It begins.
You think Americans were disliked in the word before? You were wrong. Now they're disliked and ridiculed. Have fun living this down for decades to come.
@VeroniqueB99 I gotta say, having been all over the world for 40+ years that Americans are not hated.
@noplasticshower Agreed (I've heard it a lot and it's a myth I could never understand) ...
@noplasticshower @VeroniqueB99 I believe β€œhated” is too strong a word. But, IMHO, not respected is closer.

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We travelled extensively too and I remember when American backpackers put/sewed Canadian flags on their backpacks.πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@Ratoncita @VeroniqueB99 I did exactly the opposite. I backpacked and eurailed all over Europe in 1987.

Had a great time. Maybe it helped that my brother (also American) spoke fluent French

@noplasticshower @VeroniqueB99 hated at a distance, loved close-up!

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Here’s a joke circulating in Germany:

What borders on stupidity?

Mexico and Canada

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It's not the end. The political will in Europe is high.
Germany brought back the draft today.
We're stepping up.
The US will transform after a great deal of pain.
@RaySF Ray, ...by all the gawds I sure hope you're right.
@VeroniqueB99
I know a large number of Americans did a shockingly stupid thing, but come on, didn’t the Germans have a little Nazi problem? We haven’t incinerated six million people - yet.

@Chipper319 "yet" = key operative word in your sentence....

But I'll tell ya, even if we never do, it'll be worse because we're suppose to be the locomotive, the good guys, the big bro, you know who keeps it all together. It'll be worse because we'll be doing it to our own people, who will die needless deaths from totally curable things we totally have the tech and knowledge to deal with but we just don't want to.

@Chipper319 @VeroniqueB99 Ask your Indigenous people what they think.
@Daveosaurus
Very true. I shouldn’t have overlooked that.
@VeroniqueB99 *laughs in Canexican and drinks good beer*

In a few months, Germany will no longer need to poke fun at the USA. We will almost certainly have our own right-wing shithole state.

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@HolyCrap lol... I hope not...but unfortunately I think that might be the case for many countries that are all going to close themselves up.
@VeroniqueB99 I expect America to not only be a pariah state, but also a pariah people
@gavinisdie πŸ‘ Afraid so... Idk if you remember that had started by the end of his 1st term...

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Well it’s true isn’t i!

@VeroniqueB99 It's so called gallows humor. I make jokes, but I'm actually absolute terrified that the US will take every free democratic nation down with them thanks to big tech social media...
@wubatz I'm with you there...

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Sadly, the leader of Alberta believes in Chemtrails, so we have our share of stupidity up here as well.

@VeroniqueB99

That joke is not "circulating in Germany". No idea who came up with that bs.

It's so lame it could be a German joke though. I give you that.

@VeroniqueB99 only if they're liberal, conservatives are doing victory laps.

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Germany is literally the last nation in the world to point fingers in this instance. AfD just getting stronger in the former communist areas too.

@VeroniqueB99 Hate to admit it but that's fair (Of course, we're not all that stupid. After all, my great-grandparents were slaves here).
@pbeacannon πŸ‘ All the poor poor people who have to bear the brunt of all the stupid people are probably excluded from this...which still leaves a whole lot....πŸ™„

@VeroniqueB99

Yes, it's funny. I'm German and didn't know it yet. We feel for you, but we also have our own problems at the moment.
The joke hits the nail on the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

Bonhoefferβ€˜s Theory of Stupidity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against s...

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@uweb yep... please do what France did and kick em to the curb... (good vid!)
@VeroniqueB99
We are a laughing stock, we can't deny it. But nearly half of our population, in the center ring, are totally unaware. Tell me that's not a problem.
@stargazersmith Very true... πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ
@VeroniqueB99 When I was in Germany after the last time Trump was elected, I got a lot of expressions of sympathy.
@gdinwiddie Same... you might not get them so much this time around...
@VeroniqueB99 Not surprised. We deserve this. Whatever sense of patriotism that I had went out the window this week. We knew better. I just hope that the rest of the sane world doesn't shun those of us over here who still fight the good fight.
@keet me neither. Nah I don't think so. I think it'll be a 'country' thing. The pull the US has is gonna be gone in 4 years.
@VeroniqueB99 So apropos for the time that Germany recognizes this. They lived through a fascist regime and so that joke that is circulating is well deserved and I agree with it πŸ’―
@VeroniqueB99 sadly ridicule is the least of the problems now
@SRDas yup
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@VeroniqueB99 Some cruel part of me feels that Americans deserve this. After all this is the sort of destruction and disfunctional government they have been foisting on countries all over the world.
@TheSaanichDaily ...actually I hadn't thought of that... 😬