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Ha I saw that too. But there’s nothing European HN users love more than commenting with their super well-informed takes about the US, so it should have been expected.

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Yeah, the US is such an exceptional country that you can only have opinions about it when you're actually American - I hope you do see that this view is rather short sighted? Especially given that the US itself has no qualms with interfering in foreign politics all over the world.

The 800 pound gorilla at the edge of the world, you can have opinions.. but we are the motherfucking show!

Shit show you mean

Doesn't matter as long as you are watching. The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. Hate is just misconfigured love.

I think you just proved the GP's sarcastic point.

The reason we chafe at this is because those opinions usually distill and treat us as a singular group. Like one of us saying “the British believe,” for example, prefaced behind something the Welsh and English disagree on.

Not your fault, though. Our internal borders are meaningful. We lie to ourselves that they aren’t, and the rest of the world goes with that. Minnesota, Michigan, and Mississippi may as well be different countries for all they have in common.

those opinions usually distill and treat us as a singular group

Whereas US' opinions on foreigners are always balanced, well-nuanced and fair?

It’s ironic that you did exactly what I mentioned is the problem while responding to a comment where I pointed out I’m aware of, and sensitive to, subtle cultural differences within Britain. I’m at least n=1 for giving a nuanced shit about people outside our borders, but that didn’t fit your reductionist narrative. I get it, but I don’t respect it.

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