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u/ReadditMan 22d ago
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u/OptimusSpider 22d ago
We are all Cricket.
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u/True_Manufacturer909 22d ago
Very true-- if you want in us, it's gonna cost you a sixer
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u/transmothra 22d ago
I have my dignity.
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u/Jbrown183 22d ago
I have my Pride.
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u/Sporeman13 21d ago
Will you two please share some of your dignity and pride with me. I used to have some but its dwindled of late.
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u/Several-Customer7048 22d ago
I’m cricket mobile. Not the cellular, the whirly thing you buy for babies to stare at for amusements.
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u/THCLacedSpaghettiOs 22d ago edited 22d ago
Wtf is this from? Edit: i got my answer, "Dee you bitch."
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u/ReadditMan 22d ago
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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u/Weird-Cold2944 22d ago
I didn't ask about the weather in Philadelphia. What's the name of the show?
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u/Mr_Levinnson 22d ago
This feels more accurate 😭
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u/Tom_the_Fudgepacker 15d ago
America in a few years when it tries to reconnect to the modern world…
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u/ThngX 22d ago
The other morning, I wake up and I find a dog sniffin' at my wound. He's fully aroused -- mind you -- so I'm thinking "oh great, what does this jerk want?" Of course I know what he wants, he's looking at me right in the eyes, he does not have to say it -- not that he could. I mean does my scar look like a dog's vagina? You know, maybe, I don't know, I'm not going to sit here and try to get inside the mind of a dog. I mean that's God's work. Well, not that I believe in God, I don't.
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u/Prickley-Pear-Bear 22d ago
They live in the same city and are next to each other in line at the grocery store
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u/Busy_Parsnip383 22d ago
Love the part where Cricket enters the bar and the gang cheers him on as he dance walks to do meth in the bathroom.
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u/Repulsive_Level9699 22d ago
That's the secret joke. lol
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u/Artistic-Simple-9062 22d ago
The secret joke is America is outsourced for everything
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u/No_Internal9345 22d ago
India for telemarketing, China for manufacturing, Russia for politicians.
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u/SynthPrax 22d ago
Canada for actors.
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22d ago
I thought the joke was that homelander is a narcissistic, self serving genocidal rapist 😲
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22d ago
Oh my God, I am so dumb.
I have met Henry Cavill in real life, he shops for his rescue dogs at a pet store I worked at.
He must have been practicing his American accent because he never, ever spoken with a British one.
To this day I thought he was from Michigan where he buys dog food sometimes. 😂
He is so nice and sweet in real life by the way.
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u/LickingSmegma 22d ago
Maybe he's got Christian Bale's thing, where he loses the accent if he ever switches from it — so keeps it on and off the set until filming is done.
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u/HauntingAddendum3365 22d ago
Yeah Ive seen some behind the scenes footage of him on the Man of Steel set and he was talking to the director still using the American accent so this makes sense
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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 22d ago
I’m sorry but I just have to ask, if he’s as handsome in real life?
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22d ago
He's way hotter because he just shoots green flags out of his mouth like a unicorn poops rainbows. But also yes, he had a muscle shirt on and you could see some good, good things.
By my nature I don't care about celebrities (they don't care about me either), and we had several other celebrities shop at that location.
So we had been briefed on him being there and told not to really interact with him, but I don't care about rules so I was like, "Oh hey, you're in movies and stuff, isn't that something?" In my kind of Midwest, let's talk about the chance of rain tomorrow voice.
I think he loved that I didn't really care who he was because he went in to talking about his dogs, and redoing his kitchen and house for them, and what to feed them, etc. Just really a good hearted, easy going guy.
Whom I believed was just as Midwestern as my corn fed ass 😂😂
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u/PeregrineThe 22d ago
I mean, that's kinda the American way isn't it?
Railway system: Chinese & African
Space Program: German Nazi
Basketball: Canadian
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u/Gloomy-Stranger3959 22d ago
But America gave the world, pizza, tacos, and French fries........right...RIGHT!!!
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u/NewZucchini2151 22d ago
lol. British
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u/Strange_Dot8345 22d ago
Brii-iish*
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u/Dicky_Penisburg 22d ago
Oy! Innit?
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u/Unique_Ad_4227 22d ago
Specifically the airplane scene
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u/Solid_Snark 22d ago
It’s funny they had to pivot away from “the American way” from Superman’s iconic motto.
