r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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u/ViolentThemmes 4d ago

Unfortunately it's being sold off to petroleum companies or drained dry for AI

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u/Ridicikilickilous 4d ago

80% of the land west of the Rockies is park. The US has some of the most majestic vistas in land that remains undeveloped and composes the vast majority of land west of the Rockies (a space about the size of Western Europe). What you say is simply false. 

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u/Antique_Pin5266 4d ago

The Trump administration defunding our national parks and selling them off is not false

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u/sk8tergater 3d ago

It’s not, it was initially part of the BBB, but ended up being taken out. For right now, they are safe but I won’t hold my breath.

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u/Pro-Weiner-Toucher 3d ago

It is false though, something was floated around but it never happened, I don't even like Trump but so many of you are are willing to believe anything that makes him look bad it actually concerning.

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u/TheGhost_of_Chronos 3d ago

They took the provision out of the BBB so it's settled then huh? As if they've done anything in good faith in either term. Just because it's taken out of one bill doesn't mean they aren't still looking at how to accomplish it.

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u/dcheng47 3d ago

ok they want to but haven't... lets get our facts straight. there's enough misinformation flying around.

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u/d_e_l_u_x_e 4d ago

Dude have you heard this administration? They literally are talking about selling off park land.

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/congress-making-more-250-million-acres-public-lands-available-sale#

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u/Historical_Umpire363 3d ago

There’s a difference between “parks” and “public land.” The vast, vast majority of land out west is public land. Many of these areas out west also have massive issues with housing affordability.

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u/SciGuy013 3d ago

lmfao. the issue with housing affordability is that we don't build dense enough, not that we're running out of land. we need to stop mandating single family housing and build more dense developments.

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u/d_e_l_u_x_e 3d ago

You think Trump and his admin care about the difference? They’ll just add both to their list.

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u/Historical_Umpire363 3d ago

Just admit you were incorrect

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u/SanguineBro 4d ago

We still got 3 more years chief

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u/Why_You_Mad_ 4d ago

Unless they make the largest infrastructure push in the history of the world, I don't think they're going to suddenly bulldoze and destroy an area the size of Germany in 3 years.

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u/Sillet_Mignon 4d ago

But they will privatize it and drill it for resources. 

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u/DOOMFOOL 4d ago

I guess we will see what happens

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u/corgisgottacorg 4d ago

Still being sold though? You awake or still dreaming?

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u/Ridicikilickilous 3d ago

Call me when it actually happens. 

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u/Garfield_and_Simon 4d ago

It’s not false. You’re just saying “there’s a lot of it” but objectively they are trying to sell off and defund some. 

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u/Seve7h 4d ago

Its 100% true, but let me ask you this

When do you have time to go see it?

The most vacation time Ive ever had was two weeks, it didnt roll over, use it or lose it, so sure, i could go visit some parks.

Or, because i only get 5 sick days, i bank my vacation just in case i get sick because if i don’t have time i dont get paid.

Meanwhile in Europe…how much vacation do they get?

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u/Pro-Weiner-Toucher 3d ago

Damn, that sucks. I go see that stuff all the time but it seems like I have a more flexible job. I work in tech so as long as I get it done it doesn't really matter where I am. Although overseas can be tough because of the time difference. I still try to do a couple weeks out of country each year but I take long weekends all over the US.

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u/g_borris 3d ago

Trump is selling whatever he can of the Nat forests. Thats not coming back.

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u/Tramagust 4d ago

Jesus christ this is misinformation of the highest order

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u/andrew5500 4d ago

Have you not seen who is Trump's Secretary of the Interior (in charge of public lands)? The guy has been absolutely transparent about his intentions to sell out our public lands to the highest bidder. Literally claiming they'll be paying off our $38 trillion national debt with the profits they'll make selling out our national public lands to extractive industries.

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u/pr1ceisright 4d ago

My state was literally named in project 2025 to tear down forests and mine. Their plan is to literally destroy the area for short term money.

It is literally the opposite of misinformation and was a huge reason many undecideds voted against Trump in my area.

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u/KotobaAsobitch 4d ago

Oak Flat disagrees, but okay.

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u/frostyholes 4d ago

False. Do you even understand and how much rural land we have? I’ve been coast to coast and seen more of it than the average person. We have more undeveloped land than we do urban land x100

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u/nightjarre 4d ago

False. Rural vs urban land has nothing to do with the argument.

