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[@Ruffceyx530]

People who buy Madden NFL every year should be put on a watchlist

[@justinland1208]

Same with FIFA.

[@hanzo90]

Adults that play Pokemon should be on the registry and anyone that moves nearby should be informed that there's an adult Pokemon player down the street

[@lazygamer4746]

I still play NFL 2k5, best football game of all time.

[@absolute-xero7502]

That's a pretty big watchlist.

[@zeroinblack7317]

Mouth breathers.

[@Ioria89]

As an Italian, when i watch an American movie portraying Italy, I cringe so hard. According to them, we are still living in 1960, it's like potraying a city in Africa with huts all over 😂

[@tashawnmcrae6326]

😂😂😂 lol

[@ryansais13]

Do you guys still pump gas while smoking? Absolutely horrifying to watch in person.

[@giorgioguolo7196]

​@@ryansais13not that i know of

[@crust9889]

​@@ryansais13I remember watching someone smoking at a pump behind me with their car on while fueling at an Ohio rest stop. Didn't think people still did that shit

[@ThaTyphon]

Source?

[@sandercohen5543]

I hate being told to "stand your ground" in an argument. It's the epitome of stupidity to latch on to a flawed point of view, if you're clearly wrong. It's just so much more productive to recognize that you're wrong, even if it hurts sometimes.

[@filipbitala2624]

We have a saying in my country, translated it would be something like: “wisdom relents”

[@vinniegret4841]

@@filipbitala2624Cool 👍

[@crowd175]

In Center Europe I learned from home that admitting wrong doing & take responsibility is a form of strength.

[@FirstLast-xf6xx]

Standing your ground means sticking to what you believe to be true. Mainly what you know to be right and be ready to hold the line with your life. That takes more strength then accepting something you don't believe to not go against other people. Be a person for the world, not a parrot.

[@vinniegret4841]

Context is important. There is no absolute. Imagine: If you will stand your ground against "me" in something i personally took a part in while you watched through news/internet/YTube lens. And somehow our opinions diverge. Arent YOU will be the idiot for teaching ME what was really happening there? It doesent matter what you believe in, the fact is a fact. And there is no strength to standing the ground on it, just idiotism. And by exorcising the so called strength you'll just be spreading misinformation, why still knowing no better. And there is also enother example where it will be other way round. So why do we still stick to theese empty absolutistic statements if they arent true half the time? We should approach anything with an open mind, only by questioning things and actively educating ourselves we grow as a person. Otherwise, degradation.@@FirstLast-xf6xx

[@pimentinha1121]

The fact that Asmon confused Central and South America is icing on the cake

[@shakey3306]

Really

[@reginaldcampos5762]

It's south of Murica. It's south Murica.

[@cube6485]

Both central and South America for the most part is not fond of the US.

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

@@cube6485 Yet, they hoards demand their way in.

[@Michelle-rdz17]

@@TheSolidSnakeOil lmao keep believing Venezuela is all of central and South America….

[@octavius9685]

This video basically verified that EVERYTHING Kojima warned us about in MGS2 was real and he is a fucking wizard.

[@yoshitsune5691]

Man I should really get around to playing the metal gear series.

[@thefiresworddragon927]

I'm convinced that Kojima is the mortal avatar/reincarnation of some kind of god of creativity, and this ain't even referencing the Kojima Is God stuff, this is based on the fact that he's pulled some insane awesome stuff, while being I believe the guy who made the very first stealth game mechanics that would go on to be used in Splinter Cell, his latest projects in Metal Gear Solid, Assassin's Creed, Ghost Recon, Batman, and more.

[@dacsus]

And someone should explain to Asmongold that US is rich, because US is robbing other countries from their natural resources.

[@realpatriot1769]

Kojima is God after all

[@FalconRS]

We need to start official Cult of Kojima. First holy rite is to play all MGS' twice.

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

To put it simply, most Americans don't have to worry about the outside world, but most of the outside world does have to worry about America.

[@karlschroepfer7053]

Lol really

[@ripvanwinkle6557]

@GiegueX Honestly, that goes for the entire western world. It's all going to kick off 🤐

[@danrockwolf8772]

@@GiegueX world collapse, given the political influence usa still have in countries like morocco, ukraine, afganistan among others

[@Soxmember69]

No. Japan's intelligence isn't decreasing.

[@myst2212]

​@@danrockwolf8772 Political influence on morocco? Most people in Morocco don't even know that the US is supporting the country, our government has always been corrupt, but the only thing I can remember the US did in Morocco was sell fighter jetts and weapons for cheaper to us. And of course the fact that they acknowledge that the sahara is morocco's and not for the polisario (which i'm grateful for tbh)

[@krevetka9744]

I find it sad how anytime I speak to an actual american (non-npc, non-karen) - we're getting along just fine, but whenever our governments get involved - it's a disaster. Every. Freakin. Time.

[@ColdRooR]

It has always been and will always be...

[@bifrostbeberast3246]

That's because of American brainwashing - Pledge of Allegiance is some serious nazi brainwash stuff and they don't see anything wrong with it.

[@leobe2104]

I feel like that's the case with a lot of people from any nation. That's part of the reason I don't like to mention politics

[@BigJMC]

As an Australian I no joke legitimately convinced someone that I rode a kangaroo once to school and that Mad Max was inspired by Australia and is an accurate depiction of what goes on in Australia.

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

They're sheep, they just nod and say yes.

[@random_duck1]

Yeah I know the feeling, they think we (Brazilians) all live in the rainforest and have pet monkeys and jaguars

[@Jobiin]

The edit at 6:29 really kept my hamster brain engaged and helped me avoid any critical thinking and/or retrospective thoughts, much appreciated.

[@flypr7561]

it was a genius edit

[@SmeekPeek]

Yeah, I was about to change video. Glad it came up

[@Magic_Maki]

13:18 don’t worry there’s another one ☝️

[@alfyb4512]

Actually France did not block “American” music from radios. Instead, it passed a law requiring a quota of songs in French. Of course, it affected all the US and UK stuff most of all, it’s not like there was a lot of Finnish metal or Vietnamese folk on the waves in the first place.