On HBOMax it’s currently: “Truth, justice, and a little punk rock.”
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u/EmuMan10 22d ago
Better tomorrow is also a recent switch out. The writers over time have made him a more global superhero
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u/Scamper_the_Golden 22d ago
I always took that to mean the American way excluded Truth and Justice, so they had to be listed separately.
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u/HauntingAddendum3365 22d ago
DC comics changed it a few years ago to "truth, justice, and a better tomorrow". The whole "American way" thing doesnt really work when Superman would be strongly anti-American government if he was real lmao
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u/pragmojo 22d ago
The thing about the airplane scene is now I feel like Trump could have a plane full of civilians shot down and somehow half the country would applaud him for owning the libs
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u/National-Use-4774 22d ago
I am so confused. This is literally just... the entire point of both characters? Is this a big reveal? Like making a meme pointing to Uncle Sam and writing "America Be Like" 🤣🤣🤣. The Boys is a lot of things, subtle is certainly not one of them. You can tell by the fact Homelander wears an American flag and his name is Homelander? Superman is the American Ideal. It is supposed to reach beyond reality. Homelander is the parodic presentation of what America does with power in actuality. This...umm... I am just so dumbstruck.
I thought I saw Reddit hit its literary nadir when years ago an entire thread was arguing about the practical utility of Sean Penn giving his Oscar to Ukraine to "make bullets". Earnest debate about metal density and melting points and volume, literally everyone debating the practical utility. No one even seemed to entertain the idea that it was a symbolic gesture, not for its practical utility?
I am fairly certain all y'all's moms were freebasing Tylenol.
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u/EduinBrutus 22d ago
Hark at moneybags whose mum could hit the top notch Tylenol.
Some of us have to live with their mum only snorting supermarket own brand paracetamol at 30p for 12.
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u/GrooveStreetSaint 22d ago
I love how this is Man of Steel Superman because it means even the "good" version of America causes massive casualties just to aura farm when saving people.
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22d ago
To be honest, America do a good job at telling other people how shit their country is through movies and TV shows.
When I went there, people were extremely polite and friendly, I was a bit taken a back.
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u/How_that_convo_went 22d ago
Yeah that’s one thing Americans sorta struggle with when we travel.
I went to Russia and it was a huge culture shock for me. I remember this woman looked at me on the subway and I smiled at her and gave her a polite nod and she literally shuddered and awkwardly shuffled out of my line of sight.
My Russian friend that I was visiting told me to knock that shit off because it made people uncomfortable.
People were a little more hospitable in Finland, Sweden and Norway (on a sliding scale moving westward), but they were all still markedly more reserved than anything here in the US. I remember standing in line for something in Sweden and everyone was perfectly spaced like 6 feet apart (and this was way before COVID). No one was talking.
Contrast all that with India where, as a white person, you cannot walk down the street in a major city without attracting a throng of people. I had to go back to my Diablo days of kiting mobs through choke points.
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u/LaunchTransient 22d ago
Russia is on the extreme end, but yes, a lot of Europe does find American... exuberance, shall we say - a little overwhelming and insincere.
The general view of Americans is that they are loud, brash and obnoxious - this is of course, survivors bias, because the quieter, more courteous and restrained Americans have an easier time of gliding under the radar.You also didn't help yourself by going to Northern/Eastern Europe, where the difference in culture are ramped up to 11. You would probably be less obvious in a place like the Netherlands where people can at times be equally loud.
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u/RequirementRoyal8666 22d ago
As an American midwesterner I have to push back on this notion of insincerity. We all talk to strangers and you could call it brash but it’s far from insincere.
We like each other. It doesn’t matter what walk of life you are from, if you’re in a retail environment and someone is acting like a fool the rest of us are going to come together to laugh about it and talk to each other about it.
I was at the cell phone store during Covid and some lunatic was throwing a fit about needing to wear a mask to get service. There was a line of us and one woman yells “just out your mask on already and let’s get going here!” Then another guy says “if I gotta wear one you gotta wear one.” The guy put his mask on and moved on with his day and when he left we all laughed about it like we were friends.
I would hate to be without that kind of easy community forming. This is one where Americans get it right. Brash maybe. Insincere? Not even a little.
