• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    People are drawn to trainwrecks. The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.

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      7 days ago

      The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.

      Do you honestly find it weird that people all over the world obsess over the one country in the world that constantly sends its enormous military all over the world?

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        6 days ago

        Also the country that collapsed the world economy when some guy in Florida was late on a mortgage payment.

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      6 days ago

      Canadian, here. Kind of hard to ignore our giant idiot neighbour to the south.

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        6 days ago

        I mean I feel like Canada is a given. The reference in my mind was China.

        I guess in retrospect, people in China obsess over the US about as much as Americans obsess over whatever China does, so in that context maybe it’s just superpower rivalry.

        But it is something when you go to other countries like Mongolia where people don’t generally know English, yet you walk into a random shop and they’re still playing Taylor Swift over the radio, and the first question asked when people learn you’re American is what you think about Trump.