Major US brands sound alarm over rising anti-American sentiment
Major US brands sound alarm over rising anti-American sentiment
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Major US brands sound alarm over rising anti-American sentiment
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Leopards ate my face!
Oh no, anyway...
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The authors are conflating two issues. They mention the reduced tourism, but that is not about being anti-American. People are reasonably scared of getting locked up; why would anyone risk visiting the U.S. if they had another decent option (like, for example, any country that isn't at war right now)? ... And this is a totally different issue from boycotting American manufacturers. It's about personal safety.
At the same time, the anti-American sentiment goes hand-in-hand with tariffs. If the U.S. charges tariffs on the EU, for example, people who work sales in the EU will be hurt by the loss of customers. And then when the EU issues counter-tariffs, US goods become too expensive to buy... And this is all about basic economics, not about feelings.
And then, finally, there are feelings. Many people think that Trump (who is in the Epstein Files) is an evil POS. And most large American corporations supported his rise to power and are currently licking his boots. Supporting that evil man is itself an evil act, many people would say.
Anyway, these are three different overlapping issues, and Newsweek should have good enough writers to describe the situation with greater precision. But if you bring in the non-emotional arguments, that makes the U.S. companies look like big jerks, right, so of course the magazine couldn't be bothered with that kind of analysis. Better to describe the broader international community as moody or some shit like that. Meh.
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Very good points. Remember that Newsweek is a jerk US company that supported Trump and is currently licking his boots. Corporate media has very skilled writers who are doing everything they can to normalize what is going on now.
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Anti-american sentiment is largely justified. There's concentration camps and masked men kidnapping people off the street. People are proudly wearing the maga-hat symbols of trumpism.
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I hope all these fuckers running the companies get the day they voted for.
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The absolute worst day.
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This country sucks. Hopefully it splits up soon.
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i'm joining the war on rising anti-american sentiment on the side of rising anti-american sentiment
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Canada here. In our house we're still not buying anything American because their president threatened to invade and annex our country, and the government have yet to walk it back or even apologize. And even if the president of America did back off and say sorry, he's a rapist and a pedophile so he can still go fuck himself.
I don't think the powers-that-be in the US realize quite how much damage they've done to international relations lately. This isn't the sort of thing they can just say sorry for and expect to go back to normal once Trump is dead and everyone is pretending they didn't enable him for the last decade.
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People don't remember tariffs from 9 years ago. People will never remember what's important.
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Please keep it up. It's the only kind of support we deserve right now.
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The issue is legitimately that they're all a bunch of massively racist fucks and were told for over a decade how the world saw us as a laughing stock (because we had a black man as president), despite being ridiculously popular on the world stage, and so they think just by having a rich white asshole suddenly we're respected again, even though he's truly the biggest laughing stock ever.
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As an American, good. We have too many chuckle-fucks here who live in their own bubbles, thinking America can do whatever the fuck it wants without consequence, like we're not all a part of the same global stage. We deserve every ounce of criticism we're getting.
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And it's working! It's so funny to see companies like McDonalds advertise with: "Your burger is produced in Europe" or the like. At least they seem to acknowledge that they are biting off one of the hands that feed them, good.
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I'm becoming anti-American, and I'm American. I totally understand why the rest of the world hates us. I don't blame them at all.
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You and me and a legion of other American citizens.
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Gee I wonder where that could've stemmed from?
I'm american and am so fucking ashamed of this place right now. Hoping for aliens to come down --since they always land in the US-- and just start blasting...
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If I was an alien I would stay the fuck out of America, lol.
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This is proof that individuals do have power. Together we have a voice. Keep speaking.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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These stupid cunts didn't realize he was unpopular when they were doing photo ops during the campaign? Let them suffer.
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"made in USA" is a warning label
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Keep up the boycott. Make those scumbags pay.
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As an American I say fuck'em. I have hated on America since Reagan.
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Sucks to suck.