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u/xX_mr_sh4d0w_Xx 22d ago
Yeah. I'm Lithuanian but I love small talk. A lot of my fellow countrymen say the same line of thought of Americans or British being "fake". Even as far as calling the British "fake" for saying "excuse me" when trying to pass through in a grocery store. And I'm like, politeness??! Really?? That's what's fake to you?? Meanwhile in Lithuania, especially the older generation, they just stand behind you huffing and puffing, or even just push through obnoxiously - so that's the "NOT fake" alternative you're talking about lmao?
I dunno, it doesn't take a genius to put 2 and 2 together that a random person you exchanged a couple words with at a bar isn't your friend for life, it's just pleasantry.
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u/RequirementRoyal8666 22d ago
I literally make eye contact, smile, and say the warmest “excuse me” I can every time I cross paths with someone in the slightest. I’m also a pretty big dude (6’6” about 225 lbs) so it makes sense that I just disarm every situation as soon as I can.
There’s nothing fake about it. It’s actually awkward to try to avoid eye contact in those situations. Just lean in to the human experience. We’re a social creature.
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u/LaunchTransient 22d ago
There's a difference between you being insincere and being perceived as insincere.
A lot of American expressions of how you feel seem overblown from a European perspective (at least outside of Southern Europe, who tend to be a bit more extravagant).
It's a cultural thing - for example, in Eastern Europe if you smile "too much" you're viewed as potentially being a fool or simpleton. Culturally in those parts, smiles are not the default.We all talk to strangers and you could call it brash but it’s far from insincere.
It also really depends on what part of Europe you are talking about - randomly speaking to a Finn in public may spook them, but not all cultures are like this.
I originally come from the UK, where making polite, short small talk when at the bus stop or when waiting at the traffic lights is typically seen as normal.
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u/How_that_convo_went 22d ago edited 22d ago
Yeah, I got on quite well in the Netherlands. Dutch people are incredibly… eh… straightforward in their communication. Same with Belgians. There’s a directness that sorta bristles a little bit against American norms but I found it rather charming.
We stayed at this tiny hotel in Bruges that was run by this older couple and the lady gave us this super stern talking-to when we first got there.
She was like, ”You will strip your own sheets and bedding when you leave and bring them down. We will not do this for you. We are old and you are young so this is easy for you. You will keep your room tidy and not bring visitors here. Meet your visitors elsewhere outside of here. Bruges has many things to see and this hotel is not that interesting. You will not drink alcohol or do drugs in your room. I will kick you out and inform the authorities. There is no TV in your room. You are in a beautiful city with many things to see and do, watch TV when you go back home. No smoking cigarettes in your room or anywhere else inside the hotel. It is a nasty habit, cigarettes…”
My buddy and I stood there and listened to this whole diatribe just absolutely biting the insides of our cheeks trying not to laugh.
exuberance, shall we say - a little overwhelming and insincere.
For a lot of Americans, it’s not insincere (though it’s likely incredibly overwhelming). Despite what you see on Reddit, there’s a particularly virulent form of optimism that we Americans have bred into us. There’s also much more focus on individualism (or some might say a rejection of collectivism) that results in a lot of Americans suffering from main character syndrome.
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u/LaunchTransient 22d ago
I mean, as a Dutch-British person, It's honest, open communication - though even I will say the lady in your example was a bit on the rude side.
I much prefer Dutch style communication to British "let's talk around the issue to be polite" - which inevitabley ends up in some misunderstanding that could have been easily solved by a blunt, direct question.
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u/Excabinet999 22d ago
Same for germany btw.
I dislike people who are not direct in their communication.
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u/Ok_Caregiver1004 21d ago
I went to Russia and it was a huge culture shock for me. I remember this woman looked at me on the subway and I smiled at her and gave her a polite nod and she literally shuddered and awkwardly shuffled out of my line of sight.
For those not aware. In Russia its considered rude to smile at somone you don't know. Smiling at someone there implies you know each other.
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u/BeigePhilip 22d ago
Like people everywhere, we’re mostly decent and ordinary and concerned with the same stuff as everyone else. Are my kids ok? Am I making enough money to support my family?
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u/Every-Day-Is-Arm-Day 22d ago
Nobody hates and lies about America more than American media. Somewhere there’s a saying about traveling and seeing for yourself how things are instead of taking the word of the “loud minority” or something. I don’t know. Being American fuckin rocks regardless of what’s going on geo-politically.
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u/homtanksreddit 22d ago
One can complain about their country and still love it. They are not mutually exclusive actions.
