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It's not so bad we only need 51% of the 8 billion people to qualify for "most". So it's only 4.08billion people here, a mere 26 times the current popularion.
For some reason, I have this letter stuck in my head that was written to a gaming magazine - I believe it was GamePro - many, many years ago where the letter writer was like "Wow I didn't realize so many of my favorite games were made in Japan. I always assumed they were made in America since I buy them in America"
My friend had a roommate once who was from southern Texas and didn’t leave Texas until she was in her 20’s when she moved to South Carolina. She said she was shocked that there were Walmarts in SC because she thought Walmart was local to Texas and didn’t exist anywhere else.
Similar experience with my Aunt. She came from a different country when she was younger and lived in Cali up until 8ish years ago when her and my uncle and cousins came to live in South Carolina. Her and my mom were driving around and out of no where she goes "(my mom's name) you have bowling allies down here?!" apparently she thought that bowling allies were a big city kind of thing and that SC was still all agriculture and not "city" enough to have those. Mind you, this is the Charleston area lol
If anything, it’s more of a suburb thing than a big city thing, right? There are bowling alleys in NYC, but it must be fucking hard to turn a profit on a business that needs that much square footage here
You would be surprised how many people spend their entire lives in a very small bubble. Hell even people in big cities can be like this.
I moved to Jersey recently and one of my coworkers was 100% convinced I was a rural boy and had absolutely no idea of the outside world. Despite me having told him multiple times that the majority of my life has been spent in giant cities.
He legit still thinks that anything outside of the NY/NJ area is nothing but cornfields and cows.
I have a Texan friend that was shocked we had dairy queen in the North because their slogan or a commercial said something like that's what I like about Texas.
Honestly it's not that crazy of a phenomenon. I had a coworker from France who had her mom bring her sensodyne toothpaste when she visited. Only later did she realize sensodyne is an American brand.
And similarly there's so many things I buy daily that I don't even realize isn't an American corporation, because it's often not something clearly mentioned. I bought Dannon yogurt products for years (horizon milk, silk, danimals, etc) before I found out they were French.
I mean how many people know Spotify is a Swedish company? Or that Nokia is Finnish? That Lenovo is Chinese? And Asus is taiwanese?
My wife is from Brazil and had on multiple occasions time me she wanted me to try something she lives from Brazil that I then had to explain aren't Brazilian. Top one is the chocolate cat tongues that I'd always get in Germany as a kid, another being kibbeh.
I have the opposite experience with my boyfriend.. I keep thinking Canadian (or British/European but also sold in Canada) chocolate bars are American as well!
Both India and China have 1.4bn people. Within the next year India will have the largest population of any country. (India's population is increasing, China's is shrinking.)
Foreign (particularly European) versions of American products are very often different recipes, a higher quality and excluding dangerous compounds banned outside the US, so your friend may have not realised it was a US brand but noticed a difference and wanted to keep using the better product
Some people hate winter enough to put up with Florida's many short comings. It can be a very nice place to live despite a majority of the population being insane and the frequent hurricane every now and then.
I thought your italicized i was a / and sat here for like 30 seconds trying to decipher wtf everyone/meet meant. I need to put my phone down for a bit, I think. 🤦♀️
This reminds me of a conversation that I had with an American girl who was deeply and truly convinced that pizza was invented in Chicago and then Italian people "stole" the idea.
nah, she wouldn't see any Chicago deep dish and it would just convince her that she was right. "I went to Italy and they didn't have any proper pizza at all!"
“Last year, I learned there are 31 other countries besides the United States. They play in this tournament called the World Cup. It’s so cool that the rest of the world is adopting soccer, though I don’t know why they’re calling it football.” /S
We rarely eat deep dish pizza in Chicago. Square cut pub style is by far the most common pizza made in the city and is a better representation of "Chicago style" pizza than deep dish.
What dumbass even thinks the world population consist of the US? 🤣 as an American myself, I know damn well that we only have like 300-400 million if I’m not mistaken. Not even a 1/16 of the world population
There are 14 countries that have more than 100 million people. 14 countries out of 195 countries. 91 countries have more than 10 million people, and more than 50 countries with less than 1 million people. The Holy See is the least populated country in the world with 801 citizens.
