People are mad at Vivek and Elon Musk for calling American culture mediocre

[@michaelscott6022]

"Yes, Americans are so entitled, they want proper healthcare and livable wages and affordable housing, why can't they be more like the third-world peasants we demonize yet exploit because of their dictatorial governments and suffocating economies?"

[@duplexx58]

😭

[@piccalillipit9211]

Who ironically have universal healthcare, free university and affordable housing most of the time

[@chihiroisabelle8680]

@@piccalillipit9211 Uh. Dude, I really hate to break it to you, but the countries the US is outsourcing labor to are generally not the ones who have free healthcare and university. Their workforce wouldn't be so cheap if everyone could obtain a free degree and wasn't drowning in bills.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@chihiroisabelle8680 India has mostly free university. Public healthcare is free for every Indian resident.

[@chihiroisabelle8680]

@@piccalillipit9211 I was mostly talking about other south/southeast asian countries the us outsources labor to but considering the video specified india I probably should have clarified that, my bad.

[@jfifthb]

they were saying these things way before the election, but now ppl want to be outraged over it. gotta love the average american voter

[@lego4virgo]

Vivek intimated as such during his campaign, and Elon has been trying to get more H1-B visas for years.

[@UberMangaka]

better late than never I guess...

[@ChillAssTurtle]

​@@lego4virgokick these worthless immigrants out. Get vivek and elon out.

[@em.415]

Can’t believe these dummies allowed them to buy our country. So embarrassing.

[@OshMMf]

Word

[@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729]

Its not a conspiracy if nobody's trying to keep it a secret.

[@DonCDXX]

Conspiracy also implies cooperation. If one billionaire sees another doing something, they can just copy what's working. No conspiring needed.

[@memkakes1514]

Ehh, technically conspiracy is a crime, secret or otherwise

[@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729]

@@memkakes1514 Words can mean different things depending on context. In this case I mean a particular thing. You just got outnerded. 8. The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

[@realhorrorshow8547]

@@memkakes1514 Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime. If your friends conspire to throw a surprise party for you, not so much.

[@memkakes1514]

@@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729 fair enough

[@ladyalicent705]

Unpopular opinion here but I think sometimes being entitled can be a good thing. Our culture places too much value on being ‘grateful’ for what little we are given, like you can be like that with your parents, but with billionaires? Start demanding better treatment. You deserve better and it’s time to stop pretending you don’t

[@NobodyC13]

Especially when the sort of people who cannot want for anything are about to influence or decide on policies, taxes, or the federal budget. It should piss anyone off when Elon says the American people would, not could or should, WOULD have to suffer for a few years under whatever hackneyed economic plan he and Trump's administration cook up to bring about their supposed net positive. This is especially egregious when analysts are believing Musk is eyeing to slash Medicare and social security in order to achieve that 20% off the federal budget, alongside more tax cuts for the rich.

[@coltonruscheinsky7863]

Hell yeah

[@kaelin_cherise]

"Entitled" especially coming from boomers, means about as much as them saying "woke" anymore. We're "entitled" because the dream of owning a house is dead and we don't want it to be. The housing market is inevitably going to crash when no one can afford houses anymore, or they're all put up for rent by greedy, underqualified landlords who don't know the first thing about tenancy. We're "entitled" because we dont want to waste our lives working with no end in sight. There is no time to live. No time to breathe. We're stuck in a system that demands we live to work that the biggest scam on the market is telling people about a "great new job that will make you thousands a day so you can quit your day job." We want to work to live. We're "entitled" when we ask them to respect our own personal identites and struggles. "Mental illness is all in your head," they say. When they dont want to try and learn what it means to be stuck in your own thoughts, to be implicitly aware of the crippling reality THEY MADE FOR US and have no way to change it. We're "entitled" because getting a ride to the hospital in an ambulance could send the average american into bankruptcy - and that's before treatment begins. We're "entitled" because we ALSO want lower grocery prices so we can eat, but a daily or even only occasional trip to starbucks is the reason we're so broke. I'd rather be "entitled" than heartless. I'd rather be "entitled" than blind to the issues around me.