They spent billions of dollars and decades avoiding competition at all costs.
We can't have good cars or phones or anything really. All our appliances are designed to break so you have to buy another. Planned obsolescence. Enshitification.
Whenever I have a choice I avoid US products and I'm American. Because the products are either designed to fail or just worse. And for a higher price.
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....how long until mcdonalds expand their business into the prison food racket??
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'Fighting in the canteen?! That's a week in the McHole for you!'
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i'd starve and die of thirst before i touch mcdonalds or diet fucking coke...
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that was always a bad idea.
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Good. If anti american sentiment can put a dent in these corp business structures, all I see are two moral goods.
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We deserve it
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I mean shit as an American I have a rising anti american sentiment lol
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Who would have thought that putting a man-child wannabe (for now) openly fascist dictator child rapist con man in charge and letting them shit all over every document meant to put them in check while the other elected officials cheer him on, picking fights with other nations for no reason other than to make himself look strong to the weakest of people, targeting minorities in state-sanctioned terrorist actions, and generally acting like the Nazi regime was a how-to guide would make us look slightly more negative than usual?
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shouldn't have elected a disgusting cunt of a swine.
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That's an insult to both cunts & swine.
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I'm pretty happy with the outcome. The more America is weakened, the better for the rest of the world and the easier it will be to rebuild to something better.
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To be fair, roughly half the country didn't vote in the last election, 49.2% to be more precise.
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To be REALLY fair, the election was stolen. From the instant the election was over, the Dems were pronouncing that the election was fair & square, before they could even investigate and determine if that were true. Then they started endorsing the concept that there were millions of voters in swing states who voted straight Democratic tickets, except they voted Trump at the top. MILLIONS!
And yet, I've never heard of a single voter who did that. There are undoubtedly some, but they are as rare as white squirrels. Not one person has come forward in the media to claim to be one of those split ticket voters.
I suggest that they don't exist, at least not in the millions, or even the thousands. It would be interesting to see how many of those ballots exist in Swing States, as compared to non-swing states. I would bet that we would find them almost exclusively in the Swing States, because those were the states Trump had to win, and somehow, he implausibly won them all. I'll bet there are almost none of those ballots in states that weren't in contention.
Dems should do that investigation, and then we'll know if those split ticket voters really exist, or if those were the DOGE Goblins at work.
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Voter suppression is generally very high so I won't blame those people who couldn't vote for any of the many reasons that the US uses, but a choice not to vote is an implicit endorsement.
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Choosing not to vote in the last election was a form of voting, imo.
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Please avoid our businesses and produces like the plague. Because you're giving money to pure evil.
Edit: and for my fellow Americans... Stop buying shit you don't need. Seriously, Christmas and birthdays need to be fucking canceled! Stop buying pumpkins spiced bullshit, TVs, and entertainment. Go cold turkey on all the shit they've tricked you into needing and wanting. Voting with our dollar might be our last chance at a peaceful change of values in our country. You don't need fabric softener, but the oligarchy needs you to keep buying so they can take more wealth. The money you spend on shit you don't need doesn't help anyone but the wealthy. Very little of the money everyday America spends circulates in our communities in an additive way. Build community not corporations.
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God I wish Americans as a whole would get this message. It would make such a huge difference if we all just bought a little less
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Lol at the thumbnail showcasing McDonalds, which ran TWO separate PR campaigns for the Trump regime, and is thus one of the single most anti-American brands in existence.
Don't give McDonalds another cent, ever. There are plenty of other option to get your greasy heart attack fix.
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There was that franchise owner who invited Trump to pretend to make fries and serve fake guests, but what was the other event?
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The other one was less directly McDonalds - it was the focus, but involved other trash fastfood chains as well. Anyway, it was when Trump reenacted that scene from Kingsmen where the villain serves shit McDonalds burgers with a fancy presentation to one of the protagonists. Trump's target was a college sports team that were invited to the the whitehouse for a dinner event.
