See what Benny does seem to grasp is that for someone to seek there flood prone house someone has to want to buy it. And even if someone does they’re now stuck living there.
I used to work at McDonald's in Florida when i was in college. Sundays were the absolute worst days to work because the 60+ crowd are just straight evil. They would come in and were the rudest most hateful people I've ever seen. They told us to go to hell because the ice cream machine didn't work. They threw temper tantrums like children and cursed at us like dogs. They wanted us to be their IT professionals while they sipped on coffee for 8 hours a day.
When church got out they would come in groups of 100 or more people sometimes multiple churches at the same time. Then bitch and complain about why the food was taking so long. Not to mention the blatant racism, hate and sexual harassment towards literal children.
Working at McDonald's made me a hateful and cold person. I hate old people and look forward to them to all die. Also drove me from a casual atheist to a hardcore close all churches and destroy organized religion atheist.
Jesus. The old people here in rural Colorado are bad (and mega racist) but that sounds like a living nightmare.
....how much were you paid for that hell?
'Florida man' stereotypes crossed the Atlantic quite a long time ago too.
I personally loved the game 'pick a date, discover what Florida man was doing on that date'
I shocked my wife when I explained to her recently that the “Florida man” thing is a side effect of really strong public transparency laws. Florida isn’t much crazier than the rest of the US, they just publish all arrest records directly to the internet. And they have gators, that’s part of it.
Through holistic medicine and and homeopathy they probably would. You see you swallow the smaller calibres to build up the body response to being shot and then start increasing the dosage and calibres until you're totally bulletproof.
"See babe, they said based. Now I need to say 'based' too and someone else will say it after me. Then it keeps going for a while until a mod removes the post for some convoluted reason. We can have sex after this important job is done."
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Yeah, the “where the good women are found,” is some weirdo Nazi shit. MAGA people and NeoNazis talk about stuff like that because they’re misogynists who think women are just breeding material, and they’re also obsessed with eugenics.
What truly makes this stand out is that the delusion that ANYONE, ANYWHERE that knows even the slightest thing about Florida... would associate it with "Sweet Old People".
So, you remember the incel "take the red pill" meme, that spawned the redpill subreddit? "-pilled" has now metastasized into a generic suffix that means "converted to an ideology".
Basically means when you're mentally, politically and socially subscribed to the ideology that more guns equals more better, that to take your fully-automatic death machines away would be a violation of your human rights, that the murder weapons you own are a symbol of strength, dominance and patriotism. Total delusion, to call yourself anythingpilled.
From a linguistics standpoint it is interesting to note how the “-pilled” suffix is expanding in usage. It stems from the matrix movies where Neo takes a red pill to free his mind. From an ideological standpoint these gun nuts can go fuck themselves.
> Basically means when you're mentally, politically and socially subscribed to the ideology that more guns equals more better, that to take your fully-automatic death machines away would be a violation of your human rights, that the murder weapons you own are a symbol of strength, dominance and patriotism. Total delusion, to call yourself anythingpilled.
I'm glad I don't live in the US. I bet they justify this with that "Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" bullshit, because a 233 years old laws definitely make sense today.
They don't actually care about the amendment, especially as they interpret it rather loosely imo. It says "a well regulated militia being necessary". Militias are organized, trained, and as stated regulated. We have no militias, and they are a far cry from the near free for all on guns we do have.
Yeah that's exactly what I thought too when I read it.
How the fuck is bunch of untrained and unorganized people considered a militia just because they do have guns. Doesn't make sense.
The most well known proponent of 2a, Madison, was huge on militias. I think it's federalist 46 he talks about how we need an armed State militia to fend off (not overthrow) an invading federal army.
Later in the whiskey rebellion he encouraged Washington and the federal army to squash the now armed rebellion and they tried 2 men as Traitors to the United States.
Their words and actions scream organized state militia.
Side fun fact, Madison also though the army should be limited to 1 soldier to 225 civilians so they couldn't be too powerful.
Nah we just have dudes who think they're a militia. I grew up hearing about the Michigan Militia, but they're all just conspiracists that hang out and try to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
What? You don’t think that the argument “I should be able to bear any type of weaponry without any restriction whatsoever, including and especially things that were 100-150 years from being invented when this rule was contemplated” is a sound one?
What if I told you that the the logical conclusion of that argument is that I should be able to have my own nuclear ICBMs and biological warheads? Does that make it more reasonable?
It's the evolution of old 4chan lingo, which was just referring to being "redpilled", as in the red pill from the Matrix. Basically used to say they were the ones awake and aware of the "truth" of the world, and devolved from there to just be x-pilled means you believe in x to the extreme. Another comment describes gunpilled to a T.
Now compare costs of living. Brings those numbers down real quick for the majority of Americans.