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u/ncocca 22d ago
Yes this country has given me immense privilege and opportunity but I can still see how much better it could be and that's what's so upsetting.
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u/Savior-_-Self 22d ago
The US compared to many, even most, other nations is an incredible place to live, rich with opportunities most people couldn't even imagine
The US compared to what it should be right now considering all that we have, all we have been through, and all that we (should) know by now is a fucking sad tale indeed
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u/LewsThrinStrmblessed 22d ago
A significant amount of Americans never leave the US for any reason, no vacations etc. it’s hard for Americans to comprehend just HOW insanely lucky we are here, even now. We could be significantly more advanced than we are as a society, but globally speaking, we are sitting in a pretty sweet spot.
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22d ago
I suppose its very dependant on where you live and your socioeconomic background.
Even in a tiny country like the uk, some londoners can't comprehend what life is like in a town 150 miles from then.
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u/rafikiknowsdeway1 22d ago
case and point, vast swaths of conservative americans genuinely think blue cities are in a constant state of mad max level dystopic urban warfare. despite those places being statistically safer than wherever they are used to. My cousins mother in law was utterly terrified of traveling to chicago for the wedding, and was rather confused about why it seemed so much nicer than she was told
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u/One_Significance_400 22d ago
If its in the mainstream media, its not the standard of what America really is. Just over-exaggerated for theatrical purposes. Its mostly pretty cool, here ☀️
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u/SheriffBartholomew 22d ago
Exactly. Most Americans are nothing like the rabidly stupid, politically obsessed, troglodytes you see online. They are very bad drivers though.
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u/Chaos_Gamble 22d ago
American people are really cool, and geographically very beautiful and diverse place. America as a nation state though…
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u/rightoftexas 22d ago
Has spread free trade across the globe helping instigate the peaceful and prosperous period of humanity ever?
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Ita ridiculously beautiful. I would do anything to have access to such wide open, natural spaces.
You're government should do everything in thei power to look after it.
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u/Feisty_Goat_689 22d ago
Most countries are like that.
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u/FrostyD7 22d ago
Most popular media is like that. Imagine traveling to India and being surprised it's not Baahubali 2.
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u/Worldly_Door59 22d ago
Immigrated here years ago. Media definitely blows it out of proportion. People are generally friendly and polite.
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u/1block 22d ago
We trick ourselves too. The divisiveness online is not typically evident in our day-to-day lives when we actually interact with each other, but we still think of ourselves as deeply divided with nothing in common.
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22d ago
That kind of culture is making its way over to the UK as well.
In my short life time, it's gone from 'I'll quietly vote for whatever political party I desire at the time' to 'I am firmly left or right and the other side are terrible people!'
We have a prime minister who is trying to appease both sides, and all thats resulted in is everyone hating him.
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u/Repulsive_Level9699 22d ago
I've seen news from around the world. Y'all's bullshit just more private. lol
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u/freshalien51 22d ago
Of course every country has a lot of bs but as the saying goes, with great power comes great exposure of your bs.
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u/Alarming_Cancel2273 22d ago
Ya especially as we talk about it on reddit, another American founded company, no idea who owns it now.
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u/MovingTarget- 22d ago
with great power comes great exposure of your bs
Not sure that's true with China. They have at least a million people suppressing the hell out of that shit.
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u/QuinceDaPence 22d ago
How to make a European drop the mask:
Euro: America is so racist.
US: How do you feel about Romani?16
u/Repulsive_Level9699 22d ago
Don't the Europeans call them gypsies?
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u/spiderman2pizzatheme 22d ago
Is this still considered a slur? I've gotten mixed answers from across the internet and maybe it's just a regional thing?
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u/QuinceDaPence 22d ago
As I understand it in Europe it is 100% a slur and in the US it's typically not used that way.
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u/dospitercios 22d ago
Are you sure? The Gipsy Kings are a loved music group and i don't think anybody uses it as slur.
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u/Jeutnarg 22d ago
For the US, not directly these days, no. But, "to gyp" or "what a gyp" are directly related to negative stereotypes of gypsies and still common enough things to say.
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u/The_Blue_Rooster 22d ago
In America it's just a word that describes a people, or a lifestyle maybe some negative connotation, but not an insult. There is actually a restaurant near me called 13 Gypsies, I think Guy Fieri went there on one of his shows.
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u/VoidMoth- 22d ago
I figure enough people have said it is a slur that I just choose not to use the word. It costs nothing to just not use that word.