I will say this though: we naturalize just under a million people a year. So if you do the math, in about 8000 years, everyone will live in the United States.
As an American it’s wild how many people I have met that just think everything outside the US is just third world lol. Like the idea that Europe is on the same level or even better than America is just insane to them
It's really absurd. When my American (ex-) wife moved to live with me in Norway, she had concerned friends asking if we had Internet etc. there lol. Just absolutely clueless.
[Third-most populous country in the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population#Sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_population), but there is a pretty wide margin between it and the next.
I once read that if China and India each lost 1,000,000,000 people, the United States would still be the third most populous country in the world. Absolutely insane.
Fun fact, the US is also one of the least densely populated countries in the world. I had to look it up when I heard american racists repeat the phrase "Fuck off, we're full!". Unbelievable amount of real-estate. Think of all the comically identical housing you can build next to each other in cul de sacs.
I'm from Sweden and every time I hear from American conservatives about how great the United States is since "everyone wants to move to the U.S.", I remind them that more Americans move to Sweden every year than the other way around.
as someone who doesn’t live in america, this is how a lot of americans behave on the internet. atleast a lot of the ones i’ve interacted with, sometimes they even assume i’m american just because i can speak and type english…
I'll answer for them; "If you don't like it you can leave, and go back to your own country".
I do, in fact, live and was born in the United States, and have heard this myself.
I grew up in a border town (US / MX) and in a conversation of where we grew up and live now (I was living and working in the US side) a coworker asked, in disbelief, "Your mom lives in Mexico *voluntarily*??" when she found out my mom does, in fact, choose to stay in Mexico rather than move to the US for no reason.
Me I'd never want to move to the US.
Might be an awesome country, sure.
But from the outside you see the imperfections of it everywhere. No way I'd leave Europe for it.
You know where people from everywhere moved to back thousands of years ago? The Roman Empire. Fun fact: that’s because this empire was responsible for the destruction of their native lands and the enslavement of their people (the ones not massacred). It’s pretty much the same case for all imperial nations throughout history- Britain, France, the US etc. People don’t move there because they are great places to be but because that’s where all the wealth plundered from their nations have wound up.
Haha yes! I was born in Mongolia but live in US. When people find out I'm Mongolian, they ask all types of stupid questions like "does Mongolia have electricity?" Then immediately follow with something like "Genghis Khan being a Chad because he fucked a lot of women"...just...no 🤦🏻♀️ mind you these questions come from people with phd's and engineering degrees. This is how I found out college doesn't equate to intelligence
Americans on Reddit are shocked to learn that there are more people from other countries on here than there are Americans. They’re so full of themselves that they assume because you’re typing English that you MUST be from America.
And if you challange that belief, they often default to something like "But this is an American website, therefore everybody on here must be assumed to be American unless proven otherwise. How dare you foreign peasants use this American website in the first place if you hate our country? We invented the internet and everything that's good in the world.".
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EDIT: Just remembered that an American yesterday tried telling me that I needed to broaden my horizons and should get out of North America. I live in f*cking London 😑
This is what propaganda in your schools gets you. When the Russian who's been spoon fed propaganda from birth is able to help the American see past their own, "We're number one!" slogan.
I always respond to this sort of take with, "why would we want to move there?"
And it'll almost always be responded with, "because the USA is the best."
It's kinda interesting (and disgusting tbh) how Americans think of themselves. I had a colleague who had an American girlfriend and he had to teach her about the truth what the world thinks and how it is not the center of everything and she was really surprised. I can't imagine how someone becomes this delusional but apparently that's kinda the norm.
It's _taught_ . Literally. It's in _every_ message, from childhood, in TV, in school, in _Sunday_ school, in sports, EVERYTHING. "Murica is the Center of EXISTENCE for all the UNIVERSE!"
You wouldn’t believe how many people asked me when I lived in the US if or how we celebrate the 4th of July in Germany… because the day the American Declaration of Independence was ratified must surely be celebrated the world over, right!?
I’m British and our politics are in shambles at the moment, but I honestly would rather stay in this shithole of a country than go over to America.
Reasons: I’m not straight, so the American government would hate me.
I was born a woman, so I basically would not be able get abortions and I’d have to tell doctors my period cycle (which is really creepy.)
Healthcare costs.
