To everyone thinking this is a uniquely mean thing. Its a trend at the moment for people to “fent lean” to mock americans. It doesnt matter if its mean to fent addicts they got bigger problems and dont care about kids on tiktok. It hurts Americans because they KNOW its a problem and they are ashamed and they want people to either pretend it doesnt exist or pretend to care because thats what they’re doing(generalization). Its a great attack on Americans IMO.
It hurts Americans because they KNOW its a problem and they are ashamed
You’re off your rocker if you think Americans spend much time feeling embarrassed about its tiny number of fentanyl addicts.
Those would fit into the camp of Americans that pretend it doesnt exist and they dont like being reminded that it does exist and its an American problem.
Look at your comment for example, its not a tiny amount of fent addicts, your streets are full of them. I went to LA Precovid and it was disgusting people seeing people drugged out living on the streets being treated like its normal. There were 500k people homeless at that time, now there are 800k. You cannot sit here and say thats normal or say its only a tiny amount. Fent deaths have more than doubled since then homelessness is on the rise, drug use is on the rise.
its not a tiny amount of fent addicts, your streets are full of them.
False. You’re making up stuff and have probably never been to America.
Americans seem completely fine with mocking and insulting Russians, Israelis and others, but when someone mocks Americans, all of a sudden it’s inappropriate to make fun of the general population for their government’s actions.
That’s because America has a non-dictatorial leader! /s
American here. The US fully deserves to be mocked, blocked, ridiculed, and shunned.
I’m a Democratic Socialist, and have never voted for a Republican in my life. I’m as stuck with this BS as are the Britons who didn’t vote for Brexit. I laughed at the Brits while Trump was in his first term saying, “At least our fuck-up will be gone in four years.”
D’oh!
We don’t have healthcare so we need to numb the pain somehow
Among all the things you can mock the USA for, this is probably pretty low on the list …
Besides, King Trump would love to throw addicts in camps. Only the poor ones, obviously.
Out of all the stupid shit you can make fun of us for, this is what you chose? We’re fat, poorly dressed, uneducated, Pop Tart eating, loud, obnoxious, Cowboy, casserole eating, douchebags and THIS is what you came up with?
This shit is funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tMD5bTbLM
What you listed are extremely mild stereotypes that Americans have heard a million times even from other Americans. They are about as offensive as “French eat croissant” or “Brits drink tea”. And these kids clearly want to be offensive to Americans
You can tell this one really hurts us (us being Americans, not you and me) because of the reactions. You have someone on this thread threatening Greenland with CIA drugs.
Like we look bad enough without this shitass reaction people are having in these threads.
The reason this hurts people on lemmy, who tend to lean left, is because it goes after the most marginalized people in our society.
Because punching down is never really funny
They are not punching down. They are punching up at the richest and most powerful country the world has ever seen which might invade their home soon. Are you really going to spend your time tone policing children from Greenland?
Tone policing Trump’s next victims? Are you out of your skull?
I’m with you. I welcome all kinds of resistance, but this one misses the mark for me. Not because of anything being offensive, but because of drug addiction being incredibly sad
All those school shootings are incredibly sad. Kids deserved none of it. And I don’t only mean death, injuries and trauma for kids who experienced it, but also the “combat” training and fear for kids fortunate enough to only hear about it. And over the years, US did nothing to stop it.
Drug addicts are definitely a much better target for jokes.
That’s a weird thing to bring up
Because I can’t understand how the same people can be oversensitive about others mocking their drug addicts and not riot about their kids being regularly shot at.
Well if you’re not 300kg, it’s hard to pretend you are in a 15s tictoc.
And at least it’s original, unlike your played out examples.
You just wear 5 shirts under your clothes.
It’s Greenland, they already are lol
OK, stuff some sheets in there.
I’m in a place with similar temps to nuuk, a skin layer, cotton or shirt insulating layer, and a jacket is all you need, and even then you’ll get sweaty if there too much insulation. IDK where 3+ layers comes from, people who don’t have cold weather clothes and are layering thin cotton? Who count a scarf and hat as a layer?
Forgive me, I’m in Bali.
Forgive me, I’m in Bali.
Bali is a famous home to giant reticulated pythons. No thanks.
Not at my resort lol, but the reptile park was spectacular:)
Oh, I hear its nice, I have a couple homies that ended up over there. I wanted to visit, along with the rest of SEA, but I nearly melted in Vietnam, so I can’t go any further south.
Understood entirely, the humid heat can be so draining. It’s spectacular though, and the people are beautiful.
The Pop Tart thing seems a little too specific, but okay.
Pop Tarts are more American than apple pie. Sweet processed garbage.
When he poses like that he looks like he’s taking three at once.