In all fairness, this was WAY more driven by Trump specifically, so I didn't take an issue with McDonalds (for political reasons at least - their food is still shit) until the photo-op event you mentioned, but the latter adds enough nefarious context to the former to go ahead and assume McDonalds supports those terrorists.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fast-food-fan-president-donald-trump-chows-fast/story?id=60375831
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Their food has gone horrible anyway so I have not been to McDonald's in months.
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Their food was was always horrible, but it was cheap, and that combo worked for me. Now they cost the same better quality restaurants, so I go there instead. I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since 2002-ish. Are you saying their food somehow got even worse?
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Been years for me, I seen the 7yr old burger when my kids were young, now their adults and I still haven't well over 10yrs at least
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"worsening views of America are rapidly taking a toll on some brands' health."
Good.
The only thing the US cares about our understands is money, so fuck every American business supporting this administration.
As a Canadian I have never been so insulted and betrayed in my life, and Americans laugh it off or just altogether do not understand why we're angry.
And I wouldn't say my perspective is anti American, I know a lot of good American people. I'm very much anti Trump and also very angry that as a group Americans delegated their votes by staying home or voted republican.
I've ditched google, Netflix, etc. I dropped my Apple subscriptions (and bought linux computer). I don't buy any American food brands, I've moved my clothes purchases to Canadian brands.
The only US brand I still support is Costco, and even then I'm checking the labels.
I also have a few holdout things I haven't replaced, but I am working on it every week.
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Maybe what pisses me off so much about the Trump admin is that they forget everything that made America great in the first place.
It isn’t that Americans were chosen by god or anything like that. It’s that America fought for freedom and democracy, and those ideas allowed the people and economy to flourish (I won’t downplay that taking vast swathes of land from natives and slavery also helped build America).
Who could read the poem on the Statue of Liberty and say that America is just for a chosen few? The whole American dream was that you could go there and get a fair slice of the pie.
They forget about how the Irish were treated with the same disdain they throw at Latino people. They forget that their ancestors had to work.
They’re just so fucking spoiled, like a bratty child that has had everything handed to them assuming they’re special and forgetting they stand on the backs of all those before them.
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I don’t think he (or his handlers) was ever speaking for Americans as a population when talking about making America great again. He was speaking for the rich and powerful who are yearning for the gilded age, with its company towns and Pinkertons and extreme wealth concentration.
The rise of the middle class and the democratization of rule has been a big bummer for them.
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Since World War 2 , Americans have been hugely spoiled and they have taken more from the world than anyone ever before. THAT had to run out some time, and Donny 2 Dolls has just hastened that process. I wouldn't be surprised if America became a third world country tbh, now that the silver plate they had everything served up on, has been stolen by Donny 2 Inches. There will be a small, extremely wealthy class, and then everyone else with shitty employment prospects, no social security or health provisions. Food stamps, gone. TBH there really should be a revolution, but as we've seen, despite being the most heavily armed population in history, Americans are sheep and will just bend over and take it some more, no lube.
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Murican here. We won't learn our lesson until the stupid really hurts. Elbows up, my friend. If we survive this shit, we'll owe you big.
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Even as an American, I'm avoiding American products. Now. Please give me foreign option for 1/2 the price that will still last about as long.
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I stopped buying as many American products as I could, but food even more so after they gutted the safety checks. I don't want your unsafe Nazi products here.
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Americans don't want them here either, but Fascists have taken over. They are a minority of the population but have manipulated the dummies and our very flawed election process to impose their will on the rest of us.
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America is fundamentally broken
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I'm not sure that these companies or Americans in general haven't considered the notion that the damage will be permanent. They can punt Trump, but that would do zero to alter the machinery in place that gave him the presidency.