[@drantigon]

That's still the case today iirc

[@oremfrien]

This is a case where the law was written specifically to prevent French radio stations to effectively become American-British radio stations because most French would, if they had a choice, listen to American-British music.

[@mateuszkulesza8528]

Same law exists in Poland

[@Sig509]

same with other European countries to various degrees. When they first introduced that law, the songs in native language were all pushed to the middle of the night xD.

[@sarzootashoota351]

Nuclear war Asmon: There was an altercation.

[@neonicecube908]

I love that at 6:28 when asmon takes 2 seconds to think and nothing happens, the editors decided to put in that mobile game clip to keep our monkey brains entertained

[@wrawler]

I didn't even noticed it XD

[@Acoto]

IMO the Entertainment Industry and media/social media is dictating America's attention and perception of reality, and we're all a lot dumber for it.

[@r3dr4te963]

I used to think 4kids was a stupid localization/ censorship attempt that dumbing the contents so American kids can watch them. Nowadays, I feel they're actually more into screening "undesirable" foreign culture, that could teach different value to kids.

[@appearr7611]

this is just shifting the problem to someone else. Media in Europe isn't that much different, especially now where a lot of european media is directly influenced by american media.

[@bifrostbeberast3246]

@@appearr7611 You clearly never watched German or British documentaries or ARTE. Clearly

[@styve6205]

wearing an "its not gay if its TSA" shirt while a TSA worker is on his knees in front of him is excellent

[@SpieleSuchti894]

Just using "europe" as a term compared to the usa is kind of ignorant. Each country in europe has extremely unique culture and language. There is no "just europe things" every country in europe can be assumed to do things differently. The assumption makes me think though that in america all is the same.

[@Skyl3t0n]

Imagine comparing romanian policies with germanys

[@LuisBrito-ly1ko]

“Extremely”? It depends. At least in the western part they’re somewhat similar. I didn’t feel this much of a cultural impact when going from Switzerland to Italy for example. Even languages can overlap or not change at all, depending on the country.

[@jakoberson4162]

@@LuisBrito-ly1ko It's not "extremely" different, I will agree. If you went from Switzerland to the Philippines for example, it would have been far more different culturally. But even within Western Europe there are far larger differences between countries than between US states, who share the language, the currency, the system of government etc. For example, Switzerland is a country with four different official languages and some form of direct democracy that I don't really understand. Italy is a republic with a unified language (with several dialects) but it is also a patchwork of the different states that preceded the modern italian republic, many of which were ruled by the french or the spanish or the pope at one time or another. The border between Switzerland and Italy is something like 800 years old, with the country of Italy only having existed for 150-something of those years. There has been time for really different systems and cultures to appear on each side.

[@LuisBrito-ly1ko]

@@jakoberson4162 Actually, the modern border between Switzerland and Italy is 221 years old. Napoleon did a bit of redrawing.

[@jakoberson4162]

@@LuisBrito-ly1ko that may be so, but my point still stands =)

[@defalttheloner]

As a Brazilian, this is just so scary. We have been manipulated in south America since the WW2, the cold war era destroyed us and since then we have been fighting in politics and stuff.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Brazilian gdp percapital is low than Mexico now

[@emanuelferreira253]

​@@carkawalakhatulistiwafact checked and u missed by a long marge

[@ceoofgg553]

​@@emanuelferreira253 i mean it is true

[@CelestialDesign]

He got the orwell thing so wrong. The main character of the book is literally part of re writing history to fit the narrative those at the top want to push at the time. It had nothing to do with having too much info, it was that big brother didnt think the masses needed access to information they didnt deem important.

[@IrvNation]

He got a lot of stuff wrong, to be honest....

[@michaeljohngarcia6432]

1984 doesn't have a problem of having too much information, it's the problem of forcing the state to listen to just one information, the information the party deems to be true

[@CorwinTheOneAndOnly]

A post with purely anti-american sentiment as its driving force got some things wrong? Say it ain't so...

[@CelestialDesign]

@@IrvNation fair, but its also a bit excessive to make a claim like that imo because I don't feel like typing an essay explaining each and every thing I disagree with him on. That being said, I don't usually disagree with his final points very often, I usually just disagree with some of his logic in reaching that final point... so most of the disagreements are moot points.

[@twaggytheatricks4960]

@@CelestialDesign No, I understand. XD I think your opinion is fair, and you're at the very least in your right to point out, like, how he's wrong. It certainly educates people like me who don't necessarily have the cultural knowledte to fully grasp _how_ he's wrong, you know? Personally it doesn't bother me too much because I know he can own it (at least, based on the videos I've seen), and nobody can be right 100% of the time, so, yeah. But seriously, thanks for your comment! It was genuinely informative.

[@MoraMorbid]

I thought I was the crazy one when my BOSS, friends, etc. started telling me all the reasons why the lady on the plane was right and that man didn't exist. When I got home I told my bf and he just looked at me stunned, turns out he'd experienced the same thing that day and we both where ridiculed for not buying it.

[@weatheredseeker]

I have a feeling you just both had issues with communicating and understanding that day. There's no way that is the full story of what happened

[@MoraMorbid]

@weatheredseeker you'd be shocked 🥲 I wish I was lying to be honest. Conspiracy theorist Facebook moms exist in droves

[@weatheredseeker]

@@MoraMorbid your framing of the narrative suggests that every single person you talked to that day agreed with her but it seems like it was really just 2 or 3 people

[@nuke2099]

@@weatheredseeker Maybe they only talked to 2-3 people. Therefore every single person was the case.

[@MoraMorbid]

@nuke2099 that's exactly what it was. Also I'm not gonna under sell how insane it is that 4-5 people actually believed this garbage. By saying "1 or 2 people believed this woman" is a giant understatement for how serious it is. Working with 30-50 year Olds, you get alot of conspiracy theorists. Especially where I live.

[@moogiibat5845]

Now you all understand why that Polish game dev said they had to dumb down the games for the Americans.

[@shakey3306]

Who?

[@moogiibat5845]

@@shakey3306 Watch more Asmongold

[@iorwenvaremreis2195]

@@shakey3306 former CDPR member who worked on Netflix witcher show, Bagiński

[@honilock577]

19:15 Japan doesn't try to convert literally the whole planet to their insular culture...

