one of the funnier bits right now is watching right wingers here outraged and baffled that people in other countries have some measure of national pride and do not particularly enjoy being bullied by the world’s biggest assholes - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 10 hours ago

one of the funnier bits right now is watching right wingers here outraged and baffled that people in other countries have some measure of national pride and do not particularly enjoy being bullied by the world’s biggest assholes

Reposted from Matt Novak

I’ve seen this in TikTok videos from other countries as well. An Australian guy recently went down the drinks aisle to explain which products to avoid because they were American. It’s great to see.

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g-chris.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It’s also happening to folks who are “VeRy HiGh IQ”. They couldn’t entertain the possibility that any of their plans wouldn’t work, so watching reality come bite them in the ass is uplifting.

dishcommish.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Because to MAGA being a "patriot" means being a dick who thinks all other countries should consider themselves inferior to a Genocide supporting criminal led regime. MAGA was always an uninformed bunch of goons idolizing a Cult figure. And now Trump is walking them off a cliff as they cheer him on.

thestinkfoot.bsky.social•2 hours ago

SO RUDE of foreigners to not aid Republicans in the midterms.

colingilroymcguire.bsky.social•8 hours ago

📌

mpinga.bsky.social•10 hours ago

We stopped going to Starbucks when they donated to the Republican Convention. I’m sure that will turn out to have been a great investment on their part. And I’m sure Corporate America will never rue the day they decided not to oppose the fascists.

johnnyrenton.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It’s really amazing that these right wingers are being triggered because people are just going to stop buying US products. They are just picking something different off a shelf or not go to a certain business. It’s such a low level action and I love that it’s making them scream “they can’t do that!”

m00psy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

well, yes, to them, boycotting means buying the product and then destroying it in a flashy manner on tiktok

shorelined.bsky.social•2 hours ago

“Why are they allowed freedom?”

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I kind of want to watch those now. I refuse to do TikTok or Meta because of the censorship but I can’t wait until a compilation video comes out on YouTube or if anyone posts one on BlueSky.

tigermakers.bsky.social•9 hours ago

This is called "WWE diplomacy".

American wrestlers showing national pride are good guys.

Foreign wrestlers showing pride are bad guys.

I'm not surprised folks in the US are confused.

edivimo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

A lot of the soft power of the USA has been their media presenting them as a great nation without imperfections. Like is really hard to know about Jim Crow laws outside of America.
This visceral bigotry of Trump is erasing decades of American global propaganda.

nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Shocking isn't it, that we silly foreigners happen to love the societies we live in and take pride in our own freedoms and values.

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Yeah! And all of us normally have free health care and gun control. It seems like only the US has this problem with recurrent mass shootings. Daily.

nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Seems like the only country where this is accepted as part of normal life.

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Absolutely correct. When you have to sell bulletproof children’s backpacks? You know there’s a gun violence problem.

atavistique.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The bully is always stunned when the victim finally punches back

retnab.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Some of it's not even patriotism. I know a fair few of my fellow Canucks are much more on team "Fuck You USA" than team "Fuck Yes Canada"

boomies-n-zoomies.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Negative polarization in response to bullying behavior is pretty reasonable, tbh.

qmargaretten.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I was walking on Chrissy field here in San Francisco. A woman walked by me wearing a white hat w/a big red leaf. I smiled at her & gave her a thumbs up. She wore it proudly, as she should.

wanless.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I'm not really proud of it because I prefer to be positive than negative, but I'm definitely on the fuck you USA bandwagon, though targeted squarely at Cheeto Mussolini. We don't buy any American products and we have canceled all of our accounts with US service providers.

fynnbytez.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The correct stance. Some might say that maybe good companies in Blue states are safe, but 1) To figure that out takes more effort than it is worth and 2) Every business owner is a coward who'll bow down to Trump at the slightest convenience.

So good on you, be at least a little proud of it.

wanless.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Well, good company or not, they can all put pressure on the Trump administration and that should be the ultimate goal. In all honesty, I maintain the tearing it all down is by design and Trump is actually hoping he can declare a state of emergency or martial law. Conspiracy theories are warranted.

savingdemocracy101.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Good for you. Have done the same. Sadly we have one province embracing "join amerikkka", the usual problem child idiots who love waving nazi and confederate flags, trying to hang our PM. I would proudly help them pack and take Cali in exchange, they also have Jeff. .We can work that out.

wanless.bsky.social•8 hours ago

LOL, fuck Alberta and Danielle too. Zero fucks for me anymore.

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Oh my god. Have you seen that the separatists are holding presentations just east of Edmonton?

