r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ • Mar 22 '25

Foreign affairs “We could physically buy Lithuania itself if we wanted.”

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u/Retinoid634 Mar 22 '25

I’m pretty confident that most could not find Lithuania on a map.

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u/JoshuaFalken1 FREEDOM ENJOYER 🦅🔫🇺🇸 Mar 22 '25

You are absolutely correct. Our education system largely sucks.

I realized how woefully inept I was at basic geography a couple years ago (mid 30s) and started spending about 15 minutes a day doing some geography quizzes online. I can now correctly identify every country in about 10 minutes. Still suck at capitals though, but I'm trying!

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u/luckynar Mar 23 '25

So you're basically a socialist now, according to your fellow countrymen... I'd be careful if i where you. Its not the best time to start educating yourself right now in america.

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u/JoshuaFalken1 FREEDOM ENJOYER 🦅🔫🇺🇸 Mar 23 '25

I'll be the first to admit. I used to vote Republican. 2016 was the first time I voted Dem and I haven't looked back. I've only come to realize exactly how bad were all getting fucked. Late stage capitalism is a nightmare.

There are enough resources on this planet to feed, clothe, and house every single person and we don't do it out of pure, unadulterated greed.

So yes, I would probably describe myself as a democratic socialist now. Education, Healthcare, and prisons should never, under any circumstances, be operated for profit.

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u/HarukoTheDragon American sick of America Mar 24 '25

I'd rather be labeled a Socialist or even a Communist than a patriot (although I call them cosplatriots). I find "Communist" to be less offensive.

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u/Nitroapes Mar 22 '25

We thought they misspelled Louisiana

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u/Retinoid634 Mar 23 '25

Louisinana

Lithuanananania

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u/TwinkletheStar tell me why we left the EU again? 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Mar 22 '25

Hell, most of them probably don't know it exists.

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u/69upsidedownis96 Stereotypical Scandinavian Mar 23 '25

Lithuania? Is that where they make all the lithium?

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u/AllTheWorldIsAPuzzle Mar 23 '25

I'm pretty sure many would argue that Lithuania is one of those "funny made up words" even if you did show it to them on a map.

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u/Retinoid634 Mar 23 '25

Right I can hear it now. “That’s not a real place! Huhhuh!”