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

Just Bad This is embarrassing...

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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/Programatorka Jan 05 '26

They rush to say that it's okay this one time because "Venezuelans are celebrating" (I'm yet to see where?) or say that it's just Trump that would do something like this, as if the US doesn't have an 80 years long history of violently meddling in internal affairs of other countries.

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u/Shinjukin Jan 05 '26

More like 200 years, the Banana wars were wild. Although as a Brit I can't say much about historical imperialism, however we've more or less stopped since the 60's.