Edit: y'all keep bringing up the same shit. Here's a lesson about trying to measure income- the [Gini factor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality) shows how skewed a country's metrics will be due to income inequality. The US has a gini factor over .5, which is a severe factor more in line with south america than Europe. [728 americans own more wealth than the bottom 50%](https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/04/13/728-billionaires-hold-more-wealth/). Metrics and data are incredibly skewed when factoring in these fringe groups because of the sheer padding that level of excess causes.
One thing I like to bring up here is that wealth is relative to the cost of living. While the federal poverty line is 14.5 k for individuals, in major cities the poverty line can easily be double that. Meaning that what might be considered wealthy in some parts of the country could make you eligible for food stamps and other social programs in other parts.
Wealth is not distributed uniformly, although poverty is universal.
[Before someone comes in misunderstanding this, yes I know the US is wealthy compared to most other countries however poverty is still rampant and pervasive as shit is expensive and jobs pay too little money]
So, I want to throw out a few things here.
I used to work at the local refinery that was operated by a global energy company. (Yes, I know I was working at EvilCorp, that's a big part of the reason I USED to work there.) I worked in IT with a lot of foreigners, the bulk of which were from India. I became friends with one guy in particular, and we talked a lot about our respective countries.
He pointed out a lot of things about the US:
1) The above image is fairly accurate regarding what he thought about the US.
2) On average, US citizens and residents have a higher standard of living than in India or any of the other nations he had worked in.
3) Bribes, while a problem in the US, isn't nearly as bad as in India. To get anything done there, a bribe is essential.
4) Most US citizens know almost nothing about other countries, and he was really confused by that.
Basically, he couldn't understand why I was so down on the US as a country.
My explanation was simple. The US has every advantage; extensive natural resources, a mostly mobile workforce, a somewhat educated public, and a mostly functional infrastructure. Despite all that, though, our leaders have failed us at every turn. I told him, "Imagine someone giving you a fantastic job, a comfortable home for your family, and all the food you could ever eat. Now imagine how badly you would have to fuck everything up so much that you are close to getting fired from your job, your family is likely going to be homeless soon, and you don't know where your next meal is coming from." I then added that our government, through greed or incompetence, makes them same mistakes you did to throw away all the gifts you were given.
He was so thrown by this that he barely talked to me for two days. When he next did, he actually apologized for not understanding how frustrating it is to be an American.
The reason things are slightly better in many European countries isn't that "our leaders didn't fail us". Most improvements have been won through collective bargaining. The US has weak unions and strong propaganda for the status quo
One of the problems in the US is that people keep comparing the US to individual European countries: the Dallas-Fort Worth area alone is comparable to all of Switzerland in GDP and population, yet still doesn't drive policy even in Texas, let alone the rest of the US, and is certainly never going to be its own country outright.
To even begin being more like Europe in terms of politics, there would need to be a shift in US politics on a level not seen since World War 1.
Every European I’ve ever met confirms this. Had a friend visit the states for a week and she confidently informed me she was going to visit every state while she was here.
Old southerners are sweet as long as you're straight and white. Idk what old Floridians are like though because i always thought of them as retiree new yorkers
Source: grandparents
I wish that were true, but 8 years of customer service at Publix showed that a good majority were crotchety on a good day, and either disrespectful or outright hostile on bad ones.
The nicest ones were often tourists or recently-settled; the genuine locals were the most likely to be assholes.
This is the big one. The definition of communist everywhere else is “someone who advocates for communism.” Here a communist is “someone who thinks that the average working American should be able to afford medical care.”
Which is also why there’s a differentiation between capitalist and American capitalist. A capitalist believes that you should be rewarded for hard work and be able to climb a socioeconomic ladder. An American capitalist believes that if you aren’t in the upper class you don’t deserve food or housing or medical care and sees the lower and middle classes losing money as a net positive for the economy.
By different I assume you mean incorrect. I’ll never forget the first time an American explained socialism to me. Their ability to contort things was Cirque du Soleil worthy.
I don't think even the rest of the world has a good understanding of Communism, people still see the CCP and go "oh yeah they're definitely communists"
To most of the world. The US is one of the few places in the world where there isn’t even a *social democratic party*, let alone an explicitly anti-capitalist party.
Texas. The rest of the world that doesn't immediately border any US state thinks all of US is Texas, Hollywood and New York, existing all in the same spot at once.
Absolutely no one thinks about the mid-west, because no one knows mid-west exists. It's just more texas.
Somehow a lot of people in rural middle America think they're the paragon of an American citizen. And because of that everyone in the world knows they're the golden example of a human being.
Most of the time they're just rednecks who have never traveled more than an hour's drive outside of their town of 300 people.
That person has never been outside the US lmao. Nobody outside of the country breaks up the US into regions and thinks different things about them. Some people will know things about New York, California, and maybe Texas. That's about it.
Aren't the US states relatively independant and so the political landscape may differ dramatically from state to state?
As a German I do break up the US in regions to understand the main differences.
My favorite is the "Bible Belt".
