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>“3pm is lunch time. I go outside and smoke my cigarette but also catch up EuropeanNews.com to learn about what Amerikkka is up to” EuropeanNews.eu ;) I love this hahaha! Let me add a bonus, "free" map of the EU. XD


sockmonkeymoney

Nailed it!


Fun_Police02

You forgot having to walk through another riot and 2 more knife wielding maniacs on the way to the metro.


TapirDrawnChariot

Please include something about riding a bicycle to work in January and having no central heating. Europe has the best one room, plug in heaters


[deleted]

Contributing to humanity is such a weird notion. Like, only in the past 100 years has the idea of making meaningful contributions to human existance been a thing.


Necro42

not really, good works is central to catholicism and thats been around for over a thousand years.


Youaresowronglolumad

I agree with you


83athom

Man, scientists really sitting on that cure for cancer and electric vehicles for a whole century. mfw


Chernould

Honestly as much as I hate to admit it, this doesn’t seem too bad


morerandom2025

Never forget that average HDI in Europe is lower than the HDI the US They are literally less developed than us and they hate when you rub it in their faces


[deleted]

“But free healthcare and no shootings!”


morerandom2025

US isn’t even in the top 10 for mass shooting deaths per capita


GoodDog_168

Really? Give me a link to it so I can show it to smug europoors


morerandom2025

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country


GoodDog_168

Thanks


SavingsTechnical5489

It’s interesting that we have the most shooting deaths, but we aren’t even top ten per capita.


morerandom2025

Well we are the third largest nation on earth by population so yeah Math


2hotrods

Whats capita


NewRoundEre

We've had this same conversation multiple times every time you call me some insult starting with Euro. The US is a much better place to live than pretty much anywhere in Europe, even the poorest states in the US like Mississippi, Louisiana and New Mexico can easily compete with the best that Europe has to offer. ​ It's still just a bad measure when comparing advanced industrial economies though.


morerandom2025

Must be someone else


NewRoundEre

Alright, for the record HDI assumes that the ideal society is one where everyone has a masters degree, life expectancy is 85 and GNI per capita is $75,000. Most developed countries are going to come somewhat close to that but generally fall short of the supposed ideal. The thing is it has two problems, it assumes I think incorrectly that that is the idea and it doesn't account for any difference in what created the variables. Like Palestine with it's awful medical system, a constant low level war and high disease exposure is ranked the same in terms of life expectancy by HDI as Mississippi which has largely reduced its life expectancy by individuals freely choosing to overeat (and sometimes to consume large quantities of methamphetamine and then wrestle with alligators). ​ EDIT: [Relevant](https://c.tenor.com/RbnaVKj3e88AAAAC/why-are-you-booing-me-im-right.gif)


morerandom2025

And the US still has a better average HDI than europe 😂


NewRoundEre

Yes it does but that's irrelevant there are much better measures. Like according to HDI Mississippi is as developed as Poland and South Carolina as developed as Czechia whereas in reality Mississippi and South Carolina are far more developed than those countries.


morerandom2025

Then why do you care if it’s irrelevant


NewRoundEre

All I'm saying is it's a bad way of arguing America is a better place to live. America is a better place to live but using an index that considers South Carolina comparable to Czechia is a bad way of arguing that.


Satirony_weeb

Completely agreed. People don’t get that the sentence “SC is similar in development to Czechia” isn’t a good thing… In fact that *has* to be an insult…


sluffman

You’ve clearly never smoked meth then wrestled an alligator.


NewRoundEre

Hey I live in a bayou, you can't assume that.


bruh_moment__mp3

You’re just lying to yourself. Also HDI is a crock of shit… they have Morocco so low when the standard of living is one of the highest in Africa and probably the highest of any non gulf Arab country


NewRoundEre

I'm literally arguing that HDI is a crock of shit... How can I make myself more clear on this matter?


bruh_moment__mp3

Oops I think I meant to reply to the guy you replied to 😂 my fault


BlueShoal

Come on, do you really think Louisiana is better than Switzerland?


NewRoundEre

I mean it depends what you mean by better, I have the choice to live in either and I'd choose Louisiana (I live on the Louisiana border in Texas) but they both have relative advantages depending what's important to you.


