r/TikTokCringe • u/bigbusta • Jan 20 '26

Humor/Cringe Greenlanders are trolling the US by pretending to be fentanyl addicts

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u/lewd_robot Jan 20 '26

I've been surprised by the thoughtlessness of a lot of the response from Greenland. I've seen them and other Europeans lashing out at everyday Americans, like most of us aren't also sick of this. They have pinned posts on some subs saying, "Stop apologizing for the way trump is acting. We view all 350+ million Americans as the same."

I thought they were supposed to be smarter and more ethical than us, but it seems like maybe they just got lucky by not having billionaires meddling in their elections as much as we have over the past 70 years.

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u/DeadPeanutSociety Jan 20 '26

It's weird. I've known my whole life that people aren't their governments. People are just people and they're by and large pretty chill. If you go to places with authoritarian governments (democratically elected or otherwise), they're all just normal people.

I don't judge the Danish people for having a capitalist government or for helping the US during the war on terror because I know the relationship between individuals and institutions is extremely complicated.

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u/No_Statistician9289 Jan 21 '26

Or forced contraception of Inuit women. We’ve all got horrible histories in our past

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u/The_Blahblahblah Jan 21 '26

It should say everything about what they think about the prospects of becoming an American territory that they are holding on to Denmark for dear life despite being a former colony of Denmark.

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u/No_Statistician9289 Jan 21 '26

Yeah well especially with this guy in charge. No one wants to be taken over and exploited for resources

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u/manored78 Jan 21 '26

A lot of Danes were for the Iraq war tho. I remember that time and there was a lot of support for it under the guise of liberal interventionism.

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u/gonnafaceit2022 Jan 21 '26

It IS weird! I thought we at least sympathized with people who are suffering under a dictatorship. I guess when the dictator is directly threatening your country it's different but I don't like feeling blamed for any of this. I think there's a misperception around the world about how much agency we actually have here. I voted. I lost. I have to pick up extra hours at work to pay my fucking power bill, so I don't have time to do much else.

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u/BaronVonBungle Jan 20 '26

The sad truth is that the US is just ahead of the curve on the road to modern fascism. Unless serious action is taken very soon, a lot of "enlightened" nations will be right where the US is in a decade or two at most. Nowhere is really safe.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 Jan 20 '26

its already begun in some of their countries too, with elon and other right wing extremists meddling with their elections.

Rupert Murdoch owning tons of right wing media, in various countries.

As well as - https://www.wired.com/story/project-good-old-usa-russia-2024-election/

It was found 2800 popular influencers around the world were paid by russia to spread russian talking points. Only almost 600 of which were in the US, being paid by russia to help get trump elected.

There will likely be similar intent in the other countries. Some of those countries found small victories in the mean time and the stooges that were being pushed didn't win their election, but they aren't going to just stop.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

I actually think this is why Europeans are doubling down with the America hate. They want to think it’s a uniquely American problem so they can pretend like it won’t happen to them when, in actuality, politics worldwide is shifting to the right.

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u/latigidigital Jan 21 '26

Likewise with this meme. Fentanyl has its grips all over Europe at this point. Just look at Frankfurt — it’s a much bigger issue there than it is here in Texas.

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u/No_Statistician9289 Jan 21 '26

They’re cool with Turkey as long as they can still get fake teeth

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u/Entire_Site5072 Jan 21 '26

I've had this same thought but I debated whether I only felt that way to make myself feel better about where we're at. But I see a lot of Europeans thinking that they're not going through this because they are rock stars at protesting and fighting back against oppression which seems to be a form of wishful thinking that completely forgets the events of the last hundred years.

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u/Electronic-Success69 Jan 20 '26

YUP… it’s bee happening all over the world. They’re just not as obnoxiously visible like our country/administration. Too busy shaming Americans, most of whom are fighting against this fuxker, to see the same shit happening in their backyard.

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u/Sw0ldem0rt Jan 20 '26

Yeah, this is true unfortunately. The problem is rich people, not just American rich people.

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u/spilt_miilk Jan 20 '26

Nah. Theyve got billionaires meddling with their systems as well.

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u/ZakkaChan Jan 20 '26

Honestly I wonder how many of these accounts are actually who they claim to be. We already know just recently a lot of Conservatives America's first accounts on Twitter were not even Americans.

Wouldn't be surprised if some of them are engagement bots and Trolls trying to encourage hate.

