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Be honest; No one that would travel from Europe to the World Cup cares one bit about social issues.
Of course not, the tip is just viewed as an additional surcharge and they don't want to spend that money. The social issue is very likely, if at all, just an after-the-fact rationalisation/justification.
We're coming to the US to see the fall of rome, my dude.
The collapse of your nation is our spectacle.
Smile, you're on TV! :)
If you're going to the US, you're supporting whatever is going on over there. It makes you worse than the many people in the US that were born there for no fault of their own, now trying to work against it.
Schadenfreude, while very natural, is bad enough by itself, actually increasing the Schaden is even worse. So I'm not sure exactly what you'd be celebrating, except your own shittyness.
And I'm not from the US, so "my" nation isn't even the one you're talking about.
It's rough seeing how smug europeans are about american fascism when every time you look at european news you see their own fascist splinter groups gaining more political traction with none of them really doing anything about it. Maybe worry about yourselves before worrying about us, right?
You are not wrong, but fucking all american shit comes here with a 10 year delay for some reason (obesity, economic crisis, far right/proto fascism, anti vax, neoliberalism, the list goes on and on and on) so maybe that's why people like to have a go at your country when it looks like you're beating up yourselves while making it a spectacle.
I hope you'll finally figure it out, good luck!
Unfortunately, the US regularly intervenes in foreign countries' affairs, so it's not possible and geopolitically pretty stupid to not worry about the US. You can worry about both, though.
The issue is they aren't. They just complain about the US and ignore their own country moving down that path. When they have the best ability to prevent it from getting bad early.
You know that almost all far right parties in Europe get money from the MAGAts, right?
And MAGAts got their money from far right Europeans. What's your point?
Uhhuh sure buddy. Lets pretend its spooky secretive europeans funding the american fascism parties.
Funded by not Americans.
No being a fucking billionaire South African who can go wherever he wants isn’t an American. There’s multiple of those people, even!
Yeah. It's interesting they all working together (despite being nationalistic) sending each other funds, and they all have a very positive view towards Russia.
I'm surprised there people who believe it is all organic.
About a decade ago, Steve Bannon very overtly came to Europe with money from the Koch Foundation openly to "Fund Far-Right parties".
In many places in Europe the rise of the Far-Right happened after that.
Similarly, in Britain it turned out that most of the social media manipulation in favor of Leave was done by Cambridge Analitica, a British company which was being paid to do it by wealthy Americans.
America actively funds the Far-Right in Europe, especially the anti-EU crowd since EU member nations were a lot easier to push around by America and American interests individually, than they are as a group (even if parts of the EU, such as the EU Commission, have pretty much sold themselves out to large American companies)
They’re doing the same in Australia right now, as well. It’s a full scale assault too. We now have a fucking CPAC, we’re being inundated with MAGA style bots and all this loony, loopy, violent, degenerate leftie socialist shit.
Our politics has gone from being something we thought about and did rationally every few years to being saturated and bludgeoned with this tribal crap every day.
That’s why Murdoch went there…he wasn’t able to do here or in the UK what he could do there, because the fertile ground for it existed.
The fact remains, the US is going to have to find something to rally around to improve their society, even if it isn’t this. They are where they are because they refuse to do anything about their situation, from voting, right through to now probably having to go into peaceful shutdown. They’ll find every excuse around it and expect the rest of us to understand and sympathise, like having to tip because the workers depend on it. It’s like being held hostage in a way; you know the worker will suffer if we don’t pay the tip.
Yeah they love pointing at European fascism but being remarkably blind at drawing the connections themselves.
Your country started that. And because your double agent of a president is Putin’s pawn, guess what? Putin received leeway to muddy Europe’s water too, with an unstoppable hybrid war. Every news article, every forum, every community I used to visit is now filled with bots that, as soon as politics is mentioned, chimes in about the “rapist immigrants that are stealing your job” and how “Europe is a failed continent that’ll turn your kids trans/gay”.
It’s hilarious, isn’t it? US and Russia shit on ME and Africa, which causes a huge wave of political and war refugees/economic immigrants to run from the horrors that YOUR country is responsible for.
