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your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

whiter than a Wilco show posted:

Checking in from New Zealand to say my opinion and the general public consensus is that your country is full of screaming retards that inexplicably produce almost all of the good media in the world. Kids here are exposed to so much American media they think American laws are relevant to them (I saw a twenty year old posting about Trump taking away her right to have an abortion last week) and our emergency services had to add 911 to their actual number so retards didn't keep dying. This is a for real problem.

Americans' desperate desire to gently caress yourselves and each other over because you're desperately afraid of an unrelated ideology that died thirty years ago is baffling as gently caress.

American patriotism is both gross and hilarious, as is your constant desire to rewrite history and pretend you're an underdog when you're an empire.

American politics is skewed so hard to the right that your left wing politicians are well to the right of any other countries right wing parties and the pursuit of capital at the expense of all else is a hugely damaging ideology inflicted on the rest of us.

whats it like to know there's a general worldwide consensus that no one knows anything or gives a poo poo about ur country lmao

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your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nah its a pretty retarded question. 'What vague, incorrect assumption do people in some tiny nation state with 1/66 of the population have that applies to the equivalent of 50 connected countries that covers roughly as much landmass as europe'. Who gives a gently caress?

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

DiHK posted:

But we are bigger and therefore better.

Just don't tell him about India or China.

Like that had anything to do with the point.

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

DiHK posted:

You're the one bringing up population and land mass as a reason to dismiss the opinion of some kiwi. Even better, you did it with perfect American bluster and arrogance. Granted, you are just thread making GBS threads and trolling but the only thing you could have done to make it a more perfect representation American white trash is put a :911: at the end.

if that wasn't clear, YOU are the point

Because his opinion is worthless, and the question posed by the op is too? Why would you assume that some average random kiwi, or anyone anywhere else outside the US, would hold an opinion that even scratched the surface of the reality of the situation? What insight is he expecting to gain? That the people of other countries have shallow understandings of millions of different and diverse people that they don't understand? Secondly, from a sort of 'real politik' view, why would anyone care what someone from another country thought about America? Their countries are small, and insignificant on the world stage, and the opinion of someone from NZ, or Australia, or Sweden or whatever does not matter in the slightest to the world's sole superpower.

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Earwicker posted:

that guy is our president, Donald J Trump

Hello. Sad!

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

whiter than a Wilco show posted:

This is what happens when you make children grow up praying to a flag every day in school. They end up assuming the area they happened to fall out of their mum in as a key part of their self worth and identity, cry when someone says "please stop blowing up weddings in a country you're allies with because of an attack which killed less people than the CIA kills in an average month 16 years ago", and buy big fat truck nuts all day, every day.

If anything my opinions more valuable than yours through supply and demand.

If where we're born isn't key to our worth or identity why should I care where we blow up a wedding?

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your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Hyperlynx posted:


You're ignorant, badly educated, and yet loudly opinionated through no fault of your own, because your education system is garbage and the national narrative since time immemorial has been rabid jingoism.

-an australian

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