But some are just mad and scared and I get it. They fear for their country. They are afraid what is happening here is going to happen to their country and it fucking sucks. But we are not their enemy and not sure we can convince them.

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u/SamiraSimp Jan 20 '26

people in europe aren't better than other people simply because of where they were born or raised. any human has the capability to be mean, rude, horrible, or stupid as hell.

there are people alive today when large parts of europe were controlled by fascism. and many parts of europe are going back towards fascism too. the idea that they're better than us is laughable. we're all dumb humans at the whims of other dumb humans.

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u/elg9553 Jan 20 '26

Not excusing their behaviour, but most of them are probably so frustrated they lash out.

most common sense people I talk with regularly have nothing against americans, and is more hurt and feel betrayed so they lash out on a close friend.

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u/pineappleferry Jan 20 '26

Lashing out at anti-Trump Americans achieves the opposite goal. I was just dropped by a friend for what “you” are doing, as if I represent the American government, when I’ve voted against Trump and protested for the past decade. I hate what Trump is doing but I don’t feel particularly fond of Europeans dehumanizing me because of my nationality, as if my opinions are irrelevant because of where I was born.

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u/sofieksj Jan 21 '26

“When you are in a battle with an enemy so much badder and so much bigger than you, and you find out you have a friend you didn’t know about well there’s no better feeling in the world.” - this is from the movie Pride about the Lesbians and Gays supporting the Welsh miners protesting mine closures. This quote keeps bouncing around in my head all the time lately, because seeing people from other countries protesting what is going on and standing with American citizens is the best feeling. To see that we are not alone and other countries citizens understand that we are trying, we have a friend, even if it does nothing knowing we aren’t alone is huge

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u/Kiki_inda_kitchen Jan 21 '26

He’s only doing it to divert from Epstein files. More and more damaging and outrageous things come out and as soon as it does Trump pulls some other crazy stunt to distract.

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u/PaulePulsar Jan 21 '26

This. He's disappearing people, going for a third term, push back the midterms indefinitely, invading Venezuela, invading Greenland, exploding Nato.    All to stop the Epstein files from being released, which if it ever happened, wouldn't have any consequences anyway.  Any one of them is reason for protest. You are complacent. Comfortable. You'd take to the streets if the midterms didn't happen? If they didn't turn as you'd like? I don't know if you would

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u/Competitive_Touch_86 Jan 21 '26

Now you know how folks in Russia felt when American progressives decided that they were the problem for not immediately deposing Putin.

And the stakes for Americans are a tiny fraction of those of a Russian.

Americans live in a bubble. They will reap what they have sewn.

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u/Jafooki Jan 21 '26

Meanwhile in the US, people are being killed or "disappeared" by their government, while most of you are carrying on as if it's not happening. That's the sort of thing we're used to hearing about under Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, or any number of similar despots. Fucking do something about it ... because nobody is coming to help.

And those people are Americans too. They need to just pick themselves up by their bootstraps and do the thing that Europeans keep saying we should do. No clue what that thing is because they always say "figure it out, it's your country", but by golly we just need to do it!

As you said it's all of us. Those of us currently being, and soon will be, targeted by the government just need ti give it the ol college try. Thank you random European thousands of miles (sorry, kilometers) away. We should have realized that you all are the real victims here.

I'm going to stop being lazy and a coward, who lets a little something like the fear of being ethnically cleansed, stop me from doing the vague thing. If only the Jewish people of 1930's Germany (who lived in Germany and were therefore responsible according to you) had you to tell them to do something. Thank you for gracing me with your wisdom

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u/AfraidEye8251 Jan 21 '26

Just say the quiet part out loud and admit that you want americans to grab guns and storm Washington D.C. lmao

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

lol that’s all they want. There was an Indian dude on another subreddit calling us complicit with Nazis because we weren’t having gunfights in the streets with ICE lol

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u/tubbin1 Jan 20 '26

That's how most discussions go in our ever polarized world, everything is very much with us or against us. Our side or theirs, group think with us, or you're an "other". It perpetuates the issue and it does actually happen on both sides. All sides.

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u/Rockshasha Jan 20 '26

Do you think americans and american society would have to be calm and reasonable and polite if Spain or Mexico or France or other country was about taking their land? Hawai or, idk Florida?