Trump’s just trying to retrigger his victims from his 19 visits to Epstein island.
His recreating his last meeting with Putin and Xi
That pic really emphasizes how small his hands are
Kalaallit Nunaat Kalaallit Pigaat!
Would be more accurate to act like they have diabetes but not everyone is a good an actor as Brendan Fraser.
FPV drones dropping bombs. Ukaine has shown the way
hail to the cheif
Mock the US for being dumb… that’s fair. Fentanyl addicts are typically victims of the system though. You’re mocking the wrong part.
Here is a Google translated interview with the Greenlandic MP Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (member of both the Danish and Greenlandic Parliament) in the Italian magazine Espresso today (original here).
Below my reaction:
"Her discourse is very nationalistic, heavily anchored in Greenland’s colonial history, with a strong sense of recourse for wrongs received. She clearly has a painful tooth, which transmits throughout the interview.
While agreeing in principle (colonialism is indeed a deep wound and injustice, and Danes - I know since I lived there - can still be arrogant notwithstanding the Jante Law), she has to make a choice and face the reality of Greenland’s extremely tiny population, similar to that of the small Italian city of Cuneo, therefore of an extremely limited amount of people to be able to act convincingly on an international level.
Greenlandic citizens have at the moment a Danish passport, not a Greenlandic one, therefore they are EU citizens (which she doesn’t mention) while not being part of the EU (which she does), but part of NATO (she mentions this at well).
Are they more protected as EU citizens (with Danish or perhaps Greenlandic passports in the future) or as US citizens (as a territory, which - let’s be real - excludes voting representation in the U.S. Federal government)?
In the end her discourse emphasizes the fact that the dignity of Greenlandic people ought to be recognized, but what if the other future partner/owner couldn’t care less?
I am afraid the Greenlandic people are no stronger internationally (and with regards to the US in particular) than the much larger population of Gaza.
They (the Greenlandic people) will just as easily be ignored and abused in this new US setup as the Gazans are right now and as Greenlanders were historically in the Danish setup (perhaps no longer right now, although some Danish condescension remains).
Many Greenlanders are now considering emigration (moving to Denmark mainly) or simply being sidelined. It is not the moment, I am afraid, for Greenlanders to just adhere to principles, but to simply chose the best option available, while heavily insisting on those results that can be achieved in a very short time period (to avoid being on the menu of the 250th birthday party of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 2026).
The best thing they could do is to align themselves with Iceland (population 5 to 6 times larger than that of Greenland but facing unfortunately analogous challenges), Canada (same as far as the challenges are concerned) and the EU, and insist on actions on those levels, which she isn’t doing.
I am concerned that her position might be noble in principle, but disastrous in reality."
Dunking on drug addicts: le epic own.
Offending Americans in a novel way. Absolutely Epic win.
You should look up conservative “humor” some time, 98% of it is going after trans people, minorities, drug addicts, poor people, anyone they see as less then. You might find it really funny.
Going after marginalized people isn’t the own you think it is.
But they’re not going after any of that, they’re going after the whole American society that creates that.
Try looking through a non internal American politics view, I know it’s really hard for an American to put themselves in someone else’s shoes, but truly it’s a criticism of your entire system.
That would have a chance of being true only if fentanyl was a specifically American problem. Drug abuse is a problem in most free countries, and with some countries that are not free.
Mocking drug addicts isn’t going after all of American society. Do you think Charlie Kirk was going after all of American society when he did the same thing?
Its like trying to mock Europeans by doing racism against Roma people. Its not criticizing all of European society, you’re literally doing the same shit our conservatives do.
When you mock the victims of a school shooting, you’re not criticizing all of American society or system that creates school shooters, you’re just being a reactionary piece of shit, and we have enough of those.
But pretending to be a kid hiding from school shooters would also be hilarious. And it sure does criticise a LOT of American society.
That’s exactly the difference, because that would be focusing on the system victimizing the children, rather than mocking the children themselves for getting shot.
Hell you could genuinely do the children getting shot as a satire of conservatives’ lack of response to school shootings, but that would be mocking conservatives, not the victims.
Its not that any group is off limits, its the actual message can’t just be “haha <oppressed minority> bad”
Children scared for their lives living in fear is funny to you? You sicko don’t make fun of the victims!
You’re just choosing arbitrarily what to take offense at. America’s self inflicted opiate problem is just as ridiculous as it’s self inflicted school shooting problem. Bringing it back to American political parties is missing the entire point. It’s America, not the Republicans threatening world order. It’s America’s obsession with capitalism that prevents them from fixing their problems.
I got to say I don’t really get this one.
I agree, pretty shit to use people who are under incredible suffering as a joke prop :|
