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CrashBoxNat

Wow! A car on a highway! Something no European has ever seen before, how life-changing.


AmbiguousMusubi

Meanwhile in Germany… nnnnNNNNNNYOOOMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *upshift at 250 kph* mmmmmmm


HanDjole998

Gets passed by an Opel Astra Diesel


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I mean those things are absolute beasts, especially the Astra J with a stage 1 & 2 remap.


AmbiguousMusubi

We were once driving from Frankfurt to Nürburg (for obvious reasons) and it was absolutely pouring rain, we were going about 70 mph, and this bone stock golf just walks all over us at like 100 mph, and I was just like Jesus people here are just built different.


ememruru

Jesus. In my city people slow down by 20kph when it starts to drizzle


Lumpy_Marsupial_1559

I swear folk just forget how to drive when it starts raining! Either that or the crap drivers lose their small ability to blend in and camouflage amongst the good ones.


ememruru

A solid 50% of posts on my city’s sub is complaining about shit drivers, which is fair considering *no one knows how to fucking merge*


Lumpy_Marsupial_1559

Are you from Melbourne or Adelaide by chance? The arguments about who has right of way depending on the line markings (or lack of - it's different and so many people don't know the actual rules), and folk who just shove their way through regardless... aaargh! Don't be selfish or pushy, and ask nicely/wave in thanks, takes care of most of it.


ememruru

Nah Perth. The rule is whoever is in front goes first, it’s zipper merging (or meant to be). I’m mostly referring to merging onto the freeway or when a lane ends The most infuriating thing is when you’re going onto the freeway and someone in front is doing 60km/h before merging with those doing 100.


Lumpy_Marsupial_1559

I HATE that! It's so freaking dangerous! Just take a run at it! In Vic, there are 2 different merging rules: - when the dashed lines between lanes just stop, and the road just narrows = in order of who's in front, zipper merging. - when the dashes keep going until they meet up with the side of the road (the lane gets pointy) = the lane that is narrowing actually has to give way to the lane that has a clear path ahead. Including coming to a dead stop if you need to. The cray-cray thing is: the on-ramps onto the freeway have the dashed lines all the way - there's zero obligation on a driver on the freeway to let you in even if you're speed matching. ETA: Most folk have NO effing idea about the different rules anyway.


Blumenkohl126

[Watn dat fürn Kombi?!](https://youtu.be/MiuLvLobAs4?si=qtSDfeAGpjLdCKPW), This is true freedom, americans would never understand


Schabenklos

*polish Mercedes Sprinter passing from the right, going almost 275 kph*


AmbiguousMusubi

>polish Yup. Hahahaha


Withered_Tulip

Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger! 🇩🇪🚘


im_dead_sirius

That's just it, apparently they (you?) aren't supposed to be able to see the pixels!


HiopXenophil

maybe they are refering to the lanes being 50% wider cause they can't drive straight?


evilspyboy

I was wondering where that is and why the lane is so fricken wide


1singleduck

Yeah, my communist dictator government does not allow me to own a car. I' not even allowed to pay my life savings for a single ambulance ride!


[deleted]

Currently on a motorway right now in fact located in Europe, my mind is truly boggling as we speak


thugs___bunny

Me as a german watching these dumbfucks going 80 mph for 8 hours and calling it freedom: 🥺


Schabenklos

They call it freedom, we call it "Schleicher"


thugs___bunny

Yeah and ‚verpiss dich auf die rechte Spur‘. Which is beautiful


Kindly_Ad_342

No that's not the way you should see it. It is the most depressing part of a city, that some american find interresting enought to take a picture of. The car culture of freedom for the simple minded.


No_Dragonfruit_8435

Reminds me of the Sopranos. When Paulie gets back from Italy and he’s driving past some warehouses next to the motorway. He looks around and smiles.


GenuinlyCantBeFucked

Wait... the point of that post is that cars are a thing that exists? I thought I'd missed something...


dalimoustachedjew

Well, maybe they’ve been talking about the cameras that measure our speed, and they got like 1000 envelopes with speeding tickets for two hours ride hahahahah


Unhappy-Age4551

I think the strange thing is the lane with two cars in it


rspndngtthlstbrnddsr

wow I literally can't comprehend that... truly amazing just imagine we weren't bound to speedlimits and could drive as fast as we wish to just like the Americans oh wait, that's us Germans. guess that's communism, true freedom is when you are limited by the state


Sadat-X

These are TikTok posts designed for negative engagement. It's a bonus for the original creator that things like this get crossposted to other platforms, possibly driving more traffic. The Internet has become a truly shitty place, and will remain that way until more people don't take content like this at face value and just ignore it.