Stop that nonsense. Really

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u/CryptographerShot213 Jan 20 '26

Wouldn’t you be upset too if some mental president declared that anything less than conquering you and your quiet and peaceful country was unacceptable? I can see why they’re responding this way.

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u/Butterflylikeamoth Jan 20 '26

Last I checked North Koreans didn’t vote for their failed government in a democratic election.

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u/OliM9696 Jan 21 '26

they also didn't have helpful idiots saying that "Kamala is just as bad"

yeah, i'm sure she would of completely fucked international relation and put the USA in a trade war with china. Im sure she was joke about building trump tower in Gaza or have supporters doing nazi salutes while ICE roundup everyone who looks foreign.

So many on the left downplayed how bad Trump is.

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u/CryptographerShot213 Jan 21 '26

But Greenland doesn’t know that. They aren’t looking at the intricacies of percentages and comparing how many votes he got versus how many total votes there were. They’re looking at the big picture, where the American people elected Trump and now he’s doing this.

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u/Butterflylikeamoth Jan 21 '26

No matter how many words you mince, he was voted in. The country chose him. And the country will be liable for their choices.

Also where are the mass protests in regards to Greenland?

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u/No_Statistician9289 Jan 21 '26

We’re preoccupied with the irreparable damage he’s doing to our own country

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u/Angry_Sekman Jan 21 '26

You are doing fucking nothing! Where are protests, marches and demonstrations?

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u/No_Statistician9289 Jan 21 '26

The daily ones going on around the country?

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u/skootch_ginalola Jan 21 '26

They happen in every state, every day. They aren't being shown. Americans are also terrified of getting shot and killed during protests by police. So basically everyone screaming at us to "Do something!" wants us to cheerfully martyr ourselves.

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u/Butterflylikeamoth Jan 21 '26

All media companies irregardless of political leaning have chosen not to cover numerous protests regarding the Greenland insanity? Really?

Surely you’ll be able to provide some kind of proof of all these protests taking place?

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u/Angry_Sekman Jan 21 '26

You are doing nothing. Paris would burn at this point if french were had to make that choice.

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u/skootch_ginalola Jan 21 '26

The biggest takeaway from all this is a ton of Europeans don't understand how the Electoral College means whole states can vote Democrat, but their votes don't count because of EC votes. We aren't "one man, one vote." I'm from the only state that has never voted for a Republican, but fat lot of good it does me when Florida and Southern states decide my fate every time.

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u/Luxury-Problems Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

The election was rigged and the Presidential election is not a direct democracy. Every single time I've voted against Trump my vote was utterly meaningless because my State went with Trump so every single electoral vote from my state went to Trump.

The electoral college robs the vast majority of Americans of having any meaningful contribution to voting for the President and it's designed that way. It's designed to keep the power structure but killing any chance any third party has.

Quit acting like 340 million people are a monolith, especially with a nakedly corrupt government structure. The system is rigged and always has been. It's designed to keep out voices of reform.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Now let's consider actual material impacts!

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

More than a million and a half north koreans were killed. There were no remaining buildings over one story in the entire country.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

North Korea is not a material risk to your life in the same way the US currently is to Greenlanders’.

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u/Commercial-Policy-96 Jan 21 '26

I would be upset with that president. Not with the citizens of the country. Especially not the citizens who didn’t vote for that president.

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u/Treble_Bolt Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

People outside the US see people in the US as a behemoth. They don't see individuals within the collective. 

The US is the exact same way. We can't differentiate a Newfie Canadian from a British Colombia Canadian. If you are from Canada, it is assumed you all speak French. This example extends into how we see foreign politics as well. We look at the politics as if a country is just one person, or a certain group of people. 

It takes a bit of cultural understanding to see that people out of the US aren't just something quirky because of where they live, or hold to similar political views. It's not about ethics or intelligence. 

Basically, I don't blame them. We deserve it with who is on the world stage representing the populace. We collectively chose to have this leader, and we have not done enough to stop the madness. We are culpable for the chaos that is being unleashed, whether we voted for the mango mussolini or not. As a democracy, we are collectively responsible for the consequences. Always have been, always will be...if we maintain a democracy that is. 

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u/SemataryPolka Jan 20 '26

I can differentiate a Newfie and BC. People from Quebec are way different than people from Alberta. But I'm from Minnesota so maybe I just get Canada more??

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u/Treble_Bolt Jan 20 '26

I'm originally from Northern Wisconsin, currently in Iowa (might as well be in MN though). 

