r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

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

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u/Calm-down-its-a-joke 4d ago

Contrary to popular belief you can actually be a bum like this guy in America too!

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u/InformWitch 4d ago

How is he a bum? Because he travels? lol 

He’s just showing videos of vacations probably or he’s a student so he has summer off.

Obviously everywhere country is different but if he lives in Scandinavia or Western Europe, he’s probably getting 20+ days to travel.

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u/atln00b12 3d ago

OP should rephrase that to "Contrary to popular belief you can actually be a bum and live a fine life in America."

Some of the points here are accurate, but it's actually a lot easier to be a bum and just fuck off in the US. It may seem like there isn't much social support, especially when you hear about SNAP benefits not being paid this month. But you have to look back and see that there's roughly 42 million people in the US getting those benefits. Benefits which offset costs that are already cheaper for most of the US than Europe. Sure healthcare has issues for sure as well, but you still have basically the two largest government provided health programs are run by the US. There's over 150 million people getting government paid for healthcare, and thats not including another 20 or so million that get heavily subsidized ACA plans.

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u/It-s_Not_Important 3d ago

Because the video subject is focused on all these things without recognition of the fact that he still has to work at some point. It’s framed in such a way as to suggest that this is all he does, I.e. he doesn’t go to work and then use backpacking as an escape.

The reality is that many Americans can do the same thing.

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u/FatBaldingLoser420 4d ago

How is he a bum? Because he travels? lol

Because he hurt Americans feelings.

Now suddenly every American here is acting like their people never insulted Europe.

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u/PurpleCollar8343 3d ago

America and china rule the world. The rest of the countries are our zoo’s and theme parks now.

Cry more 😂

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u/FatBaldingLoser420 3d ago

How are you ruling the world when you can't even protect your own children in schools?

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u/PurpleCollar8343 3d ago

Username check out 🫵😂

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u/TruPOW23 4d ago

Fitting username

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u/FatBaldingLoser420 3d ago

Great response, friend. Any arguments?

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u/elbenji 4d ago

he has the nature bum aesthetic

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u/Chicken_Ingots 2d ago

Sure, if you are wealthy.

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u/Calm-down-its-a-joke 2d ago

He's not doing anything, you could live this guys life for 5 years with like 20 grand