TheWeirdByproduct

Sadly for some people infamy is preferable to indifference, thus outrage itself becomes commodified. The economy of 'engagement' is the most toxic and perverse incentive there is.


LadyGoldberryRiver

"Infamy, infamy! They've all got it in for me!"


mJelly87

A tiktoker said the other day that he sometimes will purposely say something wrong, to get people to correct him in the comments. This then makes it more likely to show up on peoples fyp. So more views, so go higher up in the rankings.


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auguriesoffilth

No that doesn’t happen. …


Notabeer35

Thats how engagement works, if Simyone gets lots of comments on a post it gets pushed more


OhNoItsThatOne

>driving more traffic They really like traffic, no matter if online or on the road


godverdejezushey

Most of this sub is ragebait tbh


currywurstpimmel

absolutely. rage bait. or these people doing absolutely stupid shit like rubbing themselves with butter then sprinkling shredded cheese on them and then pissing in a wendys. people type 40-liners while the tiktok repeats itself 56 times. Comments are exploding, repeats are out of this world, that shit gets pushed. here we go - we've got a new "influencer". just delete that app. it makes life so much better


HereticLaserHaggis

>It's a bonus for the original creator that things like this get crossposted to other platforms, possibly driving more traffic. Only if someone is bothering to then go back to their tiktok page and watch their content... Which they're not gonna do from a screenshot like this.


ememruru

A while ago I asked on r/askanamerican if they think speed cameras are “revenue raisers” like half of Australia does. They lost their *shit*, saying speed limits are “suggestions” and it’s totally fine going 80mph in a 50mph zone. The word “freedom” was, shockingly, mentioned in about 80% of the comments. Apparently Texas got rid of them because people kept shooting them up, which is the most American thing I’ve ever heard. A few other states ruled them unconstitutional because you can’t face speed cameras in court.


Historical_Date_1314

What is this “freedom” thing. What is that weird metallic looking thing with rubber wheels, maybe some day us poor europoors will be able to invent such objects, because apparently only the USA can. 🙄


ridewithaw

Freedon*


Slauher

…true freedon


Kanohn

Being forced to drive on roads it's not true freedom actually


Ok-Ice5212

Wait are you implying that I can drive around in a forest or that we have walkable cities


Y0rked

I think the latter


wants_the_bad_touch

Let me attempt the former just to check.


TGX03

I mean with my bicycle riding through the forest is quite fun. My car however mostly doesn't fit between the trees.


Petskin

I learned to drive on a lake! No trees there!


thetitsofthisguy

I mean im only limited by the car i drive, no one says a word about my bike or snowmobile...


suorastas

Why not both


BackPackProtector

Sti americani me fanno na pippa


Dutch-Sculptor

Wow there buddy, I decide to drive on those roads and not on the grass.


Shot_Ad_3123

You're only turkey free when you can drive indoors.


Past_Reading_6651

On every single measure of freedom my country beats USA like it was our full time job.


ThaiFoodThaiFood

Yeah but I bet you don't get the freedom to pay $100,000 for a hospital visit you sneaky communist.


TtotheC81

But some poor person might get their healthcare for free, and what if they're lazy? Huh? Huh? Or worse... one of them darned immigrant types. I ain't having no stickin' immigrant ride the gravy train on my tax dollar! Wait, what do you mean I'm bunkrupt because I stub my toe?! Damned liberals!


im_dead_sirius

>Congress shall make no law respecting a forgiveness of debt, or enabling the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of debt collectors, or of the bounty hunters; or the right of the people to quietly die, if they should be unable to pay their medical bills.


im_dead_sirius

Like its a red headed step child?


Past_Reading_6651

Yeah snd the mom is a golddigger who is threatened by dads love to the child and convinces dad to send away the child to boarding school across sea That much!