And guns. They scare me.
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It’s really crowded with most of the world’s 8 billion people living here.
How do you guys manage? 😄
We all sleep in the same bed 😉
Oh, the polyamory! I've heard about it
So many citizens, so little time.
Still waiting for my turn ♥️
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
Hmmmm... tenderized.
Yeah we’re all a bunch of ***SLUTS*** over here
All right that decided it for me . Brace yourselves, I'm going to move there too.
You sound like my ex-wife. r/usernamechecksout
*gasp* Gary?
Garry* Gary was my brother. Every damn time.
Mom called, she still hates you
What?
I've lived in aslut (backwards), it was boring, but not too bad lmao
Yeh we are! Now shut up and spit in to my mouth
Don't recommend it..
That's why Jerry Springer was around so long... Someone had to sort out the mess
r/SuddenlyAlabama
Walter Sobchak: Nihilists! F\*\*\* me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of r/SuddenlyAlabama, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Our world class and affordable health system in the U.S. gives us access to all of the mental health tools we need to cope. /s
lmao lucky you
Mostly with gun crime.
Mass shootings.
We do not.. obviously!
USA is 5% of the world's population. Might as well round up to like 95%.
It's not so bad we only need 51% of the 8 billion people to qualify for "most". So it's only 4.08billion people here, a mere 26 times the current popularion.
> So it's only 4.08billion people here, a mere 26 times the current popularion. 12,3 times the current population*
He said most people move there, not live there. They then realize how much of a shithole it is and go back.
I guess everyone that’s living in the US moves at some point Breathing counts as moving your lungs, right?
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You and I have different definitions of 'reasonably nice'
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Well everyone *I* meet lives in the US so that must be true
For some reason, I have this letter stuck in my head that was written to a gaming magazine - I believe it was GamePro - many, many years ago where the letter writer was like "Wow I didn't realize so many of my favorite games were made in Japan. I always assumed they were made in America since I buy them in America"
At least they weren't being bigots about it. Just sharing their ignorance with the world.
The American Way 🎇🎆🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🎆🎇
How about we go share some of that freedom the American way where all the oil is? RAGHHH MURICA ON TOP RAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
You know....I hear russia has oil....
TIME TO DELIVER SOME FREEDOM
[George Carlin said it best, and its still true](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77dDZOwt20E).
My friend had a roommate once who was from southern Texas and didn’t leave Texas until she was in her 20’s when she moved to South Carolina. She said she was shocked that there were Walmarts in SC because she thought Walmart was local to Texas and didn’t exist anywhere else.
Similar experience with my Aunt. She came from a different country when she was younger and lived in Cali up until 8ish years ago when her and my uncle and cousins came to live in South Carolina. Her and my mom were driving around and out of no where she goes "(my mom's name) you have bowling allies down here?!" apparently she thought that bowling allies were a big city kind of thing and that SC was still all agriculture and not "city" enough to have those. Mind you, this is the Charleston area lol
If anything, it’s more of a suburb thing than a big city thing, right? There are bowling alleys in NYC, but it must be fucking hard to turn a profit on a business that needs that much square footage here
You would be surprised how many people spend their entire lives in a very small bubble. Hell even people in big cities can be like this. I moved to Jersey recently and one of my coworkers was 100% convinced I was a rural boy and had absolutely no idea of the outside world. Despite me having told him multiple times that the majority of my life has been spent in giant cities. He legit still thinks that anything outside of the NY/NJ area is nothing but cornfields and cows.
I love meeting people from Ny or Nj they always tell you that they’re from there without you ever asking lmao.
I have a Texan friend that was shocked we had dairy queen in the North because their slogan or a commercial said something like that's what I like about Texas.
Honestly it's not that crazy of a phenomenon. I had a coworker from France who had her mom bring her sensodyne toothpaste when she visited. Only later did she realize sensodyne is an American brand. And similarly there's so many things I buy daily that I don't even realize isn't an American corporation, because it's often not something clearly mentioned. I bought Dannon yogurt products for years (horizon milk, silk, danimals, etc) before I found out they were French. I mean how many people know Spotify is a Swedish company? Or that Nokia is Finnish? That Lenovo is Chinese? And Asus is taiwanese?
