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

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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 Considering the recent elections in Germany, they are not any better. Neither are Nederlanders.
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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.
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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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We are complicit to genocide, so we are not just stupid, we are also murderous!

Truth hurts!

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

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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.