[@nux2k]

Exactly these billionaires in h B1 immigrant should be grateful for the people who pave the way for them to even be able to come in this country and to have a country to come to. I believe in America first... I just don't trust either side is serious about it and when they say it that talking about some billionaires and people with government contracts stock market and corporations.

[@DundG]

You can be gratefull for what you have and still demand more... those are not mutually exclusive.

[@dirtydish6642]

They are so lost in their endless talking points and who they are supposed to hate that given week that pretty much everything flies because to untangle it would require vastly more mental effort and self-reflection that its easier to just go along with it.

[@o0bookwyrmknight0o]

I see the United States having multiple cultures with its wide range of people and ranges, so them thinking the U.S. is one culture is so disconnected from everyday real life people. Which of course, I hate that the two guys who will “decide what the government spends its money on”, are both insulting us U.S. citizens and also revving up for businesses to outsource work.

[@MrNorthvlog]

Petty much along with people x place are this or that. Added with a sense of self importance.

[@TheGreatOne-gw7xh]

What culture does american have? 😂

[@crescentcrab]

​@TheGreatOne-gw7xh Our Constitution theoretically explains our culture. Thus we have regional cultures based on that culture. Every region has its own rules of community but in theory should be one people based on the principles of freedom and justice. However, what we have here is a bit of a Frankenstein, dark triad version of it

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I see the US as one culture, with multiple facets, just like European culture. As far as I'm concerned "Western culture" doesn't really exist and what exists is instead: Anglo-American culture (Anglosphere) and European continental culture. When I see an American, I see an American, regardless of race, religion, etc. Americans like to hyphenate and create these sub-groups, but all I see is one group.

[@OpaloAzul]

​@@octavianpopescu4776 "European culture" = "African culture" = "Asian culture" I think USA culture is ignorance

[@Ironcorgi2]

It’s sad American culture says they want people to have kids not so society can continue on and build to something better but people should have children so a handful of people can extract profit from their labor

[@DrizzleDrizzleNeverDies]

This is why we need to #FreeLuigiTheMANgione

[@ElBandito]

Nah it should be more like #WeTooCanBeLuigi After all, what good is your Second Amendment if you don't use it to defend your way of life?

[@MSKIDmusic]

Based

[@hazukichanx408]

@@ElBandito Americans be like... "Come here with muskets and kingly demands? I fight! Come here with a piece of paper and corporate demands? I fold like a bad poker hand."

[@HellspawnAirsoft]

@@ElBandito question: can I turn a gbbr (assuming it’s an 80%) into a ghost gun in gtav? Asking for a friend?

[@HellspawnAirsoft]

⁠@@hazukichanx408 you are the reason I want to be a history teacher. The war of independence started with the wealthy land and businesses owners seeing their products taxed. It’s always been a piece of paper that starts it all. I don’t know what you mean when you say we fold to corporate demands. We strike, and lawsuits are filed and settled all the time.

[@LessGo7921]

Watching the elites of maga immediately take each other down after winning was not on my end-of-2024 bingo card 🍿

[@rodicow3491]

A surprise, but a welcome one to be sure. Also watching Shapiro and Walsh get ratio'd on their on videos simping for billionaires over luigi warms my heart.

[@AbsFabbs]

No but I’m here for it.

[@Bubbles-kk9zs]

I'm sipping my hot chocolate and enjoying it. Some of the things I've heard irl and YT make no sense from what they were saying BEFORE.

[@samkeiser9776]

It was predictable tbh considering that immigrants are exploitable and companies love doing that. So you can’t deport people you want to exploit. It’s definitely very funny though. Musk made his bed now he must lie in it. I just hope somehow deportations only get musk.