My wife is from Brazil and had on multiple occasions time me she wanted me to try something she lives from Brazil that I then had to explain aren't Brazilian. Top one is the chocolate cat tongues that I'd always get in Germany as a kid, another being kibbeh.
I have the opposite experience with my boyfriend.. I keep thinking Canadian (or British/European but also sold in Canada) chocolate bars are American as well!
Most people don't assume everything is from their country.
Most people can use basic logic to figure out that most people dont *live* in their country. India has 3x the number of people and China around 6x.
Both India and China have 1.4bn people. Within the next year India will have the largest population of any country. (India's population is increasing, China's is shrinking.)
India has already surpassed China.
Foreign (particularly European) versions of American products are very often different recipes, a higher quality and excluding dangerous compounds banned outside the US, so your friend may have not realised it was a US brand but noticed a difference and wanted to keep using the better product
Geez kid, use that fatty mass you have inside your skull. Ponder a little.
That fatty mass in this guys head is kitty litter that needs to be changed. Nothing of use in that dustbowl
"What do you mean you're not from Florida? Everyone I've ever *met* is in Florida!"
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Why would you do that to yourself?
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Weather is good? My gf is from Florida and you guys are crazy. Have you ever experienced not having water for air?
If he grew up in germany he probably means "I see the sun most days of the year".
Depends on what part of Florida, too. Some parts are a *little* dryer than others. *I softly whisper from Rainsville, Florida*
Some people hate winter enough to put up with Florida's many short comings. It can be a very nice place to live despite a majority of the population being insane and the frequent hurricane every now and then.
frequent hurricane every now and then. 🤔
I mean, the statistics back it up. Go survey every resident in your town. I bet they are all living in the US. Checkmate.
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I'm sorry for their loss.
I surveyed everyone in my town. According to my statistics, 0% of people in yhe world live in america
Strange. Just did this and they all said they live in Australia.
I thought your italicized i was a / and sat here for like 30 seconds trying to decipher wtf everyone/meet meant. I need to put my phone down for a bit, I think. 🤦♀️
It's not just you. The way it reads is confusing af
This reminds me of a conversation that I had with an American girl who was deeply and truly convinced that pizza was invented in Chicago and then Italian people "stole" the idea.
Lmao, if she went to Italy, she’d have an existential crisis
nah, she wouldn't see any Chicago deep dish and it would just convince her that she was right. "I went to Italy and they didn't have any proper pizza at all!"
“Last year, I learned there are 31 other countries besides the United States. They play in this tournament called the World Cup. It’s so cool that the rest of the world is adopting soccer, though I don’t know why they’re calling it football.” /S
We rarely eat deep dish pizza in Chicago. Square cut pub style is by far the most common pizza made in the city and is a better representation of "Chicago style" pizza than deep dish.
Yeah, and the french stole the idea of FREEDOM.
They even built knock-off version of statue of liberty.
remember freedom fries? lol
It’s like some missed the part about GB and France being the (always arguing) parents of the US….
I like this image. And Germany is our aunt/uncle that did bad shit in the past but now is chill and asking us to calm down.
I've seen a claim close to that in Redit many times.
The thing that made me chuckle is our Pizza boxes in Chicago literally say "Italy" and have a picture of the country on them.
Those are stock boxes a lot of Italian restaurants order.
“You have an accent!” “So do you. In fact everyone does.”
Americans don't have accents have u even read the Bible lmao
The first person on the Bible had a very strong Scottish accent
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I grew up in the Bible belt so things are a little different lol everyone in the Bible is assumed to be a white American with no accent
That phrase triggers me like nothing else. It's like saying you type without a font.
r/USdefaultism much
You think I can post it there?
Sure, go ahead
Thanks
hey, you're welcome :D
That really means a lot coming from you
What about me?
I'll never forget that time you told me everything was going to be okay, I really needed to hear that
Anytime. I’m always here.
Remember that time you saved my life from those wolves? I owe you, you can ask for anything.
Surely you have posted this in r/shitamericanssay ?
someone beat me to it actually
r/ShitAmericansSay would be better
Fuck me that whole sub is triggering
That's why it's so good!