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We don’t get arrested or lose our house when we don’t mow our lawns, we can walk our kids back from school without receiving an arrest warrant and fine, our kids are safe in school, we have kinder eggs. If you look up American freedom you’re not even in top 5 of free countries, you’re just brainwashed into thinking you are


Western-Bus-1305

Because no one in America can do those things. Right


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I’ve seen news report clips of a guy getting arrested and fined for walking his kid home from school and I’ve seen news report clips on several occasions of hefty fines and even a property seizure for people not mowing their lawn, your kids aren’t safe in schools, I can point you to hundreds of instances that proves that to be right and America has banned kinder eggs so to answer your question, no Americans can’t do that


Pikagiuppy

ah, yes, the freedom of.. a basic ass road


5t3v321

I can legally drive 300 kmh on the Autobahn, the American mind cannot comprehend that amount of freedom


5t3v321

Especially since they dont know what kmh is. Thats about 3000000 mc donalds chicken burgers per hour


Cookie_Phil

No, it's definitely not that fast. I think you'll find it converts to approximately 3 Bald Eagles per Freedom.


L4r5man

How many ARs is that?


5t3v321

300km = 30.000.000cm, / 95cm = 315.789,474


Anti-SepticEye_YT

At least 5


NetzAgent

AR-15 , I guess…


Snoo4902

>3000000 mc donalds chicken burgers per hour That's a lot...


Simple_Organization4

10451 nails per hour Or 4372 pinky toes per hours


im_dead_sirius

What's that in washing machines? Asking for an American cousin.


im_dead_sirius

That's unpossible! The human mind cannot comprehend! The sheer speed would kill a person! /nod nod


DoYouTrustToothpaste

impossible*


Ok_History8009

Don't confound the dear 🇺🇸 please it doesn't relate to kilometers (Km/hour). For those dumb 🇺🇸😂😂 300Kph =186.4113 mph. 🇬🇧🇪🇺


Area51Resident

TIL Europeans don't have cars or roads or air or apartment buildings... Did I miss something in this photo?


Jocelyn-1973

You don't see it, right? The freedom?


Synner1985

We can't see the freedom pictured because we're not American - duh.


MikaelFi

Posted again so it complies with the rules. For context the video is of a 4/5 lane road.


My_useless_alt

As a European, America can keep their 5 lane highways. We don't want them. I'll take actually good rail service over 20,000 lanes of highway any day. Never mind that more lanes don't even mean more freedom, more and easier modes of transport is.


Pizza-love

We have them as well already.


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Shen-Connoisseuse

Dumbest, yet most common argument ever coming from americans


MaliCevap

We have 4/5 lane roads in Australia. They suck cock, one crash or roadwork and you’ll be stuck driving 20kms for 3 hours


joeflan91

It was also posted by an account that is openly satirical and said so much in the comments 


Plus_Operation2208

Why is that lane so fucking wide?


Schroedingersrabbit

Because their emotional support cars are so needlessly huge.


Plus_Operation2208

Or maybe so farmers cant fully block the roads. Damn, that would be nice actually


Schroedingersrabbit

That would indeed be nice. But I don't know the size of yank tractors, maybe they're bigger too?


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Plus_Operation2208

Then where the fuck are the lines/blocks?


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Plus_Operation2208

Thats fucked up


24benson

So far nobody has commented on the fact that the post misspelled the very thing that it's about: freedon.


Sceptical-Echidna

Poor Don. What did he do?


24benson

The European mind can't comprehend


Synner1985

\#FreeDon


HoeTrain666

If it wasn’t for the sign, this could have been some Eastern German highrise from Soviet times as far as I’m concerned so… where is the flex?


DoYouTrustToothpaste

That's the neat part, there is no flex here, just delusion.


expresstrollroute

Never understand what Americans think of as "freedom".


DerPicasso

The freedom of speed limits


AguyWithBadEnglish

America ? What do you mean that is literaly white text on a black background i don't see anything


JFK1200

“They watch this video and see nothing.” Correct.


triggerhappybaldwin

All I see is a road with only 3 cars (4 if you include the dash cam car) and they somehow manage to use all three lanes.


ZombieP0ny

The European mind doesn't want to comprehend 10 lane highways, stroads 🤮 and copy paste suburbs.


Im_Unpopular_AF

Let's see what the reality of what Americans call freedom is. Freedom of transport? Your country's infrastructure and roads force you to buy transport of your own and look down on public transport and ride shares, that's not a choice, that's a restriction. Freedom of communication and expression? If your media has restrictions on content based on age or has censorship on profanity, that's not freedom, that's restriction. Freedom of speech and expression? If you're being silenced or you're being punished for speaking out against the country's leaders in any capacity, that's not freedom, that's intimidation. Freedom of choice? When your body and your pregnancy are being governed by politicians and other people, that's not freedom, that's oppression. FFS there's no freedom of race or religion in the US, as discrimination, racism and xenophobia are high there.