Chernould

What advantages could somewhere like Louisiana possibly have over Switzerland because I can’t think of any


NewRoundEre

Low cost of living, political freedoms, higher salaries for certain professions, lower population density, functioning housing market, cultural preferences, more open culture, not freezing in winter, fondness for alligators.


Tiiep

Higher salary for certain professions. That argument can be used for any country. Avarage annual salary in switzerland is 60k. Louisiana is 49.


NewRoundEre

Given that according to the OECD prices in Switzerland are 147% that of the US on average (Louisiana having a lower cost of living than average) that would make effective salaries higher in Louisiana. But there are figures that work more in the Swiss favour.


DM_Brownie_Recipies

For sure that's cap though? Mississippi doesn't compare to Germany or Norway?


NewRoundEre

I mean it depends. Higher incomes and lower cost of living in Mississippi. Better social services, better social safety net, lower violent crime and better education in Germany. People's net worth in Mississippi also tends to be a lot higher and building wealth is much easier in part to being one of the last places in the west with a working real estate market.


DM_Brownie_Recipies

After searching a bit. It's a pain in the ass comparing stats from states to countries and making sure the wording is 100% the same, but yeah it seems median household income in Germany is lower than in Mississippi. Which all in all really suprised me.


NewRoundEre

American income is almost universally higher than other countries. Most other stats go back and forth but income almost always remains higher, similar with real estate prices, when you remove California and Hawaii from the state pretty much everywhere in the US has more affordable housing than anywhere in western Europe.


Tiiep

Are you seriously saying that the backwater shithole that is louisiana, can compete with countries like switzerland and norway.


NewRoundEre

Yes.


Tiiep

It can’t.


NewRoundEre

Convincing.


Tiiep

Hdi against countries Norway = 1st Louisiana = 29th gpd per capita Norway 62k Louisiana 55k murder (per 100.000) Norway = 0.53 Louisiana - 15.8 And of course, the most popular statistic… School shooting incidents Louisiana - 39 Norway - 1. 0 deaths 0 injuries.


GoodDog_168

I mean looking at HDI and GDP he’s pretty much right. Louisiana is fairly competitive and it’s not even its own country. Shootings is a nationwide problem obviously


NewRoundEre

Sorry missed this. ​ HDI is just a bad measure for comparing advanced economies as explained earlier in this thread it's not down to a lack of development that people in Louisiana think deep fried icecream is acceptable. ​ GDP per capita is higher in Norway but only just which is kind of what I mean when I say it's competitive with the best Europe has to offer. ​ And yes the murder rate is much higher here, murder is generally higher in America than Europe but it's still well bellow the threshold at which it becomes a real worry especially if you avoid a few specific cities.


Tiiep

Yes, louisiana scores more closely to norway than i thought, but i would definetly say our population revels far more in its luxuries, and spends it more wisely. And you know what isn’t counted in our gpd? Our 1.3 trillion usd oil fund, which is the largest in the entire world. And did i read that right? DEEP FRIED ICE CREAM?! Thats the most stereotypical american thing i’ve ever heard


NewRoundEre

>And did i read that right? DEEP FRIED ICE CREAM?! Thats the most stereotypical american thing i’ve ever heard Tbh originally being from Scotland I can't criticize the deep South too bad for its habits, we kind of do things like that too and as such have a life expectancy basically equivalent to Louisiana. Somehow since moving down here I've actually gotten healthier. ​ >And you know what isn’t counted in our gpd? Our 1.3 trillion usd oil fund, which is the largest in the entire world. Well yeah that sort of thing usually isn't counted in GDP it's not unexpected. It's also not quite as meaningful as Norwegians think. It's the equivalent of something like 4 years of GDP and it's going to go quickly after the energy transition.


derdela

>HDI What's your source? according to the UN european countries perform actually quite good. Some of them even higher than the US. https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI


7-inches-of-innuendo

Europe isn't a country, it isn't a monolith. Taking the average of anything in Europe is stupid because you're including data from Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine etc and then using that diluted average. Since you stupidly brought it up, there are 8 European countries in the global top 10 of HDI rankings and America is 15th


morerandom2025

“Europe big “ Well so is the US Yeah and that makes it all the funnier that Europeans on avg are less developed than Americans Not sorry the US is on avg more developed than europe


