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4 June 2025

Stuff Americans say
US eh?

Stuff Americans say

A black question mark spray-painted on a large white plant pot, in black and white

Twitter post from The Hill @thehill (verified) with photo of Megan Rapinoe on a TV news set, pink hair, pinstripe blazer, blue background. Quote: Megan Rapinoe: I think that taking care of others, standing up for yourself and other people if they don't have the ability to do so, is very uniquely American.

Twitter thread. Original tweet: American police have arrested more protesters (9,400) in one week than Hong Kong police have in one year (8,900) with embedded video showing police in riot gear. Reply (name redacted): I am sorry that is a dishonest comparison. Hong Kong is one city. The US is a continent. If you want to compare. Pick NYC or Los Angeles.

Quora post. Question: Should the Spanish language remove the word negro from its language? Answer: Of course not. What an idiotic question. Spanish should no more remove the word negro from its language than English should remove the word black. Why disrupt the lexicon of the language with the second highest number of speakers in the world because of the ignorance of a tiny minority.

Twitter/X thread. First tweet quote-tweeting an infographic titled AMERICA'S TINY POLITICAL SPECTRUM - WHERE'S THE LEFT? showing a left-right spectrum with Bernie Sanders alone in centre-left and all other politicians clustered on the right. Reply (name redacted): all progressive ideas were literally created in America

Instagram/Threads post (name redacted): Japan charges a 700% tariff on American rice. That hurts ARKANSAS since we grow 48% of the world's rice supply in case you didn't know that.

Instagram post: We are the only country in the world to elect a minority to be president, and he was literally elected on the basis that he was black. Nobody in 2008 could tell you what Obama's policy stances were. Can we please stop pretending like America is a deeply racist country?

Twitter/X thread. Original tweet: no because why have I just found out that Americans can't do bank transfers so that's why they all use venmo and cashapp WHAT. Reply: I bet europansies have to wait 30+ days for bank transfers. They're so behind. I read they only just started getting credit cards with PIN. Meanwhile we're already on contactless. Love when they try to take credit for a system we developed

Reddit comment thread. AlienAmerican1: Who the fuck eats limes? Are you a pirate with scurvy? TheOnlyFerretKing OP explains it's common outside the US. AlienAmerican1 (-32 downvotes): I'm in California, a very non American place. Never heard of people eating limes. jasoner2k: How the fuck is California non American?!?

Reddit comment thread. Inside_Sun7925 (-4 downvotes): Literally every nation in the world owned slaves. America is the only nation to abolish it. Please, please educate. Reply from futuretimetraveller: So yeah, you're not just wrong, you're hilariously wrong. And technically, slavery is still legal in the US. The 13th Amendment forbids chattel slavery except as a criminal punishment.

TikTok comment thread. Pinned comment (name blurred): America has the best engineering because we have the most funding and money. European and German stuff is trash. Reply from Creator: uh I just hallucinated..what? View replies (80)

Reddit comment thread. First: how can you be xhosa? i thought that was an ethnicity only found in SA (south africa not sexual assault). Reply: Are you under the impression that Reddit only exists in the Americas and Europe? Reply: my bad i thought reddit was only a US thing and wasn't even allowed in countries like asia, europe or africa

Reddit comment thread. No_Anybody_4529: The pizzas I ate in Italy were quite different than the pizzas I've eaten in USA/UK. Reply from RManDelorean: I think the Italians just Italianized Italian-American pizza. Just because they're different doesn't mean one didn't lead to another.

Social media post. Someone sharing a tweet from NYPDCounterterrorism @NYPDCT: We are closely monitoring the fire at the #NotreDame Cathedral in Paris, France - with image showing NYPD badge alongside NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau badge (featuring 9/11 skyline and eagle). Below, an italicised comment: 1. why? followed by reaction memes

Twitter/X thread. First (name redacted, 8h): There's a coffee shop in Oxford that's been open since 1654. Reply: Coffee shops weren't even really a thing until a few decades ago! It was like this Seattle oddity that went national to great fanfare. Starbucks was high-brow, not low-brow

YouTube comments section (Polish interface - Odpowiedzi means Replies, rok temu means year ago). Video still at top shows a streamer/YouTuber wearing headphones at a desk with purple lighting, text overlay: Can you name 3 countries outside of America? Comments below: First (name redacted): Is there any free countries ouyside of america? Can't get more american. Second: America was the first free country though. Third: WTF are you on drugs? WDYM?

Tumblr post from hedgehog-moss. Long text about Americans being US-centric online - assuming everything is American, medieval peasant scale of worldview, Verizon, USPS, architecture. Key passage: Going online for the rest of the world means having to keep in mind an insane amount of hyperspecific trivia about American culture while going online for Americans means having to keep in mind that the rest of the world really exists I guess

Reddit comment thread. hblask (2 hours ago): Social mobility in the U.S. Is among the highest in the world. And yes, social injustice exists. It is sad, but transfers don't change that. Reply from justcalmthefuckdown_ quoting Social mobility in the U.S. Is among the highest in the world then: It's ranked 27th. It's about the lowest of any developed nation.

Instagram post showing a world map titled Which Countries Celebrate Christmas - green for public holiday, yellow for observance, red for no holiday - from @trap.maps. Comment below (name redacted): Thank god America brought freedom, democracy and christmas into the middle east

Instagram Reels comment section. Video still shows a Black man and an Asian woman in a store interior. One visible comment (5d): I'm only one race and that's American. Anything else is subhuman and only exists on this earth cause we allow it.

Twitter/X reply (name redacted): Americans are a uniquely social people, so while the lockdown strategy was effective in the UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Italy, it could never have succeeded in the United States.

YouTube/TikTok comment section. Video still shows a man and woman at a stylish bar/restaurant, appears to be in Iraq. Comment (2w ago): Wow... how much American tax dollars go into rebuild Iraq so they have beautiful cities like in this video. Damn

Reddit post from r/mildlyinteresting by u/Badgerclops. Title: This public bathroom stall is built with actual walls and doors. Photo shows elegant bathroom stalls with full floor-to-ceiling dark wood louvered doors and solid walls, built like actual rooms, with a urinal visible to the right.

Facebook comment section. Comment (name blacked out, 5w, 1.2K reactions): An American dog lives a far better life than an average African child!!! with sad face emojis

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