American exceptionalism is ingrained so deep in most people here that they would never even consider or doubt why the world pays attention to them, just: “Duh of course they do, because we’re America!”
Correct. I think the entire premise that an American would question this idea is an indication that the meme was made by somebody from a country with one of these pins in it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending this mindset. I am myself an American making this observation with a sense of shame and mild horror.
Yeah, I abolutely agree. In American culture, this is treated more like a natural law, like the Sun rising each day or objects falling down when dropped. It is just something self-evident and isn’t even a thought that occurs in most American’s heads.
It is self evident that America is the world’s only super power.
Going by experience here, the American WILL question this idea the very seconds the foreign has a diverging opinion or calls them out on something.
Americans run around moralizing while exploding everyone. They impose their views and politics into every country on earth. But if you criticized them for being idiots who allowed Trump to win, they tell you “you’re not even American!” As if American stupidity doesn’t affect the rest of the world. And this is the kind of shit I’m hearing from the American left now the side that was supposed to be smart and reasonable, and you know, not racist or xenophobic. But they’ve also gone toxic extreme as well. Americans are nuts.
I think there should be a major distinction between Democrats/neoliberals/however you want to classify them and “the American left”/progressives.
They often fall under the same tent because progressives do not have another substantial place in American politics, but I think these are 2 different groups with different beliefs and ideas.
But if you criticized them for being idiots who allowed Trump to win, they tell you “you’re not even American!”
Not from me. Anyone who voted for Trump or sat around to let him be elected is a fucking moron.
I learned in 2016 I had too much faith in my fellow citizens. There are many, many stupid people here.
Or they could realize the reality of the situation without making it about taking credit for being “the best”. As an American I know our country sucks, especially now, and also that it’s important for global stability.
Nah, it’s probably what you said. I just truly think the US is way better than any other country. /s
Edit: I missed that they wrote “most”. In my defense though a lot of users are currently cruelly shitting on Americans unconditionally. A lot of us didn’t want this bullshit
Huh? Sorry, not ALL Americans. I did say “most”
I missed that. My bad.
👋 yep… Tbh, I just never thought through the “their shit is next door” part… just the “they have a lot of shit” part
Dear Earth,
The U.S. is about to fuck over humanity.
Zero fucks about climate change.
Leadership connections with the worst ass hats on the planet.
I apologize.
I wish y’all the best.
about to
🧐
Inauguration ain’t till January
Some things don’t change from administration to another, such as:
U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter
And Democratic politicians are just as capable of war crimes.
Cool.
I’m sure there will be no difference in the US’s impact on and relations with the rest of the world once Trump realizes over for Biden.
I’m glad it’ll be the same, because I was thinking it’d get worse.
Silly me!
During Clinton’s administration 500,000 Iraqi children were killed through sanctions and Albright on 60 Minutes said it was worth it.
Now during Biden we have a genocide with over 50,000 dead.
The US foreign policy has been terrible even under Democrats. Liberals only care when the president is a Republican.
Brain dead take of the day.
Yikes, that’s a pretty strong aversion to reality.
Unfortunately, leaving a salty comment doesn’t make the truth go away. The democrats have literally been facilitating a genocide for the past year. They suck. They can be “not the absolute worst possibility” and still be very very shit.
We were never good, we’ve just excavated a whole new bottom to hit. It’s almost impressive considering how much we’ve always sucked.
The US doesn’t have any military bases in Alaska? Not even one?
Huh. 🤔 . They do of course. https://militarybases.com/alaska I also see 9. :T well that’s annoying. Now that I look closer I do see Closed military bases on this list and the scale is absolutely horrendous. Decidedly not effective for communicating information specifically, but great for reaffirming the general you know like the US has a bunch of them and it operates troops and such out of them
Certainly does. My father-in-law served up there, which he thought was a much better assignment than Vietnam. It was pretty important for early ICBM detection from Russia, since the shortest path to the continental US is through the arctic circle. Still is, so yes, there’s bases up there.
and in hindsight, it turned out to have been much better than going to Vietnam
This site says there are 9. 3 Army, 3 Air Force, 3 Coast Guard.
take note canadians
And where’s the one in antarctica they’re always threatening to send people to?
