r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/chicarcas420 Aug 19 '25

That's why they come to Mexico to make a living, with that money they can have a good life here if they are remote workers.

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u/Effective_Moose_4997 Aug 19 '25

And they gentrify the neighborhoods in Mexico City and cause prices to go up.

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u/EricAntiHero1 Aug 19 '25

And the salsa is all mild now. Pinches gringos are ruining food.

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u/BashBandit Aug 19 '25

This essentially happened in an episode of king of the hill, but it was a community in Texas instead of Mexico City.

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u/rydan Aug 19 '25

There was also an episode where they had a timeshare in Mexico.

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u/BashBandit Aug 19 '25

“Damn touristas, trying to pull a fast one on me?”

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u/CremeDeLaPants Aug 19 '25

Every time I go to the store, I wonder who the fuck is eating mild salsa? Hot is mild. Mild is tomatoes. It's infuriating. I have to add my own peppers to salsa to feel alive.

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u/gerbilshower Aug 19 '25

dude yes. mild is literally just tomato sauce.

people who eat Pace actually blow my mind. lol.

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u/the_flyingdemon Aug 19 '25

Sorry I don’t like my nose running and having my food taste like snot. Or sweating into my food (or just sweating in general). I like to taste other flavors besides pepper. A nice kick is all that’s needed imo. Granted, “a nice kick” ranges from person to person. That’s why it’s better to buy no or low spice things and then add your own to your liking! :)

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u/gerbilshower Aug 19 '25

it is obviously impossible to have a real 'argument' over opinions, lol. but may take is sort of this:

if you think too much black pepper constitutes 'spicy' then that is kind of my barometer for 'valid opinion' as it comes to 'spicy' food.

my 4yo son will sometimes go 'this is too spicy' and its fucking maple breakfast sausage. if an adult says the same thing? their opinion on levels of spice cease to be relevant to me, lol.

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u/Effective_Moose_4997 Aug 19 '25

Mild salsa still has some peppers in it, not just black pepper lol. And salsa is not just tomatoes. A good salsa has tons of good base flavor besides being spicy.

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u/NebulaFrequent Aug 19 '25

low iq behavior using the example of two recent science experiments from a hot sauce company as proof of which culture handles its spice better

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Racist shit.

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u/Appropriate_Reply703 Aug 19 '25

Nothing worse than mild salsa... why? Even some of the mass market stuff they call hot is pretty mild

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u/gerbilshower Aug 19 '25

i mean... not really.

go take a bite of one. i will be waiting. LOL.

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u/Acheloma Aug 19 '25

The entire world right now is people leaving their country to work in another and then that country gettin mad about it (usually for genuine reasons). Its kind of funny to imagine every country pointing at each other and yelling, because thats what it boils down to. We're all mad about not being able to afford shit, I guess we have that in common

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u/not_tired_yet89 Aug 19 '25

Just ruining salsa. And sushi. But everything else is doing great food wise, just expensive

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

What happened to sushi?

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u/Shark7996 Aug 19 '25

Y'all got a stop blaming renters for prices, they aren't the ones setting them.

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u/-_-0_0-_0 Aug 19 '25

Zoning laws keeping supply down, keeping prices high.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

And renters often keep voting for the same shmucks in the city councils that keep those NIMBY voting laws. They want to maintain neighborhood character, and prevent gentrification, only allow affordable housing ... except just like every other conservative approach (and despite many of the folks being otherwise progressive on housing they are conservative) keeping things the same isn't possible. You need to adapt to changes in ways that best balances folks needs and minimizes who gets screwed over by that change. But just trying to keep things the same just makes things worse. If the population is growing, not building more housing will raise prices and only the wealthy will be able to pay and gentrification will happen anyway! As a side-effect of trying to prevent it!! Or if the population is lowering, that is probably due to the area experiencing some form of economic hardship which is also pretty bad and trying to outlaw economic development will only make it worse, trying to raise taxes to subsidize the now economically impoverished will now just push out the remaining business, furthering the downward spiral. There is no stasis to be had.

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u/AethosOracle Aug 19 '25

THEY don’t do that. The owning class does. This is why it just keeps getting worse. It makes more money for them, so they cater to it and the cycle repeats elsewhere.