[@23Lgirl]

Japan loves France.

[@I-am-Igris]

My college professor had this saying, "Education in America was modeled for you to pass while in most parts of the world, education was modeled to make you FAIL" and I stand by that to this very day.

[@dembi2770]

Wich both are pretty bad to be honest.

[@mkultraenjoyer]

And that's when you see people in higher education absolutely fail, public school sets you up for failure

[@thespiderfrommars2840]

Basically America has a lower curriculum standard than most other countries.

[@smkeybare]

@@thespiderfrommars2840 No child left behind - George W Bush.

[@thespiderfrommars2840]

@@smkeybare that’s great but if I had to choose between a random American surgeon operating me or a random German one,I’m gonna go with the latter.

[@CookiePieMonster]

The fact that it took an event in 2023 for people to realize something that's been obvious since 2018 is just insane to me. I thought we all have been watching this circus act an fully understood exactly where we're headed. *IDIOCRACY*

[@johnmcstabby2699]

I'd argue it's been obvious since at least 2010-11 with the freak out starting over 2012

[@CookiePieMonster]

@@johnmcstabby2699 Probably, but then again I was in basic and AIT at that time so idk wtf happened those two years. I just know things didn't really start getting stupid until 2018. My memory is trash so I can't remember specifics, but I know that's the year I started to realize people are getting dumb and not just "Oh I didn't notice that" dumb I mean "What the fuck is that?" dumb. The kind of dumb that has you baffled from just witnessing it.

[@tiryaclearsong421]

​@@johnmcstabby2699I agree in hindsight but I was a freshman in college in 2011-2012. I didn't see it at the time and life honestly seemed pretty good. I became aware we were becoming insane a couple of years later.

[@totallynottrademarked5279]

@@johnmcstabby2699 Nah it started in 2007 and has only gotten worse since then. The opinion of the AM shock jocks really bled over into politics and both sides have moved further away from moderate positions since then. If you want to be super technical it started under Regean and his repeal of the Fairness Doctrine for media, the poisioning of the right with the Milton Friedman style of capatalism, and the Burgess Society. However it really kicked off in 2007 when a lot of those ideas started then finally got massive support and has only gotten worse since then.

[@Fr00stee]

i think it became a lot more noticeable after people were forced inside due to covid and became terminally online, lots of people got brain rot from it

[@charanko2971]

The Idiocracy movie is actually a documentary about the United States of America.

[@acmenipponair]

The difference between the USA and Japan is, that also Japan is trying to be on their own - but they know the rest of the world exists.

[@TheSaraGames]

Many moons ago when I was still playing Dark Age of Camelot I got a random message from someone who thought I was someone else. We got to chatting about the differences of criminal laws in Canada, I have limited study of that from school, and criminal law in Japan. The person I was talking to was a professor of law in Japan. I never would have had that chance if it wasn't for the internet/mmo. It was a festinating conversation.

[@at6062]

Are you me? DAoC was my first MMO and my first time talking to people from other countries. It was a good time back then...

[@elel3041]

[@choco2689]

Same here. DAoC introduced me to people in other counts when I was a lad some 20 years ago. Canada, UK, one was a paladain living in Ukraine. Man I hope he is doing okay.

[@SR-mm2ru]

+5 Dire Kingdom Points

[@mmbw123]

What the hell is festinating?

[@ChemiiOneLegacy]

Tbf Last Samurai is one of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time in Japan. It held box office records and is one of the few places it actually won awards. It was actually more successful internationally than in the US.

[@zachu5508]

True and the the people who see Tom Cruise as the lead character and think "lol white wash/white savior movie" clearly have not seen the movie.

[@bonjourbonjour2754]

The Last Samurai is based on a true story. It's real sad the video doesn't mention it. Except the hero is actually French.

[@Daniel-yy3ty]

@@bonjourbonjour2754 that's the point though, isn't it? In order for Hollywood to ship that story the protagonist had to change from French to American

[@bonjourbonjour2754]

@@Daniel-yy3ty Absolutely, I don't mind at all. I love the movie. But in the video it's presented as being whitewashed, and it is not since it's from a true story

[@kylevernon]

Yeah. The guy who made the video clearly had a bias. The dude didn’t even mention that the US invented nearly all of the media technology use of past and present. Of course we have more media when we invent new cameras, computers, software, social media, news media, cable, dvds, internet, etc.

[@grandmothergoose]

The greatest problem with thinking you're living in the best place on Earth and everything outside of your great area doesn't matter to you because nothing else could be better, is that you'll never notice when other places advance and overtake and become better, leaving your little pocket of the planet behind. The USA has suffered from this exact problem, and that is why it is falling behind in every positive measurable demographic. Many other countries are now more democratic, have more freedoms, are more technologically advanced, are safer, have less poverty, better health, longer lives, and more civil rights than the USA today. Hopefully the internet will help fix that, but it requires Americans to be interested in the rest of the world enough to want to learn about it, and that isn't going to happen so long as they're still happy to blindly believe that the USA is the greatest and nowhere else in the world could possibly be any better.

[@bradmiller7777]

I think you made a great point about the internet combating racism as opposed to enforcing it. similar to how I explained it to my mom. her generation grew up with people on their street. our generation grew up with everyone

[@boodrowwilson1894]

doesn't mean stereotypes aren't true, kid. That's one thing the internet confirmed.

[@alexc1713]

People generally want affirmation, not information

[@idyt1985]

indeed, sad but true

[@7Saints78]

Correct you are💯

[@TheMeklankinator]

Validation too

[@woozy2171]

And thats exactly why I liked this comment, I have a natural bias. But I can be educated.

[@MrTeamGuy]

as someone from Eastern Europe, I have to say we had sh*t loads of great movies. Movies touching character struggles and providing continuity. Not sure how French made their movies, but Russia, Lithuania, Poland made great movies. Now most of the movies try to replicate what USA Hollywood movies are. Now, we have the worst movies apart from few indie flicks

[@TheRealDionysos]

I am german. if I watch 1000 german movies there is maybe one which doesnt suck. French movies I hate even more than german movies, but I also hate on most new movies from the states. To many shitty writhers out there right now.