There's about one third or more eligible American voters who will without fail, sit on their asses and not vote. Two Trump regimes won't inspire these ratfucks to vote. The Democrats seem to be doing anything and everything other than tapping into the obvious stuff that AOC and Mamdani campaign on. And about one third of Americans want to be MAGA! forever, like having herpes.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world has to suffer while fucks like Rupert Murdoch and Peter Thiel run their show for them.
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I agree the damage is permanent, for much the same reason. A huge chunk of the populace thought Trump was a good idea. Then after that unmitigated parade of disasters, thought he was a good idea a second time, and a third. Those people are not going anywhere, and whatever it is that is causing that catastrophic failure of reasoning, or even self interest, isn't either.
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Yep, the trade war that trump carried out with China in his first term led to China buying a lot fewer soybeans from the US, instead turning to Brazil (now even more with the second trade war). Since this time his trade war isn't limited to China, many more countries are finding alternatives. It's much harder to gain business than it is to retain it and even harder to regain business when lost.
US corporations were happy to support trump because he'd cut taxes and regulations on them, but that won't outweigh all the business lost internationally. Instead US corporations will be relying on squeezing Americans even harder in an attempt to make up for that lost business. I suppose that's the true meaning of "America first".
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This American knows the damage is permanent. Unless we implement some stringent election reforms there’s no longer a guarantee that our president won’t completely reverse course.
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The US of Trump isn't a good brand from the outside view. From a European perspective it's an absolute clown show and it's unbelievable how long it's going on and people still taking any of it seriously. I mean the consequences are serious but none of the arguments and things being said. It's obvious nonsense, a lot of people are calling it out but seemingly an equal number of people just tries to spin it into 4D chess moves with even more bullshit.
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Its an absolute clown show from some of us inside the US too, but I've been saying "look at the clown!" ever since he entered politics and I don't know man. People just keep telling me why they like the clown guy and his stupid red nose, and I'm just so tired. So tired and alone.
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I have never felt more alienated in the country that I was born and raised in than I do now. It’s equal parts infuriating and horrifying.
All I’ll say to my European friends is that I hope they keep the science / engineering / skilled worker incentive programs open for the brain drain that is doubtlessly going to accelerate, because I think I’m going to take advantage of that next year.
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You’re not alone, I’ve disliked him for over twenty years and have been saying the same since he entered politics. Unfortunately, 1/3 of our country refuses to have the slightest bit of introspection on the matter and there is probably another 1/3 that’s too uninformed/misinformed to care. He’s managed to gain power at the absolute worst time for a moron like him to have power and our checks and balances that are supposed to prevent what he’s doing we’re all based on there being decent people in power to stop him.
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and alone.
It's because the government had already (via the zoning code) destroyed most "third places" where people used to get together in person, and the billionaire-controlled traditional media and social media have conspired to suppress anti-fascist sentiment online.
Feeling alone is how They want you to feel.
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We are not alone. And we should be getting louder.
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"Why do they all hate us?" wailed the guy literally pissing on a bunch of people snarling at him for some odd reason.
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All must bow to the fat and lazy
\ The fuck you, obey me, and why do they hate me? (Who me?)
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I relish watching US produce rot and slowly get replaced with alternatives from other countries up here in Canada.
Keep it up. The US can fuck right off.
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they finally changed the wall of pickles at my local grocer around. used to be 80% bick's. now it's 20%
Costco unfortunately still sells bick's. but they also sell some muuuuch better stuff that isn't american, so at least it's not just the one option
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I relish watching US produce rot and slowly get replaced with alternatives from other countries up here in Canada.
It's like a metaphor or something.