[@rodicow3491]

@@Bubbles-kk9zs For real, like to me the underwear gnomes from south park had a better plan than the tangerine terrori$t. Like at least with the underwear gnomes step 2 could have been sell the stolen underwear, manufacture new underwear or even buy stocks in hanes and fruit of the loom. But Step 1. Mass deportations and tarrfis Step 2. ????? Step 3. Lower cost of living There is no step 2 that exists that can make this sequence of events work.

[@sprites4ever482]

The self-proclaimed patriots, when they realize that they voted for people who hate their country: 😱 ← (bro is flabbergasted)

[@samkeiser9776]

It’s not about patriotism, it’s that they’re extra racist.

[@allstarwoo4]

You know after the Luigi Mangione thing I thought people would learn not to side with the rich anymore yet here we are.

[@TheGreatOne-gw7xh]

Luigi is rich. Have you researched his background?

[@allstarwoo4]

@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh I meant the whole situation and not specifically Luigi. When it happened everyone agreed health care for profit is bad. And everyone shamed anyone who defended Brian Thompson's business decisions. Or you know you can be pedantic because you have nothing of value to add.

[@TheActionBastard]

@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh My relatives are rich. I'm broke. That makes me broke. I'm not real sure being related to the rich is the same thing and I'm also not sure where you got the research on what that man owns... most news outlets don't even have a clear figure on the family net worth let alone the personal holdings. "rich" is a very relative word too. Millionaires stopped being rich a while back, friend. They're the "upper middle class" but I wouldn't call them rich. Rich is when you got a Billions with a B. imo

[@devnerdgirl4638]

@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh I prefer wealth on wealth crime. For once, it’s the ruling class facing the fallout of a failing healthcare system.

[@lunayen]

​@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh And even je was screwed over by someone richer than him. So why are the plebs still supporting the rich?

[@kaylynnanson6231]

It's not a conspiracy if people are being reminded of what they were mad at 20 years ago! CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS 2025

[@RandomUsername2342]

Can’t get over the “🌵NOOOOOO”

[@meep7605]

I'm not going to lie, American culture has some very big problems. The amount of issues America has that no other first world countries have seems to stem from the inability to drastically change due to the culture of the people that live there.

[@itookallthenames]

Sure, but it’s about to get worse!

[@IDONTLIKEMONDAYS-w2h]

We don't even have the freedoms that a lot of other countries have and those countries laugh at us for pretending like this is a great country, it most certainly isn't.

[@omgbuffy2276]

I want to disagree but... A lot of cultures often have intrinsic cultural issues that prevent them from implementing the solutions needed for their problems. It's a cultural problem. For example Japan and the population issues. They can fix it, but it's not possible with the current cultural belief system. Same thing here.

[@tonytomahawk5160]

That's because here racism is culture. You realize we rank below Cuba don't you? Dumb as hell but that's America.

[@em.415]

*Cough *cough guns.

[@naps_878]

the billionaire hypocrites got lost in their talking points, wow.

[@JABRIEL251]

So...on a scale of 1 to 10 how upset are we that people are now understanding what has been screamed about forever, especially after they voted for this? Cause I gotta tell ya, I'm not even feeling entertainment from the FAFO phase, just upset that they act surprised by what was said.

[@DragonMaiden77]

I don’t like the FAFO thing, because it won’t change anything, these same people will not learn their lessons and will still vote the exact same way plus *WE* are still going to be suffering right along side them for the next 4+ years because of their decisions.

[@JABRIEL251]

@@DragonMaiden77 I think it's more of a coping mechanism for people who understand just how fucked we are. A bit of comeuppance. It's kinda petty tbh, but given just how exhausted people are with how much they were screaming about the terrible decision many people made, I get why a bit of catharsis might come from those same idiots finding out the consequences. Still, I'm just frustrated at this point. No other word for it.