[@joelmcclatchey1863]

I love UK crime shows as they don't drag on for 20 seasons and aren't always the ending you wanted and can be very dark.

[@zenit1910]

I love old Polish movies. They ware amazing and unique. Now we copy Hollywood and every Polish movie sucks.

[@filipstruhar]

Czechoslovakia had great movies

[@DiavoloGrenadine]

Léon, Athéna, Irréversible, Haute-Tension, Martyrs, Le Pacte des Loups, Nikita, Ernest et Célestine, Alphaville, etc.. watch them if you want an idea on french movies.

[@AmberyTear]

I've lived in other countries and gotta say, each country has more or less the same levels of stupidity, it's just that each country has it's own brand of stupidity. American brand is very easy to see and recorded on camera at every turn. In other countries people are often fumb about things that simply don't come up often in everyday scenarios.

[@savagesoul1983]

Okay, I've been there, You can get Cocacola in Cuba or NK, but only inside of hotel resorts, only for tourists, but if you are Cuban or North Korean, you won't find it. In those Countries, hotel resorts are independent from the rest of the country, they bring everything from outside.

[@almor3270]

The only issue i have with people from US is that they expect to everyone know their culture, slangs, etc. Usually if you say something that is completely fine for you but is not for them you get crucified for not knowing and blamed for being ignorant, is not that usual when is the other way. My only thoughts are they should relax and understand that the world is bigger than just US and not everyone know their culture and they shouldnt be blamed for it.

[@josephhamilton3822]

Yeah but a lot of people outside the US like to act like they know everything too. Especially when they have opinions about our politics. I'm also not saying that being an asshole to each other is right. In todays political society you cant talk to anyone about anything because every conversation becomes political even in World of Warcraft. Americans share servers with Australians and it's mostly toxic conversations. But I do agree with your last point. Most Europeans that I meet have no problem having real conversations or explaining anything. A lot nicer people than Americans.

[@PrincessofKeys]

Just remember not everyone from the US is like that. I want to learn about other countries and their culture and try to understand the differences.

[@Evija3000]

Encountered this two days ago. Commented about how I found it crazy that some Americans (like the original poster there and a bunch of his upvoters) think that 5 year olds should have free access to guns at home as long as they're taught about gun safety. And then got a giant paragraph from someone about how close minded I am, how I should try to understand them instead of judging them, complete with insults for me and praise for USA :D

[@ForgedinPrint]

@@Evija3000 Just remember, tik tock had a trend where people pointed loaded guns at their man giblets with their finger slightly squeezing the trigger. If you come across anyone else says that, just calmly remind them of that simple fact. Yes, people should be trained on gun safety even at an early age. Free access though? It only takes one stupid action, and well kids are known for doing dumb things. Some adult cops have been proven to not be able to handle a gun properly, what makes one think a kid could?

[@Evija3000]

@@ForgedinPrint Yeah, I replied something along those lines. Didn't get a response.

[@Vexy93]

As an Italian I'd like to point out that Hollywood believes that Italy is just either Sicily in 1930 or Rome in 1970

[@smellysock4260]

Until somebody gives me a time machine, I'll avoid Italy. Same with Africa. Unless it looks like a photo from a 1920s National Geographic with mud huts and natives standing around wearing straw skirts, it's not interesting.

[@tarrker]

LoL right? And that you guys basically have no police at all. Even in major cities. x_x

[@SynthhInHD]

Old guildie of mine died just before the beginning of TBC. I'm European, he was South American, and the guild was American. Miss you Aerays.

[@74aztlan]

7 years in Tibet is about an Austrian in, surprisingly, Tibet.

[@mattutes]

To be fair, Jour de Fete is one of the funniest movies ever made. Much better than the Nutty Professor.

[@arnodobler1096]

Jacques Tati is the best

[@KILLERDEVIL13]

It's just that it can't be translated in English. Or I guess that would be complicated

[@Tristan.Raymond]

A french guy approves this comment.

[@abnon-tha3088]

I still haven't got around to reading The Coddling of the American Mind. As a Brit, I have to say we do have a fair degree of stupidity over here as well.

[@erxan4163]

I would say most trends start in us , and then slowly travel to other parts in succession. Though europe may start some themselves

[@damnumonkeyballs]

It's ok , we can have stupid people together.

[@tenou213]

@@erxan4163 Except the toilet paper deal. Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie!

[@mindblown42069]

i think we have inherently better geographical knowledge because of our history, size and geolocation, but agreed, roughly the same % of people are stupid here in the UK as in America. Luckily we dont have anywhere near the same amount of racism, guns, bipartisanship and conspiracy theorists.

[@a-my9ql]

I don't think americans are stupid as much as americans are a commodity used in the NWO, first and foremost to fight wars like in Iraq and so on. Americans aren't told the truth about Ukraine. Luckily a lot of the right woke up to this, but even then, did the right wake up to what our real purpose and reason for being in Iraq was, no, do they ever investigate the reasons why we oppose Iran, why we oppose tons of countries in the middle east, especially since the end of the cold war, no. There is an American empire, and unfortunately, americans (ordinary americans that is), aren't in charge of it, they're just the ones operating the truck somebody else is driving.

[@tekh_ops7855]

The subway surfers in between saved me from getting distracted. Thanks Editor 👍

[@emorsi]

Sometimes I think we make a too big deal out of this. Crazy people were always there, in the past, now and they will be in the future. The difference now is the easy accessibility through social media. Suddenly everyone can be seen everywhere so we get the false idea that the crazyness has reached new heights.

[@nicolasbermejo1643]

The bit about France banning American music isnt true. the french government imposed that radio stations spend 60-70% of their air time playing french music in order to help and protect the french musical scene and culture. the rest of the 30-40% is anything the radio station wants to play including american music

[@yukanda3296]

C'est le contraire non? 30% de musique française

[@signa8]

In regards to the crazy lady on the plane, I heard someone summarize it very well: When you have a crazy person saying crazy things, there's telltale signs we pick up on that they are not all there. Bad hair, bad dress, deranged looks in their eyes, stuff like that. That woman was lacking all of those signs. I don't believe for a second that what she was saying was real, but I understand people wanting to know what she actually saw, because it would appear this is the first time she's ever done something like this.