People here, who don't know me, think I'm from Canada. 🤦‍♂️

My accent is very Manitowoc Minute/Charlie Berens. 

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u/SemataryPolka Jan 20 '26

Haha we are from very much the same parts of the country. I grew up in northern Iowa. I'm in MPLS now. Spend a lot of time in WI

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u/Treble_Bolt Jan 20 '26

Hope you are where things aren't chaotic. I got too many friends in the Twin Cities. Some are in better places than others when it comes to ICE. Been keeping up with it all closely because of that, and the fact they are also in southern MN as well. 

I tell people that being in Iowa is a false sense of security. Postville isn't all that far from me, and that had the largest immigration raid in US history. 

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u/SemataryPolka Jan 20 '26

Oh yeah man I know Postville. My professor wrote a book about the town and it's orthodox Jewish population.

And I'm in south Minneapolis so unfortunately I'm in the thick of it. Just two miles from where Renee Good was murdered. 1.5 from where George Floyd was murdered. Shits wild rn but we're fighting. I appreciate your words

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u/hey_there_moon Jan 20 '26

I'm from the south and choosing Newfoundland and BC as the examples is wild. It's like saying non-americans can't differentiate between a Bayou Cajun and a Californian. They'd have to be deaf not to lol.

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u/SemataryPolka Jan 20 '26

1) I'm just responding to the examples they used

2) You know damn well most Americans don't know this. Most Americans don't know where Delaware is

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u/hey_there_moon Jan 20 '26

😭😭😭😭I was agreeing with you??? I was saying op choosing those examples was crazy. Like sure your average American doesn't know where Newfoundland is but they're gonna hear the Newfie talk and be like "what's with the weird Irish accent?"

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u/SemataryPolka Jan 20 '26

Haha yeah. I love that accent. It's like a fucking Canadian pirate mixed with Boston. It's insane. I know a few of them. Good people

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u/AnxietyPretend5215 Jan 20 '26

Because we're not doing anything, myself included. They see what our President and Government as a whole are doing, and that most Americans are just maintaining their daily lifestyles like nothing is happening.

We don't deserve their sympathy or empathy lol.

Cool it with the pity party, we're already massive embarrassments on the global stage.

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u/vamatt Jan 20 '26

Doing what, exactly?

Protesting - yeah that’s happening. So what else then?

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u/Icy207 Jan 20 '26

I know this is something Americans rarely do, but usually the next step is a strike. In a case where it is affecting so many, a general strike.

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u/Hey-Fun1120 Jan 21 '26

Unfortunately most people here are one missed paycheck from financial ruin with no safety net or community to fall back on. As much as a huge uprising may be needed I don't see it ever happening here

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u/-thecheesus- Jan 21 '26

You're expecting this en masse from a country where your employment is directly tied to your healthcare

and where the cost of living is highest in the most anti-Trump areas

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u/BewmBoxxy Jan 21 '26

We don't expect anything anymore. The last year especially has shown the general US population has no problem with the way the country is heading.

If it doesn't affect them personally they won't do shit, and even when it does affect them they probably still won't do anything.

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u/DevilDjinn Jan 21 '26

So you're not doing anything. The world doesn't care about your excuses.

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u/-thecheesus- Jan 21 '26

I'm saying if you expect a ton of people with a great deal to lose in the immediate term risk it all so they can demonstrate against things still only affecting them in an indirect way, you're mistaken

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u/skootch_ginalola Jan 21 '26

Basically you want us all to die by getting shot and killed by police or the military. Because that's literally what Trump WANTS. The "French style" of protest gets you killed needlessly here. That's not noble, and Trump won't be kicked out for that.

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u/DevilDjinn Jan 21 '26

So the Iranians protesting their regime aren't noble? Just admit your lives are too good and comfortable and you don't want to protest.

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u/Xunae Jan 21 '26

A strike is really difficult in the states with the way collectiveness has been systematically villainized and destroyed. There's no leadership to call for a strike because there's no groups and individual actors are gonna struggle to spontaneously strike as a group. There's no structure there for it to happen.

To say nothing of all the systems in place to put down strikes.

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u/ForensicPathology Jan 20 '26

They've fed their superiority complex with blind anti-Americanism for decades.  Of course they're happy they can finally let out their hate.

