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The 'europoors' rants reflect an American insecurity

23 points snowpid 2 hours ago 9 comments

asdfasgasdgasdg 1 hour ago | parent

The degree to which Europeans are less wealthy than the US, and the degree to which that gap has been growing, is important, and no amount of rhetoric will change that. Of course calling them Europoors is rude and serious people should not do it. But the policy differences are not pure upside for Europe and there are serious open questions about the sustainability of the European social compact, especially in France. If anything Europe is in a significantly worse position now than 15 years ago.

snowpid 45 minutes ago | parent

ok and? The article is about some Americans care obsessively about Europe and their weird criticism. And you do find this behaviour in EVERY discussion regarding EU tech policy in HN. Its very annoying.

bigstrat2003 14 minutes ago | parent

> The article is about some Americans care obsessively about Europe and their weird criticism. And you do find this behaviour in EVERY discussion regarding EU tech policy in HN. Its very annoying.

It goes both ways. I can't tell you how many comments sections I've seen where someone goes out of his way to diss the US, even though that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I agree that it's nasty behavior when Americans do it in the other direction too, I just wanted to point out that there's hate-slinging all around.

ifwinterco 29 minutes ago | parent

Quality of life is still better in Europe though, that's not cope it's just a fact.

I agree Europe has real issues that Europeans should acknowledge and don't, but americans' quantity brains are funny - to americans if it can't be measured, it doesn't exist.

Really sad way to live, unfortunately it's infecting Europe and especially the UK as well

mns 28 minutes ago | parent

Europe might be in certain aspects worse, but the thing is we need to deal with wars and their consequences, as they are closer, the US only starts and feeds off them, maybe less now, due to incompetence and general no longer behind the scenes corruption.

Besides all of this, I’d rather be poor in Europe than in the US.

jaggs 52 minutes ago | parent

Hell yeah, America...!

charamis 21 minutes ago | parent

The middle class in the west collectively has lost purchasing power the last decades, lately that has started to become too apparent, and on both sides of the Atlantic now, there are people who try to deny it. It’s sad no matter if they’re Americans or Europeans

dragontamer 7 minutes ago | parent

I think back to the World Cup with a unified social media message about how awesome American air conditioning is.

Like, that meme was astroturfed right? People in Europe don't talk like that or act like that.

And we also had foreigners from all around the world (Japanese, Korean, etc. etc.) come and be all Costco is amazing or other tidbits of pro-Americanism.

I dunno, something just felt off by it. There's clearly something going on and it doesn't feel completely natural.

It's fine to like America and be patriotic and all. But for it all to strike at the same time with extremely similar messaging? Even memes had more diverse concepts than what happened.

We are IMO in the age of AI boosted memes where people are trying to form large scale reality distortion fields.

mindslight 4 minutes ago | parent

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7777777phil 2 minutes ago | parent

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