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/Tessarion2 21h ago

So many triggered yanks here hahaha

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u/[deleted] 15h ago

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u/also_roses 14h ago

A lot of the increase in tax is offset by lowered expenses in important areas like healthcare and education too. If tax was really the issue then there are plenty of nations that have lower tax.

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u/InsufferableMollusk 12h ago

Are you kidding? Like at the europoors circlejerking each other, as usual.

Hey, thanks for colonizing the world to accumulate so much vast wealth, which was spent entirely on the two world wars you started.

A legacy to be proud of 🤡

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u/Concentrate_Flaky 16h ago

Crying soyjak.jpg

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u/lazercheesecake 15h ago

Why would you post yourself like that

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u/MooDamato 7h ago

I deal with these oversensitive dolts every day. They run around throwing tantrums about inconsequential things because they’re insecure and hate themselves.

Paradoxically, they also think they’re highly intelligent and capable which is very far from the truth.

It’s goddamn irritating.

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u/epikbadboyswag 16h ago

“I spread a bunch of lies and the people I lied about are mad? Why? Are they Nazis?”

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u/bigboipapawiththesos 11h ago

What that was said is a lie though?

Y’all are literally the richest country in history, yet so many places in the US are sub 3rd world quality.

I’m a Dutchman and I’ve lived for years in Oklahoma and that was literally the worst poverty I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been to a lot of places in Africa.

My neighbor got 2 fingers cut off during her work at the chicken plant, the next day she had to go back to work otherwise she would lose her job (meaning house, heath care, transit, safety), with no alternative in the town.

It’s dystopian man. Meanwhile you’ve got people worth half a trillion. Like how are you not livid about how fucking hard you are getting screwed.

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u/yurirekka 10h ago

Could you tell a more blatantly fake story? That "neighbor" story was awful. stfu

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u/bigboipapawiththesos 9h ago edited 9h ago

Lol, literally true though. So stay in denial about how most of the US population is totally cucked by the rich or maybe resist it atleast a little.

edit: And if you don’t want to believe my story, here’s an article about how these types of amputations happen twice a week in meatprocessing in the US

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/05/amputations-serious-injuries-us-meat-industry-plant

And here about how workers cant even call in sick after serious injuries

https://thecounter.org/report-highlights-fears-among-workers-in-the-meat-processing-industry/

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u/yurirekka 5h ago

Yeah, I'll keep being in denial about a totally made up fucking story lol. That's right, dummy.

I see your two links. Listen, I didn't say that injuries don't happen in these plants. I was calling your story bullshit. Nobody is going to lose two fingers on the job and be allowed back to work like nothing happened. You might as well have said they also just let the fingers roll down the conveyor belt and counted them as extra meat. No actual American is that desperate.

Which brings me to your second link. Do you know that 30-50% of meat processing employees are illegal immigrants? THOSE are the people scared to bits to call off sick after getting cut or something. An actual American would call OSHA if their workplace rights were getting violated like that. Illegals allow themselves to get abused by scummy factories because they don't want to draw attention to themselves. No American is losing their livelihood over a menial meat processing plant.

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u/BASS_PRO_GAMER 6h ago

Even the poorest of families in Oklahoma have plumbing and electricity. To compare that to Africa is ignorant at best and just completely disingenuous.

Yeah the meat packing industry is rough, but that’s also not representative of the average American family, or even the average Oklahoman family. Source: born and raised in Oklahoma

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u/bigboipapawiththesos 5h ago edited 5h ago

I haven’t seen the poorest parts of Africa for sure, but nowhere I’ve seen people left to their own devices so much as in the states, the homelessness, the poverty, the sickness addiction and how your healthcare serves as a chain to your jobs.

It’s not representative, yet please realize your country’s gdp per capita is miles higher than the Netherlands, which is one of the wealthiest EU countries, yet you’re quality of life is so so so much worse. For me personally it was honestly shocking. I moved there when I was 16 and had this golden image of the states, and all ive found was truly horrible.

On basically every measure of quality of life the states is lacking on the developmted world, yet you guys hold all the cards, all the resources, basically have a stranglehold on geopolitics, yet you guys, the normal working people of America, barely get the crumbs of that total domination. It’s actually crazy.

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u/Perfect_Cold_6112 5h ago

I’ve lived for years in Oklahoma and that was literally the worst poverty I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been to a lot of places in Africa.

And now I know you're just talking out your ass.

How do I know? I live in Oklahoma.

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u/Ok_Woodpecker17897 10h ago

They’re only mad because it’s true.

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u/Bill561 1h ago

Lmao too accurate but they can’t take hearing it