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We could save a lot of money and emissions if we brought the continents back together! Imagine Paris to New York by high speed train.
by artisinal 8d ago
We could save a lot of money and emissions if we brought the continents back together! Imagine Paris to New York by high speed train.
- loloquwowndueo 8d agoEw no, not with the Americans behaving the way they are now. The Atlantic is fine where it is thank you very much.
- saghm 8d agoAs an American...I concur. The rest of the world doesn't deserve that.
- aeve890 8d agoAmericans behaving the way they are now and Parisians mixed together? Hell on Earth
- criddell 8d agoDuring the world cup, I saw mostly very positive reports on the experiences Europeans had with Americans, and vice versa.
- artisinal 8d agoHello, you are going against the internet narrative of "america bad" please stop doing that.
- loloquwowndueo 8d agoLook for reports from the Iranian team. I bet those weren’t as widely publicized as the rosy positive ones.
- criddell 8d agoIran isn't usually described as European and I did qualify my statement with mostly.
- loloquwowndueo 7d agoI know it’s not European. Great job missing my point entirely.
- criddell 5d agoIf you thought I was claiming everybody had a great time, then you are a missing my point.
- afavour 8d agoNice on a personal level in real life but not when dealing with a population in the abstract? Say it ain’t so!
- saghm 8d agoYes, I have very positive interactions with people outside of the US, and (hopefully!) most of them would say the same about me. That doesn't mean that what my government is doing isn't really shitty though, or that I would expect the other 350 million people around me to be uniformly positive to interact with. For starters, a lot of them voted for the government that's being like this, and although that doesn't necessarily mean that they would interact poorly with people from countries that are having to deal with the fallout, I wouldn't blame someone for not wanting to give them the benefit of the doubt, or even not wanting to give me the benefit of the doubt (I can't prove how I voted, and even if I could, it wouldn't be unreasonable for that to be considered insufficient for exculpability). My honest impression is that most of the time when governments are at odds, the people living in the countries will often not share those sentiments when interacting at an individual level. During the brief period when TikTok was unavailable in the US (before the ban kept repeatedly getting pushed until they finalized Ellison et. al. acquiring the US rights for it), a lot of people apparently went onto a Chinese social media app as a silly form of rebellion, with both sides basically agreeing the whole thing was silly and that even they their governments thought they were enemies, the citizens didn't have to.
- pvaldes 8d agoFoux da fa faa...
- artisinal 8d agoFair. Perhaps we can extend the Black Sea to keep those dirty Russians out of Europe