• ManaYoodSushai@feddit.org
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      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

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        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.

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          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?

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            Yeah, that’s what american exceptionalism and “news” does to you.

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          Tone policing Trump’s next victims? Are you out of your skull?

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          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

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            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.

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                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.

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    Oh, oh, somebody should let them know that the CIA recently admitted to intentionally fucking with the global heroin supply potency because they thought it would fuck up Afghanistan’s economy (allegedly). Because they assumed if people couldn’t get consistently potent heroin they would just stop buying it? (Allegedly)

    I don’t think the CIA has actually commented on fentanyl being added to the U.S. heroin supply when they were intentionally fucking with the potency of heroin, but “whoever” introduced fentanyl to the U.S. took care of the potency problem. Now fentanyl has replaced heroin as the most commonly used opiate in the the U.S… so

    So “somebody” was kind enough to offer a solution to the potency problem the CIA created by providing a cheaper and more potent synthetic alternative to heroin that can be made in a lab instead of grown in Afghanistan, and now that alternative is what dominates the U.S. market. Its weird because I feel like I’ve heard a similar story about the CIA and a cheaper more potent drug being introduced to the U.S. market before… 🤔

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/12/cia-afghanistan-heroin-poppy-seeds/

    In 20 years of grinding war in Afghanistan, the United States dropped a multitude of weapons from the skies: Millions of tons of ordnance. Hellfire missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the “Mother of All Bombs,” the most powerful nonnuclear bomb in existence. And, amid the more conventional projectiles, tiny poppy seeds. By the billions.

    On and off for over a decade, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Washington Post has learned.

    The covert program, which has not previously been disclosed, is an unreported chapter in the 2001-2021 U.S. war in Afghanistan and in the long checkered history of American efforts to combat narcotics globally, from Latin America to Asia. Its existence was confirmed by 14 people familiar with aspects of the secret operation, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a classified project.

    Anyway, heads up Greenland. Who knows, they might even try to introduce an entirely new drug to the market to replace one that’s already selling instead of just smuggling fentanyl

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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    Would be more accurate to act like they have diabetes but not everyone is a good an actor as Brendan Fraser.

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    Mock the US for being dumb… that’s fair. Fentanyl addicts are typically victims of the system though. You’re mocking the wrong part.

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    I wonder if Greenlanders are going to lose their worker’s rights and universal healthcare after the US invades them

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      There is nothing to wonder. Look at the state of workers’ rights and healthcare in the USA, and you know what they will get at best. Which means they will lose the whole lot and then some.

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      I agree, pretty shit to use people who are under incredible suffering as a joke prop :|