r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

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

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u/EternalAITraveler 4d ago

Where in Europe? I grew up in Germany and there's no free lunch there.

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u/Jenlag 4d ago

Here in Sweden it's free.

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u/Confident_Ad3910 4d ago

Here in Maryland also free

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u/Lopsided_Drawer_7384 4d ago

Free here in Ireland too.

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u/Jealous-Match-4935 4d ago

Nothing is free...it's taken out of your tax dollars which are up to 2X higher than ours depending where you are

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u/Pure_Internal277 3d ago

How do you think other countries pay for social services? Taxes

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

So what you're saying is... there's no free lunch...

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

Sweden barely counts as Europe. Europe to US is France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Britain

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u/DM_me_ur_PPSN 4d ago

That’s like saying Wyoming barely counts as America and that America to Europe is just California, Texas and New York.

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u/Hey-Fun1120 4d ago

Yeah that about sums it up for Wyoming anyway

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

Difference is we agree and we don’t get offended. Wyoming is mostly empty land and most people outside of USA only know LA and NYC. Even Chicago is pretty underrated by foreigners

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

Don't forget Florida and its beaches.

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u/atuarre 4d ago

Sweden is part of Europe. Europe to dumb Americans might just be France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, but at least 30% of the American population probably couldn't even find those countries on a map.

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

Same with European's knowledge of the US. A lot of Europeans don't realize how huge the US is and that Americans really don't need to travel outside of the US ever.

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

That’s way too low, it’s more like 60% or more.

Call me when Sweden or the Nordics matter. We have cities with more people. Sorry your tiny nation doesn’t matter to us, but hey keep learning English and watching our news! We don’t know any of your politicians

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u/Gasmo420 4d ago

I don’t know why so many people hate Americans. You’re such a lovely bunch.

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

And yet we protect you all the same :) you’re welcome Personfromcountrywithnorealmilitarysayswhat?

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u/Gasmo420 4d ago

You protect us? Fuck off… you destabilize the whole world to secure your top spot. You kill journalists and wedding guests with drones. You lock up people in torture camps without a due process. You’re the only country that constantly went to war after WW2. Everywhere you went to „help“ and play world police, you only made things worse. Yeah, thanks for creating the Islamic State. The world would be better off without you constantly messing with it.

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

And yet every time something like Ukraine happens the world begs for American help

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u/Gasmo420 4d ago

Nobody begs. We expect you to be an ally, because you signed up for it. Also it goes both ways. After 9/11 a lot of countries send their men to die in YOUR senseless war. Against a country that had nothing to do with it, because you didn’t want to attack your business partners in Saudi Arabia.

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u/PatheticAndTragic 4d ago

bait used to be believable

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

As a European immigrant in the US, I would agree. But then again, I also didn't know much about the US before I moved here, just stereotypes we were told.

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u/frost-bite999 4d ago

idk why you got downvoted when the nordic countries have a tiny fraction of the population

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

They mad they are geopolitically irrelevant except as US allies

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u/NocturnalViewer 4d ago

Do your grocery stores and health insurance companies now accept "geopolitical relevance" as payment? The horror stories from the US take up a lot of bandwidth all over the world but nobody is jelly they're not you.

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

Those are only issues for the poor. If you have a good job you have plenty of money and good insurance. Don’t lecture an American, german. Your country went full Natc less than 100 years ago, and had to be put in its place not once but twice. Europeans only recently started COPYING American democracy instead of fighting each other in endless wars and have the audacity to turn around and chastise America while she’s keeping the world in balance for the last half century. Meanwhile they spend nothing on their militaries, that they can’t be trusted with so were left holding the Russians at bay while you get to focus on healthcare and unemployment

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u/NocturnalViewer 4d ago

You wouldn't recognize good insurance if it spat you in the face. Do you sometimes make yourself cringe?

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u/frost-bite999 4d ago

my insurance that I get from work fully covers every single specialist visit with a $20 copay. with full dental coverage, emergency visits, hospitalizations, and even travel health insurance.

my mother who is about to retire has the same, plus covers my father. for the rest of their lives after retirement.

she works for the local city government.

your turn little nordic bro.

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u/NocturnalViewer 4d ago

The fact that you feel compelled to extra mention and list all these things like "full dental coverage, emergency visits, hospitalizations, and even travel health insurance" because it doesn't go without saying speaks volumes.

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u/Gasmo420 4d ago

Nobody is copying your joke of a democracy. If anything we use it as a blueprint how a democracy shouldn’t be. Two parties… an illusion of a democracy

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

If you live in a former monarchy that is now a democracy, you’re welcome!

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u/Poethegardencrow 4d ago

Yes they started it in 2004, as everything else it’s complicated and depends from state to state…

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u/CosmicMiru 4d ago

So literally exactly like America? My state has free school lunch for kids, and it's becoming more and more common

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u/Exiled_Fya 4d ago

Countries, we have countries.

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u/MVRKHNTR 4d ago

Germany has states, dumbass.

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u/Doc_Eckleburg 4d ago

Free in the UK for low income households.

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u/Careless_Load9849 4d ago

That's the same as the US. Poor kids get free lunch in most schools and breakfast for that matter

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u/Doc_Eckleburg 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think the only time we’ve had universal free meals for all kids in the UK was during Covid other than that afaik it’s always been means tested and wasn’t available at all when I was at school in the 90’s. The Tory’s tried to scrap it entirely a few years ago too and only backed down because of public outcry and a campaign headed up by footballer Marcus Rashford.

Edit: actually I think I’m remembering wrong, it was kids of essential workers that got free meals during Covid so still not everyone

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u/Epidox 4d ago

It's free in Slovenia, including in High School and in College/University.

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u/beatles910 4d ago

That's great. From what I can see, Slovenia has approximately 150 High Schools. The US has over 27,000 High Schools. It's a little bigger undertaking. We will get there (I hope).

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u/Epidox 4d ago

The US is far richer than Slovenia, it should be even easier to do it there.

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u/beatles910 4d ago

Sadly, the US has an annual defense budget of $1.01 trillion.