• HubertManne@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    As an american who hates this I doubt it anti american. Its anti corporate america and anti trump and anti maga and anti republican and anti all the stupid crap that lead to this.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, sure. He actually makes Europe stronger. Europeans avoid buying American products, TESLAS etc… I’m curious where this is going in the long run… sometime he will recognize that his actions don’t get him anywhere.

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      20 hours ago

      As a foreigner it is difficult to differentiate between them or rather: if the country as whole is politically mainly represented by these things there is not much a foreigner can do instead of being anti american.

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    Honestly, I think this is a good thing. I am old enough to have witnessed the last time we Europeans were pissed at the US during the time of George W. Bush. Back then I hoped the EU would break free from their dependency of the US… perhaps this time it finally happens.

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    He could have done all this without being such a dick and if he’d been polite about it other countries would have probably been somewhat understanding, at least in public sentiment. It’s not a good look to claim everyone else is ripping you off. If they were ripping you off you wouldn’t be the richest country in the world.

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        American culture kind of is weak. We even steal TV show ideas from other countries. we steal culture, and if we make culture then it’s monetized. Look at hip-hop culture, it’s bound gagged and raped by money whores whether it’s street culture making dirty money or CEO pimping artists. They all rape the genuine culture just the same.

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          Look at hip-hop culture, it’s bound gagged and raped by money whores whether it’s street culture making dirty money or CEO pimping artists. They all rape the genuine culture just the same.

          This does sound a lot like there is a racist subtext here, tbh. It’s also patently false - there is no one “genuine” culture.

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          Monetization is America’s culture.
          The entire world is capitalist, but no other country has such a culturally ingrained disdain for non-commercial activities.

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    21 hours ago

    Wasn’t anti-american sentiment there for decades? Even as a kid in the 70’s I heard that americans will have a Canadian flag on their backpack because of the negativity that comes with wearing the american flag. Maybe it’s worse now but it’s been there for a while.

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      The 70s was before my time, I remember the Canadian flag thing though. But as I understood that’s more about not wanting to be associated with other American tourists who can behave quite obnoxiously when traveling in groups and taking full advantage of strong cheap local beers and the lower legal drinking age. There is and always was some degree of anti-americanism from the left, but on a political level and not something you’d have to worry about as an individual tourist. The headline is also a bit misleading in that sense, this “anti-americanism” is directed at Trump’s shenanigans, not random tourists.