[@TyrianHaze]

Either she saw what she claimed to have seen, or she was on drugs. I wouldn't discount either.

[@mikehunt7857]

Some are just better at not broadcasting their "telltale signs". Drugs, alcohol, stress, sleep deprivation etc can cause people to act out of character as well.

[@TyrianHaze]

@@mikehunt7857 I used to be in a perpetual state of sleep deprivation. I definitely did some weird things in that state. Won't go into what I did, but was definitely a weirdo when sleep deprived.

[@joee7452]

@@OBEYTHEPYRAMID Bullying is not rooted in American culture. It's rooted in humanity across the board. Don't kid yourself. If you think bullying is bad in the US or in Europe, try going to other places and take a look around. I traveled a lot for work (Europe, Africa, Asia, South Pacific, Central and South America) and you know I found once you leave the "tourist areas"? In every country, the government bullies it's people. Gangs bully people. Tribes bully other tribes. The Rich bully the poor. The strong bully the weak. The poor bully the rich. The "in group" bullies the outliers. It's all the same, everywhere. The difference is access to social media and the ability to cry about it and get validation.

[@signa8]

@@Fadaar 🤣

[@franky_saint]

"AMERICA! F*** YEAH!!" Best song ever LMAO 🤣

[@notelectrostormy8809]

i love that he added the subway surfers gameplay when he paused. IM DYING😂

[@TaiFu2323]

America is like that guy in the class who like to talk but don't like to listen

[@deusvult9439]

True!

[@tekk034]

I've said it for years. The internet is the greatest and worst thing to happen in modern times.

[@abcdefghijkl123454]

whoever suggested ai should parse through the news and summarize them that's literally the "villan"'s plot in mgs2

[@Magic0165]

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

[@darkreaper2528]

True

[@markusmononen5891]

When you laugh at the stupid movie rules of the past, then you read the rules for Oscars Best Picture award 2024.

[@WildZephyr]

"Global free market of ideas" Man, remember that? It's been a while.

[@SerWhiskeyfeet]

Is this an ironic statement? I can’t tell. In case it isn’t, you’re saying this on the World Wide Web.

[@Orrissan]

Admittedly it was a Global free market at the time. Free markets gravitate toward monopolies however...

[@TyroPirate]

@@SerWhiskeyfeetwhich is becoming more and more corporatized. Every mouse movement you make is tracked. Characters that you type out then erase without clicking Enter are logged. On the phone, where you are looking and for how long is also starting to get tracked. Then the little things that you are shown on the webpages, aren’t things that you asked to see. You probably think you are above it all. That you are too smart and can see through marketing and propaganda… but the reality is, the subtleness of it all is insidious and you do end up having your though compliant with what the corporations want, and what the government wants… if propaganda didn’t work, the CIA wouldn’t exist. And if marketing tactics were bogus, Google’s adsense wouldn’t be worth shit… yet here we are. There’s no free market, and there’s no actual global free market of ideas

[@kylevernon]

@@OrrissanThat’s literally untrue. Almost all monopolies have come into existence because of the government. Red tape regulations, interstate commerce, federal agency commissions, subsidies, grants, government contracts. Look up “The Myth of Natural Monopolies”.

[@WildZephyr]

@@SerWhiskeyfeet On KZbin, which likes to delete comments like crazy.

[@chad5696]

The subway surfers playing on the side during the 2 second pause was perfect

[@benns9673]

20:00 In France we had TV channels that massively buyed hundreds of japanese anime in te 90', so anime have always been relatively popula here , we had d1 release of dragonball, op, naruto and it was dubbed by some of the most legendary french voice actor . That's why when i leaned english i was shocked to see how America tended to hate anime and how late they got things like dragonball. It's also the reason we have a lot of talented animator or animation studio. (fortiche for Arcane, Chansard Vincent, Wakfu) as well as japanese/corean and french collab for anime.

[@Random-ij1em]

ah le club dorothée mais c'est vrai qu'on a été des pionniers en ce qui concerne l'import d'animation japonaise

[@Grim_and_Proper]

Purely from my experience as an Australian and the effect that our monopolised media has had on public information, it is very plausible that Asmon is correct regarding the corporatisation of media being a major problem. Even with social media weakening their grip on information, the Australian public information space is still dominated by two corporations that seem to agree on everything, especially when other corporate bodies stand to make profit (because they totally don't pay them off through goods or services...).

[@aessitt]

Social media is even worse. It's a junkyard of opinions. There are no journalistic standards applied to it. Many people haven't learned how to handle that kind of unfiltered pseudo-information. Yeah, there is more information available, but the sheer amount often makes people pick the most simplified or controversial wich often is just an opinion. You can buy opinions for very little money because the audience pays for the big part through platform-monetization. With a little jumpstart you can create self-financing, self-confirming opinion-spheres that can't be tracked back to you because our own industry took over paying the bills. I think it's the root of modern extremism that people stopped consuming traditional media and that social media platforms are todays biggest threat to unbiased information for the same reason as corporate media. Make money, don't care.

[@MarviMofoVarietyShow]

I agree 100%. There’s a lot of information and people don’t know how to cite their sources. People rather distract themselves bc life is a very short thing and they don’t want to be bored being informed. We suffer from people being able to vote that are uninformed, easily swayed and without a solid worldview.

[@MarviMofoVarietyShow]

@@titaniumwolf1123 that answer shows more about you than what you think it says.

[@weatheredseeker]

I mean I somewhat agree in theory but you're watching asmongold today so does that mean you are gonna give up your vote or do you think yourself better than everyone else?

[@vergillives9890]

​@@MarviMofoVarietyShowmost people read a headline than read an article

[@MarviMofoVarietyShow]

@@weatheredseeker I’m not understanding this question, lol. Give up my vote? Watching asmongold? My initial comment is to highlight how people don’t bother doing research, let alone making sure it’s unbiased, productive and honest research. Which highlights a big problem within the marketplace and our politics. That’s all.

