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[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I dont get is on one hand: americans are

  • smartest
  • richest
  • biggest military
  • most belligerent
  • most paedofilic
  • most selfish country on the planet

yet on the other hand they complain

  • why dont you like us
  • why dont you know where Idaho is
  • why cant i pay with mercan dollars
  • why cant i bring my planet killing pickup to your medieval village
  • why wont you fight my wars for me
  • give israel enough money that their citizens get free healthcare, education and subsidised housing while americans get none of it
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

why cant i bring my planet killing pickup to your medieval village

?

[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself.

The locals feel pressure to allow automobile traffic down these roads, and where space allows they generally do. It feels out of place.

I have been to cities like this. I have driven cars in places like this (i lived internationally for a while) and it doesn't feel right. I don't have money to travel now, but if I did, I would just walk.

There are cities that people still live in that predate the concept of street addresses and post offices and I have met them, and have had no idea what to put down on the bullshit forms at my bullshit job for their address.

The world is large.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself.

i think this is true for majority of cities outside the us of a...

[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, and Americans know this is true but they forget how it might change their perspective of the world.

Its like that old joke: two fish meet in the ocean. The first fish says "hey how are ya, how's the water?" And the second fish says, "what's water?"

Most of the people I know are working class and can't travel overseas for vacation (if they even can afford to have one). Seeing it on TV is completely different than experiencing it.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude, my house in Denmark is from 1779. Not quite as old as America, but i honestly believe the house will win in the end.

Pretty good odds on that one especially given that the US is more or less actively collapsing and Denmark is well Denmark. Pretty sure you would have a weirdly easy time integrating a medieval Dane into modern Denmark than an 1800s American into the Modern US, especially if it was my ancestors who would probably start robbing trains and killing Mormons again once modernity pisses them off.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Hey, I never travel without my pickup truck.

Although, I'm guessing that if there is a planet killing pickup there, then it was brought in by the host country or town.