[@shovknight3008]

The only reason these immigrants are accepting these lower wages is simply because they don’t know how bad thise wages actually are. When I went to my first job all I knew was that the minimum wage was 7.25 or something like that, so I had it in my head that anything even slightly above that was a good wage. So when I ended up being paid 8 dollars an hour I thought “oh hey that’s above the minimum wage so that must be pretty good.” Then over a couple years I learned how pitifully low the minimum wage actually was in comparison to what you actually need to survive. Now I’m paid around $13 an hour but that would still not be sustainable if that was my only source of income even if I worked as many hours as I could. I have a feeling these immigrants are going through a similar situation, obviously our currency and inflation rate is different compared to the country they came from so they might see the low wages and think they are alright when little do they know someone in the same position as them is being payed twice that amount.

[@IDONTLIKEMONDAYS-w2h]

I remember working in California for 4.85 an hour before moving to Nevada where the minimum wage was 3.75 an hour. It was embarrassing. My husband and I made 8 dollars an hour between the two of us.

[@billwill7383]

People need to be more concerned about what Vivek and Elon are scheming about in they're DOGE committee.

[@TheActionBastard]

I cant believe we have a government office that shares a name with a fucking meme coin... kill me.

[@robbiegrant1449]

India actually made it to the moon Elon. Just saying 🤷‍♂️

[@LithiumBattery0]

Woah!!! That’s a hard one!!!!

[@Splatrakuzilla31]

Honestly, I’d rather live in city 17 than live in an America where almost all rights are taken away.

[@TheGreatOne-gw7xh]

You already live there.

[@Splatrakuzilla31]

@ in city 17 or a rightless America?

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

I rather have aliens show up at this point.

[@samm3980]

Kendrick needs to diss those clowns in 2025. Show em what the "mediocre" culture is really feeling.

[@samkeiser9776]

The Vivek post is so funny, he’s like “American culture is the problem, they’re all too lazy, and they go to sleep overs instead of doing extra curricular, and they hate nerds and love the jocks.” It’s like an 11 year old’s cultural analysis, and coming from someone who voted for the party that wants to gut education.

[@CCJJ160Channels]

I mean, they could always go back to South Africa and India if they don’t like it here. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@DundG]

They will try to take as much of the economy with them if they do

[@JustYourAverageGamer87]

Ah yes, good old Indian. Love that place lol

[@CCJJ160Channels]

@ oops sorry, typo!

[@randomstuff063]

And this year shows the hypocrisy of liberals. y’all are no different than Trump supporters.

[@Savage-l6d]

Is It me or the "prefering the jocks" part sound pretty personal?

[@Echo81Rumple83]

You might be onto something. Doesn't help that "cliques" is no different from tribalism and how it undermines healthy socialization.

[@doomdude69]

They were saying these since the 90's. It's just worse and more obvious nowadays.

[@Somethingaweful]

Why are people pissed. This is just immigrant parent behaviour. Anyone who has immigrant parents knows this type of behaviour lol. Of saying westerners are weak. And that the old country is great. Also, I find it funny when Americans call Mexicans lazy and Indians hard workers. Here in Canada the rules are reversed… Just goes to show that there’s no logic in the hate.

[@LithiumBattery0]

Canada is a good example of how to not run immigration policy.

[@viveksharma30]

As someone who is Indian, ….. yea I don’t understand ima go back to watching motorsports

[@DrDiabolical000]

Same. It's confusing for the America right-wing to say these types of things. I don't understand anything.

[@LithiumBattery0]

Lol😂

[@Keshkimathi]

As a Kenyan we get told this all the time while being compared to philipinos it's just a way to get you to give them cheaper labour

[@BenjaminGlatt]

I'm mad too: mid is way too generous.

[@legateelizabeth]

I figured Vivek would be too busy ruling over the Tribunal Temple to weigh in, but that's just me.

[@Maya-f1s1b]

Hahaha the warrior poet reference 😂

[@kwyatt261]

We are entitled, but only after incentive after incentive got stripped away gradually throughout the entire 20th century.

[@sponge4270]

“Youre always under the guys” that cracked me tf up

[@metalclawsteelheart]

They have a point about foreign culture being better, somewhere in europe, you have to rap battle a goat to keep your alcohol intact.

