Reasons America is #1 according to Tucker

  • It's rweally pretty
  • The people are "nice"
  • We tip more than places that don't have a tipping economy
  • We brutalize, murder and eat animals that aren't dogs
  • We prefer incremental change
  • We don't use the metric system
  • We have Christmas and other countries don't apparently???

Honestly this whole clip makes me want to simultaneously burst out into laughter and tear of sorrow. This is it, this is the best they have, it's so hilarious in a way, but it's fucking gut wrenching because even then untold millions will eat this shit up.

It makes me sad that Americans are so obsessed with being #1 in the first place, with the glorification of their state, like why? and then you do and this is what you come up with? half of it isn't even true and the rest is basically irrelevant.

But honestly...the thing that makes me the saddest, the thing that really makes me want to break down in tears is our history and current treatment of the natives. I memed on it on Twitter because, again, like...it's honestly hilarious how they set it up, but beyond that...it's really just sad. It's sad that Tucker can just say the word Shoshone and these people don't even register to him, what we did doesn't register, they are just forgotten.

I dunno, I feel like I am screaming into the void, but I had to say something some where, even if I am preaching to the choir.

  • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
    hexagon
    ·
    4 years ago

    The lights thing I think to some extent is just to make things look dazzling and "nice" but it is definitely a status symbol thing as well, you see in movies and shows people trying to "out do" each other to prove who has more Christmas spirit, and on some level I am sure it is also a wealth signifier.