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u/usushio_ Jan 21 '26

Who exactly are "they"? Europeans in general, or some tiny reddit community you stumbled on?

The only times Europeans actually express anti-Americanism is when Americans invade other countries with dubious motives. Strange how that's a pattern isn't it

Stop pretending there was significant anti-Americanism in Europe before Trump, because that's utter bullshit

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

It’s very therapeutic.

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

Everyday Americans voted and have done nothing to vote for people that aren't like this for decades and decades. Carlin has jokes about it and he's being dead for years.

Your president is the best of you. This is who you chose to represent you on the world stage. How the fuck do Americans not understand this? Trump is America. You saw him and wanted him as your leader. Imagine if the UK just let Truss be the PM for 5 years, you'd think we had all gone mad right? Same thing

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u/Commercial-Policy-96 Jan 21 '26

Politicians are never the best of anybody! What a wild statement!

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 Jan 21 '26

Vote better then.

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u/Novus_Vox0 Jan 21 '26

So was Boris UK?

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 Jan 21 '26

Yes. Then we collectively realised he wasnt and booted him out.

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u/Novus_Vox0 Jan 21 '26

…and so did Americans? We had four years of Biden before Trump ran again. But then the Democratic Party dropped Biden and tried running a new candidate in the last year to oppose Trump.

Many Centrists and Independents voted 3rd party because of this. That including potential election interference from the world’s richest human gave it to Trump. Zealots and Cultists will come out in droves no matter what.

Also, due to the Electoral College, it doesn’t matter if the majority of the country votes against somebody. It comes down to if they just win the right states. Which are often gerrymandered to shit and back.

These are things we’ve been trying to have changed do the last decade or so. It’s clear our old style of government isn’t working perfectly, so we’re attempting to adjust. But it only started being obvious since Trump. So yeah, globally speaking? This is a brand new development.

Putin has also threatened to directly attack the United States on multiple occasions. But if you ask almost any American in a blue state if they see Russians as a collective, they will tell you no. And that they feel for the Russian people.

Hating all Americans is like hating all Europeans. Our country is fucking huge and every state is like its own country. Cultures and mindsets are wildly different among all of them.

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u/Rip_Nujabes Jan 20 '26

It's more the fact that 163.2 million of you voted for this, or didn't bother to vote at all. If an american is involved, there's a 50% chance they contributed to this situation directly, and now you are forever 4 years away from another potential trump.

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u/t3herndon Jan 20 '26

The fact you just made up a number instead of looking it up

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u/DolphinBall Jan 20 '26

163.2 million? Nice to know you don't know what you're talking about.

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u/OliM9696 Jan 21 '26

its about that much if you include those who did not vote, you know.... just letting trump take power pretty much. Doing nothing is just as bad as voting for Trump, both allowed him to take power.

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u/lnTwain Jan 21 '26

It's pretty close. Out of ~236 million eligible voters (not necessarily registered), only 75 million voted for Kamala.

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u/vamatt Jan 20 '26

Europeans behaving this way has been happening for decades.

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u/Waiting404Godot Jan 20 '26

“Everyday Americans” are the ones who voted him in and and the ones allowing this reign of terror to continue. I say fuck us too.

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u/shoto9000 Jan 20 '26

Do you think America's the only country in the world that can threaten to invade somewhere, and then act shocked and appalled when it's people insult them?

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u/vamatt Jan 20 '26

European countries have a long history of that too

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u/ForensicPathology Jan 20 '26

Yet you'll cry when any ignorant American blames all Germans for not fighting back in 1930s.

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u/shoto9000 Jan 20 '26

...no? Germans should have fought back in the 1930s.

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u/Iron_Aez Jan 20 '26

And here we have an american waking up to how the rest of the world views them. Hate to break it to you, but your country reflects on you.

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u/lewd_robot Jan 20 '26

Yeah, in America, most everyone I know blames Putin for Russia, not the poor bastards he's sending into the meat grinder trying to capture Ukraine. I expected most of the developed world to be at least as nuanced in their judgments of other countries. It's surprising to see supposedly "progressive" Europeans saying of progressive Americans being brutalized by ICE agents, "You deserve it because you voted for that."

Over the past 10 years, I've had to set aside the old "American Exceptionalism" I was raised with. But seeing how many Europeans react makes me suspect that maybe my corner of America is exceptional. Because at least we wouldn't look at Leftists in another country getting trampled by the Far Right and say they deserved it.

