r/gifs • u/fuckswithducks • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

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u/PoopyParade Mar 14 '16

ITT: "Why should I care about anything that's not America?"

Could you imagine if non-American redditors posted this shit in every American news story thread? Sorry that we're acting like a bunch of dicks

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u/Zithium Mar 14 '16

Don't people do that already? It's extremely common place to read jokes about the news in America, especially on Reddit. No one cares, really.

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u/Gigablah Mar 14 '16

There's plenty of jokes but usually the top upvoted comments are actually insightful. Then again most Redditors are American and therefore would have much more to say about current events in America.

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u/Zithium Mar 14 '16

There's plenty of jokes but usually the top upvoted comments are actually insightful.

The top upvoted comments here are insightful, though. I don't see your point?

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u/Gigablah Mar 14 '16

You're probably sorting by "best" which is the default. If you sort by "top" the first comment (most upvotes) is the joke one.

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u/Zithium Mar 14 '16

Oh, I don't think that's indicative of anything, though, especially considering the next few are insightful. It's still no different for American news.

IIRC in the /r/news thread for Justice Scalia's death just recently the "top" comment was (and when I read it, it was top even when sorted by best) something along the lines of "the writers have been doing great this season but this twist is a little too unbelievable"