KilroywasNOTHere
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So, I've been following a British political Youtuber named Spoons. I like him and don't agree with everything he says (no surprise me being a yank and all) and I came across the video above. Now I'm fully aware that America and the British are always going to have a rivalry, we are essentially the estranged son that had a fight with Mother Britain, screamed "I hate you" and smashed a lot of Mum's things on the way out of the house. Whether the estranged son was in the right to do so or not depends on who you ask.
but one thing that struck me above all else about the video was when Spoon, to summarize said "The only reason why the world "Cares" so much about us Americans (IE hates our guts and curses our kind every chance it gets) is because of how our economic and military might is horribly handled on the world stage. I'm not sure if this needs to be said or if I'm just showing my dumb yank ignorance here, but I get the impression at times that the world thinks that the majority of Americans are "Team America: World Police" war hawks
I can tell you that memes aside, most of us at least on the "Conservative and Libertarian" front do not. Woodrow Wilson is probably the most cursed president behind Biden and FDR, and I've noticed that there is a growing number of people on my side that says we should have stayed out of WWI and allowed the chips in Europe to fall where they may regardless of who would ultimately win. Nothing would please people like me more than for America to ride off the global stage and into the sunset of a return to Isolationism, but it's an ongoing uphill battle and as we've seen with trump, all attempts at a populist America First movement is met with heavy resistance but it's a battle being fought none the less.
Am I right in my perceptions here or is this one of those forms of cultural humor that I just don't understand due to lack of experience? This is a question that I can really use non-American input or at least from people that understand the cultures outside the US better than I do,
And feel free to roast me for being a dumb American. I'm aware I'm showing vulnerability here.
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