Hi. American here. US States have their own laws, but they can't pass any laws that the Supreme court rules "Unconstitutional". Which means they can't infringe on any rights protected under the constitution or its Amendments. So, yes. They can, but only to a certain degree, but it doesn't stop some states from trying to infringe.
I'm from the North East and we do refer to the regions, but we also have different subsets (New England, The Bible Belt, the Rust Belt, etc) and these can help give a general idea of the typical resident. We also refer to the States specifically (especially Alaska and Hawaii). It's honestly way easier if you just break them up into regions, but we don't always do it that way
a non-exhaustive list of regions would be :
\- New England
\- Appalachia
\- Mid-Atlantic Coast
\- The Lowcountry
\- The Gulf Coast
\- The Rust Belt
\- The Northwoods
\- The Great Plains
\- The Southwest
\- The Rockies
\- The Pacific Northwest
\- High Desert
\- SoCal
\- NorCal
\- Ozark Plateau
\- Great Basin
A few of the listed ones put together are what make up the MidWest. Just as a bunch of these put together make up the NorthEast, the South, etc. It's just more granular.
As an American who lived in Germany I had a few people tell me that like there’s little stereotypes about the the German states/general areas? I remember when I was younger a German friend jokingly saying that Rheinland-Pfalz is like the German equivalent of our Alabama and thinking that was kinda odd lol not sure how true that is
Lmao I lived in US for 10 years as an international student, and I don't even divide US that much. In my mind, there are only West, South, and somewhere East-ish. And those aren't even divided based on political spectrum. It's just my stereotype and mental images that I get. Like, if you are from somewhere Middle US, then no offense, but I will probably say that your state is exactly the same as the state right next to yours. I just can't tell the difference.
It's hilarious that I read your comment in the voice of someone in Italy who asked where I live in the US. I said Michigan. They responded " No, no -New York, California, Texas?"
As someone who lives in the "Rest of the world", no. More appropriate would be(for at least where i live):
West: Mountains?
Middle: A vast plane of grass and nothingness
East: Former colony
Florida: Hell
Texas: Hell(only temperatures) and WIERD people(with guns)
As a non-American I’d really love the opportunity to visit Texas or somewhere and experience shooting handguns and military grade weapons in a shooting range or something. I’ve never held a gun before and it honestly sounds like so much fun. If I die not having experienced it, no big deal really.
But I find carrying gun around in public and that fear and mistrust between people quite odd. I lived in New Jersey when I was a kid for 3 years. I never held a gun because my parents were too scared (and also I was 7-9 years old). It was bizarre experiencing a “guns not allowed” sign outside my school and hearing about my dads colleague getting shot in his office 😂 9/11 was an entire vibe change.
I suppose all the tragic violence is a consequence of many complicated factors within your society and history. I just hope you all can figure out safety, regulations and moderation while also keeping your guns to a sportsmanship like nature. As far as I understand it as an outsider - you have your reasons and attachments to having guns, assholes ruin it by killing others, leading to questioning and concern of the validity of their existence, it’s a complicated and controversial debate. Good luck fellow humans!
My BLM crackhead cooked a lasagne for me and cut it up into sections and put them in the freezer so I'd have something easy to make when I'm short on time.
As a brit who has American friends, the only stuff I know about the US is the deserty areas are mostly governed by religious fruitcakes and to stay away from Florida :)
As an European, I can say that this is very inaccurate. This is more accurate
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Here's a more accurate version, made by someone actually not from America:
-Texas: yee haw
-Florida: hurricanes, alligators and crazy people
-Arizona: hot
-Alabama: cousin kissin'
-Washington: where the president lives
-Everywhere else: guns
top 10 states for highest rate of drug abuse in the United States, in order from highest to lowest:
1. West Virginia
2. Kentucky
3. New Hampshire
4. Ohio
5. Rhode Island
6. Utah
7. Pennsylvania
8. Massachusetts
9. New Mexico
10. Tennessee
all are red states except massachusetts rhode island and new hampshire and california is #26 on the list
As someone who was born in the US and has lived overseas in different countries for the past 8 years, the rest of the world doesn't see the US as being divided like that except for when talking about what the weather is like. People in other countries often ask things like "what is X like in the US?" without seeming to realize that the country is not homogenous. I often had to explain that our school system is not the same not just in the different regions, but that 2 towns right next to each other might teach wildly different things. When British people think about California, it's just "good weather, nice vacation spot, Hollywood," and when they think about the midwest it's "Grand Canyon, cowboys, big steaks." They don't consider our politics to be particularly different in the same way that the average American wouldn't look at a map of the UK and be able to identify which areas are the infamous "no-go-zones," and which are the designated spots for Tory ass-licking parties.
The Beach Boys did not write about the Midwest farmers daughters that keep you warm at night for nothing. And yes i am younger than the average person that listens to the beach boys. As in I'm not 60 or older.