[@eazybuxafew]

The Christmas cut!!!!! And the straw man get soooooo close! Then just crashes out 😂😂😂😂

[@LanceTobey]

Yes, it is quite odd how Americans who have to live on the American economy aren't willing to work for Chinese (or Indian) wages. How entitled is that?!?

[@jwcarroll6378]

If they dislike it, why did they vote for the candidate that will have them run his administration? 🤔

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Lack of critical thinking. They don't even teach it in schools. I was lucky my parents put in the effort for that, mainly through movies and decent television shows (you'd be surprised where you can find some valuable life lessons that emphasize "think for yourself").

[@Morlock19]

god i hate it when i agree with people like LOOMER

[@Steven-T]

Right, but it's important to realize what part you agree with. I'm guessing you agree with her that business owners tend to exploit cheap undocumented laborers to pad their profit, which shouldn't happen. I'm also *hoping* you disagree with her stance on the "Great Replacement" b.s.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

​@@Steven-TI'm pretty sure that's what OP is saying.

[@Morlock19]

@@Steven-T what of course i agree with the great replacement like how could you not?? eventually the original avengers all have to be replaced because the actors are getting older... everyone needs to just accept that new people are going to come in and be the stars now, you can't always fall back on the OGs. thats what you're talking about right?

[@Steven-T]

@@Morlock19 🤣🤣🤣 IDK, sometimes I catch myself agreeing with the most insane people and I start to doubt myself. It's good to state the obvious sometimes 🤷‍♂️

[@thefuhkingrecordlabel]

End State: Deny, Defend, Depose. Hint: United Health Care

[@stephaniewebb9474]

**checking notes** "bUt FrEeDoM!!"

[@TheGreatOne-gw7xh]

Freedom needs to be restricted for the good of society.

[@Sadbed999]

"YOU'RE UNDER THE GUYS" Got me dead fr fr

[@almightyk11]

"I just want to discuss it" Well here's why... "OMG stop being a boot licking shill!" There are still people that think Trump wrote project 2025 as some sort of decree

[@over56drive]

Eat the rich....

[@Sadbed999]

Also, I think your audio might have cut for a second there

[@PlayingItWrong]

Mid is over stating it. It's a disaster.

[@lordkameguru7851]

Audio broke on the sane guy part just before the end. It's missing but you can see you're speaking.

[@glass_knuckles]

lmao at elon whining about jocks....we've given control of society over to the tech nerds decades ago in the 90s, look at the terrible job they've done.

[@vulcanraven5491]

Billionaire 2025. 🤣👍🏿

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

Yep.

[@ogaabogaa2702]

Let the rich win we lost no point in fighting

[@Illstatefishing]

🚩🏴 Another world is possible!

[@MirsadSavanna]

Thanks for the forecast! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

[@sugar2943]

No cap i pay 10 indians $1000 a month or $100 each to do some dev work i still have to test and its not perfect but they live well with that amount talking 40 hour work weeks its insane

[@matthewbishop8743]

love you LOUIS!

[@nemesis11181]

Immigrant here. For once they are on the money with the jock culture worship. I’m a citizen now so I don’t need a visa anymore but the cultural rot that favors jocks over nerds is so pervasive, it is impossible to ignore. And it’s very much celebrated- mocking Ross’s knowledge on evolution and siding with phoebe’s ignorance is a glaring example. “My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge” attitude is very much a problem. And no it’s not about customer service call centers. I’m referring to the cadre of phds and software engineers. We have a shortage because of our jock culture worship.

[@hazukichanx408]

And it's been that way for entirely too long. An old Dead Kennedys song called "Jock-O-Rama" illustrates this fact while providing eloquent and much-needed social commentary; the jocks get put on a pedestal, and they use this to help other jocks, all of them making sure not to spend too much time thinking, learning or being compassionate; those are all "effeminate" traits, after all! Well, according to jock 'culture', at least. Imagine being such a wuss that one is constantly _afraid_ of seeming too smart or caring. Jocks are a joke. A really bad joke that should have stopped being a thing, a long time ago...

