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[–] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 82 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yall need to get off the high horse and take a joke sometimes. you terrorized the entire world via colonization for hundreds of years through modern day, if people harmlessly stereotype the german or french, make fun of british people, or tease the dutch language, yall can handle it

for context, im american. we get bullied all the time, and while not all americans are fat and stupid, the combination of that many are and that we've terrorized the world plenty make me think a lil teasing is fair

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes it's perfectly fair and most of us don't mind.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think the issue, especially on Reddit, was the over-representation of US Americans compared to the other countries.

It gets old quite fast to get called a "surrender monkey" or a Nazi on a regular basis in a space where most of the audience is on the other side and I'm not even French or German.

On Lemmy it's probably a bit more balanced.

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I guess let’s see what happens with the Germany elections in February because that nazi line may start to ring true.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does the Trump election gives everyone the right to call all US citizens convicted felons?

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Certainly gives everyone the right to call us a country of idiots.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds derogatory and xenophobic

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is not derogatory if it is true.

You guys elected a felon.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm European. I still prefer not to qualify 300 millions of people as idiots.

[–] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

in a way, we are. our literacy rates are staggeringly low and getting worse year over year due to our education system being a failure on many levels.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Just opened a thread on !europe@feddit.org about that, the polls look okay. The non far-right parties should be able to create a coalition.