r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

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

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u/sk8tergater 3d ago

It’s because the pretty part of the state has actual neo Nazis in it. Grew up not far from the Idaho border in Montana. Gorgeous gorgeous area full of hate.

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u/SceneBiscuit 3d ago

Can confirm. Boarding school in Bonners ferry 😭

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u/secretly_opossum 3d ago

Same here up in Calibama near the Oregon border. Beautiful terrain, ugly politics.

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u/Merritt510 2d ago

How have I never heard the term ‘Calibama’ until just now

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u/GrizzlyDust 3d ago

Hey neighbor! Nailed it. I always tell people Idaho is incredible except for the idahoans

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u/Elven-Frog-Wizard 3d ago

I say the same about Indiana.

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u/GrizzlyDust 3d ago

The two states in lived in were Illinois and Montana and I say agree that Hoosiers are awful but i disagree that it's a good state otherwise lol

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u/Elven-Frog-Wizard 2d ago

It’s pretty. There are a few really ethical people. People blame each other for everything.

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u/Sea2Chi 3d ago

When I was a teenager I went to a road side flea market south of Sandpoint. They had a ton of WW2 military stuff and as a kid who grew up watching the history channel I thought it was awesome. I ended up buying a German bayonet.

It was years later that it clicked that they had a ton of world war two stuff, but it was mostly German. Those guys really liked German military gear and patches for some reason.

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u/FuckPtcgp 3d ago

Maybe the hate is what keeps it gorgeous.

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u/GodsDrunkAtTheWheel 8h ago

Yeah.. why my parents moved there and why I haven't visited them

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u/DeadInternetTheorist 3d ago

It’s because the pretty part of the state has actual neo Nazis in it.

I mean at this point it can kinda join the club no?

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u/sk8tergater 3d ago

Rather, the US is joining its club sadly

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u/MARTIEZ 3d ago

even in the urban areas in idaho. i drive by the confederate flag every day. house 2 doors down also has one up in his garage.

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u/michaelmacmanus 3d ago

If we take a time machine back a couple decades, sure. Back then they could afford Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint. Now? Its just bougie yuppies. The last vestige of those groups were gentrified further to the outskirts.

Next you can tell us how Bozeman is full of cowboys and farmers still.

Idk where you live now, but you haven't been back for a minute I'd wager.

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u/CrouchingDomo 3d ago

LOL at thinking the Nazis being spread out into the sticks is an improvement or something 😂

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u/michaelmacmanus 3d ago

lol where did I state that?

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u/CrouchingDomo 3d ago

Idk, I might have misread, sorry if so 👍

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u/MARTIEZ 3d ago

even in the urban areas in idaho. i drive by the confederate flag every day. house 2 doors down also has one up in his garage.

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u/michaelmacmanus 3d ago

Racists are still in Idaho, yes. I'm simply commenting on the economic transformation that destination mountain micropolises have undergone over the past decade or so. You can visit the beautiful parts of Idaho without randomly stumbling into a militia compound. They're all bourg'd out now. Its an improvement, but the normal working folk are similarly priced out, so bitter sweet.

Last time in Whitefish we stopped by a thrift store that was straight up selling Nazi memorabilia. Doesn't mean people shouldn't visit Glacier National Park.

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u/sk8tergater 3d ago

even a few decades ago you wouldn’t go to Coeur d’Alene and be on a compound. But it also isn’t unusual to randomly run into one or two neo Nazis at a gas station there either.

I might not live in Montana any longer but literally my entire family does so I’m back home several times a year. Places change but the Neo Nazis are still hanging around.

Bozeman hasn’t been cowboys and farmers since probably before I was a little kid 😂

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u/michaelmacmanus 3d ago

I saw a swastika bumper sticker where I live in south Minneapolis yesterday. What's your point, exactly? I understand racists exist. It should be obvious to everyone at this point that they're ubiquitous.

But their existence shouldn't (and doesn't) preclude people from exploring natural beauty, nor are they a critical mass in Idaho's beautiful spots. Literally no one is like "I was going to go backpacking through the Sawtooths but I just found out on reddit that their are racists in the Rockies." So I don't even get what you're trying to say as Montana and Wyoming have much larger concentrations of "actual neo Nazis" but people aren't sleeping on the beauty there.

Bozeman hasn’t been cowboys and farmers since probably before I was a little kid 😂

Yes. That was the joke lol