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Originally Posted by dyna mo
You're right. I do have a shit stirring tone to my posts with anti-Americans. Sometimes I'm overly vague about that and use the word "euros". I do the same with Canadians too, btw, you prolly noticed. I apologize.
My take on it is that there is more finger pointing at USA than less here at GFY and by peoples that don't publicly look inward at their own country's issues.
What's worse, is there is a generalization that Americans don't care and give trump a pass because somehow trump is still POTUS. And they finger point -> why haven't I personally done something about that because they don't agree with trump.
Not only that, but there is a lot going on in the world, everywhere, that would lead to good discussion here. FOr example, we talk about global warming and it is invariably about stupid Americans deniers, but what about canadian climate change liars, we don't see those threads here. We should if climate change is as important as we all act like it is. What about the EU being headed towards a massive crisis, nothing.
It seems to me that many, not most, europeans and canadians overlook those things, being distracted by trump. Is it less?
we all live in nations with positives and negatives.
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yeah a lot of people do it. A lot of us also get maybe a bit overly-defensive, and any criticism is seen as anti-usa, or anti-brit, or anti-whatever else we fee passionate about. Human nature I guess. I'm critical of a lot of things the us does, a lot of things the uk does, a lot of things 'insert-so-and-so_here' do. Ofc you do get the ACTUAL anti-whomever crowd as well, so it's natural at certain points we lash out a bit.
Tbh I'm not even sure why I pulled you up on it, my only excuse is it's been a long day of a fuckton of niggling issues I've had to sort out here there and everywhere, and I'm not in my usual does-it-really-matter mode lol. If it's any consolation I only noticed because it was unusual for you
#manhug #nohomo
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
It seems to me that many, not most, europeans and canadians overlook those things, being distracted by trump. Is it less?
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I think there's a mild mass-hysteria (oxymoron I know) that's being going on a few years now with every cunt trying to get in on how hard done by they are and how 'shit scared' they are (gimme a fucking break lol) because of person x, or outside influence y, or collective-wrong-team z. If Hillary got in it'd be just the same but in reverse, and whoever gets in next it'll be just the same as well.
Strange old times we live in where on a board full of supposed self-employed entrepeneurs, that so many outside things wield so much power over the participants here. Interest I get, fixation is just bizarre to me (hi 2muchmark and co).