The 'europoors' rants reflect an American insecurity

I think back to the World Cup with a unified social media message about how awesome American air conditioning is.

Like, that meme was astroturfed right? People in Europe don't talk like that or act like that.

And we also had foreigners from all around the world (Japanese, Korean, etc. etc.) come and be all Costco is amazing or other tidbits of pro-Americanism.

I dunno, something just felt off by it. There's clearly something going on and it doesn't feel completely natural.

It's fine to like America and be patriotic and all. But for it all to strike at the same time with extremely similar messaging? Even memes had more diverse concepts than what happened.

We are IMO in the age of AI boosted memes where people are trying to form large scale reality distortion fields.

The middle class in the west collectively has lost purchasing power the last decades, lately that has started to become too apparent, and on both sides of the Atlantic now, there are people who try to deny it. It’s sad no matter if they’re Americans or Europeans

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lovley topic - which I was digging into a bit lately [1] - from an economic standpoint one way to think about the US-Europe income gap is to separate output per hour from GDP per person.

[1] https://philippdubach.com/posts/us-europe-productivity-worki...

Europoors starting to crack under the pressure. Perhaps it's a backlash to the persistent online (and state-sponsored!) gloating about how Europeand have free health care and walkable cities all the things the various Centres of Excellence spam the Internet with at all times.

Only China and Singapore are worse than the EU when it comes to cluttering up the Internet with garbage like this. Singapore should probably be nuked for the amount of nudging they try.

The degree to which Europeans are less wealthy than the US, and the degree to which that gap has been growing, is important, and no amount of rhetoric will change that. Of course calling them Europoors is rude and serious people should not do it. But the policy differences are not pure upside for Europe and there are serious open questions about the sustainability of the European social compact, especially in France. If anything Europe is in a significantly worse position now than 15 years ago.

Hell yeah, America...!