[@hagoryopi2101]

There's two reasons for that: 1. Education is centrally controlled by the same government who benefits from your votes. Why would they want to make it any harder for themselves to manipulate you? 2. Because taxes are normalized and democracy is not real accountability (every political party is on the same side anyways), people have no real incentive to inform themselves because it doesn't affect how much money they lose or other significant personal issues. Compared to researching major personal purchases like a house, a car, health insurance, etc. If people had major personal stake in political issues like when they have genuine choice between competing services in the market, and if politicians were subject to real accountability like they would be if they weren't entitled to the right to take money from you at gunpoint and instead had to earn your money at threat of being boycotted, then this wouldn't be an issue. Nor would corporations have an easy out to being subject to the free market by just buddying up with the government that takes your money at gunpoint and funnels it into their bailouts. People would have reason to learn, and leaders would have reason to serve.

[@random_duck1]

America: continent United States of America: country

[@honilock577]

I found an Indian girl last year on r/confessions. I'm from Slovenia (that's in Europe, for the americans, and not the one by the Czech Republic) and we vibed on a problem she posted there. 7 months later and she's one of my closest friends ever, and we haven't even met irl yet

[@RicoRaynn]

Americans are extremely sheltered. It’s a combination of our unique geographical location and the fact our military might is unparalleled. It’s provides that bubble around our populace which allows them to worry about stupid shit instead of reality. Sad thing, I would have been the same way had I not joined the military and traveled to so many countries (27 total). The real world is pretty shitty. Something even the worst off in American culture don’t even come close to facing in their day to day.

[@id1550]

Idk, in a perfect world it would be preferable to worry about stupid shit because that would be reality. We don’t live in a perfect world, but how could you convince someone to worry about something that they believe doesn’t even effect them?

[@erxan4163]

​@@id1550that is true , the way some americans are , just means their lives are that much better or simpler

[@astranger448]

Add language to the bubble.

[@RicoRaynn]

@@KZbinDweller8008 the poor as well. Yeah, the suck still exists, but America’s poor are vastly better off than even what would be considered ‘middle class’ in places like Syria, Somalia, and Malawi.

[@RicoRaynn]

@@astranger448 how so? As in English speaking only? I would never consider myself fluent in any language (used to be in German but haven’t used it in a decade) but I grew up in the southwest. While my Spanish is atrocious (can’t roll my ‘r’ and my accent is horrible) I can understand it and communicate perfectly fine. Did the same with Farsi, Arabic, Swahili, and Northern Somali. I will say that the we do have a good percentage of American tourists who think everyone should speak English when they travel. Which is so fucking arrogant it’s mind blowing. But then we have Spanish immigrants who constantly think everyone should speak and understand Spanish in America so it’s not really a unique stance only seen in American culture.

[@SuperEmcg]

To add to his point about comparing America to Japan, ive lived in Japan for a few years and there are some things Japanese people think that would make you question your own existence. Generally they dont have much of a concept of the world outside East Asia. They generally stereotype countries through their media so England is like harry potter, france is a romantic version of paris, italy is Sicily etc... So geography is something they're generally weak with. If you tell them your country has 4 seasons it blows their mind because they think only Japan does.

[@leisiyox]

Yep, Japan is also its own bubble. I think Germany could be an example of being more cultured as a whole in terms of geography, history and such

[@hichamsaber9953]

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[@GuzmanMPetit]

You reminded me of something. I used to work for Amazon (in a tax exempt zone in Uruguay, we got paid 4 times less than american workers for the same job). One day I received a call from a man in Texas, old man, his name was john. He was lonely and wanted to talk. My shock when I had to explain to him that in Uruguay is the opposite season to the US (our christmas falls in summer, its hot as f) and that depending on where you where in the world, it was a different time of day. He was dumbfounded, like I was. He was a nice man, and I understand he might be from another time but... Even my grandfather born 1920 living in Uruguay knew that shit, it was not rocket science. Hope he is ok.

[@Hednar]

Seven Years in Tibet does NOT play in China ... it's obviously Tibet, which China occupied in 1951.

[@GooberBrainTrollingCorp]

Excuse me, woman. For a dollar, could you name a woman? Woman: Uhhmm

[@fucknancygrace]

it was a stupid question and she was caught completely off-guard

[@charlie8458]

God damn I laughed so hard at the French cinema thing, as a French man.

[@colbr06]

Films from other countries are less insufferable than Hollywood nowadays. I'm sure that's a large part of why other countries are seeing more cinematic success.

[@gingerbill128]

I started watching lots of foreign language films as Hollywood films became rubbish .

[@c.j.shotgunangel8905]

I love how he says that texas is a land and thats exactly what happened in cyberpunk timeline.

[@SirGalahad83]

Well, the problem with conversations on the internet is that it is a shouting contest.

[@scbaman9470]

I think the opposite could be said about being a guild on a server with a bunch of Brazilians. You develop a new found hatred for Brazilians.

[@MrSolLeks]

Or play conqure online in the 2000s. The JAJAJAs still piss me off

[@MikeSlippy]

The interviews where they highlight peoples lack of common knowledge always astonish me as well, but I would have to assume they probably interview 200 people and just cherry pick the duds.

[@SandySalesman]

6:34 thanks for the subway surfers gameplay, i was about to click off but that kept me watching

[@domagoj905]

The speech by Asmond around 24-28 minute mark is spot on. That's why I don't even comment on the stuff I know about, much less things I am less knowledgeable about.

[@dremikanix7427]

Americans have the ability to be expertly (ACTUALLY) informed, make good critical analysis and decisions, and have great morals and ethics due to access to knowledge and information.... they choose to surf social media, believe politicians, and swear psychotic allegiance to a political party. I don't feel bad for this nation's stupidity.

[@TyrianHaze]

Getting carried by stem majors and people in the trades.

[@orangerightgold7512]

@@TyrianHaze getting carried by brain drains from other countries.

