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    Above: how Chinese propaganda sees America

    Below: how Americans see America

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    Fun fact: you can convert from miles to kilometers using the Fibonacci sequence:

    1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 35

    • 5 miles = 8 kilometers
    • 21 miles = 35 kilometers
    • 10 miles (2 + 8) = 16 kilometers (3 + 13)

    So this means 1 mile = 1 kilometer.

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      Yeah from my experience the US is the Florida of the world.

      We all know you guys aren’t all crazy, but there is enough of them to be part of the final picture in our mind.

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    I think there are states in the US where its easier to make a baby than a living wage.

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            It was big time, but not so much anymore. You still hear it from the dinosaurs in office.

            How the left sees welfare: corps pay too little so people need to be subsidized by the government to afford food, or you fell on bad times/have mental disorders and can’t work so we help you afford the bare minimum.

            How the right sees welfare: black women are getting knocked up constantly so they can collect even more money doing absolutely nothing but being a drain on society.

            Pretty gross stuff…

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              The US will never be cured of the extreme capitalist model that impoverishes the poor and increases the wealth of the rich when they accept these terms. They are designed to do nothing more than segregate the population into manageable lumps. People need to jump on derogatory terms that are only meant to belittle people who cannot defend themselves. The racism in the US is nothing more than a political agenda to do exactly the same thing. You really have to call this out when you see it.

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          You’d think, but I’ve got about 3 of them in the immediate vicinity of my house haha!

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            Anyone who actually types out “haha!” is a lying shitheel boomer.

            And if you legitimately have 3 “welfare queens” in the immediate vicinity of your house, you likely live in a trailer park that ignorantly went all in for Trump.

            Tl;dr: imho the people most likely to abuse the welfare system are poor white folk who unironically vote against their best interests by putting GOP goons into office. They complain that they can’t get out of their trailer park, but they consistently vote for the people who will do everything possible to keep them there.

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              shitheel boomer

              Lol. My bad for using something besides the lol or lmao that literally everyone else uses. Are we actually arguing about this? What a dumb fucking point to make. I used language to convey a message that dictates that I am not laughing for comedic effect, I am laughing to breeze off the fact that what you said is blatantly full of shit, something that lol probably wouldn’t be appropriate for. You wouldn’t know that though, it is clear you don’t get much human interaction at all considering the fact you though welfare queens were not a real thing.

              Good on you to assume the races of someone gaming the welfare system! I already know which of the nearly identical parties you worship are! FYI, One is black, two are white. I live in a city, a blue one, one that has been blue for about, idk, 70 years? What happened to “welfare queens don’t exist”? You sure seem to not know jack shit about how the world works considering just how confidently incorrect you were!

              Also, I don’t appreciate you assuming I’d do something so grossly absentminded as supporting any bipartisan effort you dumb fucking disgusting fascist piece of shit.

              Supporting democratic or republican efforts is supporting the death of the US in the name of money, moneymoneymoneymoneymoney, but thanks for bringing politics into dankmemes! You clearly have nothing better to back your claim, so you fell back on politics, just like everyone else with no life!

              Go back to /pol/ incel chud

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              shitheel boomer

              Lol. My bad for using something besides the lol or lmao that literally everyone else uses. Are we actually arguing about this? What a dumb fucking point to make. I used language to convey a message that dictates that I am not laughing for comedic effect, I am laughing to breeze off the fact that what you said is blatantly full of shit, something that lol probably wouldn’t be appropriate for. You wouldn’t know that though, it is clear you don’t get much human interaction at all considering the fact you though welfare queens were not a real thing.

              Good on you to assume the races of someone gaming the welfare system! I already know which of the nearly identical parties you worship are! FYI, One is black, two are white. I live in a city, a blue one, one that has been blue for about, idk, 70 years? What happened to “welfare queens don’t exist”? You sure seem to not know jack shit about how the world works considering just how confidently incorrect you were!

              Also, I don’t appreciate you assuming I’d do something so grossly absentminded as supporting any bipartisan effort you dumb fucking disgusting fascist piece of shit.

              Supporting democratic or republican efforts is supporting the death of the US in the name of money, moneymoneymoneymoneymoney, but thanks for bringing politics into dankmemes! You clearly have nothing better to back your claim, so you fell back on politics, just like everyone else with no life!