And instead of us trying to think how to handle the piece of shit to the East, and how to protect our borders from illegal immigration, we have an ex-ally to the West, who is eyeing sovereign European territory.
And you have the audacity to call us smug? No, we are just familiar with history and evil men in power.
This guy is right on the money btw. You may not like it, but it be like it do.
Truth is often uncomfortable
Europe invented fascism I don't care :)
Now, the standard American reply. A snide remark.
Your ignorance is astounding.
You can blame others for your problems all you want, won't change reality.
Stop with this nonsense Trump is a continuation of a long tradition of American imperialism not a "Russian puppet".
Yeah, you might be right. Team world police. Look how upvoted the American comment is, but as soon as you point out that they’ve been bombing brown people for the past 60 years, they get cunty
You act like we don’t get help from our European friends in that. Yall are way, way more racist.
Right, yeah. Europe abolished slavery only recently, like 1968 I think. So you might have a point.
Oh wait thats you
Yeah but then they don't get to circlejerk about how superior they are.
We don't circlejerk about how "superior" we are, even if it feels that way.
We're usually dunking on you for being a bunch of violent, dumb fuckheads.
The problem is that the 340 million people there are incredibly diverse. While a large part would circlejerk about how superior they are, another large part wouldn't. It's easy and fun to lump all Americans together, and even mandated by our brains inability to process such large numbers, but doing it always unfortunately alienates the ones that do not exhibit the traits you ridicule.
It's so much better (and useful) to just ridicule the traits/behaviors themselves instead of the relatively unrelated nationality. There's nationalists and smug superiority everywhere.
I wouldn't go there because I don't have an X or twitter for them to interrogate my opinions.. and I'm far too jokey to not upset people and get myself in trouble with people in "authority".
I've gotta wait out the American decline until some time after Balkanisation and they start removing some of the guns. Honestly, it seems about as sensible as going to do tourism in the congo.
Join in with us, pass the popcorn then.
Celebrating other people's misery is the reason humans could never get along in the first place. It's tribalism, same thing they've used for thousands of years to divide people.
Don't worry, European countries have their own fascism problem, not far behind the U.S.
Then we can all be miserable together.
And this will be the first time in history that fascists in power have access to a fully-immersive (and inescapable) digital panopticon complete with AI to process more data that humans would be capable of doing unassisted, and adding concerningly high rates of hallucinations on top of it, even aside from the biases and spins that are baked into their algorithms...
Oh and military technology has come a long way since the last time fascists gained enough influence to threaten the world order...
This isn't going to be good if we can't all pull ourselves out of this death spiral before it's too late...
Why'd you assume he's from the US?
Jesus Christ you clap for your own demise.
Send in the Goths, and hurry!
Lol dumbass doesn't understand his country is comming with. Where you live dope? I'll give you an in depth economic breakdown of how you're fucked even if your entire retirement account is rheinmetal
lol, you're "comming" at me with rage and bluster and illiteracy. Get fucked moron.
How you invested bud?
Also, all the bars and restaurants started tacking a 20% "tip" straight into the bill instead of making it voluntary.
I wouldn't blame them after these reports. Need to hold rude Europeans accountable.
Or you know. Fuck tipping culture instead of paying your employees. The bar is charging $8 for 80 cents of bottom shelf booze in a mixed drink and right now they're swamped in business with people racking up hundreds in drinks and bar food. You don't think they could afford to bonus out their staff?
Fuck you.
I'm not saying they couldn't, I'm saying they won't. You're happy to patronize those locations and give the owners $8/drink but not pay the staff.
Not a single one?
Can't support corrupt organizations and regimes and also claim to be socially aware. Mutual exclusivity.
It's a big world mate and I can't always be aware of every shitty thing going on at all times. Not only for logistical reasons, but also for mental health reasons.
I didn't state that you must know everything, but you can't claim to be aware of social issues if you're willfully ignorant.
I don't think the definitive no one is true. While a lot of them couldn't care less. I'm sure there are some that do.