Australians are 60/40? That’s hard to believe lmao
We generally don’t like Americans as a group, but will bend over backwards to say how our individual yankee mate from uni is actually a decent person if you get used to them. It’s more from a sense of cultural inadequacy than actually having any cogent objections to the American empire (for the average person it’s posited that America may be a big bully but they’re our big bully against the inscrutable *rientals)
We are a US puppet state that constantly tanks our economy to please our American overlords. Some people pick up on that, despite the constant right wing propaganda shoveled down our throats.
Others hate the US because like most Anglo countries, we compare our how hideously incompetent government and cruel, callous society to them. It’s a societal get out of self improvement free card. “We might not be perfect, but at least we aren’t as bad as America!”
Can that be a thing whenever chuds in politics propose anything remotely fashy? In any non-US Anglo country, just call them ‘Americans’.
Some TERF is running their mouth in the UK about how trans people are bad? Just exclaim “what are we a bunch of yanks?” instantly destroyed.
Nah there’s a lot of hatred for the US in all the other anglophone nations.
yeah but it’s not rooted in some principled stand, it’s because we’re the funhouse mirror that lets other genocidal settler colonies (or the genocidal mothership herself) off the hook for as long as we’re around. “oh no, the mean americans are making me do a genocide again, oh no”
death to america by all means but let’s not pretend most of the australians marking “disapprove” didn’t do so because the nasty seppos with the school shootings make them feel better about their own settler violence
The only americans who deserve to feel optimism are the ones eagerly anticipating its downfall.
Poland yuck
Barely breaking 50% on your self selected popularity data
What the hell, Poland? @Lumalo@hexbear.net
I don’t have the energy for this now. Just know it fucking sucks, plenty of people for some reason still believe in the American dream. And don’t get me started on the boomers, of god the fucking boomers. All of the dickride the US and everything American like their life depends on it, and every single time I have to give those delusional idiots a reality check only for them to ignore it anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hate it here.
Also, do not ever summon the hexbear skinwalker account. That’s very dangerous, you could’ve died.
Friendship ended with Poland
Now Lithuania is my favourite half of the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth
Do they…do they know Americans have mostly given up on the American Dream? Like zoomers will call themselves “doomers” for a reason.
If I had to guess, “Ronald Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union and is therefore a hero” type of brainworms
What’s surprising? Poland’s national and foundational myths since 1990 are basically “le ontologically evil Ruzzians have oppressed my poor nation for all of human history and they’re worse than the Nazis, thank god (literally) that we saved ourselves from thay by joining the liberal west”.
So much so, that when walking with one aqueintance and stumbling upon a little free library to find a children’s book for learning Russian I was shocked to my core.
Oh cute, that’s pretty nice. Could use it, if it were in better condition.
“Why would you like to know the language of the enemy?”
I was stumped. What the fuck does one say in this situation?
It’s weird even if you buy into that propaganda, because learning the language of the enemy was always important.
That’s fucking sad… But yeah, I can honestly imagine some relatives of mine having the same reaction if I wanted to learn Arabic (I’m Spanish). Our revisionist foundational myth of Reconquista is extremely deeply rooted in society and it’s very islamophobic and eurocentrist
Correct, except it goes back not 30 but 1000 years into the past (with some changes who is the big western brother usually).
I mean, I’d bet it wasn’t the case (from the point of view of state propaganda) 50 years ago during communist Poland. Btw mate I see you around here plenty and I always appreciate your input, I hope you don’t mind me saying things about Poland. I also wanted to ask you if you know the band Riverside, or the song by Coma called something like “zaprszepaszone sily vielkey army swietich znakow” or something like that, some of my favourite music ever