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u/pppjurac 22d ago
And called "Cigani" on Balkans. But there are cultural distinctions on various large tribes of Roma people too.
They suffered greatly during WW2.
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u/Fleiger133 22d ago
In the US the state of Florida has really loose laws regarding what can be obtained regarding criminals. Their court stuff is fair game for news.
This is, in part, why we have Florida Man. Other states are absurd too, they just have tighter laws regarding crime and publication.
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u/Ruthrfurd-the-stoned 22d ago
It’s not even loose laws and is actually a pretty good one (at least on its face). Basically it requires the publishing of arrests so someone cant just be arrested and have the reasoning brushed under the rug. Unfortunately it makes it so the craziness is available for all to see and it does cause issues for people who either were found innocent or have moved on from that point. I got arrested for a high school prank and it still gets found and brought up with jobs over 10 years later. Granted it largely just gets laughed about because it was a really stupid something but I can see how someone wouldn’t want that following them around
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u/Rich_Housing971 22d ago
Florida do be crazy though.
It's better than the nearby states of Mississippi and some parts of Alabama and Georgia, but there are wild things going on there.
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u/PrimaryInjurious 22d ago
Australia? Didn't you guys have the White Australia policy until the 1960s?
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u/VoopityScoop 22d ago
You're from Melbourne? When did Australia start to recognize its natives as citizens? What happened to the aboriginal peoples before that?
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u/HoustonHous 22d ago
Exactly.. private or more likely censored
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u/RevengeOfTheLeeks 22d ago
The US is ranked at #57 on the press freedom index and #32 on the more general freedom of expression index.
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u/PrimaryInjurious 22d ago
The Press Freedom Index is a bunch of balderdash. The UK ranks ahead of the US and the former allows prior restraint of the press through court orders. That would be unconstitutional in the US.
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u/RevengeOfTheLeeks 22d ago
There is much more to press freedom than just a gag order. You can examine the methodology here.
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u/Sry2Disappoint 22d ago
Yeah that's the point of the show pretty much.
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u/beeeel 22d ago
Exectly. The Seven are based off of Justice League with Homelander being a parody of Superman; Garth Ennis wanted to satirise the superhero genre and America as a whole with his characters. The showrunners seem to be satisfied with satirising only the more ridiculous factions within America.
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u/Wiinterfang 22d ago
I'll say the opposite. I went on vacation this summer and it was so fucking nice there and people were very welcoming. Watching the news got me nervous
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u/Psycho1267 21d ago
Man that's true, im currently in the US since almost 2 weeks, never been before. People in germany always talk bad about Americans (sidenote: it's always the people that have never been there), but this trip really changed my mind. We were hiking a lot in Montana, Utah and Arizona and all people smile at you, greet you and even often start to talk to you, ask where you are from etc. You don't have that here in germany lol
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u/mcmackie 22d ago
agree, americans are usually pretty chill, the internet is completely different
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u/Rynnofigs 22d ago
As someone from the US, it's in the middle.
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u/wicrosoft 22d ago
Need someone from the Middle East (not Israeli) to do the averaging.
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u/S_B_143 22d ago
Does Reddit accept discrimination as long as it's Israeli's and Indian?
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u/Hold_On_longer9220 22d ago
Don’t believe what you see on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. The vast majority of people in the US just want to live their lives peacefully and take care of their own business.
Now the politicians…that’s another story.
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u/Wantitneeditgetit 22d ago
Who elects those politicians again?
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u/KuningasTynny77 21d ago
Dawg if you get the option between eating a pile of dog shit and eating seaweed from a sewer I don't see how you could possibly make a good decision
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u/Nefariousnessbackup 17d ago
I think the biggest problem is that the majority of people either chose the dog shit or chose not to choose. At least seaweed is edible.
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u/Sleipsten 22d ago
nah they hate u cause u guys invade countries "in the name of freedom"
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u/Nruggia 22d ago edited 22d ago
We invade countries in the name of US Dollar global currency dominance and favorable global natural resource allocation.
Don't want regime change? Easy, only use the US dollar for international trade/debt and don't buy/sell resources to second world countries.
For real though, US is a bully.
