Anon discusses American exceptionalism : 4chan

[+] drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago

Well yeah the second comment doesn't have anything unusual about it...

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

Is there a reason to comment on a universally accepted truth?

Jk, don't fuck animals.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

That's a pocket monster, baby.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 points 10 months ago

I love how they're canonically called monsters, even though there are no other types of animals in the Pokémon world.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The real monsters in Pokémon are the trainers, forcing pokemon to live in claustrophobic little carrying canisters, and forcing them to fight each other for the trainers entertainment.

We have pokemon trainers in the real world too. We normally throw them in prison for fighting dogs and roosters against each other.

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

I’ve always wondered about the health of the Pokémon universe’s ecosystem as it has such poor biodiversity (just over a thousand pokeymans? big yike)

[-] webadict@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

There actually are animals in the Pokémon world: https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

It's not an animal, it's a Pokémon.

[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago

Fairly certain no country is "100% white".

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago

That's because "White" as a concept has always been invented to be nebulous and exclusionary. It's not a real group.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

yeah it's funny seeing Poland in that list since for a hot while we were not considered "real white" and were "slavic", same story as what the Irish went through. From what i'm reading at some point we were even considered terrorists in the US! (because one Polish dude killed some president), and the same scare tactics as what happens around Muslim people today were engaged

history is so fun /s

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[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Yeah, whiteness is all about who isn't white so it doesn't make sense for it to exist without people who aren't. The Irish, Italians, and Jews are all just some demographic shifts away from being not-white.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Moreover, the concept of race is outdated and deprecated in the scientific community, mainly because most people (and nations) had some influence of several of them and can't be strictly categorized as one or the other.

Cool that you mentioned Jews, because they are a very interesting case study. There is so much diversity within them that you'll never be able to tell which race they belong to. There are even large groups of black jews living in Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria and other countries, which is a revelation for many.

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

Diversity is not our strength. Ridiculous levels of natural resources is.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 31 points 10 months ago

And being virtually impossible to attack, with a friendly country up north, poor countries down south, and oceans to the east and west.

[-] NOPper@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Porque no los dos?

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[-] lorkano@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This guy listing Poland there while I am refusing to travel to USA sightseeing due to personal safety which is not an issue in Poland. Power of country does not directly correlate with standard of living, Russia is the great example where living is shit yet it's still a "superpower"

[-] Soulg@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

The chances of you being attacked while sightseeing is virtually zero

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Seriously; I've seen several such posts stating a belief that it's unsafe to visit the US, but that's wildly ignoring statistics. The violent crime rate is like half what it was in the 90s and continues its general downward trend, falling further to below the previous bottom in '19. And most of that still stems from gang violence and the like, so it's never near what tourists are doing.

I don't get it; I think people just like acting scared for some reason. Or maybe it's them grasping for a reason to feel superior? People love that kind of thing...

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I assume the media there does the same thing the media does here. If it bleeds, it leads. Violent news gets top billing, while news of plummeting crime rates isn't advertised.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It's just how media works and our media is the loudest.

an unusual, infrequent event (such as a man biting a dog) is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences, such as a dog biting a man.

The only perspective people from outside the US have is that from the media. So when they see the man bites dog stories they assume that to be usual and frequent.

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[-] zik@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

I don't think anyone seriously believes Russia is a superpower any more after their failure to take Ukraine.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

yet it’s still a “superpower”

Is it, though?

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[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Too horny, didn't read

[-] Barsukis@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

Bro has never visited Lithuania or Poland. The countries are amazing and probably more advanced in many regards than 90% of US shithole states

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Yeah, our bridges are not collapsing and if I break my leg I’ll get free help.

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[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 10 months ago

Damn, now I want to fuck it too; it's clearly asking for it.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Zoophilia is a paraphilia in which a person experiences a sexual fixation on non-human animals.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

America was only exceptional in that we profited heavily off of WW2. We were one of the only countries whose land was basically untouched and after the war we created a bunch of money and gave that to war ravaged Europe to buy shit from us.

It is much more nuanced than that, but we had been riding that high a couple generations and now all that "prosperity" has been squandered.

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[-] PsiFren@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

The artist who drew that Eevee appears to go by wanco HT. A higher quality version of Eevee can be found here. Hopefully, this'll save someone else some time.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 10 months ago

Hopefully the other guy sees this

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

I fuck eevee too.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

🤝 welcome aboard!

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[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Lmao imagine not thinking that the US is a shithole

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I think the idea is the people that believe in white supremacy think the US is the best country.

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[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

America is nowhere near the most diverse country.

Not even in the top 50...

[-] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

In what sense?

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago

I would be interested in hearing of any country with the sheer volume of immigrants that the US has from every continent. We have migrants from every European nation, africa (including modern african culture, not just the results of the slave trade and imancipation), asian immigrants, including China, Japan, Veitnamese, Indian, even indigenous peoples as far as Oceania. And every culture is represented in our own, much to the dismay of those that believe our great works came solely from white hands. Our democracy is founded on a melting pot of ideas and inputs, not a euro-centric empire graciously allowing "lesser men" in it's borders.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Probably operating on Bruno logic. "Africa is full of minorities" level of thinking.

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[-] zik@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Wikipedia's page on ethnic diversity ranks the USA at #90 out of 215 countries.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Those are from 2003. Here's some more up to date data (with spreadsheets!): https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-racially-diverse-countries

USA is still placed at #90, but the top looks a bit different

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[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I've been to Russia and Poland, it's not 100% white.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 13 points 10 months ago

Neither are they shitoles. Poland especially is a great place to be. Russia has it's issues, even before the madman in charge went fully berserk, but they are nothing compared to some places like Somalia that deserve the name.

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