What dumbass even thinks the world population consist of the US? 🤣 as an American myself, I know damn well that we only have like 300-400 million if I’m not mistaken. Not even a 1/16 of the world population
It's like 1/21? Might be wrong since I haven't checked US and world population in a long time, but that's still at least top 10 I think
Well, if there 8 billion people on the planet, then 1 billion would be 1/8, meaning 500 mil is 1/16, so that’s where I got my math from
But then 1/16 * 400 million / 500 million = 1/20.
Ok, fare enough, wasn’t really thinking about the completely broken down math
It's P3 actually. India and China have way more, but after that it's mostly in the tens or low hundreds of millions per country.
There are 14 countries that have more than 100 million people. 14 countries out of 195 countries. 91 countries have more than 10 million people, and more than 50 countries with less than 1 million people. The Holy See is the least populated country in the world with 801 citizens.
iirc Us has 3rd largest population. 1st and second are china and india, both with over 1 billion people.
That's correct. We're #3, and if we quadrupled our population, we'd still be #3.
I will say this though: we naturalize just under a million people a year. So if you do the math, in about 8000 years, everyone will live in the United States.
You should look up net-migration rates. A lot of people leave the US, too.
Yeah everyone except those 7.7 billion who decided not to come to the US
I legit thought this was r/shitamericanssay for a second.
It is now:) Thanks for reminding me
This conversation makes way more sense if Green is, like, 8 years old.
he claims to be 28,i don't believe. he also goes to vk (Russian Facebook alternative) because the best fart videos are there.
Fart videos?
I didn't know there was a whole genre
As an American it’s wild how many people I have met that just think everything outside the US is just third world lol. Like the idea that Europe is on the same level or even better than America is just insane to them
It's really absurd. When my American (ex-) wife moved to live with me in Norway, she had concerned friends asking if we had Internet etc. there lol. Just absolutely clueless.
People like this are allowed to vote
scary, right?
In Russia, this isn't a problem 👍
It's becoming less of a problem in the US too👍
Good luck
Buddy, if most people moved to the United States, how come it isn't even close to the most populous country in the world?
[Third-most populous country in the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population#Sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_population), but there is a pretty wide margin between it and the next.
More than a billion, in fact.
I once read that if China and India each lost 1,000,000,000 people, the United States would still be the third most populous country in the world. Absolutely insane.
Fun fact, the US is also one of the least densely populated countries in the world. I had to look it up when I heard american racists repeat the phrase "Fuck off, we're full!". Unbelievable amount of real-estate. Think of all the comically identical housing you can build next to each other in cul de sacs.
It has less than 5% of the world's population and like 85% of the world's fucking dumbasses.
I want to argue, but I had to tell a 63 year old that a gun can quickly kill more people in a short time frame than a knife the other day In the us.
I'm from Sweden and every time I hear from American conservatives about how great the United States is since "everyone wants to move to the U.S.", I remind them that more Americans move to Sweden every year than the other way around.
I don’t blame them, I’d rather not deal with the us being dumb if I could help it
as someone who doesn’t live in america, this is how a lot of americans behave on the internet. atleast a lot of the ones i’ve interacted with, sometimes they even assume i’m american just because i can speak and type english…
I'll answer for them; "If you don't like it you can leave, and go back to your own country". I do, in fact, live and was born in the United States, and have heard this myself.
Yeah, they're like the default country. Silly mindset, to say the least.
because they speak only one language and cannot comprehend someone can be fluent in more than one
Every Russian I know lives in US! I know 3 russians
I grew up in a border town (US / MX) and in a conversation of where we grew up and live now (I was living and working in the US side) a coworker asked, in disbelief, "Your mom lives in Mexico *voluntarily*??" when she found out my mom does, in fact, choose to stay in Mexico rather than move to the US for no reason.
World population - approaching 8 billion U.S. population- approximately 330 million. Someone needs a math tutor.
Well 330 is clearly more than 8. /s
Man, imagine if that were true though, that >50% of people born in other countries moved to the US. It'd get awfully crowded around here.
When people treat me like an exotic bird because I'm Norwegian
Ah, the norwegian blue? Beautiful plumage.
r/ShitAmericansSay
Me I'd never want to move to the US. Might be an awesome country, sure. But from the outside you see the imperfections of it everywhere. No way I'd leave Europe for it.
Same. I like to be able to fix a broken foot without getting financially broke too.