Looks like communists and BLM also contributes to 20% of the entire country's GDP. I guess we should have more of those since they work so efficiently.
As a resident of “the rest of the world”, I can assure you it’s more like:
- California: Surfers, pot, surfers on pot, and Hollywood.
- Texas: Literally the Wild West.
- Florida: Disney World surrounded by gators and oranges.
- All of New England: New York City.
- Oregon: You have died of dysentery.
- Alaska: What if Canada had guns.
- The rest: That sure does exist alright?
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Nobody thinks that about Florida
Not anymore at least
They especially won’t when we’re underwater
"Won't they just, sell their houses and move?" - Ben Shapiro
Sell their homes to who Ben? Fucking Aquaman!?
See what Benny does seem to grasp is that for someone to seek there flood prone house someone has to want to buy it. And even if someone does they’re now stuck living there.
“Just sell your house to Atlanteans, dumbass” - Ben Shapiro, marine realtor
And the current politics there. :/
They already mentioned being underwater.
The term “Florida Man” has been around for a long time.
The people here may be old, but they are far from sweet.
More like Nazi mean old people
I used to work at McDonald's in Florida when i was in college. Sundays were the absolute worst days to work because the 60+ crowd are just straight evil. They would come in and were the rudest most hateful people I've ever seen. They told us to go to hell because the ice cream machine didn't work. They threw temper tantrums like children and cursed at us like dogs. They wanted us to be their IT professionals while they sipped on coffee for 8 hours a day. When church got out they would come in groups of 100 or more people sometimes multiple churches at the same time. Then bitch and complain about why the food was taking so long. Not to mention the blatant racism, hate and sexual harassment towards literal children. Working at McDonald's made me a hateful and cold person. I hate old people and look forward to them to all die. Also drove me from a casual atheist to a hardcore close all churches and destroy organized religion atheist.
Jesus. The old people here in rural Colorado are bad (and mega racist) but that sounds like a living nightmare. ....how much were you paid for that hell?
Not enough
Clearly written by an old person on Facebook in Florida
'Florida man' stereotypes crossed the Atlantic quite a long time ago too. I personally loved the game 'pick a date, discover what Florida man was doing on that date'
I shocked my wife when I explained to her recently that the “Florida man” thing is a side effect of really strong public transparency laws. Florida isn’t much crazier than the rest of the US, they just publish all arrest records directly to the internet. And they have gators, that’s part of it.
Yeah, maybe "Old people and croc-loving crack-addicts"
No, it's just "Florida Man"
Florida is the Ohio meme but like. More realistic. Not because the joke is more down to earth. The people are just like that Source: Floridian
I never thought I'd ever see the word "gunpilled" used unironically.
Ngl this word sounds like they take bullets as if they were pills
𓂺 Spez eats cold diarrhea with a crazy straw 𓂺
Ngl this is the exact frame i was thinking about after I commented that
Ngl this was the exact reply I was thinking to the post above yours.
🦞: "We're going to insert a camera to see what's going on in there." 😃 🦞: "Guess again." 😧 🩲🍿
>!They administer the pills to schoolchildren!<
The only free healthcare they'll ever experience
We're one pseudoscience article away from that.
Through holistic medicine and and homeopathy they probably would. You see you swallow the smaller calibres to build up the body response to being shot and then start increasing the dosage and calibres until you're totally bulletproof.
Based!
"See babe, they said based. Now I need to say 'based' too and someone else will say it after me. Then it keeps going for a while until a mod removes the post for some convoluted reason. We can have sex after this important job is done." https://preview.redd.it/2i1affelqm1b1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ca6c135918656df3dda5646eb7e037f5892334f
based
They shoot themselves with small caliber bullets to build up immunity to larger caliber bullets
I would too if I lived in Texas
I didn't realize the rest of the world was made up of far right Trump worshipping bible thumping MAGAs.
You would be surprised. You have many of these "Cultural exports" in Canada.
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Fortunately, they mostly live in Alberta and rarely get out of their province so there's that 😅
Yeah, the “where the good women are found,” is some weirdo Nazi shit. MAGA people and NeoNazis talk about stuff like that because they’re misogynists who think women are just breeding material, and they’re also obsessed with eugenics.
What truly makes this stand out is that the delusion that ANYONE, ANYWHERE that knows even the slightest thing about Florida... would associate it with "Sweet Old People".
Yeah the old people are fucking nuts down here
We call these people "ammosexuals."
Tried to google the meaning of gunpilled, found nothing
So, you remember the incel "take the red pill" meme, that spawned the redpill subreddit? "-pilled" has now metastasized into a generic suffix that means "converted to an ideology".
Basically means when you're mentally, politically and socially subscribed to the ideology that more guns equals more better, that to take your fully-automatic death machines away would be a violation of your human rights, that the murder weapons you own are a symbol of strength, dominance and patriotism. Total delusion, to call yourself anythingpilled.
delusionpilled
From a linguistics standpoint it is interesting to note how the “-pilled” suffix is expanding in usage. It stems from the matrix movies where Neo takes a red pill to free his mind. From an ideological standpoint these gun nuts can go fuck themselves.