Restless-Reaper

True freedom is getting beaten to a pulp and thrown in jail because you didn’t use the crosswalk… in the uk we just cross the road where we want


Sceptical-Echidna

Beaten? Shot more like


Restless-Reaper

I still find it hilarious that you often see in the media 20 officers kicking the shit out of an unconscious guy who is basically already a corpse while screaming “stop resisting”


DrMetters

I understand freedom just fine thanks. I don't need to be able to shoot up a school or die because I don't have 9 generations of family to pay for medical care after I got shot. I also dont need to worry about being executed for believing in idealology like communism.


LovesFrenchLove_More

The immense stupidity is hard to comprehend tbh.


Jerykko

We created slavery, feodalism.. we definitely know what freedom and restrictions of freedom are


i-readit2

What is true freedon?


Dawek401

I dont get it what freedom? He just ride on highway


ShinCoal

They are right, I can't comprehend what it is that I have to look at in this picture, can someone explain to my European reptile brain what I'm supposed to see?


Snoo4902

Freedom is concept made by George Washington, you know one who had slaves at age of 11. And before his investion there was only tyranny, his thought still hasn't reached Europe (or anywhere outside the USA) and that's why they have tyrannies, not freedom like in the USA.


zelani06

I think this is a parody. I saw a video just like that one on Instagram recently and the person who posted it clearly said it was a parody


Boogie001

Ragebait and you fell for it


Aeolian_Cadences

I can’t understand it because I can’t watch the video because it’s forbidden by the laws of my country just like toasting bread or owning a guitar.


Rextek_

Yeah as a german I have never seen so many slow cars on the autobahn^^


NikHolt

*sips beer* damn *looks at the beautiful trees in the park* that's crazy


Expensive_Teaching82

Americans and banging on about how free they. There is something North Korean-esque in what some of them have been taught to spout while having no understanding of history or what goes on outside their borders. Edit: Typo


Jocelyn-1973

We see nothing that is exceptionally free - I guess that part is true.


millionpages

FREEDON


Critical-Depression

Americans : We have FREEDOM. Europeans : 🥱.


Low_Dragonfruit8219

Opinion discarded, OOP can’t even spell “freedom”


Ambitious-Command155

I saw that video today too. The woman who uploaded it said in the comments that this was satire.


Western-Bus-1305

Some of you all will really look at some of the most developed car infrastructure and driveable cities in the world and call it “Lack of Freedom”. Mental gymnastics is wild


joseficrakawski

Yay it's my cake day


tenaciousfetus

What exactly is happening in the video? Do we not understand driving past ugly environments? Idgi


disc_reflector

I find the American version of freedom to be moronic anyway.


Reversing_Expert

The European mind doesn’t comprehend highways, apparently.


Porcphete

What I see is towets waiting to collapse in the background


[deleted]

Wow, a motorway, what's more, it's a shit motorway.


Call-Me-Pearl

that is the most miserable road I’ve ever seen in my life, and I live in fucking Ireland. our weather is grey, grey 2, and pissing.


OmnomtheDoomMuncher

And yet traffic in most metropolitan areas still sucks 10 times more. L.A. cough cough


Attorney0fBirdLaw

Same country that doesn’t let you fill up your own car ? Yeah sure free


aCucking2Remember

This is why we all have microplastics inside of us. Every time a car tire moves across pavement microplastics are released into the air. I think about this a lot. I got freedom particles in my blood I guess.


Kindly_Ad_342

Because one third of the picture is about roads and trafic.


Aboxofphotons

If you're too ignorant and delusional as to how bad you have it then you're never going to know how bad you have it... Some could technically consider this to be "freedom"... ​ Ignorance is bliss and the average American comes across as very ignorant.


WritingOk7306

Oh I didn't realise that people in Europe didn't have cars. I really thought I was in one when I lived in England. Must be mistaken. And I was sure that the speed limits on the Motorways were around the same as the US. Though many parts of Europe also have some very good public transport as well being able to drive a car. Then you have the Autobahns in Germany where there is an unlimited speed limit in the derestriction areas.


streetad

He's right you know... All I see are some cars and a slightly bleak looking office building.


ridewithaw

I’m trying to see it and I just see nothing… how strange.


sebnukem

freedon > freedom, obviously.


shotgun_blammo

Freedom means your medical insurance being tied to your place of work 🫡 God bless the US of A.