[@TyrianHaze]

@@orangerightgold7512 There were plenty of Americans in my STEM courses when I was getting my bachelors in computer engineering. 🤔

[@HiSodiumContent]

@@orangerightgold7512 Of course, since people who live in the country and aren't reliant on their employer to remain in the country realize they're getting absolutely shafted in wages and benefits and move, often to different states but sometimes out of the country entirely. That leaves the immigrants who can't negotiate or change employers filling those voids and often, the companies themselves are the ones bringing them in to fill those jobs specifically because they can pay them less and lower the average wages in that area and field. The brain drain is intentional and entirely profit motivated. Companies would rather import their labor for cheap than provide competitive wages.

[@OrangeMelon419]

For them Politcs is a Religion. No matter was the one Side says the other Side is against it. It’s Crazy

[@Cheeseybeaver45]

Thing was last samurai was a super hit in Japan lol

[@ShakaCthulu]

Before the arrival of the 20th century, people weren’t expected to know much about anything outside of their local community. You would know your president & his cabinet leads, your local reps & governor, and that’s pretty much it. I think that’s partly why they were more well adjusted, they weren’t bombarded everywhere with information that had little bearing to their day to day lives.

[@splintery9357]

I spent 2 months studying for a military board, had everything memorized.... Got infront of my CSM and brain dumped....

[@Nairb1007]

Yeah I think the world confuses sometimes that its not that Americans are stupid , but they just don't care. California and Texas are way bigger than most EU countries and I think Japan. So pretty sure CA would know more about their own cities, counties, and Freeway exits to take rather than the Geo location of anywhere else in the world or neighboring states. Also too if you don't have a NBA,NFL or MLB team, they don't really know you anyway.

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Europe is way bigger in population, culture, languages and have higher IQ, lower obesity rate, live longer etc...

[@tyrkdlesath]

The good part of the internet is that it demonstrates to everyone that people are more similar than many think, and it introduces good individuals to other good people. On the other hand, on the internet, it is easier to find negative individuals than in real life, and this is a significant problem. In real life, it is rare for bad people to come together, whereas on the internet, it is easy. If one person can create chaos, imagine a whole group of them.

[@CndBcn]

It only takes a very small percentage to fuck things up for everyone else too....

[@SoulTransient]

Imagine an organized group of them that pretend to have no power(no im not getting racial)

[@StygianStyx]

Back in like 2007 - 2008 when i was young i used to play an MMO called Last Chaos, there was this dude from India who used to hang out and power level me and another friend. His name was Respectful Shadow, i still think about him sometimes. MMOs have really givin me a good view of people from around the world... that was before the world went nuts.

[@EvilFandango]

People need to realize that they are not their ideas, ideas are just things you hold like a hat or scrambled eggs.

[@ConceptHut]

Are you saying you hold scrambled eggs?

[@ronholmesuk825]

I have to say, I wasn't expecting a deep, thoughtful, insightful and very intelligent argument on the state of modern mass media from you today, I was wrong. Maybe there is hope for us after all - you made my day.

[@soyentak5076]

hope; it has been like this since the dawn of time, only difference is we can see it in 4k

[@Famous007i]

yes... he better continue playing his games and dont even try to speak about his own nation/country. He knows nothing.

[@bullettime1116]

​@@Famous007i?

[@Canseeyt]

The people that buy the same COD…

[@jeambeam9788]

The subway surfer blend in was genius

[@hadzukyon1671]

im from Chile and always when see a "worlds ends" movie i never feel scary because all the time it only happens in USA cities xD, example The independence day, an alien invasion that only happens in the USA

[@solitaryenjoyer411]

Thanks for the subways surfer compilation snippet in there, I almost got bored

[@shemsuhor8763]

It's called "the lowest common denominator." Mystery solved. Who constantly wants to appeal to it and manipulate it? Well, that's a question that will get you in trouble.

[@nachomanrandy]

Found the guy who thinks soros is a boogeyman. What a shock.

[@MrSolLeks]

​@@nachomanrandy well he is the biggest democrat doner, so if you think the dems do a lot of really bad stuff and pass unconstatutonal laws, yes, he is bad.

[@aethelfrithofbernica]

​@@nachomanrandy Soros shorting the entire UK economy didn't happen then? Whoa, talk about a delusion!

[@nachomanrandy]

If this Soros person is here with us right now,@@aethelfrithofbernica ?

[@blitzblade7222]

17:01 From what I've heard that part was improv, was originally supposed to be a huge drawn out battle.

[@dnaseb9214]

They become more racist after contact with blaks. When the guy does heal properly and the whole party wipes

[@er0neus947]

Shoutout to No Child Left Behind

[@Skullrayge]

It’s mostly just governments and businesses that have problems with eachother. Most people can probably AT LEAST get along.

[@Stefantius]

the people lobbying the governments are having trouble with them? lol

[@NoName-mi8js]

Utterly false. Try roommating with anyone for more than a month.

[@ZombieLincoln666]

governments and businesses consist of people

[@axrelis5762]

Jackson also did many many many world tours and also gave a boatload of money to the 3 rd world

[@nexgen6249]

I love that subway surfer gameplay for few seconds lmao

[@aty57]

That last part about commending people for doubling down on things even if they are wrong. That is definitely not an America only issue. Keep an eye locally and you'll see this play out. Maybe it's not in front of a camera, but this happens. You'll have someone say the dumbest things, get proven wrong, and then when they double-down some 3rd party will just say something like "You tell'em" or some equivalent.

[@AwesomeNuke]

"Have you ever been so stressed out, that somebody asks you something like this, and you blank?" Not really, no. If someone asks me to point to Africa on a map, I won't point to like Australia because "I'm on the spot".

[@OurBros]

You're so awesome. Good job

[@AwesomeNuke]

@@OurBros found the ignorant commenter! I get it, you don't know where Africa is, and you'd probably point to Australia, so you're here in the comments to take your revenge on people commenting

[@lambtoken2708]

​@@OurBrosperson with a functional brain

[@nimmha6708]

No, it's normal for people who went to school outside of the US.. @@OurBros

[@Evija3000]

Exactly. Those questions usually aren't about some obscure countries that could drop from your mind due to stress.

[@Oumegi]

7 years in Tibet is directed by a French director, and is about an Austrian in the Himalayas.