Imagine if China had bases like that
If you do a search for “are there secret chinese police stations in canada”, would that count?
Not to be a china apologist, but overt military presence in the form of missiles and boots on the ground is very different from clandestine operations abroad. Basically all major powers have the latter. What do you think the CIA is?
If you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations, then yes, but imagine they have soldiers and illegal weapons and claim to be ensuring stability of the region
Americans: Why don’t foreigners care about every aspect of America every second of every day?
My first thought was to wonder if we’ll try to buy Greenland again.
Apparently, some have been pushing that last week already…
Sorry, World. 😑
If the US bought Denmark, they’d probably get Greenland with it. Just saying.
(now some idiot is probably going to try this)
In 3 months we’re going to have a Secretary of Defense that’s on the Fox and Friends B-Team, and a panel of MAGA generals purging the ranks. I am not ruling anything out of the future timeline we’re on…
These are some of the same people who don’t know who the president of Puerto Rico is, so they might just move in thinking the place is abandoned.
Comparisons here on Wikipedia, sometimes on the linked page.
America: Establishes military bases, missile silos, CIA blacksites, international espionage agreements to violate the rights of the citizens in dozens of countries, has invaded and overturned governments because they disagree with what the president wants, calls itself the world police.
Americans: “Why are so many non-Americans invested in what goes on in our country? I know we’re a big deal, but why would anyone be interested? Must be paid actors and bots! I don’t care about French elections, why would they care about American?”
Nobody in America thinks this fyi. We know exactly why the world cares and it’s because we are the world’s only super power.
We’re also pretty pissed about how cheap our senators are. Like bro I couldn’t buy a 2025 Tacoma for what your selling the free world for.
You know this?
Yes. There’s nobody who knows anything about anything who doesn’t know America is the world’s only super power.
Some people who don’t know what they’re talking about say China, and that may be true someday but not today.
Fuck off yank
Yes. There’s nobody who knows anything about anything who doesn’t know America is the world’s only super power.
Some people who don’t know what they’re talking about say China and that may be true someday but not today.
The picture is an exaggeration. India DOES NOT allow foreign military bases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites
Sri Lanka participated in the US redition process. This image is also rather old. Very likely the Modi government has opened the back door to this shit in the last ten years.
Yeah the Aussie presence is in completely the wrong spots too. It’s bullshit.
Neither does Pakistan, those are actually super top secret CIA outposts lol
To be fair the red balloons shown are much less deadly than American military bases.
Seems like they just hate industrious hard working war mongers. Can’t a warlord catch a break?
I’ve never once wondered this.
Putin is gonna pee his pants in glee when his orange tool starts shutting them down
Hegseth is as hawkish on Russia as he is on China. But I would be less worried as Putin than I would be as a draft-eligible American. We’re only going to double down on wars with this new guy in charge and that manpower needs to come from somewhere.
That boy has likely been away from service long enough not to know his head from his toes
Americans may be surprised to find that foreigners actually don’t pay as much attention to US elections as they think. Even many people in the US don’t care, they’re just inundated with media coverage of it. At most about 66% of eligible voters even vote and the people that do vote aren’t necessarily informed. You may have seen interviews with undecided voters. They turn up to vote but haven’t necessarily put much thought into it.
As an aside, I find it funny when Americans scream about other countries empire building and carrying out provocative military exercises when the US has so many military bases everywhere. You don’t need to officially annex land to control it, that’s old style thinking.
This looks like Russian/Chinese propaganda or just lazily photoshopped image.
Actual map of US military bases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_installations#/media/File:American_bases_worldwide.svg