You know it’s bad when I would rather have Ford than Smith as my Premier.

sgeez.bsky.social•8 hours ago

US leftist citizens support these actions

ubie.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Understandable, when so much of our national identity is simply being “not American” rather than anything uniquely Canadian 🤷‍♀️ 🦫

herrnethar6.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Trump is destroying the hegemony america build over the better part of a century in less than 3 months

kiyara.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I honestly believe that most people with US educations barely understand that other countries even exist

audryt.bsky.social•9 hours ago

American culture tells us, "We're Number One!" That we're the ones who lead in everything: education, money, power, innovation, morality blah blah blah and definitely vanity. We're not supposed to suffer (even tho we have recessions, escalating poverty, decaying infrastructure) b/c we're "winners".🙄

audryt.bsky.social•9 hours ago

For a lot of "We're the best!" Americans, other countries are just for tourism, if you can afford it.

neumie77.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The number of Americans that visit other countries but think their laws don't apply because "I'm American!🇺🇸" is baffling.

audryt.bsky.social•7 hours ago

We really, really need to get over ourselves.

electricland.bsky.social•7 hours ago

In fairness the international-flavour FBI/NCIS editions certainly encourage this line of thinking (I watch these sometimes) (#soashamed)

xeynon.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Don't disagree with you, but this is way less specific to American culture than you'd think. Ethnocentrism seems to be human nature.

carljanderson.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I knew we were fucked after seeing Amanpour's genuine shock that Canada was taking Trumps threats seriously in that interview with Joly, rather than the US view of "Trump being Trump"

untilwemeetagain.bsky.social•45 minutes ago

David Sedaris wrote about Americans being surprised that other countries don't have the slogan "We're number 2!"

rorol.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It’s always amazing to me that Americans know that there are ~7 billion people on this planet and yet most are shocked that the rest of the world doesn’t really give a shit about them.

lifesexyshabadadoo.bsky.social•1 hour ago

They can't understand that almost no one outside the US likes him. Even Russians know he's an idiot.

People in a cult can't understand the world outside of it. They're like North Koreans.

sarafoss.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I feel like this has never occurred to a lot of Americans, that other countries have their own goals and interests and will behave in ways that reflect that

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I think it has never occurred to a lot of Americans that there are other countries. :)

metabluesky.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It 100% hasn't, this is why so many people were arrogant enough to assume a dictatorial US or state collapse would see them welcomed as refugees in Canada, Australia, or New Zealand. Even an idiot could see an authoritarian US would try to Vichy Canada if not outright conquer it.

sarafoss.bsky.social•9 hours ago

An American friend who lives and works in the British Virgin Islands traveled to Europe for work last week. She told me, "Politics there have turned on a dime in response to our abandonment of them."

azery.bsky.social•10 hours ago

i mean yeah, across the spectrum, Americans seem to believe everyone outside of them are NPCs with no agency.

ryanhumphrey.bsky.social•9 hours ago

There’s a lot of “left” Americans who obviously view saying that Canada should join the US as rude, but not wrong

It really feels like this is the place Americans “standing with Canada” are coming from

boomies-n-zoomies.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Honestly, it seems like it’s mostly reporters & pundits who are acting the way you describe.

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Wait until Canada finally splits from the US. I can’t wait until we become more global and less reliant on the US. We are already in talks with the European nations and the EU.

jrockcle.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Uhhh.....A LARGE LARGE majority of Americans are against this. A LARGE majority of Americans hate what Elon Musk is doing. The media just leads you to believe otherwise.

reneehere.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Thank you!

someguyhere1.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Whining "you must respect meeee" like the little bitches they are is no way to gain respect.

esswrites.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Agreed. Also, Trump using his pro-wrestling experience to give the US a heel turn because he wants to keep ratings up would be genuinely hilarious if we didn’t (all) have to live in the show. So to speak.

laurala.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It's akin to that thing where some people don't actually understand that other people have their own feelings and emotions, too.

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Main character syndrome? :)

lurkymclurk.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The weird American right wing dichotomy of “America is the best country ever and don’t you dare fucking emigrate here” always baffles me

kcclyburn.bsky.social•8 hours ago

“Americans learn just how loathed they are in the rest of the world” is one of my favorite subplots in our current dystopia.

yvonne-wong.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I really want to see these reaction videos now. I wonder if they know how most countries view uneducated Americans as ignorant and foolish.

mrsnit.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Americans sincerely believe that we're all taught that America is #1 in every respect and is to be envied. 100 years of delusion coming home to roost.

bobdunkin.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Yup! It's funny that the 'mOsT PaTrIotiC' country in the world is confused that other countries can ALSO be patriotic...
Patriotism isn't a finite resource...

cjnowak.bsky.social•9 hours ago

One of the best explanations I've seen for this is that most conservatives believe that the world is just one hierarchy of abuse with the US president on top. They really just don't get how any of this truly works.

eaglebeaverman.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I think they expected that they’d just roll over and take it like their domestic opponents do.

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