't even need to have much knowledge or intelligence; just empathy will usually get you out of the cult. Lacking both is a particularly dangerous combo; though so is intelligence and a lack of empathy. That's how you get the psychopathic grifters at the top I guess.

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

    I keep trying to find the standup that talks about America raising ignorant stupid people. Or was it proud ignorant people. Either way, I think it was Jim Jefferies but can't find it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A lot of con voters are just kinda dumb. Most people of any population never do any kind of self reflection or critical thinking, so for these people the fact that their parents would never support a dem is pretty much the entire basis for how they vote. A lot of them are plenty empathetic in their daily lives but they just never think about what their vote means.

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

    Apple pie is Dutch. Guess they had to let the English in somehow.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Oh please! Virtually impossible to tell where food actually originates from! You think the the first time of someone put roast meat on bread was in hamburg?

    But irrespective of what I just said, pizza is hungarian! Lángos is a lot lot lot older than italian pizza :>

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Apple pie comes from England, but it evolved from foods made by the Dutch, but they took/evolved it from the Ottomans who took apples from Kazakhstan.

    But modern Apple pie is an English invention, it just has a lot of influences from other sources (which is the same for pretty much every food).

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Anyone notice July 4th celebrations were way more subdued than usual? Even in my predominantly red area.

    30% tariffs hitting hard.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Americans are the last people who should complain about immigration.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Maga is trying to ruin American culture of being a melting pot.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    E Pluribus Unum, y’all!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Clothes and Tobacco supposedly from Vietnam but tbh clothes probably still secretly from China.

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    [–] 81 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Land stolen from the Native Americans in almost all cases. (That's different from the other items in this list, which were produced or invented or traded.)

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

    I would argue that apple pie was "stolen" since they have a whole phrase "as american as apple pie" when it isn't even american. It wasn't traded. It likely came with the brits et al, that colonised america. And since has become a staple of american culture.

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

    You'd be wrong. Apple and other fruit tarts may have been present in Europe, but a significant amount of American deserts originated with the Pennsylvania Deuch.

    This comic is actually just bait though as is conflates "learned from" with "stolen" over and over again. Bigots dont have a problem with taking things they like from other cultures over centuries. They dont like people they see as different from them right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I mean, from what i can see by googling it, it does seem like it originaled in england and was brought over to america. The apple trees in america were crab apple trees and were useless for making apple pie. The apple trees you use were brought over and domesticated before baring fruit that could be used in the dish.

    Also, when i say stolen, i am talking about using a dish that didn't originate in the USA to define the USA. But to mean that this pie is culturally american and patriotic. Except ironically it actually just proves how american culture is born of many many different cultures that came before it, and being proud to be american whilst simultaneously wanting anyone who isnt white to get out of the country is so idiotic and backwards.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The topic is sharing culture, where lots of very patriotic US things have their origins in other cultures. How so much of the US identity is a mish mash of other cultures. The US is even known as a cultural melting pot!

    The hypocrisy is being ok with other cultures if you're familiar with them, but hating 'new' culture. The comic is criticizing xenophobia by pointing out the (somewhat) xenophilic history of US culture.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago*

    Apples themselves originated in Kazakhstan 👍

    Lemons, northwestern India.

    The American flag in the background should also be marked as, "Made in China" 😁

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

    You have to at least be growing your own weed, right? It's so easy.

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

    Even if you're not, who's buying weed imported all the way from Asia? The farthest my weed comes from is BC, and that but rarely.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    I think the image is only looking at where the plant originated. Weed came from the Himilayas, in Asia. If it was strictly where the stuff you're consuming were grown, then the apples in the apple pie, lemons in the lemonade, cabbage from the coleslaw, corn on the cob, and the hot dogs would all probably be considered American since that's most likely where they were grown/made.

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  • [+] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do trumpers like weed? Most of the ones I know give me a hard time about "smoking drugs"

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is a mixed bag, some support legalization and smoking weed. A lot of the MAGA base are older, 60's (era of flower power, drugs, freedom) gen that sold out their peace/no war to become CEO's and fuck over the workers, yet still like to party. The other side are more religious, so "god" has told them (in their minds, I guess) that weed and all drugs are bad. Pharmaceuticals though, are welcome, in hand-fulls. It is all fuzzy math, really.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Trivia: cole slaw is an Anglicized version of the Dutch word koolsla, meaning cabbage salad.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always thought apple pie was a Dutch invention.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Only flaw is that they're drinking Modelo and not Busch, the brand that makes beer in camo cans. 10/10 no notes.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, they don't want the culture. They never said anything about the food.

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  • Imagine Egypt-gating lemonade. Artist dropped the ball there

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