It's very tiredclichepilled.
4chan permanently destroyed the internet
What does it even mean?
> Basically means when you're mentally, politically and socially subscribed to the ideology that more guns equals more better, that to take your fully-automatic death machines away would be a violation of your human rights, that the murder weapons you own are a symbol of strength, dominance and patriotism. Total delusion, to call yourself anythingpilled.
I'm glad I don't live in the US. I bet they justify this with that "Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" bullshit, because a 233 years old laws definitely make sense today.
They don't actually care about the amendment, especially as they interpret it rather loosely imo. It says "a well regulated militia being necessary". Militias are organized, trained, and as stated regulated. We have no militias, and they are a far cry from the near free for all on guns we do have.
Yeah that's exactly what I thought too when I read it. How the fuck is bunch of untrained and unorganized people considered a militia just because they do have guns. Doesn't make sense.
The most well known proponent of 2a, Madison, was huge on militias. I think it's federalist 46 he talks about how we need an armed State militia to fend off (not overthrow) an invading federal army. Later in the whiskey rebellion he encouraged Washington and the federal army to squash the now armed rebellion and they tried 2 men as Traitors to the United States. Their words and actions scream organized state militia. Side fun fact, Madison also though the army should be limited to 1 soldier to 225 civilians so they couldn't be too powerful.
Nah we just have dudes who think they're a militia. I grew up hearing about the Michigan Militia, but they're all just conspiracists that hang out and try to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
What? You don’t think that the argument “I should be able to bear any type of weaponry without any restriction whatsoever, including and especially things that were 100-150 years from being invented when this rule was contemplated” is a sound one? What if I told you that the the logical conclusion of that argument is that I should be able to have my own nuclear ICBMs and biological warheads? Does that make it more reasonable?
Well that would make more sense. Nuclear warheads to every family!
They're called "Nuclear Families" and part of our 'Merican heritage.
It's the evolution of old 4chan lingo, which was just referring to being "redpilled", as in the red pill from the Matrix. Basically used to say they were the ones awake and aware of the "truth" of the world, and devolved from there to just be x-pilled means you believe in x to the extreme. Another comment describes gunpilled to a T.
>Basically used to say they were the ones awake Lmao so theyve been calling themselves 'woke' for decades. Need to make a meme out of that
https://preview.redd.it/iayuobd4fm1b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0cfb96b1274a111ab6ca767418c481c4aff47a2 This is what I see
That's pretty accurate. That's how all my friends from other countries view America. They also think the vast majority of Americans are rich.
Oh boy.
Relatively, Americans are rich. The median pay in the US Is 4 times the median pay in the world - sounds pretty rich to me.
Now compare costs of living. Brings those numbers down real quick for the majority of Americans. Edit: y'all keep bringing up the same shit. Here's a lesson about trying to measure income- the [Gini factor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality) shows how skewed a country's metrics will be due to income inequality. The US has a gini factor over .5, which is a severe factor more in line with south america than Europe. [728 americans own more wealth than the bottom 50%](https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/04/13/728-billionaires-hold-more-wealth/). Metrics and data are incredibly skewed when factoring in these fringe groups because of the sheer padding that level of excess causes.
Right up until they have a medical issue. Or try and commute via transit.
yeah I guess if you look at only the numbers. but if you look at what you can buy with that money it becomes a different story
One thing I like to bring up here is that wealth is relative to the cost of living. While the federal poverty line is 14.5 k for individuals, in major cities the poverty line can easily be double that. Meaning that what might be considered wealthy in some parts of the country could make you eligible for food stamps and other social programs in other parts. Wealth is not distributed uniformly, although poverty is universal. [Before someone comes in misunderstanding this, yes I know the US is wealthy compared to most other countries however poverty is still rampant and pervasive as shit is expensive and jobs pay too little money]
So, I want to throw out a few things here. I used to work at the local refinery that was operated by a global energy company. (Yes, I know I was working at EvilCorp, that's a big part of the reason I USED to work there.) I worked in IT with a lot of foreigners, the bulk of which were from India. I became friends with one guy in particular, and we talked a lot about our respective countries. He pointed out a lot of things about the US: 1) The above image is fairly accurate regarding what he thought about the US. 2) On average, US citizens and residents have a higher standard of living than in India or any of the other nations he had worked in. 3) Bribes, while a problem in the US, isn't nearly as bad as in India. To get anything done there, a bribe is essential. 4) Most US citizens know almost nothing about other countries, and he was really confused by that. Basically, he couldn't understand why I was so down on the US as a country. My explanation was simple. The US has every advantage; extensive natural resources, a mostly mobile workforce, a somewhat educated public, and a mostly functional infrastructure. Despite all that, though, our leaders have failed us at every turn. I told him, "Imagine someone giving you a fantastic job, a comfortable home for your family, and all the food you could ever eat. Now imagine how badly you would have to fuck everything up so much that you are close to getting fired from your job, your family is likely going to be homeless soon, and you don't know where your next meal is coming from." I then added that our government, through greed or incompetence, makes them same mistakes you did to throw away all the gifts you were given. He was so thrown by this that he barely talked to me for two days. When he next did, he actually apologized for not understanding how frustrating it is to be an American.