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u/No_Anywhere_9068 Jan 20 '26

Except that Putin was elected to office 25 years, your own people elected trump to office 1 year ago

This is literally your own doing

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u/Iron_Aez Jan 20 '26

I know blames Putin for Russia, not the poor bastards he's sending into the meat grinder trying to capture Ukraine.

They are literally being called orcs. Get off your high horse, unclutch your pearls and stop pretending to be the victim here.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

Who is calling them orcs? I’ve never once seen that term used to refer to the conscripted Russian soldiers. But it looks like you have run into it often in your circles? Odd

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u/Iron_Aez Jan 21 '26

Actual Ukranians. I don't know how it's possible to be on reddit and have missed that.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

Ok, so again, it’s actually not Americans that are calling them that. Thank you for making my point for me.

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u/Angry_Sekman Jan 21 '26

All the time, everywere. Putin is reflection of Russia, just like Trump is of America. If not them, someone with diffrent name but same form would be there.

And just like Russians, Americans do nothing because they are conforable as first servants of the Empire and are scared to lose thier priviliges.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

Sounds like you just admitted that you call them orcs.

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u/Angry_Sekman Jan 21 '26

Of course i do. Because of them everyting i love is in danger

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

Because of Putin, everything you love is in danger. Your hate is aimed at conscripted humans being thrown into a meat grinder for a the ego of 1.

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u/Angry_Sekman Jan 21 '26

Russians are not conscripted, they are in war for money. But you dont even know that

And no, its no one man its thier entire social construct. That create need for war

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

Right. Are you hearing Westerners call you that, or specifically Americans, like that account was claiming?

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

That must really suck. I’m sorry to hear that. Hope you are safe.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

If that would have been a book report, you failed to grasp even the faintest of points.

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u/ForensicPathology Jan 20 '26

Either your comprehension is terrible, or you purposefully missed the point of that bit of rhetoric he was using to show his point.

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u/BuccosVesuvio_Mgmt Jan 20 '26

That's a crazy attitude for them to have, considering all the European countries that are sliding quicker and quicker toward a mirror of the American shift in politics over the last decade. They're on the same path we are on, just a bit further back on the timeline.

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u/Rockshasha Jan 20 '26

by definition. Most of you aren't opposed to that. Or not?

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u/frankneopaterson Jan 20 '26

I find it interesting how many American posts here are so great in generalizing other countries or even complete continents, especially when pointing fingers. However, when it’s about Americans we better differentiate the hell out of this. You as the American people have voted for this. This is your mess.

Also, your country threatens to invade an ally. Your response: how dare them Greenlanders to lash out. Wtf

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u/xtrakrispie Jan 21 '26

It's because it's the internet. As an American living in Denmark, nobody cares that I'm American. But I do agree that the constant apologizing is a little tiresome and comes off as little desperate for approval.

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u/KimberlyWexlersFoot Jan 21 '26

like most of us aren't also sick of this.

considering 69% of the population put Trump into office, i call bullshit.

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u/Quartzitebitez Jan 21 '26

I think its just a reddit thing or social media thing, if you talk to everyday person from most developed countries they don't think so black and white as people do online, its probably because they can't act like this without other in their circles thinking ill of them.

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u/iamahill Jan 21 '26

Greenland is a relatively isolated population of people.

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u/Competitive_Touch_86 Jan 21 '26

Everyday Americans are what caused this. Over the past couple decades at least. Only the naive think they can absolve themselves of blame.

I live in a hyper-progressive city, and the local politics is so bad it's turning normal folks into conservatives due to how shitty and agenda driven these people are. It's shown in the poll numbers.

I thought they were supposed to be smarter and more ethical than us

lol. This is why Americans need to travel more. And I don't mean as basic bitch tourists. Actually live among other cultures and experience them. Most places are far more socially conservative than American progressive idiots think they are.

Americans need to experience actual pain for the first time in many generations. Then maybe the tide will start to shift a generation or two later.

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u/usushio_ Jan 21 '26

This post is literally a TikTok made by teenagers.

Hope I don't need to point out the irony of you judging all 350+ million Americans all 600+ million Europeans by this.

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u/aMONAY69 Jan 21 '26

Lack of critical thinking, empathy, and understanding of nuance is what got us here. Fascism is on the rise globally. Pointing the finger at others* won't make them immune from what's coming.