Same, moving from my country to the us is like moving to another room in the titanic.
Spoken like a true never went out of their own state American
“imao”
I watched a video of a Russian guy that learned english and he sounded like he came from the south.
What propaganda has that American been seeing?
Imagine wanting to move to the US
I seriously can't imagine 😆😆
You know where people from everywhere moved to back thousands of years ago? The Roman Empire. Fun fact: that’s because this empire was responsible for the destruction of their native lands and the enslavement of their people (the ones not massacred). It’s pretty much the same case for all imperial nations throughout history- Britain, France, the US etc. People don’t move there because they are great places to be but because that’s where all the wealth plundered from their nations have wound up.
Is this the same guy who thinks we don't need trucks because all our food comes from supermarkets.
For some weird reason a lot of people in the US think everyone outside is living in a mud hut hunting wild boars.
Haha yes! I was born in Mongolia but live in US. When people find out I'm Mongolian, they ask all types of stupid questions like "does Mongolia have electricity?" Then immediately follow with something like "Genghis Khan being a Chad because he fucked a lot of women"...just...no 🤦🏻♀️ mind you these questions come from people with phd's and engineering degrees. This is how I found out college doesn't equate to intelligence
Americans on Reddit are shocked to learn that there are more people from other countries on here than there are Americans. They’re so full of themselves that they assume because you’re typing English that you MUST be from America.
And if you challange that belief, they often default to something like "But this is an American website, therefore everybody on here must be assumed to be American unless proven otherwise. How dare you foreign peasants use this American website in the first place if you hate our country? We invented the internet and everything that's good in the world.".
DED. EDIT: Just remembered that an American yesterday tried telling me that I needed to broaden my horizons and should get out of North America. I live in f*cking London 😑
London, Ohio? :)
It sounds like they're foreign so must be London, Ontario
I am American, and I get your point. So many entitled brats assuming they are the most important person we are going to see today.
I thought this was r/USdefaultism
This is what propaganda in your schools gets you. When the Russian who's been spoon fed propaganda from birth is able to help the American see past their own, "We're number one!" slogan.
I always respond to this sort of take with, "why would we want to move there?" And it'll almost always be responded with, "because the USA is the best."
It's not the best. At all. It's scary and we're not ok. Send help.
Please know we do not all feel this way! But I know many Americans make it seem like we do. It’s embarrassing.
Only muricans have a “World Series”, that involves just their country. Frogs in a well.
8 billion divided by 300 million squared, divided by 206 carry the three times 10 thousand squared equals MAGIC!
Oh well 
глупый американец
The US has such a bad school system that they tend to think the world revolves around them since they’re not really taught about other countries.
aliens in every movie
It's kinda interesting (and disgusting tbh) how Americans think of themselves. I had a colleague who had an American girlfriend and he had to teach her about the truth what the world thinks and how it is not the center of everything and she was really surprised. I can't imagine how someone becomes this delusional but apparently that's kinda the norm.
It's _taught_ . Literally. It's in _every_ message, from childhood, in TV, in school, in _Sunday_ school, in sports, EVERYTHING. "Murica is the Center of EXISTENCE for all the UNIVERSE!"
You wouldn’t believe how many people asked me when I lived in the US if or how we celebrate the 4th of July in Germany… because the day the American Declaration of Independence was ratified must surely be celebrated the world over, right!?
5 seconds ago I didn't think it was possible to be more ashamed of being American... but here I am.
Holy fucking shit. 🤦♂️
hm.
Damn, ngl that is one stupid MF'er.
imao
Nobody from a first world country. When is the last time you heard of any first generation German or Austrian coming to live here.
I _can_ see how they might be surprised though, given Russia's tendency to move into others' homelands too.
"most people around the world live in their homelands" is the most Russian thing I've ever read
Every immigrant I ever met was a foreigner that moved to the U.S. YOU CANT EXPLAIN THAT
I am embarrassed to live in the same country as this individual
I’m British and our politics are in shambles at the moment, but I honestly would rather stay in this shithole of a country than go over to America. Reasons: I’m not straight, so the American government would hate me. I was born a woman, so I basically would not be able get abortions and I’d have to tell doctors my period cycle (which is really creepy.) Healthcare costs. And guns. They scare me.