              Go back to /pol/ incel chud

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                Who said I worship a party? All I said was that “welfare queens” are, by and large, a myth made up to make ignorant racist white people feel like they should be punching down on the people who legitimately need government assistance instead of punching up at the people who are actually bilking the federal government for millions of dollars.

                I’ve spent time in enough trailer parks to know the type. That type is usually the person who uses the phrase “welfare queen” unironically.

                But sure, I’m the incel chud.

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                  uses the phrase “welfare queen” unironically.

                  Holy shit, are you writing this with chatgpt or something? Your memory permance is horrible.

                  YOU WERE THE ONE WHO USED IT UNIRONICALLY LMFAO. And you know the type? So you mean to tell me that you yourself are the type of person you’re describing? Talk about suicide by words. I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve even heard or read the words “welfare queen”.

                  If you seriously think that it is only rich fuckers who game the system and not everyone then you have lived a very sheltered, naive life. That’s like saying only cartels sell drugs. People of all parts of the spectrum commit monetary crimes.

                  white

                  And motherfucker I swear to god you didn’t read shit that I wrote, I literally said I’m an American Indian, I am the minority’s minority. You clearly worship a party because of two reasons:

                  1. You IMMEDIATELY brought politics into play

                  2. You IMMEDIATELY bashed a specific political figure

                  What compelled you to bring up orange dickskin?Why would you bring up politics into the conversation? The conversation had nothing to do with politics, it was a joke.

                  Fucking nasty ass liberal, you’re no better than the conservatives. You people don’t even know what the meaning of the words mean without googling it, yet here you are barging in with an argument on politics that literally nobody gives a fuck about but you.

                  Please, I am genuinely asking this

                  Go outside, talk to someone, have sex.

                  I have never met someone this terminally online, your life would be 100x better if you limited internet access, it is very clear that you have never felt the touch of another human being.

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    America: I bet the rest of the world is so thinking about me right now.

    The rest of the world: My brother in earth, I have my own shit going on.

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      We don’t think this… Other countries just think we think this. I’m not kidding, that’s actually the case lol.

      It’s shocking for us in the states to learn about other countries knowing which states are which. We don’t even know that!

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      This is weird. I constantly see posts about how America is bad from Europeans. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one the other way around. Who is thinking about who all the time?

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        Mostly Europeans amuse themselves about how Americans think they’re living in a first world country while having absolute basic developed-world-shit just flat out fail. I.e. health care, consumer regulation, public transit, education, clean water. Sure the US is not uniform but it’s a single country. Even Europe has it’s own problems but most countries have this stuff figured out more or less.
        The reason Europeans mock Americans is because Americans always ALWAYS complain about how they’re getting fucked. And Europeans are just like “lol that shit ain’t an issue here”. Which a) contributes to Europeans thinking the US is a shithole and b) making Americans seem kinda whiny.

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          So many Americans are desperately trying to survive. I’m glad that our suffering is entertaining, though.

          It’s nice to laugh at people who are dying because we don’t have health insurance. What a gas! /s

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            Y’all still waving your FATCA cock all over the world so excuse us for having some schadenfreude.

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              oh don’t let me interrupt your laughing at people starving and dying while you blame organizations that I have nothing to do with. I’ve never even heard of that.

              I’m just a normal person trying to not die.

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                  seems like a human rights one to me, but you have fun with the edgy teen phase. good luck.

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      That, and being dependent on your automobile.

      True, within some big American cities, a mostly) carfree life is possible if you live in a condo near a metro station.

      But walkable neighborhoods are a rarity, while they are the default in the rest of the world.

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          Yes, it is, which is why it is baffling that they don’t have good high speed rail infrastructure like China, Japan, France or Germany.

          And yes, cars make sense for the rural people, but densely populated urban centers in the USA are just badly designed due to bad zoning laws.

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    what the fuck is a kilometer

    A meter used to measure how many TERRORISTS we killed today B-)

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    America is a really big and diverse place. Really it’s both and neither depending on where you are

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    You can tell how old this is - a baby’s only worth 6 Big Macs anymore.

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    In merica we got Kill-o-meters, and they go up to big numbers.

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    Jokes on all of you, I know what a kilometer is because it’s the maximum distance I would walk to trade a baby for 15 Big Macs.

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      If a man ofered me a baby for 15 big macs, i would accept the deal, take the baby and go to the police.