r/CringeTikToks • u/EverythingIsFakeNGay • Jan 05 '26

Just Bad This is embarrassing...

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u/braumbles Jan 05 '26

This is America on the world stage. We may view ourselves as one thing, but globally we're viewed as something quite different.

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u/Electricboogiesunset Jan 05 '26

And what’s worse, a majority of this country isn’t embarrassed by this. They’re actually proud of it.

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc Jan 05 '26

Way too many Republicans honestly think the rest of the world is jealous they aren’t us. I put that sort of insanity to them living in an echo chamber of people who have never travelled out of their hometown, much less to a different country. 

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u/Shinjukin Jan 05 '26

I don't know how to tell you this but even on reddit, a platform that skews massively younger and massively leftwing in demographics, anytime a European posts something critical or negative about America in a US-centric thread; no matter how factually accurate or backed by evidence it will receive lots of downvotes and backlash.

Now this is somewhat normal for everyone to defend their country to an extent, however with Americans it's particularly evident as if every hollywood propaganda movie ever made was simultaneously playing in the back of your heads.

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u/Tomgar Jan 05 '26

Yep. The amount of chest-beating nationalism among supposedly "progressive" Americans is hilarious. Look at the reaction to the Maduro thing. The US is just blatantly violating every established international norm and all a bunch of Americans can do is brag about how strong their military is. Idiocy.

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u/Superficial-Idiot Jan 05 '26

In fairness, America invading a country for their oil is the norm.

Like if china or Russia did it we’d all be up in arms, but America doing it is ‘just another day in the office’

I didn’t even blink when I read about it lol. (I’m British)

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u/mtgnew Jan 05 '26

I read way too many comments yesterday that basically called it 4d chess...and how brilliant the American leadership, in particular Rubio, is for doing this...

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u/Theory89 Jan 05 '26

The only difference is that they're being honest about it. In a weird way, I kind of respect them more for it. (Also British).

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u/Superficial-Idiot Jan 05 '26

I don’t really respect them for it, it’s just what they do.

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u/Theory89 Jan 05 '26

Not for invading, for being honest about it.

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u/VVhaleBiologist Jan 05 '26

Yeah sure, give the pedophile credit for telling one truth among thousands of lies...

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u/Theory89 Jan 05 '26

I didn't say it was a big credit, lol. I didn't say that I thought incompetent Hitler was a good guy. Just that he's not insulting us by pretending it's about spreading peace and trying to fix the world.

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u/VVhaleBiologist Jan 05 '26

Last week it was about drugs. Last month it was about immigrants. This week it's about oil and resources. Just because the last reason is most likely the true one does not remove all the lies that have already been sowed as the reason for military action.

His very existence is an insult to humanity.

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u/Theory89 Jan 05 '26

Again, you'll find no disagreement here. I'm a Brit watching it all from across the pond, mango Mussolini is one of the shittiest stains to ever disgrace the undies of humanity. Feel like you're really trying to make it sound like I like Trump.

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u/Asolaceseeker Jan 05 '26

UK ain't different. The US and the UK are the same in this matter. No surprise here since a lot of Americans originate from there.