I would just repeatedly assert that he’s the same as any other president. Oh he’s using America’s hegemony to bully its “allies”? Unfortunate that that just started now. Oh he says overtly racist and ridiculous things? Must be the first one. His economic policies are hurting you now? Guess we’re including the right countries finally.
Oh he says overtly racist and ridiculous things? Must be the first one.
I mean, yeah? He’s the first US head of state I’ve lived under who has explicitly called immigrants from south of the borderremoveds. He’s explicitly equated Nazis with those fighting them. On many things he’s no different than other presidents, true, but I think racist rhetoric makes a big difference and I don’t think other US heads of state were nearly as verbally racist as he was.
But then again, I’m not white and you probably have a more even handed, objective take on this thing.
What? You don’t even have to go back more than one president. Biden was repeating extremely racist obvious propaganda about Palestinians. You should tell the people who were being bombed and then collectively labelled “r*pists” that things only got bad when they started getting called worse names.
If you are actually convinced of what you said, I really don’t know what to tell you.
When did Biden flat out label all Palestinians asremoveds and murderers? What is the absolute worst thing he has said about Palestinians, as a people?
Show me some video evidence and I’ll shut up. Anything as bad as ‘When Mexico sends its immigrants (people), they’re not sending their best … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with [them]. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re r*pists. And some, I assume, are good people."
And no, just because I’m attacking Trump doesn’t make me a Biden supporting Dem
You completely intentionally distorted what I said and then are demanding I jump through rhetorical hoops that you set up. This is the most reddit thing ever. The only thing I said is that he is not the first president to say overtly racist and ridiculous things. Go watch some George Bush speeches, read something of what Andrew Jackson wrote. The fact that you disagree with what I wrote is just unexplainable.
And I said this:
when they started getting called worse names.
You are not reading what I’m writing. This clearly isn’t a discussion.
You said something about racist rhetoric and I made it a point to make a debate about that. I didn’t distort shit.
Pretend you think they’re asking about turnips, and give your honest opinion on those delicious root vegetables.
Or pretend you think they’re talking about the trick-taking card game trump, or triomphe.
tell em youre so glad they asked as youre an advance guard charged with gathering Intel on their countries value. start asking probing questions about the worth of various buildings, govt programs, whether they’d like to sell, whatever is nearby…etc… bust out a calculator and keep a straight face for as long as you can.
lol, yeah, tell them you work for some giant bank in the US and you’re there to negotiate the handover of managerial control of their sovereign wealth fund to make it more efficient and maximize its profitability.
if they don’t try to kill you immediately, they are part of the problem.
I constantly think about this guy’s evangelical dad in Beijing
“You mean the guy from the Apprentice?”
Or just act like you don’t know who that is. “Sorry, I don’t watch TV.”
Sorry I dont play Fortnite
pretending trump is still on the apprentice is a start but acting like a huge reality tv head–compare seasons, similar shows and hosts-- mfs will feel like they’ve stepped into a different decade
You mean that guy from Home Alone 2?
First say “jeg taler ikke englesk”, then regardless of what they said back, say “jeg taler ikke Dansk”
Mi ne parolas la anglan.
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Incidentally, using the verb å tale in “jeg taler ikke engelsk” strikes me as a bit odd, maybe a bit old-fashioned. Looking at Tr-ex and Glosbe, “I can’t speak English” is normally phrased as “jeg kan ikke engelsk”, “jeg snakker ikke engelsk”, or “jeg kan ikke snakke engelsk”, although I might personally say “jeg forstår ikke engelsk”.
Yeah, part of the joke is to say the sentence in broken ye’ olde Danish. Normal Danish people would’ve said “jeg kan ikke tale englesk”
I thought it might’ve been intentionally old-fashioned. Maybe throw in some I’s and eder’s or De’s and Dem’s to really sell it…
Edit: I just noticed, it says englesk instead of engelsk, too.
Pretend you don’t know what they’re talking about
“donald trump? the pro wrestler?”
oh, okay, not the wrestler, the gameshow guy? associate? assistant? what was the name?
Look around suspiciously, then lean in and say “I don’t believe he’s human. I think they’re here.”
Edit: even better, lean in and say, “I think he’s…Danish.”
Edit: even better, lean in and say, “I think he’s…Danish.”
- He enjoys a completely unjustified popularity
- He thinks he is the centre of the word
- He believes brown people are out to destroy civilisation if they get the chance
- He enjoys eating shitty food
The facts checks out. Trump is Danish.
He enjoys eating shitty food
Seriously the food here sucks lol.
Wrong. Lye fish is objectively great.
Dane-ald Trump convincing Denmark to sell Greenland to Seppoland, only to immediately sell Seppoland to Denmark in turn, now THAT’s what I call insider trading
Danish
There’s another American in Norway on this hellsite‽ Although I’m a second-generation immigrant rather than an “expat”.
I don’t think I’ve really “messed with” people when they ask those sorts of questions, not yet at least. I just say openly that I voted PSL, that a lot of people are disillusioned with the two-party system, and that I’m worried about my family and friends and all the other people trapped in this deteriorating situation.
Yeah I think there are about 18,000 Americans in Norway. A big chunk of that is Mormons. More Trump supporters than i thought too.
