fucked up things that americans do

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exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

thread for listing hosed up things that "people" from the united states of amerika do because they think it's normal (wrong). not interested in fail arguments that stuff is actually regional or whatever 👍

the pledge of allegiance (getting this one out of the way)
calling their parents or other adults sir and ma'am
flying flags in front of their houses
doing the jakarta method
calling swear words "curses"

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 05:58

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 13:45

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

drive-through bottle shops

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 06:13

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

saying "any more" when they mean "now"

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 06:16

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

performing numerous public assassinations with thousands of civilian casualties via drone strikes

this!

also they don't include sales tax in the listed price in shops

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 06:30

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they elect judges

Smythe posted:

knew this was a tankie rear end exmarx thread from the title alone 👍

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 08:07

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Les Os posted:

it's hosed up how americans hide their eggs in the nests of other countries only for the hatchling to consume all the resources leaving the actual offspring to starve

they also need to keep eggs refrigerated because they wash them to remove a natural anti-salmonella barrier #doh

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 08:18

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they call junior university lecturers "professor"

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Americans love applying their countries lovely regarded politics to everything.

This guy is just like their Trump. 😂😂😂😂

hate this poo poo so much! buhhhh, china is doing open biden

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 14:06

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

this is a normal checkbox on their websites

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 14:38

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they don't have statutory sick leave entitlements

AnimeIsTrash posted:

ruin this thread

☝️

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 21:52

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they love to carry out nuclear weapons tests in the pacific islands and then bury the waste under a leaking concrete dome

# ¿ Jan 6, 2023 04:30

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they sell dogshit drip-filtered coffee in their caf�s and "diners" � looks like this:

# ¿ Jan 6, 2023 08:31

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they talk way too loud

# ¿ Jan 6, 2023 15:25

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they can't do instant bank transfers � instead they use a bunch of hosed up rent-seeking services called things like "venmo" and "cashapp" and "zelle"

# ¿ Jan 7, 2023 01:54

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they love to militarily occupy japan and korea for decades

# ¿ Jan 7, 2023 08:14

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

the water level in their toilets is insanely high

EEKA GEEK posted:

the naming convention for high school grades

this... i will never learn what a "sophomore" or "fresh man" is, gently caress off

# ¿ Jan 8, 2023 00:25

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

setting, but then not following, the "rules-based international order"

# ¿ Jan 8, 2023 02:17

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Its that time posted:

Having a civil war about, of all things, abolising slavery. Cause, you know, doing it without a fuss like just about every other nation on earth in that time frame is a big no sir. Gotta be right or die trying.

they love this one meme general on the "anti slavery" side who was a massive genocide perpetrator

# ¿ Jan 8, 2023 05:54

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

clapping after a movie

only getting "choose your seat when you buy a movie ticket" technology like 3 years ago

# ¿ Jan 8, 2023 13:59

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

their most popular chocolate brand tastes like vomit on purpose

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 01:51

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they're racist to the point that the nazis modelled the nuremberg laws on jim crow

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 02:03

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

using fahrenheit is probably why they don't care about climate change... "2� warming? doesn't sound like much to me"

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 02:33

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they have the death penalty

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 06:10

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they only think the "domestic" box office matters, including for movies that weren't made there

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 19:50

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they do this negative form of american exceptionalism that is somehow even more annoying than the america #1 kind. like, "ooooh, you don't understand, improving healthcare/car use/foreign policy is just impossible because we're bad in such a special snowflake way"

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 07:13

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they call the grill in their ovens a "broiler"

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 19:48

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

The American Service-Members' Protection Act (enacted August 2, 2002), known informally as the Hague Invasion Act, is a United States federal law which aims "to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party."

# ¿ Jan 11, 2023 04:54

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they talk themselves up to an insane degree in job interviews

# ¿ Jan 11, 2023 09:19

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they love to have "homecoming" (?) and elect a "homecoming king and queen" (???)

# ¿ Jan 12, 2023 06:17

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

slinkimalinki posted:

Paying their landlord by cheque and acting like paying by cheque is normal instead of bizarre and archaic.

they only got contactless payments like 5 minutes ago too

# ¿ Jan 13, 2023 07:10

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

one time at work i had to read this u.s. govt report and it capitalised every instance of the word "nation"... extremely sinister poo poo

# ¿ Jan 13, 2023 11:27

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they think socialism is when the government provides services

# ¿ Jan 14, 2023 04:50

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they love being members of "homeowner associations"

# ¿ Jan 15, 2023 08:51

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they advertise law firms on tv, billboards, park benches, etc.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2023 10:21

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Hunger-striking detainees claimed that guards were force feeding them in the fall of 2005: "Detainees said large feeding tubes were forcibly shoved up their noses and down into their stomachs, with guards using the same tubes from one patient to another. The detainees say no sedatives were provided during these procedures, which they allege took place in front of U.S. physicians, including the head of the prison hospital."[75][76] "A hunger striking detainee at Guant�namo Bay wants a judge to order the removal of his feeding tube so he can be allowed to die, one of his lawyers has said."[77] Within a few weeks, the Department of Defense "extended an invitation to United Nations Special Rapporteurs to visit detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station."[78][79] This was rejected by the U.N. because of the DoD restrictions: "that [the] three human rights officials invited to Guant�namo Bay wouldn't be allowed to conduct private interviews" with prisoners.[80] Simultaneously, the media reports began related to the question of prisoner treatment.[81] District Court Judge Gladys Kessler also ordered the U.S. government to give medical records going back a week before such feedings take place.[82] In early November 2005, the U.S. suddenly accelerated, for unknown reasons, the rate of prisoner release, but this was not sustained.[83]

In May 2013, detainees undertook a widespread hunger strike; they were subsequently being force fed until the U.S. Government stopped releasing hunger strike information, due to it having "no operational purpose".[85] During the month of Ramadan that year, the US military claimed that the amount of detainees on hunger strike had dropped from 106 to 81. However, according to defense attorney Clive Stafford Smith, "The military are cheating on the numbers as usual. Some detainees are taking a token amount of food as part of the traditional breaking of the fast at the end of each day in Ramadan, so that is now conveniently allowing them to be counted as not striking."[86] In 2014, the Obama administration undertook a "rebranding effort" by referring to the hunger strikes as "long term non-religious fasting."[87]

# ¿ Jan 17, 2023 07:57

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they're always getting therapy

# ¿ Jan 18, 2023 06:15

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they call lawyers "attorneys" in everyday situations, like "you're going to hear from my attorney" after they get mildly injured (they need to sue to try and get another party to pay their healthcare costs)

# ¿ Jan 19, 2023 09:53

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they have licensed bounty hunters

# ¿ Jan 20, 2023 07:59

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

vyelkin posted:

screaming about illegitimate elections abroad while having the worst electoral system known to man at home

electronic voting machines lol

# ¿ Jan 21, 2023 01:21

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they have like a million political appointees in their civil service

# ¿ Jan 22, 2023 13:13

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 13:45

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

they order household consumable items on amazon (same day delivery)

# ¿ Jan 23, 2023 08:53

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