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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

American: makes any sort of joke about any country, even if it's the smallest most unoffending thing

Person from that country : ur children get shot in schools

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

We might overuse that comeback, but at least we don't have school shootings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You should be ashamed of yourself. Many wonderful people live in this country. We have so much to do - and yes, we are plagued by many horrors - but we persevere.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

You ever considered that maybe the US deserves to be ridiculed for seeing children die and choosing to do nothing about it?

I understand it's a touchy subject, but come on. It's a serious stain on the US. The US deserves immense criticism for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Instead of persevering, how about you fix the problem that no other developed country has?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What do you want me to do? Wave my hands and say some magic words and presto have everything be fixed? It doesn't fucking work that way.

I do what I can within my means. I vote every election for candidates supporting gun and mental healthcare reforms, I do my best to educate my less politically aware friends, I support activist organizations, etc... I'm fucking sorry if I'm not personally out there torching politicians houses or whatever the fuck you expect me to do, but I've got people that depend on me not being in fucking prison.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you're allowed to mock children deaths from a mental Healthcare crisis can we mock you for your roving gangs of rape squads?

German link: https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2023/vergewaltigung-im-goerli/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Okay, but you do realize that comeback makes you look bad right, not us? No matter your reasons or intentions, you are mocking children being murdered. Like in the example below:

American: lol British people eat spotted dicks.

A brit: lol American children get shot at school.

Wow. What a zinger, you really got me with that one, a fool I was to not recognize the comedy of children dying horrifically.

(To be clear, I didn't come up with that example randomly. I've seen the mocking of spotted dick be met with "lol child murder" more than once)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Nobody is mocking children for being murdered, that would be disgusting.

People are mocking the very much unique to the US culture of yes, we know children are being shot in schools, and no, we aren't going to do anything about it, you crazy freedom-hating commie!

It's a macabre mocking of your crazy gun culture and politics. Not of your children. I thought that was pretty obvious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They're mocking us for letting children get murdered. Don't get all civility politics up in here if you can't even grasp the concept of the jab.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Seems like the comeback is working since it gets Yanks flustered and writing paragraphs of text as a reply lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
  • One of them is a stereotype based on ignorance and racism.

  • The other one is children getting shot at schools.

Funny how both of these things come from the US.