[@kayzaac]

It's still a cherrypicked criticism though. Both so-called jocks and nerds have been vilified in different ways in entertainment culture. A lot of the time jocks are considered the dumb, belligerent antagonists to the less athletically inclined "normal" kid. A lot of the time nerds are mocked for being pedantic or insufferable. The common throughline is that both these archetypes are less-liked due to their *unsociable* qualities. There's a flaunted superiority that comes in both cases. But make no mistake, the academically inclined characters of the past may have often been the butt of a joke, but they were overwhelmingly portrayed as being on the "right" side of youth culture in most places they appeared. They were always the most bullied, and therefore the underdogs by default that you were meant to at least sympathize with. At best, the jocks were attractive and popular, but that would always be taken off its pedestal in the end in favor of more likeable people. Or even better, the jocks would be made more likeable by being less self-centered during their interactions with "nerds". Same case for the popular "mean girls". Everyone "worships" them, yet every storyline is about how they fundamentally suck compared to the protagonist. Watching a variety of American shows growing up, my main takeaway was that everyone is valid, regardless of where they fall on a spectrum. Being "average" didn't make you less of a person, or less deserving of a space. What was important was being a good person at heart. If anything, the "average" kid was most often protagonist whom anyone could self-insert into. I think so-called academics like Vivek and his retinue are only mad at those portrayals because they personally identify with being annoying, unsociable, self-unaware assholes without a heart.

[@nemesis11181]

@ TLDR. it’s not cherry-picked though. And Americans in particular have a hard time being told hard truths as the current conversation around Vivek’s remarks clearly proves. Americans will take serious offense to be called stupid and will vote against their own interests out of spite and in defense of their ego- even if the criticism is very much valid. We are as a country are also horribly educated about the rest of the world for this very reason and fit the American idiot stereotype only too well. Just look at the occasional street interviews that jimmy kimmel’s staff does asking the general public about stuff they should know and then see them fail miserably. If we can’t even get our people to know common stuff because knowing stuff makes you a nerd, then good luck pushing people towards hard sciences and STEM disciplines. The end result is what moments like these bring to light. We glorify ignorance on a daily basis in this country. Higher education is vilified and people are penalized (crushing loans) for opting to go to college to pursue even meaningful disciplines like engineering and mathematics. What’s worse, this society doesn’t see investing in education as a long term investment in its own interests. So what do you expect at the end of all this‽ - employment at SpaceX without knowing shit?? F**k no! Not gonna happen. If we can’t get our affairs in order we have no right to b*tch about qualified immigrants taking jobs. If you’re not gonna push yourself academically because you’d rather be a jock, then you don’t get to complain about some nerd from a third world country who has put themselves through rigorous academic work taking that job for which they are infinitely more qualified than your pathetic jock ass will ever be. Period.

[@ardinhajihil5011]

make sense one is indian one is south african 😅😅

[@RidgeWalker-jw1rr]

Sorry, let me correct that a little bit..... one is a white South African oligarch. It's important to make the distinction between the colonizers and the actual South African people.

[@foreng3095]

Oh. Not Morrowind's living god Vivec.

[@adandyguyinspace5783]

What culture? Compared to everyone else we don’t have much of a culture in my opinion. We don’t have architecture that’s distinctive and unique from other countries, we don’t have any traditional dances or customs that are distinct from other countries and peoples, we don’t have a unique language, and we don’t have traditional clothing. No unique traditional holidays, no traditional way of doing marriages or a marriage ceremony etc. Basically we don’t have thousands of years of development like everyone else that would allow all of those things previously listed to be developed. We don’t even have our own unique mythology (urban legends like Bigfoot “count” but you get what I mean). I’m talking things like Yōkai, yaoguai, and other mythical (myth in this case meaning story) creatures from which some customs and traditions were made from. We don’t even have our own spiritual traditions and practices or deities. The only culture we got is unique food.

