Oddbean new post about login | logout Had casual chit chat with a retired couple at a lunch spot. They were Canadians and moved to Mexico two years ago. They would have moved to the US if it wasn’t for “all the Trump supporters and all the confederate flags seen around” 😂 I’ve been to the US many times and never seen either. I just smiled, nodded, and left soon after.
To be fair to the couple it depends on what part of the US. I speak as someone raised around all those confederate flags flying.
I get that you’re likely to see them in some corners of the country, but you can’t judge an entire nation based on that. It’s a very ignorant take imh
I wholeheartedly agree with you. But some people have an issue getting past 1st impressions & make it their entire beliefs. A bad experience doesn’t mean that it is common place.
Exactly! If we all had that same thought process, we wouldn’t get very far in life.
I live in the South and have seen exactly 0 confederate flags.
I bet they’ve seen one in a random place and made the call: ALL Americans are bigots and I can’t live there. 🙄
I’ve only ever seen them in Indiana.
I’m not supporting the confederate flag one way or another, but I think it is one of the more misunderstood symbols in the U.S. (imagine how misunderstood it is globally!) Most people who fly it just want to be left alone, but it is portrayed as some symbol of violence.
I don’t know enough about it tbh, but I do know it’s often misunderstood.
Lived in the south all my life, used to see more like early 2000s, but “wiggers” where also a thing then. Haven’t seen one in a really long time. But I’m way beyond catering to the opinions of the left.
I can’t help but laugh at those ridiculous opinions.
I live in Portugal, and the same people are arriving here in droves from the US. They think the important think is to scape the MAGA terrorists, have no idea what’s going on whatsoever. One of them asked my wife what “crypto” we thought she should buy. They live headline to headline, chickens with their heads cut off. It would be amusing, but now they’re bringing their politics and their busy-bodying here, and Europe already had plenty of its own problems.
"living headline to headline" - I'm definitely stealing that phrase sir
ha — feel free
That’s the sad part of it all: they vote for detrimental policies, they don’t like the results, and then they move abroad but without reflecting on their choices and opinions. They bring their nonsense everywhere they go. It’s frustrating.
Exactly — they’re escaping the consequences of their own idiotic preferences, scapegoating whoever the TV tells them to for it and then reprising the same pattern elsewhere. They’re like young children making one mess after another without even knowing other people are left to clean it up.