• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Reminds me of the latest Adam Something video. Russians are raised from birth with ridiculous amounts of “Russia Fuck Yeah” that’s just pure triple distilled victory porn, and posts like that are the consequence.

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      3 months ago

      As a non-American, how is that any different from America?

      Many big countries are basically the same, with the belief that their armed forces are “the best”, with hours of pop propaganda around how their marines or special ops are the best in the world.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Well as s non american I feel it’s quite simple : the USA has an incredible potent war machine, so if their citizens think they have an incredible army, then they are more or less quite correct.

        Russians on the other hand just smokes copium and have fever dreams.

        • trolololol@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          It’s true for military stuff but false for many many things that they’d still insist is the best way to handle things. Mass shootings is an anomaly that’s completely normalized there, sometimes it’s not even worth a media footnote.

          And there’s a strange thing about shooting presidents every once in a while

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              3 months ago

              What about that is copium, mass shootings, having a wide spread poverty and political violence isnt a good thing and should be talked about and fixed

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        You’re not wrong. Americans have a lot of “America fuck yeah!” energy going on, the difference really would be that when we break from that mentality and start going “what the fuck America?” we don’t get arrested and put in jail or forcibly conscripted into a war we didn’t ask for.

      • OutsizedWalrus@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        From what I can tell, America has better access to alternative viewpoints and the ability to express them largely without fear.

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        3 months ago

        Defenetly not germany. Last few times they were like that, the world stamped it out.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, when germans are proud about their army it’s if a tank can be loaded on a semi using it’s own engine power.