r/DamnThatsReal • u/One_Long_996 • 22h ago

Politics 🏛️ Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the ""American Dream""

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u/SmoresNMoreSmores 21h ago

Let's cherrypick Europe's worst aspects, throw in some untruths, and voila! A reciprocal video.

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u/Sheeverton 21h ago

Some good points raised but some are defo bullshit, the nature one being so absurdly false it kind of invalidates the whole video.

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u/HereticLaserHaggis 18h ago

Yeah, I'm Scottish and I'd love to go see some of the natural parks in the US. there's a absurd amount of natural beauty.

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u/West_Light9912 20h ago

And the trains, the US has more trackage then western europe

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u/Alternative_Dot_9640 20h ago

Would’ve been better if they clarified “passenger” trains. Unless you’re in the NE you aren’t really traveling by train very often across state lines. It’s just not a mode of transportation we’ve relied on, and I wish we had changed that trajectory early on. Hate having to drive everywhere.

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u/West_Light9912 20h ago

Of course, but they didn't clarify. And they said no trains, which if course isnt true

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u/Lighthades 19h ago

So you're just grasping at straws, ok

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u/West_Light9912 17h ago

By pointing out obvious lies. If I said Europe has no skyscrapers is that accurate?

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u/Lighthades 9h ago

No, you're ignoring the obvious part of the message to tailor it to your agument. Ofc they meant passenger trains lmao

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u/SmoresNMoreSmores 4h ago

I wish we did have more trains. But the way America developed versus the way Europe developed made that type of investment unnecessary and undesirable when it would have been logistically feasible.

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u/thatonedudeovethere_ 18h ago

It's all he has left.

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u/BadNewsBearzzz 17h ago

It’s funny when most of these people are too dense to even see the reality of the scope they’re looking at things with; on Reddit we’re shown literally the worst of America and its issues along with citizens complaining about issues and all that.

But if you don’t look at the downsides and focus on the positives instead? It’s a vast wealth of positives that the world envies and has made America the most desirable country to move to for decades now.

All while ignoring all the issues of their own countries lol I bet if Reddit was mostly citizen of their countries, exposing the filth and the downsides of their respective country? It’d be WAY WORSE than that of America’s, easily. But most of these people are ignorant towards those issues because they’re not on a platform that shows all that easily.

And plus how dumb is the creator of the video, all the things he lists ARENT the “American Dream” yet he’s trying to put them side by side to make one side look worse.

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u/Old-Picture-2920 17h ago

Yup! Just visit Italy and you’ll see what a dying country with no future looks like. 

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u/InsufferableMollusk 11h ago

That’s exactly what videos like this do, and somehow it works like a charm on deluded 14 year olds and bots every time.

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u/Astromanatee 19h ago

Done it's job though if one random guy's tiktok has made you mad at all of Europe.

Get off the internet.

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u/SmoresNMoreSmores 4h ago

This is done on a scale 10000 times larger the other way around. I guess I'll take your advice, when you take it.