For me I can’t really hide my American accent and I’m not fluent in Norwegian yet. It just gets really annoying because I don’t want to talk about politics every five goddamn seconds. A Norwegian trump supporter tried to Amerisplain me last night and I about lost it.
Love the idea of pretending that I don’t know who he is.
big chunk of that is Mormons. More Trump supporters than i thought too.
Mormonism is the only religion I’m straight up bigoted against and everything new I learn about them just reinforces my prejudice
Yeah I tried not to be bigoted against Mormonism but every Mormon author I’ve read writes really simplistically, has weird attitudes toward sex.
And (spoilering disturbing content)
spoiler
Wtf is going on with Mormons and pedofilia?!
Stephanie Meyer: Twilight has a lot of it.
Orson Scott Card: wrote a book (Hart’s Hope) that opens with a graphic depiction of it, justifies it, and the next chapter goes into how “wicked” the child victim is
So yeah now I’m biased against Mormons
It’s Christianity with an American settler spin on it, deeply evil concept
Oh good god, the whole point of wanting to emigrate is THEY’RE the people I’m trying to get away from.
Mormons actually have high percentage ancestry from Denmark, because they went there to proselytise. I guess its a traditions thing.
Usually the trump supporters are Americans here. There isn’t a lot but if they are a white dude then yeah…
Last night was the first Norwegian one. Probably early 20’s.
The word trump, incidentally, is defined by NAOB as
- DIALEKTALT tung, svær kar
- MUNTLIG tverr, vrang mann eller gutt; vriompeis
- DIALEKTALT børsekolbe; geværkolbe
Of course, this word is not pronounced like Norwegians pronounce the name Trump (“Trømp”), but it is still a little funny.
For me I can’t really hide my American accent and I’m not fluent in Norwegian yet.
A strat I’ve seen a lot of people use in that situation is to just pretend they’re Canadian, but I couldn’t do that, frankly. I guess I just don’t like making that part of myself invisible.
It just gets really annoying because I don’t want to talk about politics every five goddamn seconds.
Absolutely, absolutely. I think I might have a higher tolerance for talking politics than most people, but Norwegians’ fondness of hounding Yankees with political question after political question is one of the things that led me to develop my own current theories about the interplay of Europe and Seppoland. Like the reason why Americans in Norway get these questions is ultimately because Norwegians can on a deep level sense that their country is entirely beholden to the whims of another country whose policies they have no say in, but without any actual theory to make sense of this situation, this sort of deep-seated insecurity about the New Master’s actions basically turns into an obsession with Seppoland’s politics — and in turn Americans in Norway are turned into “fetishes” of the current vassal relationship, if that makes sense.
Seppoland, naturally, benefits from this arrangement: if anyone who tries to resign from settlerism is soon met with crowds of people who act Deeply Weirdly about the ex-settler’s background, leading the ex-settler to feel frustrated and alienated, like they just can’t fit in and can’t carve out a life outside of the settler-colonial paradigm, then resigning from settlerism is made all the more difficult. This “McAfeeization” of settlerism becomes especially important during crises of the colonial system, where settlers’ loyalty to the project cannot be so readily bought with “treats”.
This is at least my current understanding.
A Norwegian trump supporter tried to Amerisplain me last night and I about lost it.
Jesus Christ, tell me about it. Young men are turning increasingly rightward, so there’s a lot more Norwegian Redcaps than there used to be, and they are painful. Just completely disconnected from reality and their own interests. They lick boots that even liberals wouldn’t lick, and Norwegian liberals fucking love to lick boots, so that’s saying something.
A strat I’ve seen a lot of people use in that situation is to just pretend they’re Canadian, but I couldn’t do that, frankly. I guess I just don’t like making that part of myself invisible.
I can pass fortunately. I know enough Canadians and can emulate the accent. I have traveled up there a lot as well.
and in turn Americans in Norway are turned into “fetishes” of the current vassal relationship, if that makes sense.
That explains so much.
Young men are turning increasingly rightward, so there’s a lot more Norwegian Redcaps than there used to be, and they are painful.
I worry about that, I saw it happen in the US. The brainrot with US algorithms and social media is out of control.
I can pass fortunately. I know enough Canadians and can emulate the accent.
Honestly, I wouldn’t expect most Norwegians to be so fine-tuned to the differences between American and Canadian accents, nor so acutely aware of the popular culture and current issues of Canada, for that much effort to need to be put into passing as Canadian.
The brainrot with US algorithms and social media is out of control.
This is why I’ve been trying to push people to join the fediverse, especially locally-owned servers. The way things stand, if Norway is so reliant on Seppo tech with Seppo algorithms, all the culture war brainrot nonsense ends up much more easily imported.
— Apropos “brainrot,” I translated an article the other day about how “hip youngsters” watch A Minecraft Movie in English for the memes, while families taking their kids watch the Norwegian dub. This country has totally fucked language politics.
There’s another American in Norway on this hellsite‽
Makes three of us
Pog!
Show them his sizzle reel from his time as a professional wrestler
say you have compromising pictures of trump when you guys had passionate gay sex and you escaped from the US when he got elected so you don’t get whacked
Finally, a president brave enough to destroy Amerikkka
You live in Norway. What, you’re going to be thought of extra lib if you say Trump is a piece of shit?
