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9 June 2025

Stuff Americans say
US military part 2: US is the reason for world peace and allows Europe to be socialist

Stuff Americans say

White text on a red background reading 'SORRY - AMERICA IS DONE SUBSIDIZING EVERYONE ELSES, MILITARY DEFENSE, 2 MONTH MANDATORY VACATIONS, 2 YEAR MANDATORY MATERNITY LEAVES AND FREE HEALH CARE TIME TO PAY UP'

Twitter/X thread (mobile screenshot, 8:02). Shows @dril (wint) tweet: "Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying" with "Military $725,000,000,000" overlaid in large text. Reply (username partially scribbled out, 21h): "Do people on Twitter just not understand how many countries we are responsible for protecting because we're in NATO? We spend 725 billion dollars on our military so countries like Sweden, Denmark and Norway can be socialist utopia's with the money they don't spend on a military". Reply (14h): "I think you spend that much just to blow up Middle-eastern countries. And it's not like those countries don't spend on military, there are just other more important things like education, healthcare etc." Partial reply visible: "Again, to clarify, they are able to budget on..."

Twitter/X thread. First tweet (username scribbled out, 14h) shows a chart titled "Life Expectancy vs. Healthcare Spending Over Time, from 1970 to 2014" with USA dramatically diverging from all other countries (Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, France, Australia, etc. clustered at 80-84 years, USA trailing at ~79 with far higher spending). Text: "Please point on the chart to where socialized medicine is worse than our system. Every other country has longer lifespans and lower costs." Reply (username scribbled out): "Funny you list every country protected by the US military maybe we should let them protect themselves and see how much they spend on free shit for their people."

Reddit comment from roseumbra (42m): "I think the issue for the US in general is they give too much to other countries. We subsidize everyone's healthcare, food apparently, and military protection. This does leave america with a lower quality of life than other countries. Maybe we should stop?"

Facebook mobile screenshot. Two posts visible. First: red background image with white all-caps text: "SORRY - AMERICA IS DONE SUBSIDIZING EVERYONE ELSES, MILITARY DEFENSE, 2 MONTH MANDATORY VACATIONS, 2 YEAR MANDATORY MATERNITY LEAVES AND FREE HEALH CARE TIME TO PAY UP" with shrug and eye-roll emojis. Second post below: red background with text "HAPPY LIBERATION DAY AMERICA" with smiling, salute, American flag, bald eagle, and firework emojis.

X/Twitter thread (mobile screenshot). Article text about Trump calling Trudeau "Governor Trudeau" and tariffs, with embedded Trump Truth Social post and news clip of Trudeau. The Visperer (@Creativ43717513, verified, 3:15 PM, Mar 4, 2025) asks "Why would you do this to a friend??" Reply (Mar 4): "Because the friend has been robbing us blind. I would have free healthcare to if I didn't need a military. Don't even get me started on Europe and the 4 day work weeks with summers off. I have been worked into the ground to be everyone's piggy bank and I'm sick of it!!!!"

YouTube comment (username redacted): "How may people around the world won't need food or medicine or housing if Americans don't step up and keep the world safe? Our military spending is directly responsible for world peace. Do you want to live in a world owned and operated by China or Russia or Europe? Just because we are friends with European countries doesn't mean we will always be friends."

Instagram post (mobile screenshot, 19:06). Image shows gold text: "...FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TO STUDY AT THEIR PUBLIC COLLEGES TUITION-FREE" (appears to be about Norway). Comments: (username redacted, 1w): "That's because we are their military and we help pay for that 'free' college." Reply (partially visible, Spanish, "See Translation"): "...yo momma." Reply (username redacted, 1w): "Agree. These socialists are financially illiterate that they believe that money magically shows up."

TikTok screenshot. Video still shows a young man gesturing with caption "Ireland?". First comment (5d): "if y'all weren't aware there's something called the freedom index and United States doesn't even crack the top 10 baby". Second comment (5d): "I'd remind you kids that all of the countries you think are 'free'-er than the US are under our military protection. Our military is the only reason you get to enjoy your freedoms."

Reddit/Threads post (username partially visible, "...ood", Follow, Retired badge, 28m). Text: "There is no such thing as free healthcare. Other countries have prioritized healthcare to receive the tax dollars of their citizens. The United States has prioritized military spending, basically to protect the rest of the world. It has succeeded in creating the longest period of no major wars between world powers in history. Most of the world in engaged in free global trade thanks to the US. I think that the subjects of Europe, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand should at least say thank you." Downvoted.