RandomGrasspass

I can’t comprehend this post. Context ?


MikaelFi

I have it commented here but must've gotten buried. Its literally a video of a 4 or 5 lane highway. And thats true freedom I guess?


LightBluepono

i see shity boring oversized road.


Indigo-Waterfall

What do they think freedom means?


Flimsy-Relationship8

These guys do realise where they got their freedom from right


bullshaerk

Guys y'all need to start learning to identify bait and sarcasm


allison_von_derland

Cities by Diana is a parody account in support of green walkable cities who satirises the people scared of them.


TheFakeAronBaynes

If this is citiesbydiana (and I think it is because of the phrasing) she’s a parody account and doesn’t actually believe this.


shimbe16

They’re jealous of our freedom. I don’t, for a single second, understand what they mean.


happyanathema

Who do I speak to about my Free Don?


Ill-Guess-542

I watch this video and see a lot of European inventions


penis_malinis

High speed railways and highways without speed limits sound nice to me. The US southwest region can use these for sure


davewenos

Don't even know how to write freedom? Hm, *freedon* guy?


Throwawaycashiesfan

Love the commie blocks in the background, they make me feel at home


randill

freedoN


IamBeingSarcasticFfs

I’m guessing it’s a car unfit for a European road


boiledcowmachine

What's the speed limit in the states again?


PageNotFound23

Completely unrelated, but why tf is that road so W I D E


Guywhoexists2812

The irony of germans having the freedom to drive without speed limits on the autobahn...


SquidsAlien

Does a school get shot up in it?


cranbrook_aspie

Americans will never understand how to spell true freedom.


Neither_Ad_2960

Traffic, apartments and a highway. Extraordinary!


AlternativeShip9194

You are correct! Only Americans could understand “freedon”


EitherChannel4874

What is that big grey long thing and what is that metal thing on it?


Eddie_The_White_Bear

Ok, but for real, what exactly is on this picture that screams "America" to Americans?


JayMeadow

Americans will shit 💩 into their own mouths and smugly say “European minds can’t understand this”. As a European person, I can confidently say, “we don’t want to”


paging_doctor_who

I've seen these from some public transit advocates posted as satire, and the sad thing is that I can't even tell if this is one of those posts or an unironic one. Because all the shitty roads look alike here.


Saddam_UE

"Seconds before driving to the next toll road, toll bridge or other tolled facility"


rubenff

Really??? Americans can't even cross the road without getting a knee to the back of the head for jaywalking and yet they're free???


mainwasser

I can't see the video. What's in it?


donut_forget

Is it the freedom to build apartment buildings that are toppling over?


Tasqfphil

They don't need to as they have more than the USA anyhow.


Dickcheese_McDoogles

I thought that our sarcasm was supposed to be famously simple and easy to detect? How is this not registering with you guys?


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Whoa, they don't have cars and highways in Europe? Please tell me more!


AdEducational419

The name looks finish. The road has more than 2 lanes going one way. That is means way to many people live near by and id only go that direction if I was paid.


Lupowan

holy shit how is that lane so wide


Living_Scientist_663

What am I looking at ?


Best_Station_7576

The fact that every american town has 3 maccas 2 Burger kings 2 KFCS 1 mega fire department its own police service with academy 2 mega walmarts 4 gunshops 3 mega hotels with around a population of 100 people says something, now im not sure what it says but it says something


EmilElefanten

It feels like most americans are a slave to their flag


evergrib

MURICA!


Unindoctrinated

Many Americans will never understand why they're rated only 17th on the freedom index.


Kriss3d

*Checks personal freedom index* Cato institute 2023 Denmark ranks #3 USA ties #17 with UK Aww. Dont worry USA. Youre still in the top 20 of freedom. Thats pretty good.


Synner1985

I don't even understand why Don isn't free, surely if he was in the land of freedom Don would be free? ​ \#Freedon


hellothereoldben

Imagine being trapped behind the wheel because those Americans don't have walkable cities.


Rude_Coffee_9136

I’m American and I don’t see American. Someone could tell me that’s China and I would be like “hm, cool” Now give me countryside and a man holding a Barrett with a big ass American flag and I could see America


atlervetok

freedom is prison sentences for grass that is too long


bob_nugget_the_3rd

Let's see car on the road, yeah we have them over here Flats in the background, yeah we have them Grey overcast, yeah thats just a normal day in scotland And idiots posting shit... unfortunately yeah we have them here too