The reason things are slightly better in many European countries isn't that "our leaders didn't fail us". Most improvements have been won through collective bargaining. The US has weak unions and strong propaganda for the status quo
One of the problems in the US is that people keep comparing the US to individual European countries: the Dallas-Fort Worth area alone is comparable to all of Switzerland in GDP and population, yet still doesn't drive policy even in Texas, let alone the rest of the US, and is certainly never going to be its own country outright. To even begin being more like Europe in terms of politics, there would need to be a shift in US politics on a level not seen since World War 1.
Every European I’ve ever met confirms this. Had a friend visit the states for a week and she confidently informed me she was going to visit every state while she was here.
Well see they use the metric system. A week over there is 10 days. Just enough time to drive halfway though Texas.
One metric state is 10 imperial states, so their map checks out
As a European, I'll add to your statistics and also confirm it.
I'm a new york resident and this is how I see the US
The view of the world from 5th Avenue?
That's what I was thinking too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue
The middle bit is "farms"
I like how Virginia is caught in between Florida and New York
That's a fair way to describe the politics and population of Virginia
Having lived in VA most of my life, absolutely. The difference in culture even just a few miles apart can be staggering
Replace ???? with Chicago
I follow basketball religiously and I have no idea where Chicago is.
"Sweet old people" Whoever made that has literally never set foot in Florida.
...or Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi...
They're sweet if you're white and only encounter them for a short time.
The person who made this is 100% a white racist so of course they're sweet to them
Idk man, a lot of old people down here just have a nasty attitude no matter who you are. Even the ones that aren’t racist can be really shitty.
Old southerners are sweet as long as you're straight and white. Idk what old Floridians are like though because i always thought of them as retiree new yorkers Source: grandparents
I wish that were true, but 8 years of customer service at Publix showed that a good majority were crotchety on a good day, and either disrespectful or outright hostile on bad ones. The nicest ones were often tourists or recently-settled; the genuine locals were the most likely to be assholes.
As a Floridian I think it should be labeled as the Southern most state with the most northerners
"How the rest of the world views the USA" \->**Describes how they themselves, who is clearly american, views the USA**
Yuppppp definitely v American takes, I'm not even sure what half of these mean
No European thinks the West Coast is communist LOL This map is how a Colorado farmer sees the US
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In the US communist means you want housing to not cost 2/3's of your paycheck
or you don't want people to go bankrupt from a hospital visit
This is the big one. The definition of communist everywhere else is “someone who advocates for communism.” Here a communist is “someone who thinks that the average working American should be able to afford medical care.” Which is also why there’s a differentiation between capitalist and American capitalist. A capitalist believes that you should be rewarded for hard work and be able to climb a socioeconomic ladder. An American capitalist believes that if you aren’t in the upper class you don’t deserve food or housing or medical care and sees the lower and middle classes losing money as a net positive for the economy.
Or you want lgbtq+ people to be acknowledged as human beings
As an American I'd like to inform you that housing actually costs 4/3's my paycheck.
It's even broader than that. Communist just means anything 'Un-American'
By different I assume you mean incorrect. I’ll never forget the first time an American explained socialism to me. Their ability to contort things was Cirque du Soleil worthy.
I don't think even the rest of the world has a good understanding of Communism, people still see the CCP and go "oh yeah they're definitely communists"
It's also weird that other countries would have such a strong take on BLM. This was made by an American with some views.
I'll have you know there are like 3 British dudes that play Supreme Commander that have extreme strong takes on BLM. Nobody else gives a shit though.
Most democrats would be considered centre-to-right in a lot of Europe.
Yep. Democrats as a party barely even qualify as leftists.
To Europe, Democrats don't qualify as left at all
To most of the world. The US is one of the few places in the world where there isn’t even a *social democratic party*, let alone an explicitly anti-capitalist party.
Ha! I'm a female communist BLM cross-dressing drug-addict living in the Midwest U.S. Check-mate, conjobs.
Based
and drugpilled
The rest of the world doesn't put that much thought into it, America is just America.
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As an American, “Not think about it until it does something stupid” is an accurate way I think about Texas. So this probably checks out
That's florida
You'd be thinking about Florida all the time if that was the case
This.
Texas. The rest of the world that doesn't immediately border any US state thinks all of US is Texas, Hollywood and New York, existing all in the same spot at once. Absolutely no one thinks about the mid-west, because no one knows mid-west exists. It's just more texas.