Reddit promoted ad from u/call_of_war_player. Title: "What would the world look like without US military Interventions?" Subtitle: "In our game Call of War you can simulate this and many other scenarios." Image shows a strategy game map of Europe with Germany (in pink/red) dominating most of Western Europe, France, and surrounding areas, implying a Nazi victory without US intervention.

Instagram/Threads comment (username redacted, 45m): "Those 32 countries also rely on the other 1 country to keep world peace through our large military."

TikTok dark mode comment section. Video still at top shows a young man in a black t-shirt captioned "HOW MUCH FOR A GLASS OF WATER". Three comments visible (usernames scribbled out): first (1-19): "Our health care cannot be free but it can be to nato cuz we back their entire military so they don't put anything into military and get free healthcare as a result". Reply (1-19): "Average amirican". Third comment (1-19): "Europe has free healthcare due to the fact that we support all of their militaries so they don't have to"

YouTube comment thread. Three comments (usernames scribbled red). First (1 month ago): "the tax rates in Scandinavia are way higher there are positives and negatives to everywhere". Second (blue 1 month ago): "I live in Norway, I'm aware of my tax rate - it's not over 50%, or anywhere near that. A definite positive here is the worlds best healthcare system, as opposed to the US which registers much lower in comparison to almost all developed countries." Third (1 month ago): "one US Healthcare is better in terms of quality and second pay for your own military then talk to me about paying for a social safety net."

TikTok comment thread in Dutch interface ("244 reacties"). Five comments in a chain. First (1d): "Imagine if the US refused to defend Europe.They would lose all that free healthcare they brag about". Reply (1d): "and who exactly do we defend the entire continent of europe from?" Reply (1d): "Are you joking lol?" Reply (1d): "Russia, terror organizations Turkey maybe". Final reply: "you mean the same russia that is currently losing ground to a single country an eighth of its size? lol i think the EU is fully capable of defending itself against basically anyone other than the US". Row of emoji reactions at bottom.

Reddit r/EndTipping post from u/Honest_Winner_7159 (16h). Title: "How to not feel guilty?" with Rant flair. Post about tipping $5 on a $158 bill, coworkers getting mad, getting nails done for $120, hating tipping. "UPDATED: Tipped $5 for nails. Good experience!". Comment from Pizzagoessplat (15h): barman story about an American tourist confused there's no option to tip on a European card payment. Reply from SedonaVortex (12h, -22 votes): "Did you thank the American for 80+ years of military protection and patrolling the worlds oceans so you can enjoy free healthcare, free college, paid paternity leave, unemployment, 2-4 weeks paid sick leave, all so you can enjoy a cushy soft life awhile being taken care of like a woman for nearly a century with the luxury to be able to make snarky comments like a spoiled teenager?"

Twitter/X thread. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders, 1h) tweet: "Our military is larger than these countries combined:" with list of 11 countries and flags showing military budgets from 181 billion down to 27 billion. "What if we invested in human needs to care for one another instead?". Reply (username scribbled out): "The price you have to pay to be the leading nation. Without the US the world would be full of anarchy." (10:19 AM, 17 Feb 20). Two replies below: "Leading nation in what? Medical debt?" (1h) and "Amount of overthrown democratic leaders" (1h).

Facebook "Most relevant" comments section. Two comments (usernames scribbled out). First (2w, 1.3K reactions): "Lmao it's got to be nice when you have a country the size of one of our states and have us subsidize your Healthcare, military, education and pretty much everything with OUR tax money... but please... keep shitting on us." Second (2w): "And if we as a nation didn't give money to the other poor counties they wouldn't be able to have 'free health care '"

TikTok comment section. First comment (username scribbled out, 5d): "let's not forget that you sleep easy at night because there is a massive military of United States that protects your country you're welcome" with grinning emoji. Reply (username scribbled out, 5d): "we also have the military but thanks??" with laughing emoji.

TikTok "For You" page. Video shows a dark underwater or space-like scene. First comment (username partially scribbled, 1d): "Please.. we just want healthcare". Reply (username scribbled red, 1d): "We are the worlds police. So we can't afford healthcare for all. Radical take: rest of the world should pay for our healthcare for being their police"

Reddit thread in French interface ("Repondre", "heures"). Three comments. ACryingOrphan (13 heures, -20 votes): "But if you don't have a U.S. military presence, how will you freeload off of their defense capabilities and make U.S. taxpayers pay for your national defense instead of doing it yourself?" Reply from Friz617 (OP, 12 heures): "You do know France doesn't have a US military presence in its territory?" Reply from ACryingOrphan (12 heures, -18 votes): "Even better, join NATO and make Germany your meat-shield so you can reap all the benefits of sheltering under the U.S. strategic umbrella while pretending to your voters that you're fiercely independent."

Tags:US foreign policy·US Europe·SAS·USA