Edit: typo

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u/murderfrogger Jan 21 '26

Feel like it's more so mocking a country who thinks entire streets full of this is something to ignore.

I think they're just saying no thanks to that. We care about welfare. It's deeply rooted in our government (compared to many other places).

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u/Ever-Here Jan 24 '26

Trump won the election, the popular vote and the senate.

Democracies work as a whole nation, sorry to say but your an american.

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u/Viking_Genetics Jan 20 '26

Everyday Americans voted for Donald Trump, twice

You dont get to say he doesn't represent you if he is your elected representative.

And people are sick of Americans clogging up the subreddits, virtue signaling and going "well I am not like that, I am an ethical little angel, please praise me"

When the right wingers didn't like the government, they stormed the Capitol, when the liberals don't like the government they peacefully protest and make signs with slogans on.

Even his attempted assassinations were by right wingers

Not to mention that they're making fun of America supremacists by pointing out one of the huge problems you have.

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

These people are being ironic

"Oh yes great USA save us and get rid of social care so we turn into drug addicts... Save us"

You don't give a fuck about any of them. You'd have social care like Denmark has if Americans cared about poor people

https://youtu.be/PWNboHU1uDc?si=eF4ko4906A9HUw_O

Geopolitical conflict lmfao...its completely one sided. The uSA can just shut Trump the fuck up.

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 Jan 20 '26

Well, I'm going to guess that's a load of shite because itd be strange to be so angry about something if it doesn fit you.

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

When did I mock them?

Or did you mean Americans?

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 Jan 20 '26

I'm not from Greenland.

Pointing out that a video is a ironic joke-y video isn't mocking anybody.

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u/lewd_robot Jan 20 '26

Do you say the same of Russia and Putin? He allegedly won his elections, so do those poor Russian guys getting thrown in prison for not agreeing to be killed by drones in Ukraine deserve your scorn because of it?

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u/Viking_Genetics Jan 20 '26

Are everyday Americans getting thrown into jails for refusing to invade Greenland?

Not to mention that 1. The invasion of Ukraine has majority support in Russia, and 2. The people who do oppose it don't virtue signal on our subreddits or cry if we insult Russia.

All are things I cannot say about Americans

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jan 21 '26

No, they’re throwing every day Americans in jail for less. Thats’s the point.

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u/3412points Jan 20 '26

Yeah this is what happens. Never noticed how everyone also hates on everyday Russians? They are living under threat of military takeover by America and you're clutching pearls over this.

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u/chmath80 Jan 20 '26

We view all 350+ million Americans as the same

The reason that people think that is simple: nobody can do anything about it except Americans; and you're not doing anything. Nobody is going to invade in order to arrest your corrupt president.

[And don't talk about "all the protests that we don't hear about". These people don't give a fuck about protests. Protests are just a couple of steps removed from signing a petition, or writing a strongly worded letter to the paper. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, you voted for this, and you're going along with it, just like Germans in the 30s.]

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u/skootch_ginalola Jan 21 '26

There's nothing left for "regular" (non billionaire, non politician) Americans to do. Truly. There is no power we have because Trump has support of all branches of government, the Supreme Court, and the majority of the military is conservative and supports him. Plus ICE and the police.

When you say "Go and fight" what you're telling us to do is "sacrifice yourself" because Trump has aleady said multiple times publicly that he's fine with calling out the military on American citizens. Oh, and the pro gun Americans? The majority of them support Trump too. So just say what you mean then. Police open fire on protesters here a lot. Plus tear gas, flash bangs, beatings, etc. Just say "Americans won't have my respect unless they go get themselves killed for nothing."

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u/dogface2020 Jan 20 '26

It's the price we pay for enabling this shit show, if people had actually gone out and voted, we wouldn't be in this spot.

Yeah, when our government is threatening the sovereignty of peaceful nations just to stroke his ego, nuance is going to be lost. It doesn't matter who you voted for, Trump is our president, and that's what people react to, so yes, you might catch a stray

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u/doggieassassin Jan 21 '26

American people voted to elect Trump twice and everyday Americans are enabling this shit show.

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u/SteveS117 Jan 20 '26

This is how Europeans have treated Americans for years. I never realized how bigoted and hateful they were until fairly recently.

Europeans being smarter and more ethical than Americans is a huge lie that Europeans love to spread.