[@olebogengthothela1191]

Non American watching an American watching a non American talking about American culture.

[@Bob69303]

25:29 I agree. I am European, I don't consider myself particularly stupid, but I am definitely a black hole of ignorance. Learning new stuff is hard because, unlike school, you have to know the context, the source, and who to trust. You can't ask me to become a history professor to make an educated guess of who I should vote/support/believe. Am I supposed to know everything happened in my country in the last 50 years? What about other countries? Do I have to remember it for the rest of my life? Imagine doing a test when the professor taught you bs the whole semester and you had to fact check everything, with people accusing each other of fake news. Now imagine doing this for politics, wars, corporations, climate... I give up.

[@Bob69303]

Oops he made the same points after

[@xSabir-hc7wj]

knowing your ignorant already makes u much better

[@biodidu25]

You arr not European, you are from a nation in Europe. There is no such thing as a European identity, culture,territory or even people. I am French, that is it. The EU is just an american institution.

[@ensar3752]

@@biodidu25yes there absolutely is such thing as European, African, Asian, etc. Much ethnonationalist?

[@biodidu25]

@@ensar3752 Do you have a European culture ? No. Do you have a european territory ? No. Do you have a European common language ? No. Therefore do you have a European identity ? No. I don't know why you bring ethnicity into the mix. Never mentioned it in the first place. I don't have a once of french blood in me and yet i am 100% French and 0% "European" Because there is no such thing outside the location as a continent. Americans can try as hard as they want to create this myth and undermine our sovereignty, repeating a lie a thousand times doesn't make it turn into a reality.

[@hekatetrivia1727]

Socrates was executed for impiety and the corruption of Athenian youths. It is neither new or unique. It never has been nor ever will be. Ignorance is part of the human condition. It takes far more intelligence to understand WHY people think the way they do then to sit back and stroke your own ego thinking about how you're not like them when you are, in fact, worse off.

[@moomah5929]

Something my wife told me: She was in a German language class with an US American woman who blamed the Spanish for stealing Mexican culture... The Spanish guy in class wasn't happy to say the least and the other US American guy was trying to make her shut up. Everyone else was like "WTF?!".

[@thehobbygremlin]

In my experience, as someone living in Japan for over five years now, I would say that Japan is more insular than the U.S. in literally every perceivable way, and the people are generally far less aware of what is happening globally (especially the young people).

[@ZombieLincoln666]

not that surprising given it’s an island and it’s like 98% Japanese

[@thehobbygremlin]

@@ZombieLincoln666 Yeah, just figured I better mention this issue is a global one in many ways, and has never been unique to the U.S. in spite of what some may encourage others to believe. To be fair though, in many ways the U.S. is the most prosperous nation, so I understand why people hold it to such a high standard.

[@kejtos5]

​@@thehobbygremlin I don't think they are held to a higher standard, It is just that the US one is the most influential and relevant to people who speak English.

[@GuzmanMPetit]

@@ZombieLincoln666 Yes, and also they had a 300 year isolation policy that modeled they ways. Japan's aperture to the world is , historically speaking, very recent.

[@tanksaawk]

To be fair, these kinds of people you can find in every country. I´m from Austria, out capital is Vienna; Now turn on a radio in the morning and you will find a show where they make fun of the 5 people they found in the streets who don´t know the name of our capital. At the same time we have Nobel Prize winners in Literature and Physics... It´s about the gap between the dumb and the smart and how much exposure one side gets. And of course the dumb side is going to be shown more, because it is more entertaining and ego-boosting to know that "I´m not as dumb as that random person on the Dumb-People-Show"... It´s also ego-boosting to know that I´m smarter than Americans... Because I don´t get shown scientists, composers, inventors, researchers (except Elon Musk)... I watch FailArmy and laugh about dumb Americans doing dumb american things.. But that´s not the whole picture, just as not all Africans live in huts made of cow shit, just as not all Russians are alcoholics and Gopniks, just as not all Asians have 190 IQ, just as not all Germans are Na*is and just as not everything is the way we perceive it. We just WANT to perceive it in a way that confirms our assumptions about everyone else being inferior...

[@rayquaza1245]

Thank you. I'm so tired of people on the internet representing us as just a bunch of stupid people. They sometimes point out that we're not ALL stupid, just that it's most of us. These claims are almost always based on nothing, yet just get accepted as the truth for the most part. I know I shouldn't really care, but I'd be lying if I said it doesn't bother me sometimes. I think it would for anyone who gets bombarded with content talking about how dumb you are.

[@spk1121]

Thank you for your reasonable take. I think it's fair to say, in most places, only 10% of the population is comprised of genuine morons, those who are essentially hopeless causes. With the USA's population, though, that's still _over 30 million people!_ That's how freaking enormous this country is, that this mere 10% is on par with or outnumbers any number of nations around the world! So, of course, you are going to find *plenty* of examples to affirm your bias about American intelligence if that's your goal. I wish more people realized that.

[@anonymususer1728]

@@rayquaza1245 I think a big reason for this is .. because the SPOTLIGHT is on the USA as a whole (and that includes its citizens) more than other countries. For example I am from Romania, which equates to being "nobody" on the global scene. People don't make videos about romanians being stupid. But they also don't make videos about romanians being bright either. Actually, videos aren't made about romanians in general ... because they're not that important. So, in a way, being american is like being famous .. it has its upsides, but it also has downsides. Being in the spotlight and criticised more than others (while having the exact same flaws as the others) is just one of those downsides.

[@rayquaza1245]

@@anonymususer1728 Well put 😂

[@qualivia]

This is the react content I like, No leaving to eat, No staring and saying nothing at all. Information is exchanged and opinions are discussed.

[@SR-mm2ru]

It's transformative

[@tempname8263]

One of the reasons - is lead poisoning. It affects IQ, and this issue is really widespread to this day in USA

[@Ichigoeki]

Thing is: not wanting to go outside of your own country is fine and dandy, perfectly understandable. Being unwilling to learn about anything outside of said country, now that's just the stereotypical American. Watching Asmon's reactions to these is entertaining in its own way, having a somewhat balanced combination of good takes and immediately contradicting what he just said a minute later with his own actions.