America vs China vs EU

[_account]

I guess what I'm saying is that whatever happens in Europe, stays in Europe. While whatever happens in America, everybody talks about it, especially those outside of the States.

50% of all Australian news is just US news.
"Obsessed cacaot" has become a punchline but it's a very real archetype, many countries have taught themselves to be obsessed with the US.

 

[pig]

>china is not real communism, it's never been tried
>blacked is not real interracial, bnwo has never been tried

 

[Soyspotter]

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[General Secretary of SNCA]

america is becoming fascist

I wish...

 

[jim🅱️o]

Europe.

 

[modderola]

México es el país más grande.

 

[_account]

Europe.

Self hating noob

 

[Goot]

@jimbo
Just admit you're in the peaches georgia not the lemon georgia

 

[Goot]

@jimbo
Gogistani

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

This is not new with hyper-individualism, look at wallstreet narcissists like in the 80’s. America was and still is ran by narcissistic psychopaths because of capitalism, this is why so many CEO have narcissist traits.

It's not just narcissism though, it's full on sociopathy. There's a theory that a majority of CEOs and political leaders, by and large, also happen to be sociopaths which would make a lot more sense than not. I feel like you have to be disconnected in order to make certain decisions, and if not disconnected, then have an ability to rationalize different perspectives that makes those decisions all worthwhile.

There was never really a “collective era” other then after 9/11

Post-war era + Respected presidents with personality (FDR, JFK and even to an extent, Ronald Reagan.) + Lived experience.
You can read about the different nuances of people from that era, but that's only a crumb of a taste of the lived experience at that time of what it must've actually been like to be there in that moment. Also, I feel like I may have made a mistake by calling it 'collective'.
Of course there's diversity of thought and opinion, but I mean, come on, it's America; you have so many different people from different backgrounds. The cities aren't like the towns; the towns might have a higher population of one ethnicity or race than another.
Of course nothing is going to be universally agreed upon with so many different attitudes; that's impossible.
But when I say collective, I mean people living within the same world but with different opinions. Now any person can live in their own bubble without having to interact with outside opinions, and I know that's not entirely a new concept as a result of real life equivalences: gated communities, backwater towns, and sections of towns or cities that are republican and/or have a democrat majority within larger states that are mostly democrat or republican as a whole.
But now you don't have to look outside of your own community; you don't have to go outside of your own community. This is where way more rural folk start to detest the conservative environment around them because of engaging in 'woke' politics, or, say, a newly 'redpilled' person starts detesting their 'liberal' state because of surrounding themselves in a right-wing hivemind, almost always a digital hivemind, if they aren't living in a conservative area.
This is the big difference: this shift, if it happened, usually happened after the person left their town for the big 'liberal' city, not through online indoctrination. You had to actually seek out difference in opinion if you didn't live in the cities.
The internet has changed the way in which people engage with the world and its culture, for better or for worse, but it's caused a fracturing of real life environments, which have been permanently altered as a result of it. This cannot be undone.

Even during America’s “golden age” (the 90’s so post Soviet collapse but pre-9/11)

There was a minor, short-lived recession in the early, early '90s, which coincided with the Gulf War (even though that recession impacted the rest of the western world at the time.); you had the Waco Siege and Rodney King (who would've been an equivalent to George Floyd, with the exception of being murdered.) which resulted in the 1992 L.A. riots, the Oklahoma City bombings, the first attacks on the WTC, which happened in 1993, Columbine at the very end of the decade, O.J. Simpson, and the subsequent firing of Norm MacDonald from SNL, which was a greater loss than the Vietnam War (that was a joke to lighten the mood).
You had the Clinton scandal, which led to his impeachment and him being the first president to be impeached since Andrew Jackson, which really should've impacted Hillary's image during the 2016 election, but look at Trump in 2024. Not to mention, there was less time between 'those' events than the events of the 'Oral Office' and the 2016 election, and although there were more cultural downturns than significant societal downturns, you could see these as smaller aspects of a larger domino effect building up into a bigger picture.

Spoiler

For us it would've been Margaret Thatcher's resignation and the subsequent 'poll tax' riots at the very beginning of the decade, the tensions in Northern Ireland, which started in the late '60s and came to a close with the 'Good Friday agreement', the aforementioned recession, and, of course, the death of our beloved Princess Diana.

the matrix

Created by two fucked up brothers, one of whom dedicated the film to his dominatrix girlfriend, whom he met at a fruity dungeon club and left his wife for and who is also the reason for his real womaning out, but now retroactively dismisses and claims it was a real woman allegory.

you had anti-capitalist media such as fight club, American psycho

Ah, yes, I learned about those two films on TikTok too. I also enjoy Taxi Driver, Cyberpunk 2049, Joker (2019), and Morbius. 'Absolute cinema'!

 

[Herpes Trout]

The United States is the most important nation in the world, culturally, politically, and militarily.

 

[_account]

The United States is the most important nation in the world, culturally, politically, and militarily.

2 and 3 are correct but I think England is most important culturally, because British culture directly influenced the USA, much of Africa and even China. (Slightly)

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

because British culture directly influenced the USA

The Office and The Rutles. Two of the greatest achievements, innit?

 

[Goot]

2 and 3 are correct but I think England is most important culturally, because British culture directly influenced the USA, much of Africa and even China. (Slightly)

Linguistically the English
Politically, Europe
Economically, Americans

 

[_account]

Linguistically the English
Politically, Europe
Economically, Americans

Politically? USA.
NATO heads were in direct contact with the Iranians and couldn't deescalate anything, meanwhile the USA ended the war within two days of getting involved.

 

[Goot]

Politically? USA.
NATO heads were in direct contact with the Iranians and couldn't deescalate anything, meanwhile the USA ended the war within two days of getting involved.

I meant is who writes up the new ideas not who's the biggest enforcer of them

 

[_account]

I meant is who writes up the new ideas not who's the biggest enforcer of them

Perhaps but at this point america is more akin to classic European culture than Europe is.
Just looked how they shunned JD Vance when he told the Munich conference that they should stop letting in 3rd world refugees and stop cracking down on civil liberties.

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

Perhaps but at this point america is more akin to classic European culture than Europe is.
Just looked how they shunned JD Vance when he told the Munich conference that they should stop letting in 3rd world refugees and stop cracking down on civil liberties.

That was a great moment. Especially seeing the look on their faces, you know they wanted to say something but had to keep themselves tight-lipped nonetheless.

 

[Goot]

Perhaps but at this point america is more akin to classic European culture than Europe is.
Just looked how they shunned JD Vance when he told the Munich conference that they should stop letting in 3rd world refugees and stop cracking down on civil liberties.

In Europe it's all career politicians, they're not people who care about their country (except mabye the GeeDeePee) it's litterally their job, they're good at their jobs, too good

 

[bot]

us ameriggers are white or however you fry the burger