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Um gee that's tough to figure out, I'm trying to spend my money wisely now, I'm an American and anything to stop giving it to a wealthy prick that only deserves a curb stomping. I haven't been to Walmart in a month now that's a new record for me. Trying in this economy is tough
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Reports out about how a new walmart in a region fucks the entire locality up in around 6 years. It's a good read. I can't find the article I read, but I think this is a good summary: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/walmart-effect.asp
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cutting out Walmart a decade ago was one of the best decisions I've made that I almost never think about
it's just such a shit experience all around. I've been in one maybe ten times on the past ten years, and only exactly three of those to try and buy something (only was successful once). the others were all to access a McDonald's (which has since been cut out as well) when it was the best option for food on a trip
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theres an episode in the “99% Invisible” podcasts series on this case study. I think it was called “Food Deserts”.
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...not really. I mean yes limited funds-wise but opportunity-wise you've got access to the entire world market at your fingertips. You can buy all Chinese crap straight off the boat, or other places.
Watching your budget? Go to thrift stores, antique shops, and estate sales/auctions. It's very green & environmentally friendly. And there have been many, many amazing American manufacture things of old that are so much better than their modern crap counterparts. The difference is night & day.
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There has been rising anti-American sentiment for decades. (Deservedly in many cases.) What they are sounding the alarm over is that Trump has edged it across the line where they have to care.
The reaction to Mangione was an indicator, and the oligarchs saw it even if the politicians didn't. Same thing here, IMO.
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Luigi did nothing wrong.
Not to mention, I’m genuinely unconvinced they even got the right fucking guy. The chain of custody of the supposed evidence alone was absolutely fucked six ways from Sunday.
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What's that about jealousy? I can't quite hear you over my socialised health care, free university education, and properly maintained public roads.
Believing it's jealousy is so wildly out of touch. It's not jealousy when I skip Mickey D in favour of a local chain, or buy local cola instead of coke, it's "stay the duck away from Greenland", "you elected him twice?!?", and "if you don't want to be in NATO anymore, fine, but could you not try to actively work against us?"
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As an American, shut the hell up and sit down. Humble yourself. We're a complete joke because the majority of our citizens that bothered to vote chose the narcissistic dumbass currently running the country.
America was broken long before now, but we're shittier about hiding it nowadays.
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LOL
nah mate we just fucking hate america because america is the big dumb bully reading at a third grade level and making decisions at a first grade level
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Jealousy? Sure, that's probably it. They finally respect us again, huh?
You're probably one of those MAGAs who can't understand why blacks aren't all excited to get those "black jobs" in the fields again. You know, like back when America was great, and the darkies loved working in the fields in exchange for free housing, great home cooking, and free clothes. They were very unhappy when the North freed them, and made them responsible for their own freedom.
That's what MAGAs are saying, complaining that the blacks aren't happy about getting their Black Jobs back.
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you live in a fourth world country and are so mass deluded by your state media you think people are jealous of it xD
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"a lot of it is just jealousy"
It is precisely this unreflective, stubborn mindset that fuels the anti-American attitude of the rest of the world.
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Hey, my country is richer per person than your poor people country, solidarity to you all though. Also, we have very little crime and 40% of our population has two passports. Your brag isn't as impressive as you think.
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FAFO.
Keep them elbows up!
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Tips fingers, excellent.
I can feel the alternate trade routes growing like the force spreading.
It gives me the warm and fuzzies knowing that in a few years people will be going states who and we are all consuming anything but american.
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So good to know all my efforts have not been in vain
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gotta learn somehow
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Way to go, conservatives!
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We've always hated you
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it was always a side eye situation, at times with some disgust, and a bit of hate, yeah
now it's just contempt, strong hatred
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I never actually met an American I didn't like, until the internet, but by God, their version of democracy is fucked right up. I've always hated how they worship money, how militaristic their police are when dealing with poors, and how much their rich and famous get away with (a la Epstein, Donny 2 Inches, Matt Gaetz...), because "one day I'll be rich too"...! Now, the thing I have come to loathe in Americans, is that NO, you will NOT be rich one day too, and you're so fucking slow realizing that..!
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Death to America
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Who would be pro this, right now?
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Oh no, are profits in danger? Finally something the DNC can actually be bothered to care about.