[@timg5603]

Playing devils advocate but I’d say we have a unique culture, just not one to really be proud of. The American culture is highly rooted in individualistic exceptionalism with both a hatred and worship of authority. Our myths are local and usually rooted within either the Native American culture (see Appalachia) or national myths about the founding fathers, American inventors, and other high profile figures. We’re Christo centric for the most part with a large percentage having experience with an Abrahamic faith even if the percentage of active practitioners being on the low end. This leads to many having a belief in a personal God of some sort, though not in any orthodox framework (im spiritual not religious being a popular saying). Our traditions are rooted in capitalistic milestones (age of adulthood, age of drinking, first car, first job, first house) while also being family relationally focused but in a possessive, selfish way (my partner, my family, my kids). We also tend to be very prideful and stubborn, unwilling to take accountability for the bad things that result from our mistakes (putting them on to others) while also taking as much credit as possible for any good things. While we can be kind and generous, with many holding humanistic worldviews, our general apathy towards corruption, evil actions, and suffering tends to kick in at about the point outside of our social circle, making us very short sighted and quick to shut down critical thinking and long term decision making. While this is largely a generalization and obviously there are outliers, I would say from my (cynical) perspective that we have a culture, just a shit one at that

[@adandyguyinspace5783]

@@timg5603 Interesting way of framing that. Taking concepts of what makes a culture and putting that in a modern context, if I'm making sense. As a humanities nerd this is an interesting read, I'm especially curious about what myths are rooted with indigenous culture. The only thing I know of is non-indigenous people referencing wendigos and skinwalkers. Like, a streamer I watch was playing Lethal Company with his friends and someone in the chat jokingly called a monster a wendigo. I do know there are myths about the finding fathers like George Washington and the cherry tree, but I don't know any surrounding inventors etc.

[@lazarus8018]

​@@timg5603I'd also add that we tend to be shallow in our way of viewing things. The average American, more often than not, values presentation over substance. We often pay more attention to how something looks over what it does. For example, our mascot is a scavenger. It would probably get clapped by many of the birds we often view as "weak"

[@basedtsar9440]

Simple America is an offspring of European colonialism so you all are just Europeans.

[@marzipan2555]

We have unique culture, it's just very localized. Jazz and hip hop were invented here. We have groups like the Amish or the gullah geechee. And different regions lend themselves to different lifestyles ie. Living in Montana is different than nyc. You're just not looking hard enough

[@avatarwarmech]

Project 2026

[@jl5034]

Are there any Trump voters here? Or are we just preaching to the choir?😂

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Well, Musk mELON is free to go back to South Africa then... Just sayin'

[@rodicow3491]

You know, for this supposed to be strawman talking you cover conservative 'logic' so goddamn well.

[@cameronspence4977]

Why do people always have to be so stupid about things. Why can't people just admit that both sides are correct? No, you cannot have millions of undocumented, unknown non citizens freely flowing into a country, that is obviously going to be and has been a disaster, but at the same time it's obviously advantageous to allow skilled people and people who want to do honest work which would benefit the country to emigrate legally...Why does it always have to be like this????

[@patrickmaline4258]

instead of getting upset, we could look at ourselves and ask… is this good enough? i look at the cheap crap we build, and the gross inequity of income… the disregard for our environment and our own health (processed foods), and rampant homelessness… 1/3 of the people don’t get healthcare. if you’re satisfied, then i just don’t understand you at all. this sucks. our culture is “trying hard” in school ain’t cool. caring ain’t cool. being selfish is, being rich is. we’re multiracial racists. this dumpster fire isn’t a good thing by any measure. just because elon and vivek are the people saying it doesn’t make it false. it also doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have to pay for the damage they’ve done. that bill is overdue.

[@ardalwinterborn]

It's kinda the curse of being the Melting Pot, the one outstanding facet is that ANYONE who wants be American can be.

[@TheGreatOne-gw7xh]

Rare elon W. 😂