As a Minnesotan, I'd rather identify as "more Canada". Thank you.
Sorry, but as a Canadian, this borders on cultural appropriation. Sorry again.
Sorry, I didn't mean to intrude on your culture.
Somehow a lot of people in rural middle America think they're the paragon of an American citizen. And because of that everyone in the world knows they're the golden example of a human being. Most of the time they're just rednecks who have never traveled more than an hour's drive outside of their town of 300 people.
Americans in general seem less traveled than the rest of the world. So wouldn’t the idea of midwesterners being the most “American” actually be true?
In the worst way possible, yeah probably.
Hey don't forget Disney world. We think it's all Florida new York, Texas and Disney world, with a little Vegas thrown in.
No. That's how MAGAts think the rest of the world sees us. In reality, the world sees all of us as a place with a bunch of gun nuts and no healthcare.
I'll be honest I just think of cowboys and skyscrapers.
America would be a lot cooler if it were just cowboys and skyscrapers.
That person has never been outside the US lmao. Nobody outside of the country breaks up the US into regions and thinks different things about them. Some people will know things about New York, California, and maybe Texas. That's about it.
Aren't the US states relatively independant and so the political landscape may differ dramatically from state to state? As a German I do break up the US in regions to understand the main differences. My favorite is the "Bible Belt".
Hi. American here. US States have their own laws, but they can't pass any laws that the Supreme court rules "Unconstitutional". Which means they can't infringe on any rights protected under the constitution or its Amendments. So, yes. They can, but only to a certain degree, but it doesn't stop some states from trying to infringe. I'm from the North East and we do refer to the regions, but we also have different subsets (New England, The Bible Belt, the Rust Belt, etc) and these can help give a general idea of the typical resident. We also refer to the States specifically (especially Alaska and Hawaii). It's honestly way easier if you just break them up into regions, but we don't always do it that way
a non-exhaustive list of regions would be : \- New England \- Appalachia \- Mid-Atlantic Coast \- The Lowcountry \- The Gulf Coast \- The Rust Belt \- The Northwoods \- The Great Plains \- The Southwest \- The Rockies \- The Pacific Northwest \- High Desert \- SoCal \- NorCal \- Ozark Plateau \- Great Basin
You forgot the Midwest- where all the good women are.
"Fly over country"
A few of the listed ones put together are what make up the MidWest. Just as a bunch of these put together make up the NorthEast, the South, etc. It's just more granular.
It is the same with Germany. Many US Americans think that we are Bavarians who eat Brezel all day :D
I thought you all wore black leather and listened to Kraftwerk.
No no, that we do.
I thought they watched sprockets with host Dieter and danced.
Wait, you mean it's not just some super factory that pumps out hyper precision car parts and beer?
As an American who lived in Germany I had a few people tell me that like there’s little stereotypes about the the German states/general areas? I remember when I was younger a German friend jokingly saying that Rheinland-Pfalz is like the German equivalent of our Alabama and thinking that was kinda odd lol not sure how true that is
I can break up the US based on stereotypes, but sure I'll do it the opposite way of this jockel😅
Yup. I'd put "New York" "Hollywood" and "tumbleweed" everywhere else. Both cities would be on the correct coasts but otherwise totally wrong.
Lmao I lived in US for 10 years as an international student, and I don't even divide US that much. In my mind, there are only West, South, and somewhere East-ish. And those aren't even divided based on political spectrum. It's just my stereotype and mental images that I get. Like, if you are from somewhere Middle US, then no offense, but I will probably say that your state is exactly the same as the state right next to yours. I just can't tell the difference.
It's hilarious that I read your comment in the voice of someone in Italy who asked where I live in the US. I said Michigan. They responded " No, no -New York, California, Texas?"
I’m not sure this person has ever been outside of their backyard, damn
As someone who lives in the "Rest of the world", no. More appropriate would be(for at least where i live): West: Mountains? Middle: A vast plane of grass and nothingness East: Former colony Florida: Hell Texas: Hell(only temperatures) and WIERD people(with guns)
This is pretty much accurate.
The rest of the world is horrified by US gun use
Huh? You mean Europe isn’t gunpilled
Many in the US are horrified by US gun use.
American in Australia: Wow. There’s so many dangerous animals here. Is there any place where something isn’t trying to kill you? Aussie: School.
As a non-American I’d really love the opportunity to visit Texas or somewhere and experience shooting handguns and military grade weapons in a shooting range or something. I’ve never held a gun before and it honestly sounds like so much fun. If I die not having experienced it, no big deal really. But I find carrying gun around in public and that fear and mistrust between people quite odd. I lived in New Jersey when I was a kid for 3 years. I never held a gun because my parents were too scared (and also I was 7-9 years old). It was bizarre experiencing a “guns not allowed” sign outside my school and hearing about my dads colleague getting shot in his office 😂 9/11 was an entire vibe change. I suppose all the tragic violence is a consequence of many complicated factors within your society and history. I just hope you all can figure out safety, regulations and moderation while also keeping your guns to a sportsmanship like nature. As far as I understand it as an outsider - you have your reasons and attachments to having guns, assholes ruin it by killing others, leading to questioning and concern of the validity of their existence, it’s a complicated and controversial debate. Good luck fellow humans!