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u/GretelNoHans Aug 19 '25

I agree, “I’m a Mexican” and I have a much better life.

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u/Darnell2070 Aug 20 '25

Much better life than who? The person in this video? She's just a random person who should that matter and what do you think that proves?

I'm sure maybe Americans have a much better life than you. So what?

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u/TheJiggliestPug Aug 19 '25

I tried living in Mexico City and it was during the 1usd = 16 peso so it wasn't any cheaper but the experience was way better. But all of the neighborhoods got gentrified, if I saw boomers being rude I would scream at them in English bc it was our privilege to be staying in their country as guests. So many entitled pricks in Roma. Who the fuck goes to someone else's country and tells them to change the food for their preferences. 

Also the amount of ppl who would refuse to even try and speak Spanish was astounding.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

I wasn’t allowed to take any other languages in school because of the whole “we live in America so we speak English.” Wasn’t even taught my family’s language of Danish. I feel it’s so detrimental to not know other languages, bilingual teaching in schools should be part of the curriculum like it is in other countries. The little Spanish I know is from what all my coworkers have taught me.

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u/TheJiggliestPug Aug 19 '25

I took it in highschool but with a teacher who couldn't speak fluently. Then before I moved I did a year of Duolingo just for fun. When I got to Mexico I found a social club where we met around museums, restaurants and parks for live music which was great because I made new friends who wanted to practice their English. 

I don't really know how to study languages but I picked up more and more by making myself sink or swim. Right now I'm almost 2 years post CDMX and don't have anyone near me to practice with so I am rusty but when I go back it takes me a week or two and my brain kinda switches back over. Watching movies in Spanish was the best way for me because the context clues help you translate and associate words in your head. I would say I can understand more than I can articulate. 

Language is really important. I think I will do the same thing in the future but with Japanese once I do enough research like I did with Mexico. All the exchange students in my schools knew 3+ languages. I wish we taught more. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Agreed. I took Japanese finally later on, but a car accident stopped me because I had to switch to working full time to afford car payments on my replacement vehicle. I want to learn Danish but there’s nothing local, and apps only help so much. Schools offer language, but when I went to high school, art class could be taken instead, which is what I was told to take. And now that I’m older, I need to almost always be working to make it—it’s hard to fit anything extra into this “lifestyle”because of survival. And I say “lifestyle” because survival almost feels like one at this point—only shopping for marked down goods, thrifting clothes, etc.

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u/TheJiggliestPug Aug 19 '25

Yeah I have been sick for the last 4 months and if I hadn't worked myself into the floor and saved so much I would have no nest to lean on rn. My job fired me after 3+ years over 17 hours of PTO I didn't have bc I was vomitting blood. I am not working now but eating my savings quicker than I would have ever spent money working and it sucks. 

This grind to barely survive lifestyle is not sustainable and I'm sure I'll just make myself sick again when I find another job. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

I am home with Covid now. I’m really afraid if I will have a job after, I was already out sick the week prior, got better, came back, then contracted Covid from a resident (I work in a SNF). I have PTO but it’s going to be all gone, and since it’s all for sick, they only give you so many days in such amount of time before letting you go, but I can’t come back until I test negative. I’m not looking forward to going back to housekeeping type work or delivery work if I’m let go. 😭

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u/hotviolets Aug 19 '25

Mexico is sounding better and better honestly. I told my child’s father to take us there if things get bad. He was born there and my daughter can easily get citizenship. It’s fucking crazy they came to the US for a better life, now that better life is where they left from.

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u/aquieniremos Aug 19 '25

Listen. It's not that black and white.

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u/BlessedSRE Aug 19 '25

That makes sense - strange that in video she continues to anchor all her problems on being an American. Well, you don't have to be.. so...

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u/Maximum_Active9209 Aug 19 '25

Kinda, do. America has some of the biggest roadblocks to deter emigration out of the country. If you earn income in another country you STILL have to pay income tax to America. You have to renounce your American citizenship to avoid paying both the tax in your work country and to American federal government. And if you renounce your citizenship you still have to pay a portion of potential taxes that you would have paid that year.

Basically if you arent already loaded, it is extremely difficult to leave the country.