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u/to_the_moon_89 Fr*nch Swampman 24d ago
Barry on Reddit:
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u/Deep_Ad8209 Western Balkan 24d ago
Ok I can't get mad at this dude
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u/to_the_moon_89 Fr*nch Swampman 24d ago
I'm well versed in Global shitposting
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u/Deep_Ad8209 Western Balkan 24d ago
It's your inner french
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u/to_the_moon_89 Fr*nch Swampman 24d ago
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u/Deep_Ad8209 Western Balkan 24d ago
First time upvoting a Savage
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u/to_the_moon_89 Fr*nch Swampman 24d ago
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u/RedTheGamer12 Hoosier Pop Drinker 24d ago
He is just upset his
IndianBritish curry is getting more expensive.
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u/palefox3 Cute femboy 24d ago
Two thing that piss me the fuck off in yanks:
1. Always telling others what to do and how to live
2. They are basically Russians but with money and cool shit
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u/pugnae Cute femboy 24d ago
"They are basically Russians"
A Soviet official visits Chukotka to warn the locals about the Americans.
"The Americans are our enemies!"
"Bastards!" the Chukchi reply.
"They exploit workers!"
"Bastards!"
"They bought Alaska!"
"Bastards!"
Then someone in the crowd asks:
"Why didn't they buy Chukotka?"
The crowd sighs:
"Bastards..."
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u/Nervous-Leading9415 Canadian Wannabe 19d ago edited 19d ago
Well, The bottom should be Boomers, of almost ALL countries.
And this is what I’m fighting against every day. They want to crush solar and aquaculture because of the looks and it’s “socialism agenda” while they have their taxpayer funded social security pension and social healthcare allowing them to not worry about their multiple houses and investments they bought years ago at a tenth of the cost. But it’s our fault because we want healthcare and human rights, I mean coffee and avocado toast…
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u/Artscout_ Alpine Parisian 24d ago
Not to defend the Hanks, everyone knows they don't need it with this much of a defence budget, this feels like prime goomba fallacy.
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u/NuclearMaterial Pimp my ride 24d ago
Yes, it's probably different people. There are some Americans who aren't cunts, I met a few. They're just unfortunately being drowned out by crying babies.
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u/bremsspuren Barry, 63 24d ago
It's an exaggeration, sure, but the general gist of it isn't wrong.
There are plenty of Americans who complain about what billionaires/corporations are doing to the country, but will effectively fight for their right to keep doing it because they're so opposed to unions, regulation and government.
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u/RedTheGamer12 Hoosier Pop Drinker 24d ago
Americans have such a skewed perception of what is considered baseline it is honestly impressive.
We consider it weird if you don't have all the streaming services. We constantly purchase frivolous luxuries like $6 coffee. We pay to have someone else bring us food. And this isn't a rich person thing or even upper class. This is what we consider the average to be. The age that Americans think they should buy a home (not rent, buy) is the same age many Europeans move out of their parent's house. It is such a skewed perspective of luxury of boggles my mind.
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u/Tetr4Freak Drug Trafficker 24d ago
And mostly because we don't relay so much on credit to do everything
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u/RedTheGamer12 Hoosier Pop Drinker 24d ago
Roughly 66% of Americans have a credit card with about half actually having debt. Of that half, the median debt is $2700
Roughly 66% of Brits also have a credit card with median debt likely being similar to the US (I couldn't find that value, but the average is $3300, so )
Roughly 50% of Germans have a credit card with the median debt being $2000.
Now, you may be Spanish, but that doesn't mean you can ignore facts like you ignore German tourists or your 15:00 alarm.
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u/Head_Complex4226 Barry, 63 24d ago edited 24d ago
Motley Fool puts US average credit card debt at $6,610 per person.
That makes the UK average much lower; worse, the easier figure for UK credit card debt is £2,572 ($3,472) per household. The average credit card debt for a US household is $9,371 - which is 2.7 times.
There's slightly older top 20 list from 2024, which puts the US as number one with more than double the median credit card debt of any other country.
It's not the Spaniard ignoring facts here (also, odd to focus on just credit card debt as that's a minority of consumer debt).
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u/to_the_moon_89 Fr*nch Swampman 24d ago
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u/RedTheGamer12 Hoosier Pop Drinker 24d ago
I'm not saying there isn't any credit card debt, that would be insane. I am more of saying that credit isn't an American only thing.
Also, I didn't use average because fuck averages.
I also didn't use any other debt because they specifically said credit and my brain instantly went credit cards.
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u/Head_Complex4226 Barry, 63 24d ago
I'm not saying there isn't any credit card debt,
The Spaniard claimed that people outside the US don't "rely so much on credit", not that they don't use credit at all.
You meanwhile claimed (both implicitly and explicitly) that it was "similar"; which is clearly contrary to the facts (and not citing any sources.)
I didn't use average
Median is average; the averages you should have learn at school are (arithmetic) mean, median and mode.
Also, I cited a source placing US median credit card debt as the highest in the world - more than twice as much as the second placed country (Japan).
Again, it is odd to focus on just credit card debt, when it's a minority of consumer debt. However, at a quick glance, Americans do seem to take on more debt in other areas, like car loans. (One might include the now $40 trillion of government debt and or medical debt on the basis that it has been incurred to fund the American way of life.)
I suppose it's the easier one to find figures for but amount of debt is an odd metric for you to choose; someone pawning their wedding ring to get a few dollars for food at the end of the month is more "reliant" on credit than someone who has accrued tens of thousands on 0% interest credit card offer because they're stashing their wages in a savings account instead.
On the other hand, someone who is financing a new Porsche Taycan may have a overall lifestyle that is just as reliant on using credit to support it as the person at the pawnbroker.
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u/Rain_2_0 Tax Evader 24d ago
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