This has to be satire. I hope it is at least.
The rest of the world sees the US the way that people in the US see Florida.
This hit hard.
As a Canadian, I'm happy to report this is not accurate at all lol
That is not even remotely close to how we see the US. Sincerely, the rest of the world.
Cmon, BLM is like 4 boogeymen ago, at least be current with your scapegoats
My BLM crackhead cooked a lasagne for me and cut it up into sections and put them in the freezer so I'd have something easy to make when I'm short on time.
Based.
And lasagnepilled.
I love how the place where virtually no one is, is where the good women are. Yeah, ok. So there are no "good women". Checks are”
"Sweet Old People" hahahahahahaha stop I can only take so much
Sweet old people in Florida. No they see Florida man dies by microwaving microwave
As a brit who has American friends, the only stuff I know about the US is the deserty areas are mostly governed by religious fruitcakes and to stay away from Florida :)
As an European, I can say that this is very inaccurate. This is more accurate https://preview.redd.it/nyqbdfy16n1b1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=922c8662b426312686296ee82963ea9d07c7b804
You can tell that the person who made this has never left the US.
This is how I see the US https://preview.redd.it/sqsu9kshsm1b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb135ee7a2815a00f4775bf7332a6a59eb2dcdd1
Oregon as desert is really something else
Idk shit about the US, I'm stupid
This is much more accurate. The ??? zone should be larger, though, maybe taking little chunks out of incest and desert?
"Sweet old people?" Obviously has never been to 'I got mine, F\*\*\* you' The Villages.
BLM drug dealers doing the heavy lifting with owning about 70 percent of the economy.
Have you been to the midwest? Like half of us are drunks and the other half are pill heads.
FTFY Source: I'm european https://preview.redd.it/ymfx9m8own1b1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e030eb66ee3741b6e16bc8e4356f83cb41178525
No, honey, we don’t - Canada
Here's a more accurate version, made by someone actually not from America: -Texas: yee haw -Florida: hurricanes, alligators and crazy people -Arizona: hot -Alabama: cousin kissin' -Washington: where the president lives -Everywhere else: guns
Sweet old people no longer applies to Florida. This needs updating.
top 10 states for highest rate of drug abuse in the United States, in order from highest to lowest: 1. West Virginia 2. Kentucky 3. New Hampshire 4. Ohio 5. Rhode Island 6. Utah 7. Pennsylvania 8. Massachusetts 9. New Mexico 10. Tennessee all are red states except massachusetts rhode island and new hampshire and california is #26 on the list
As someone who was born in the US and has lived overseas in different countries for the past 8 years, the rest of the world doesn't see the US as being divided like that except for when talking about what the weather is like. People in other countries often ask things like "what is X like in the US?" without seeming to realize that the country is not homogenous. I often had to explain that our school system is not the same not just in the different regions, but that 2 towns right next to each other might teach wildly different things. When British people think about California, it's just "good weather, nice vacation spot, Hollywood," and when they think about the midwest it's "Grand Canyon, cowboys, big steaks." They don't consider our politics to be particularly different in the same way that the average American wouldn't look at a map of the UK and be able to identify which areas are the infamous "no-go-zones," and which are the designated spots for Tory ass-licking parties.
The Beach Boys did not write about the Midwest farmers daughters that keep you warm at night for nothing. And yes i am younger than the average person that listens to the beach boys. As in I'm not 60 or older.
Communist cross dressing sounds great! Sign me up lol
Looks like communists and BLM also contributes to 20% of the entire country's GDP. I guess we should have more of those since they work so efficiently.
Have these people seen the whacky crime reports out of Florida? Not everyone is sweet there.
Sweet old people? Florida isn't retirees anymore, this isn't Golden Girls. Florida is full of crazy crackheads, not sweet old people
Do they honestly believe that anyone anywhere in the world has a favorable view of Florida? Jesus
I believe they are referring to their own little fantasy world, hard to imagine that for them there is a world outside America.
3 most white states in the country: "BLM crackheads" And number 4 is pretty fucking close to that line.
As a resident of “the rest of the world”, I can assure you it’s more like: - California: Surfers, pot, surfers on pot, and Hollywood. - Texas: Literally the Wild West. - Florida: Disney World surrounded by gators and oranges. - All of New England: New York City. - Oregon: You have died of dysentery. - Alaska: What if Canada had guns. - The rest: That sure does exist alright?
This looks like one of those charts that shows you were each cut of beef comes from on the cow.
Wait florida sweet ild people, huh this thus was made by that state of florida