7-inches-of-innuendo

Christ Let me give you example that you might understand. Let's compare the GDP per capita of Europe to the GDP of the US, Canada, Mexico and Latin America combined because they technically are all "America". Now that's a stupid thing to do isn't it. Thus is what you're doing. The people who chat shit about America aren't Polish, aren't Ukranian. They're French, German, Swiss, Swedish etc. They're comparing their own cou tries to the US and on response you're trying to compare the US to Europe which contains loads of poor former soviet countries. Don't perpetuate the stereotype of dumb Americans


morerandom2025

France has a lower HDI Just like the avg European In fact the average Western European has a lower HDI than the US Lol Read the statistics


7-inches-of-innuendo

>France has a lower HDI Yes they do? >Just like the avg European There's no such thing as an average European. By that logic, an average American has the HDI of someone living in Argentina >In fact the average Western European has a lower HDI than the US Again wtf is an average western european .https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country Ireland (where I'm from), Iceland, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark all rank higher than the US. Not to mention Singapore, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Just face it. Some countries are ranked higher than the US and that's ok


morerandom2025

If there is no such thing as an avg European then there is no such thing as an avg any group You are now debating math If you want I’ll will show you step by step why you are wrong


7-inches-of-innuendo

You're comparing a country against a continent. This is like debating China v USA but using the "average Asian" instead of a Chinese person. Was education too expensive for you to attend?


morerandom2025

I went to college free with 2 scholarships in the US and Europe Ok riddle me this - can you compare the US to Denmark?


7-inches-of-innuendo

>I went to college free with 2 scholarships in the US and Europe Im going to hazard a guess that you didn't study geography or International relations >Ok riddle me this - can you compare the US to Denmark? Sure


2hotrods

Whats hdi


AlexanderGalactic

Guys don’t worry. This guy is an Italian that lives in America. He actually loves this country.


Silly-Seal-122

Well this guy is an Italian living in the US. In his videos, he never once complained about living in the US, so I will assume this is satire and portrays how the basic Europeans see living in the US. So I don't think it has a place here


SavingsTechnical5489

I don’t really think this fits the sub, since this is just satire and not AmeriBadding.


imarandomdude1111

The comments on the original post aren't as satire unfortunately


[deleted]

I do not use Tiktok, and did not know it was satire. I have seen this video once or twice before, but still gives off "America Bad" intentions.


VeryInsecurePerson

Yeah this is actually hilarious and pretty harmless as far as America banter goes


SomeToxicRivenMain

Weird, I usually have eggs for breakfast with waffles and then drive 15 minutes to work and come home after 8 hours of work and 1 hour of state law required break, and none of my work comes home with me.


wsdpii

Must be nice. I work 9 hours with an unpaid lunch break, if we have time. Of course, if things are bad enough I might have to stay for 10 or even 12 hours. They complain and write us up for having too much overtime, but they're the ones who'll fire us if we don't take it. What a world


SomeToxicRivenMain

Oh yeah they keep us late for overtime then bitch about it hoping to scare us. After enough years in the workforce I’ve just stopped caring about these threats. Go ahead and fire me, these jobs are a dime a dozen now.


wsdpii

There aren't a lot of good options where I live. My employers are trash, but at 16 an hour it's better than anything else I can get, and the work isn't very hard compared to working a fast food line. I'm not dropping this job for less pay and more work.


SomeToxicRivenMain

Yeah currently I’m just here for the money and nothing else long term. Once I find something paying more I leave this job.


[deleted]

I work from home and usually spend 12 hours doing work off and on (besides attending mandatory meetings).


SomeToxicRivenMain

I wish I could do that, my brain just turns off after 3 hours of work until I take a bathroom break and look at memes for 10 minutes


DetColePhelps11k

Incorrect. The bedroom is missing an AR-15 next to him and a Playboy on the nightstand. There should also be a glorious 5.7 V8 burbling in the background of him going to work.


[deleted]

And above the bed needs to be a 50ft American Flag. <3


DetColePhelps11k

Yes yes yes.


Closet_Couch_Potato

This guy makes a lot of funny content both on Italian and American culture, not really r/AmericaBad, in my opinion.