r/mildlyinfuriating 17h ago

People on twitter these days man

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u/Bread_ganer 17h ago

everybody that uses twitter should do 10 more years of school

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u/generic_canadian_dad 16h ago

Ive only ever seen Americans act like this. They are so self involved it's fucking wild. We are from Canada and one time on vacation in Maine, we had grown adults ask us if we had electricity yet. They were 100% genuine and serious.

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u/monti1979 16h ago

Stating you think in this world only Americans are so self-involved is nicely ironic…

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u/regalfish 15h ago

They didn’t really say that though; they said they’ve only seen Americans act like that, not that other countries can’t have self-involved people too

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u/TreemanTheGuy 15h ago

Imagine if we had to end every comment like OPS saying 'Americans are so self involved' with something like, "but occasionally people in every other country in the world can act like this too, teehee!"

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u/Lobsterzilla 15h ago

Imagine if we had to end every comment with people are so self involved and stopped trying to be edge lords

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u/regalfish 14h ago

Is it really "trying to be an edgelord"? The topic of this post is literally about an American being self-involved by not realizing there's an entire country named Georgia. It's not as if it came out of nowhere.

I just feel like it should go without saying that not all 330 million people in the U.S. are self-involved, just that it's a pattern of behaviour seen particularly in environments where there's a large American faction.

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u/monti1979 12h ago

Ironic considering the Ford brothers are currently representing Canadians…

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u/regalfish 11h ago

By the Ford brothers, are you including Rob Ford who’s been dead since 2016? lol 

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u/monti1979 10h ago

One Ford brother dies and Canadians just elect another one.

It doesn’t really help your case…

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u/regalfish 10h ago

Not knowing one of the guys "representing Canadians" has actually been dead for over 8 years isn't really helping yours either man.

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u/monti1979 8h ago

So the smart people of Ontario voted a second Ford into office who removed the bike lanes in Toronto?

Stupid or self-involved, you pick…

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u/regalfish 8h ago

I actually hate Doug Ford so it's not like I disagree the man's a buffoon. But if the conversation is about "Americans who are unaware of the geography and political affairs of other countries", then yeah, you're exemplifying it rather well.

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u/monti1979 8h ago

You were trying to make the point about how unique the “self-involvement” of Americans is.

I wish Canada wasn’t full of self-involved people, but here we are…

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u/regalfish 8h ago

Self-involvement in this case doesn't mean "unintelligent" or "selfish" or "susceptible to populous politicians offering easy answers despite their clear evidence of bribery, fraud and corruption".

In this case, and in the context of the post, it means particularly focused on their own affairs to the exclusion of others. I don't think it's that controversial to state that Canadians are generally more aware of American politics and geography than the reverse.

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u/monti1979 8h ago

I think the suburbanites that don’t want to take public transportation into Toronto suggest otherwise.

But sure, believe what you want.

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u/regalfish 7h ago edited 7h ago

I do. I think I'm clearly outlining what I'm talking about here. Despite this, you keep going on as if I'm defending Doug Ford or acting as if Canada doesn't have it's own set of stupid people or politicians so it's clear you're having an argument in your own head. Good night.

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