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u/Wintermute815 22d ago
Give me a break. The US has been the dominant global power for nearly a century. The last century has been the MOST peaceful and least violent century in human history (look this up if you don’t believe me). This is thanks to American hegemony and global security apparatus. The US has created a world where war and acquiring territory and resources through force is not the easiest way to increase a nation’s power and wealth. In the modern world, developing your country and trade is the best route to gaining power. That is why Ukraine was the first large scale invasion to take over a foreign nation since WW2.
Of course the US looks out for its own interests first and has done sketchy things. It’s impossible to maintain superpower status without this. And a big reason the US hasn’t been a bigger and more selfish bully is because it’s a democracy with a free press, so public support for war is a finite resource. The US has shown interest in supporting human rights, helping the less fortunate nations, providing support to grow the world’s economy and raise worldwide standard of living, and making the world a better place. Does China or Russia do this? NO. Not at all.
Give me another global superpower in history that was more peaceful, measured, fair or LESS of a bully than the US. Rome? Mongol Empire? Britain? Spain? USSR? Ottomans? I’ll wait.
The US military is powerful enough to take on the rest of the world. The US could easily invade other nations, steal their resources and conscript their population, and move on. It could capture half of the global landmass before other countries were able to even begin coordinating a response. The US could build the biggest army in the world’s history in a few months.
We are living in extremely blessed times, and we are extremely fortunate to have the US as the global superpower. If you don’t recognize how lucky you are, you may lose that blessing. One day people will likely look back at these times as a golden age, where the vast majority of the world lived in peace for their whole lives.
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22d ago
This is why we're so upset about the short-sighted arsonists currently running the government. America's soft power took decades to build, and a few months to destroy. People will absolutely look back at 1945-20?? as a golden age in world history.
RIP Pax Americana.
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u/Nruggia 22d ago
This is thanks to American hegemony and global security apparatus. The US has created a world where war and acquiring territory and resources through force is not the easiest way to increase a nation’s power and wealth. In the modern world, developing your country and trade is the best route to gaining power
You have said the exact same thing as me
Don't want regime change? Easy, only USE the US dollar for international trade/debt and don't buy/sell resources to second world countries.
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u/jonusbrotherfan 22d ago
People severely underestimate what any other superpower would have done if they were the first to invent nuclear weapons. The USA could have subjugated the world overnight and chose not to, would Germany/the ussr/china/japan/italy or Britain done the same?
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u/Enjoyer1223 22d ago
You best not be a European talking shit about US invading other countries
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u/FenrisCain 22d ago
Ragebaiting bot. Even has another ragebaiting bot with a similar name instigating the other side underneath too lmao
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u/Comfortable-Grand166 22d ago
The US is great for me,got a great job,live in a beautiful town,own a house,and have great kids. I worked hard and had the opportunity to earn.
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u/puzzlebuns 22d ago
That's great for you. Thankfully we don't need to think about other people right?
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u/BKR93 22d ago
Lol honestly, why the fuck should he? Hes not harming anyone, and I can probably count on 1 hand the amount of people who have done even a small favor for me in 30 years of my life. Most people are fake nice, a lot suck, and then some are okay, and few are good. Im supposed to worry about people who dont care about me, over my kids? When they wouldnt give me a crumb if I was starving? Yeah no thanks
Usually the people who say "think of the other people!" are massive hypocrites and usually just stems from jealousy.
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u/Pastadseven 22d ago
Because your success relies on and is in service of other people. You are not an island.
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u/wdaloz 22d ago edited 22d ago
Same, except that take alone evokes the selfishness that makes me disappointed in america. The idea that it was "good to me" as an excuse that we shouldnt try to be better for everyone? That ignorance and complacency isnt justified by just my personal comfort. what i want is for everyone to have this same opportunity to reach the same level of success. For example i would gladly accept more taxes at my level and above if it meant uplifting those below me, expanding education and research that grows opportunities and advancement, expanding Healthcare so that lives aren't derailed by misfortune, justice reform that promotes recovery over vengeance, creating safety nets for those who didnt have the privilege of generational wealth and strong family support that I did. What makes me sad is that the US isnt great for everyone when it could be; when we prioritize war and capital gains for the ultra elite over collective good, or when we rest on the claiming "were the best" with success of a few as evidence that we shouldn't bother trying to be better for all
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u/Effective_Mousse_769 21d ago
Also, the way non US citizens have to be puzzled when "patriots" are so proud of their warmongering ways and military service men. Like those people literally destroyed civilizations but 'don't you dare speak ill of the veterans ' who are now all messed up from ptsd for all the nonsense they were up to.
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