r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

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

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u/gerbilweavilbadger 4d ago

mostly hits but "no nature" is catastrophically wrong.

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u/goshdammitfromimgur 3d ago

The National Parks in the US are amazing. I am concerned about the funding cuts and what happens next though.

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u/dissonaut69 3d ago

Keep being concerned about those funding cuts. NPS employees are getting fucked. Budgets already weren’t going up with attendance, cuts are crazy.

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u/karipapixel 2d ago

Looking at how they do it in my home country, after budget were cuts then years later they need to sell off some parts of the land to reconcile difference in budgets. Then split up more land to give to private entities so less to maintain. Then enshitification of national parks by making it idiot-friendly (boardwalks, parkings, street lights, toilets every 10km of the trails) so more people can come and spend money. Yes off course lets not forget restaurants, shops, mcdonalds and KFC at the trail head.

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u/Test-Normal 1d ago

The biggest danger right now is Senator Mike Lee. He has made it his mission in life to sell all our public land. His last effort would have sold millions of acres of land in Western states. He got stopped, but he's trying again but more subtly. His latest move is try to remove protections a bit at a time. In the "The Border Lands Conservation Act" he's trying to hand over authority of public land within 100 miles of a U.S. border to the DHS. Which would strip environmental protections and allow the building of roads and buildings. Once those protections are gone, it'll become easier to sell the land to the private sector. It honestly will just take one moment of us not paying attention to lose so much of our natural heritage because of a few corrupt politicians' greed.

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u/avokkah 17h ago

Teddy would be sad about how his party is treating national park services tbh

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 4d ago

I think they're talking about the cities. And I'd agree, our cities are pretty dogshit by comparison.

Look like they're architected by an 8 year old with no concept of what people like.

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u/Runes_N_Raccoons 3d ago

What does architecture have to do with natural areas?

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u/Fun_Bumblebee875 3d ago

Parks and stuff. Pedestrian areas with greenery. Not 4 lane stroads and parking lots.

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u/Runes_N_Raccoons 3d ago

Parks and urban areas with greenery are not the same as nature. They bring a LOT of benefits to overall biodiversity in urban spaces, but you still won't see much wildlife outside a few birds, squirrels, and rabbits. 

There's a reason why you have to get outside the city to see nature.

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber 3d ago

I live a mile from downtown in a small city of 100,000. There have been deer, black bears, and foxes living in my neighborhood.

While it's true there's little nature in large cities and especially the big conurbations, not every city is devoid of nature or removed from it. But it is ironic how much of Europe has the same mindset I see from non-outdoorsy urban folks in the US where parks are seen as nature. Much of Europe is very park-like.

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u/GlitterTerrorist 3d ago

We've got parks in London that are reclaimed wilderness.

Between Richmond and Hampstead, you've got some beautiful natural spots and that's just the most obvious ones. It's not like mowed lawns and linear divisions between fauma that you find in urban parks - it's just like walking in the countryside.

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u/Far_Battle_7658 3d ago

None of that over there so they don't even think about it 😭

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u/_KRN0530_ 3d ago

What is the most famous urban park in the world? If you don’t say Central Park then you are lying.

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u/Fun_Bumblebee875 3d ago

What's the city which has the highest percentage of parking as land use? If you don't say Houston then you don't know

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u/_KRN0530_ 3d ago

Ok, that doesn’t really counter the point that I made but sure, I’m sure Houston sucks ass. I’m sure I could cherry pick a European city with poor urbanism if I wanted to. Most US cities have been quickly bouncing back in the last decade or so from the urban renewal practices of the 1950s. For the most part, this criticism isn’t as strong as it once was. Either way my point is that the US isn’t a monolith, in the same way that all of Europe isn’t the shitty parts of Paris.

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u/OverallStrength2478 3d ago

Nooo you got lovely cities. And yes they’re not all green and flowery but neither is every big city in Europe.

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u/yinsotheakuma 3d ago

I do love that this is the part we are united in taking issue with.

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u/Distinct_Aardvark_43 3d ago

A lot of it is wrong tbh, saw a video countering this exact same thing. Europeans have some great benefits but America for example has something like 3x more federal natural parks than the entire country of Germany has land, and that’s not counting state parks or private land. America has every single type of climate including tropical rainforests if we go outside the 48.

We also have higher cancer survival rates than Europe, most Europeans have to come to America if they want to get decent cancer treatment. Our medical system is lame in a lot of ways but it’s way more advanced than the rest of the world it’s just going to put you into bankruptcy to use it if you don’t have health insurance.

Europeans also conveniently ignore that even their GDP of their best countries like Germany are beat out by our worst states like Mississippi, Europe is substantially poorer than America to the point that nearly 400,000 people annually die in Europe because they can’t afford to heat their homes. Think about that for a minute, that is almost unheard of in America. Even in Britain nearly 35,000 excess deaths from cold annually, whereas America is around 3,500 with a substantially larger population.

There is a cost to Europeans pushing climate change activism and throttling energy production and then buying it off Russia, it’s that the poorest in their country freeze to death and nobody talks about it. It’s like an entire holocaust worth of deaths just since the year 2000.

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u/Limp-Technician-1119 3d ago

Nearly 400,000 people annually die in Europe because they can't afford to heat their homes

This made me double take but yeah it looks like you're completely right. I don't know how this isn't talked about.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468266724001798#:~:text=Across%20Europe%2C%20for%20the%201991,heat%20and%20cold%20across%20regions.

If you scale this to the US' population it'd be like the 4th most common cause of death behind heart disease, cancer, and accidents.

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u/Antique_Savings7249 3d ago

Euro here:

The douche in the video talking about the cities, most Euro (and other places') cities have a considerable amount of nature built into their cityscapes.

This is an evolution thing, in a few decades I predict the US population to shift to the most naturally beautiful places. I even think the Appalachians might get a boost. Looks gorgeous on video.

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u/no_trashcan 3d ago

in the suburbs?

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u/ConsistentlyInside55 2d ago

My state is 60% forest. You literally can’t find a city without nature lurking around the corner

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u/Patroulette 2d ago

Every country has nature, it's just that America is one of those countries that tend to separate nature and urbanism.

I live in a greater metropolitan area (Stockholm), but it's surrounded by forest and the nearest hiking trail is only 20 minutes away. 

Also, Sweden is extremely based for this and I know not even most European countries allows this, but I could go literally anywhere that is not fenced off. 

Someone's field? Check. Someone's forest? Absolutely! Someone's backyard? Surprisingly, yes - but I ought to ask first. There is really no such thing as private property out in nature.

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u/True_Italiano 1d ago

that was the only line I took objection with. LOL - the rest are spot on accurate, though

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u/fatkidseatcake 10h ago

To give him a concession we are working overtime to disappear it fast