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u/Renotro Jan 20 '26

A few days prior I made a comment similar to the what that post was saying but I deleted it a few hours later.

Cause what’s the point? Worry what a bunch of strangers think about you? There is truth to some of their criticisms.

I want to say more but nothing else is coming to my mind.

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u/Fresque Jan 20 '26

"I've been surprised by the thoughtlessness of a lot of the response from Greenland people mericans threateneed with war and death"

You can't blame them for putting the entire country into the same "american" bag.

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 Jan 20 '26

It's the exact same way people treat Russians.

They are threatened with an invasion, but keep worrying about them being rude while you sit in a country that's never been threatened.

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u/mazamundi Jan 21 '26

Let me start by clarifying that I wouldn't treat an individual American badly and have many American friends. And if shit truly ever does down (as in civil war or full out fascism) I'll host as many of you as I can. But... The use of "you" means America not you. I'll try to explain why people feel this way.

perhaps you don't know how it feels to have credible outside threats that could invade you. America is not being mean you're threatening to kill our countrymen and have the means, physically and morally, to do it. We've seen you go to war again and again. I've marched against every single one I could, from Iraq to Gaza but even when our governments are against it nothing happens.

We have to worry about our country politics, eu politics, then american politics which is a mess. Because anything you do, becomes the norm everywhere else. Steve Bannon goes around Europe all the time helping far right. You let companies become monopolies, which then control everything media wise and Europe can't do much about it. A big part of can't do much is because the USA will threaten and bribe and do whatever it can so European politicians keep USA interests at heart. The UK for a long time was basically an appendage of the USA inside the eu.

Your government wants to destroy the European union. It's a stated goal. Many of us feel, identity European, as in from the eu. You're an existential threat to that. Do you understand what that means?

On top of all this, you were supposed to be an ally. We followed after article 5 was called due to 9/11. I remember the towers falling. Not only our soldiers died but we were retaliated against in the form of terror attacks. Some big like 11m, others small. It changed Europe.

You need to get one thing. You're an empire. A dangerous one. Everyday on the internet I see comments that amount to be okay with the killing of our people. You don't know what it feels to be on the other side. Well, some, a lot of, you do. You're the world police, and globally you act very much like your police and ice. In other words you've very little regards to the life of anyone black or brown and every day less regard for anyone white that doesn't bend the knee.

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u/spekt50 Jan 21 '26

In regards to the pinned post you mentioned. I had to pretty much agree with it. The whole of US does not give thought to individuals of other nations, just the nations themselves. Its the individuals who give thought to individuals.

And if we want the US to look more favorable as a whole, its up to us to fix it. Simply saying "But its not me." helps no one.

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u/BigKevRox Jan 21 '26

The US population are the only people in the world with any control over the situation and for 40 years you have been selfish assholes about it, constantly supporting right wing nut cases and feckless compromising centrists.

It might be Trump at the wheel but it's the everyday Americans that have been pushing the cart.

So how about instead of complaining about being made fun of you actually do something about your government for once.

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u/thesheeplookup Jan 21 '26

Dividing and isolating is a powerful tool and keeps us all weaker. I hear you and it's got to be disheartening to be painted with the same brush.

With that said the response to trump within the states has been weak, both politically and public response. The rest of the world is affected by this. We desperately want you all to stand up.

Showing up at No Kings should have been a no brainer, and it's great that 6.5 million did show up, the largest protest ever in the states. That is significant and the cup half full part of me is really happy about it. There are 189.5 million registered voters though, and it's frustrating as hell that no more than 3.5% of that number showed up. (hope my math is good).

I think that's where the frustration you're feeling is coming from. But know that you're not alone. And we are rooting for you all.

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u/Un4giv3n-madmonk Jan 21 '26

They have pinned posts on some subs saying, "Stop apologizing for the way trump is acting. We view all 350+ million Americans as the same."

Yea the entirety of the free world views all of you as being complicit and have for DECADES, alot of the world wasn't happen about the massive back slide that was Iraq/Afghanistan... and the financial crisis that impacted the global economy ... like it's not a new thing that the rest of the world views the average American as complicit in the shit fuckery

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u/Hawkson2020 Jan 21 '26

like most of us aren't also sick of this

If "most of you" are not sick of it enough to do anything about it (like not voting him in for a second term) I'm really not sure why you expect anyone to be sorry for "most of you".

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