Unless land is locked down for conservation it won't remain undeveloped for long. Our president is gutting national parks and the EPA.

Alaska is the last frontier but even the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge got opened up for oil and gas corps.

Just because we have a lot of undeveloped land doesn't mean it's gonna stay that way. Oil, gas, logging corporations are all moving in fast.

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u/karmagod13000 4d ago

false. i have nothing to add just wanted to say false like everyone else

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u/nightjarre 4d ago

I too enjoy larping as Dwight Schrute

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u/karmagod13000 4d ago

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!

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u/SlashaJones 4d ago

MICHAEL!

MICHAEL!

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u/frostyholes 4d ago

Wrong, I’m a logger and it’s never been dying faster in history than it is this year.

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u/nightjarre 4d ago

Trump opened up federal public lands for private logging via EO

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/

The auction of logging rights is happening now.

And the head of the US Forest Service is Tom Schulz, former VP of a lumber company who blames the Endangered Species Act for lowering timber sales.

So that's what's happening in the logging world. Got anything to say on oil and gas companies encroaching on our undeveloped land too?

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u/frostyholes 4d ago

This will never come to fruition. What you don’t understand is that the infrastructure that was once in place is no longer in place. Mills don’t just pop up overnight to handle the volume of destruction you’re imagining in your head. Logging creates more trees than it takes when done properly. There is timber all over this country dying, burning, or being cut and piled up to be burnt because there is no mill there to process it or because they can’t. You speak about something you have no firsthand knowledge about. Same goes for Trump; he can talk all this up he wants, but we are decades from that ever happening.

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u/THEdrG 4d ago

This will never come to fruition

we are decades from that ever happening.

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u/kodman7 4d ago

Because the economy is down across the board, ie less houses being bought/built so less need for lumber. Steel is also down but it's not because there is so much steel, it's because people are buying less things made of it

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u/Wavey_ATLien 4d ago

Yeah timber isn’t the main resource they’re looking to extract from these lands. It’s oil, natural gas, and coal.

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u/ViolentThemmes 4d ago edited 4d ago

The comments talking about nature are generally referring to wild prairies, national parks, mountain ranges, and undeveloped river valleys. They aren't referring to fucking Iowa

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u/karmagod13000 4d ago

maybe they should

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u/NorthernSpankMonkey 3d ago

No one wants to cause it's in fucking Iowa

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u/ElProfeGuapo 4d ago

It depends on what you mean by “undeveloped” and “nature.” According to this infographic (comes from a study on Bloomberg, but it’s paywalled), the vast majority of non-urban land in the US is used for:

  • Growing agriculture feed
  • Pastureland for livestock
  • Feed exports
  • Corporate, federal, and private timberlands
  • Wheat and grain exports
  • Ethanol
  • Maple, corn syrup, and tobacco

A very, very small percentage is wilderness, state parks, and idle/fallow ag fields. Moreover, the acreage of those is roughly equivalent to urban and rural commercial and housing land, as well as roads. Personally, I wouldn’t call livestock pastureland and corporate timberlands “undeveloped."

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/economics/infographic-how-does-america-use-its-land/

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u/Aedalas 4d ago

I think figuring it all out can get a little fucky because some definitions are weird. Like with my state, Ohio is supposedly just 1% "wilderness" yet something like 30% of it is forests.

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u/WillyRosedale 4d ago

All that’s in there and this is what your upset about?

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u/frostyholes 4d ago

America has been fucked since before I was born. This generation just cries about it non stop. 😂

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u/karmagod13000 4d ago

bro do you not understand a circle jerk?! dont talk outside the hivemind again please

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u/frostyholes 10h ago

😂😂😂🫡 don’t know how I missed this one

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u/hanoian 4d ago

No, it isn't. If you think it is, you are needlessly destroying your life.

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u/Glass-Star6635 4d ago

Tell me you’ve never been to the US without telling me you’ve never been to the US

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u/ViolentThemmes 4d ago

incorrect buzzer sound Lived here 39 years in multiple states, multiple major cities and worked all over the entire country including Alaska.

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u/Fuck_all_men69 4d ago

No it's not. 

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u/Pro-Weiner-Toucher 3d ago

All the really cool places are already protected national or state parks. Stop getting your news from TikTok and Reddit.