Yeah, people are right to complain when their local news is being drowned out by american politics but at the same time the political situation in the US is incredibly relevant to any country even tangentially associated with the US. Trump’s trying to do things like drop the nuclear test ban treaty and is actively attacking Venezuela, like, it is important. That the sheer unhinged drama drives engagement to the point that everything else is excluded just means you need to step up and make your own government as fucking crazy as ours is.
I mean Trump does that, but how is the daily minutiae of that relevant to me in Europe for example?
I’ve had the country with the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal threaten to nuke my literal home address like twice in the past 3 years (I used to live near the Rotterdam port for a while), why do I care that the second biggest might someday resume nuclear testing like everyone else already does?
Or that the US might attack Venezuela? I’ve a full blown war, largest European war since WWII, right next door.
Trump getting elected and his policy might affect my life somewhat, likely much, much less than my local news do, or EU news, or news in EU-adjacent countries. Mamdani, ICE abductions, they are mostly just interesting stories to read that nobody actually cares about.
You don’t remember Vitali motherfucking Klitschko, WBO heavyweight champion of 1999 and WBC heavyweight champion of 2004? Also earned a PhD in sporting science?
but even for those standards, it’s too much. it doesn’t even fucking affect the entirety of the US except for knock on effects. Like I gave a shit about Milei winning the argentinian elections, only because it could encourage more “libertarian” nutcases.
Spoilers : Milei is not a “libertarian”, he doesn’t believe in the only fucking saving grace of libertarianism : personal freedoms.
But it does, as trump is going to go after new York with even more force now. When Americans finally get off their ass and do something is what we are waiting for and this is the next step… For better or worse.
But it does, as trump is going to go after new York with even more force now.
what does that matter to someone living in the other fucking hemisphere, or hell, in wisconsin?
EDIT: I’ll even go a step further, why should I give a shit about ICE, yeah, there’s fucking murderous squads of cops beating ethnic minorities. So? They’ve been doing that in Myanmar and Israel for decades, why do I care when it happens to idiots from Cuba that voted for trump, or generic immigrants who said “I’m leaving my home country, where should I move to? Oh, I know, the place where they have no universal healthcare”
Because they are putting billions into making it everyone’s problem. Funding similar politicians around the world, making life harder for everyone on the planet… Not too mention the cost of things. They’ve made it everyone’s problem.
Russia does this too, but people dont complain about too much Russian news because there arent posts about internal Russian politics in every single meme community
There super are, just not in english-language ones. Christ, go hang out in a polish meme channel and you’ll get absolutely innundated with “Soybyanin” jokes. That you’re seeing english-language memes about the political situation in the largest english-speaking country really shouldn’t be a surprise to you.
The problem is local US stuff is now a world wide issue… So it’s not going anywhere for now.
Yeah, people are right to complain when their local news is being drowned out by american politics but at the same time the political situation in the US is incredibly relevant to any country even tangentially associated with the US. Trump’s trying to do things like drop the nuclear test ban treaty and is actively attacking Venezuela, like, it is important. That the sheer unhinged drama drives engagement to the point that everything else is excluded just means you need to step up and make your own government as fucking crazy as ours is.
I mean Trump does that, but how is the daily minutiae of that relevant to me in Europe for example?
I’ve had the country with the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal threaten to nuke my literal home address like twice in the past 3 years (I used to live near the Rotterdam port for a while), why do I care that the second biggest might someday resume nuclear testing like everyone else already does?
Or that the US might attack Venezuela? I’ve a full blown war, largest European war since WWII, right next door.
Trump getting elected and his policy might affect my life somewhat, likely much, much less than my local news do, or EU news, or news in EU-adjacent countries. Mamdani, ICE abductions, they are mostly just interesting stories to read that nobody actually cares about.
absolutely. it’s international news and could indicate further things of the sort happening; just like what’s happening in ukraine and israel.
I still don’t know the mayor of Kyiv or Tel Aviv though.
You don’t remember Vitali motherfucking Klitschko, WBO heavyweight champion of 1999 and WBC heavyweight champion of 2004? Also earned a PhD in sporting science?
I don’t know or remember him
but even for those standards, it’s too much. it doesn’t even fucking affect the entirety of the US except for knock on effects. Like I gave a shit about Milei winning the argentinian elections, only because it could encourage more “libertarian” nutcases.
Spoilers : Milei is not a “libertarian”, he doesn’t believe in the only fucking saving grace of libertarianism : personal freedoms.
But it does, as trump is going to go after new York with even more force now. When Americans finally get off their ass and do something is what we are waiting for and this is the next step… For better or worse.
what does that matter to someone living in the other fucking hemisphere, or hell, in wisconsin?
EDIT: I’ll even go a step further, why should I give a shit about ICE, yeah, there’s fucking murderous squads of cops beating ethnic minorities. So? They’ve been doing that in Myanmar and Israel for decades, why do I care when it happens to idiots from Cuba that voted for trump, or generic immigrants who said “I’m leaving my home country, where should I move to? Oh, I know, the place where they have no universal healthcare”
Because they are putting billions into making it everyone’s problem. Funding similar politicians around the world, making life harder for everyone on the planet… Not too mention the cost of things. They’ve made it everyone’s problem.
But thats not what people complain about
Russia does this too, but people dont complain about too much Russian news because there arent posts about internal Russian politics in every single meme community
There super are, just not in english-language ones. Christ, go hang out in a polish meme channel and you’ll get absolutely innundated with “Soybyanin” jokes. That you’re seeing english-language memes about the political situation in the largest english-speaking country really shouldn’t be a surprise to you.