Does anyone else get find it ridiculous when people from The USA critisize other countries?
2026-05-26 01:14 UTC
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@Flyberius@hexbear.net 2026-05-26 01:28
Meeting and taking to USAians about the rest of the world is an infuriating experience. They are incapable of introspection and they practically go cross eyed when I start listing the things they have done in my lifetime, let alone the fun laundry list of atrocities. This goes for Europeans and the English too.
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 01:22
We’re not criticizing “as Americans”, we’re criticizing as humans. And, we have the right to do that. Whether anyone else will listen because we happen to have been born in, and can’t leave, and perhaps don’t fully support our country is out of our control. I think you’ll find that plenty of Americans are harshly critical of the country they live in, as is true of everyone, everywhere.
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 01:40
So if you’re in the US why would you ever waste your limited time critisizing like for example, Chinese internet censorship, or Mexico having a crime problem, or any of this other bullshit? Why would I not? Just like YOU can waste your limited time criticizing the USA in spite of your own countries problems, we can do the same. Your time is very limited, why are you wasting it being bothered by other people behaving exactly as you do? I don’t get it, but you do you and enjoy your time perched upon that pedestal.
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@Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 01:41
Imagine being like OP. Don’t be like OP.
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@Today@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 01:59
More than one thing can be true. Multiple places can be experiencing sucky timelines.
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@shweddy@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 02:19
Tell me where you’re from and I’ll talk shit about that place instead
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@howrar@lemmy.ca 2026-05-26 03:08
There are many things here in Canada that suck. Is it better or worse than that of other countries? Should we try to copy what someone else is doing or come up with a different solution altogether? The way to figure that out is to critically evaluate what’s going on elsewhere, and that comes with engaging in discussions with others on those topics, which can come in the form of criticisms. We may also want to convince others that the state of things in those countries are bad and we should not try to model them, and that also often comes in the form of criticism for that foreign country.
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@daannii@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 05:16
You are arguing for what-aboutism. There will always be something worse going on somewhere. We don’t ignore things and pretend they arent an issue because somewhere, horrible atrocities are being committed. I mean. Israel’s Nazi run is pretty much at the top right now. Not much is going to top their reign of horror. China censorship is still an issue.
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@robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 2026-05-26 07:23
the five minutes a month i spend criticizing other countries for things wasn’t going to be productive anyway and it’s mostly that critical support comes with critique and a historical understanding of why China is the way it is about recreational drugs or why Burkina Faso would do some homophobia.
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@umbrella@lemmy.ml 2026-05-26 07:29
it’s hypocritical for them to be criticizing other countries when they are the ones destroying most of them.
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@Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2026-05-26 08:36
Over the last couple of years I’ve begun watching content coming out of African countries and I’m seeing the ridiculous stance of America and Euro countries where they expect African nations not to have positive relations with China or Russia but Europe and America instead; like what an absolute joke; if ANY part of the world should be cutting ties with Europe and America it would be Africa. Forget that historically the relationship between colonial countries and Africa has been poison to African nations, even currently Western powers are a poison to them, and they’re surprised African countries would rather work with Russia and China? Heck, the Soviet Union literally helped in anti-colonial struggles, and the people these African nations needed help against? Western nations. Literally the only appropriate response to Europeans and Americans getting uppity about working with them instead of China is to laugh in their face and say no. Just look at the disgusting comments coming from Macron towards countries in Africa to get an example of why the global South should turn their back on all these countries who built their nations on their wealth, countries that would all fail very quickly if the free lunch was stopped. Libs have the audacity to criticize countries in Africa when it’s literally Western powers tearing African countries down again and again and poaching any talent from their countries for themselves; doctors and nurses who leave African countries add to the pool of medical professionals in Euro nations but take away from the pool in the countries they left behind. Western governments are the reason these countries are struggling, and also robbing them of their wealth, and then they turn around and say it’s some failing on the part of African countries. Global South countries should just laugh in these people’s faces and pivot to China; China’s not overthrowing governments or bombing any countries, let alone African, Middle Eastern or South American countries.
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@nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-26 13:13
Yes, the unchooseable place you were born in definitely determines what you’re allowed to critisize /s