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IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The artist is American, for one.

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I really don’t that that gives it a pass, TBH.

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      God, I better not ever make jokes about the absurdity of living here, lest I be seen as problematic against my own country.

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      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Welcome to North Korea America.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Everything in the comic is accurate.

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      • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Maybe it's my inner straight male talking, but I don't see nearly enough girls in American flag bikinis and cowboy hats in this country.

        I once went to Texas and got complimented on my sombrero, though.

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      • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Not saying any of it isn’t accurate for a portion of the population. But it doesn’t apply to everyone (we’re not a monoculture / planet of hats), and to paint 347,628,682 people with an ugly stereotype is, well, kinda racist / xenophobic.

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    • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Shut up nerd, go worry about a real problem.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s kicking upwards. US-American culture dominates globally, the US is the most powerful nation on the globe. It is okay, might even be necessary, to poke fun at it.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s okay to make fun of a culture.

  At least I’m fine with that. Culture is the composition of choices.

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  • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There is no way people would be as tolerant if this were about like, Argentina, despite the country haven fallen victim to similar politicians. Or even Italy, another rich but declining nation with dominant Conservatism.

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, other than some folks jumping in to defend the honor of the Fatherland helpless foreign country which needs terminally online Americans to defend it, I don't really know that there'd be a big difference in reaction.

      There's not much here that's... actually offensive unless you really try to read into it? "Ha ha, debt goes up, major restaurants, car type that's fucking everywhere despite no reason for it, overused national symbol, food additive, regional hat, flag bikini, national obsession"

      I guess the diabetes bit?

      I don't really know that an Argentine drawing the same tongue-in-cheek style pic with inflation, whatever national chains are prominent, vehicle jokes, regional dress, a national-team shirt, and a soccer ball would really get a majorly different reaction.

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Am American, everything here is spot-on 100% true. I could find real life photos of everything here.

  Yeah, even her.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  knowyourmeme.com/memes/norf-fc-simple-as

  not really.

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Norf F.C or “Goalposting” is the nickname given to a series of drawings and illustrations originating from 4chan’s /pol/ board satirizing Northern English

    Yes, 4chan’s /pol/ board is certainly a mighty fine moral compass you’re referencing there. /s

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The meme became very widely used outside of /pol/ and rarely criticized on 'racist' grounds.

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