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[-] Tundra@lemmy.ml 219 points 3 months ago

what is this new american trend of infantile statements?

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago

It's hardly new. The United States have always been like that one popular kid in an elementary school. If you act the way he wants, he can be nice to you and your on his team. Take one step in a different direction and they'll start badmouthing you, preferably behind your back.

They've been doing this to Russia and China for decades. As long as they have the stage, they can create any narrative they want and the audience will most likely adopt the opinion and start saying the same things.

The thing about propaganda is that, if it fits in your frame or reference, you'll be more likely to accept it. If it doesn't fit, like when it is about you, suddenly you'll realize that this is something they have been doing about others all along and that it doesn't break any patterns, apart from the recognition patterns of the receiver.

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 82 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is not about the behaviour, it is about the language. Back then even though they were bullies, they did at least use adult diplomatic language. It is about the brainrot of Trumps sycophants copying his bizarre childish way of talking.

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

Sadly that kind of language apparently resonates with voters more than intelligent speech. It's happening all across Europe as well. As someone from the Netherlands, I had a bit of a laugh when the right wing populists found out that governing is not at all as simple as they make it out to be. It's the embodiment of 'fuck around and find out'.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

This is how the fascists evangelize to the morons, the lower educated.

See, when they say stuff like “our beef is beautiful, and theirs is weak, they’re jealous” or “these tariffs might be the manliest thing, they’re going to being us back from woke and give more testosterone” they’re not talking to you.

I mean, they know you’re gonna hear them but they know you’re smart enough to know what they’re doing.

What they’re really doing is rilling up all the dumb, uneducated masses that voted them in. They’re filling the airwaves with buzzwords, and their fucking sleeper zombies awaken from their WWE stupor, they all turn down their sweat lodge manosphere podcasts and go “yesss daddy make us more stronger omg trump greatest ever we’re gonna dunk on those nerds”

They think this will scare you and intimidate you not because of their words directly, but because you understand the effects of what they’re really doing. You know, because of the implication.

Of course it’s fucking stupid, but the problem is they will actually throw a tantrum when you tell them to fuck off and that’s when fascism gets ugly. God help us all.

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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

It is simple sadly. An infant is running the country. They want to make sure he can understand what they're saying publicly without it having to go through a translator. Note the excessive use of the word beautiful for instance.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Most Americans are fuckbrains, this is just something we have to accept. At least for the time being.

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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 191 points 3 months ago

Food from the USA is not up to European standards. It's that simple.

Just look at how long it took to ban Red Dye #3. Banned almost completely in Europe in 1994, while in the US it's legal until 2027.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 44 points 3 months ago

Don't forget high fructose corn syrup, which is still legal in the US, despite having a conspiracy theorist who hates it in charge of the Department of Health and who could get that ball rolling with a word.

[-] Fluke@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

Corn subsidies effectively bankroll a number of (Solid Red) US states. That shit's big business, with big lobbyist payrolls, with big lawyers behind them.

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[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 87 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Eww... We don't need chlorine infused chicken and chemical soaked eggs. No idea what crap they have in their mad cow beef and lobster. Ban it by law, put it into the constitution change all the national anthem to say EU citizens will be protected from US chemical infused meat and eggs. Write it into a huge stone facing US in multiple languages. Make T-shirts too and hats.

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 72 points 3 months ago

Weak unchlorinated meat, unbelievable!

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

God damn it that's not how people are supposed to speak.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"...because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

My brother in christ, what the fluffer nutter cyberfuck are you talking about?!?

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[-] Aliktren@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

Your beef is corn fed and cows cant digest it, get fucked. Grass fed ftw.

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[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 months ago

Lutnick’s description of American beef as superior is a common perception and has some evidentiary basis.

“EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality, meaning that the customers cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing,” says a 2022 academic article in Animal: The International Journal of Animal Biosciences.

So according to the NY Post, the apparent absence of complaints in the US is an argument why US beef is better?

[-] Tartufo@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago

EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality

In other words: They have no clue and are just guessing. That (parts of) the EU may be following an entirely different trend is completely unimaginable.

My personal anecdotal evidence: Basically everyone I know who eats less beef does so because of pricing, wanting to adopt a healthier/different diet or because they don't want to shut their eyes as much to what "meat production" means for a cow anymore. Then there's the group who just goes along with that because they either don't prepare meals themselves or so they're not the only one not eating at least vegetarian. Not a single one of them does it because they "cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing".

Ofc my anecdotal evidence isn't saying anything about the entire EU either. I merely wanted to showcase how easy it would be to frame the entire thing completely differently.

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.

This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.

Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.

This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.

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[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago

As an African with access to reasonable traditional cattle farming, I can say that American beef tastes like crap. Looks amazing, but tastes like crap.

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[-] smokingpistol@lemm.ee 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As an American that has traveled to many places, why would Europe want any type of American food. I felt like most countries I’ve traveled to especially in central and South America and places like Italy the food is more farm to table and by far way more healthier. Have you ever seen Fanta from Europe compared to USA?

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

Those evil Europeans like quality. But not American, only real quality.

American animal "farms" are a dirty and unhygienic mess, and the fact that people still eat their products in the US makes people elsewhere cringe in horror. I love to shock Americans with "Mettbrötchen", a crispy roll with raw, minced pork meat. Perfectly safe to eat here. But people who are used to washed.eggs and chlorinated chicken recoil in horror to something like that.

[-] albert180@piefed.social 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

American animal "farms" are a dirty and unhygienic mess, and the fact that people still eat their products in the US makes people elsewhere cringe in horror.

If someone asked me to describe the animals rolling in and meat out of Tönnies Factories I would use the same words to describe it.

Our meat isn't that much better (still better than in the US, but the prepackaged stuff in the supermarket is still low quality), no reason to be smug here and riding the high horse

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 3 months ago

America won't buy our corn and guns!

Why won't America buy our corn and guns?

Oh, because they make their own and they're fucking thousands of miles away.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

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[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"They disespect us. They disrespect our beef. They call us stinky, poopy babies."

~ Fox News, probably

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[-] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago

"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?

[-] MJKee9@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.

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[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

I like when they talk like toddlers, it's clear as day they are distracting the topic at hand, much like their IQ

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[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.

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[-] violetdelights818@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

EU: "I don't want your beef. I hate your beef."
American Beef: sob
Lutnick: "Don't listen to them Beef! You're beautiful no matter what anybody says! You know what EU? I think your beef sucks! Your beef is WEAK!"

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 20 points 3 months ago

Definitely not because our beef is hormone filled

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[-] sporkler@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

So this must mean that in America the local markets will be flooded with suddenly affordable meat?

didn't think so.

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[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Gee, it's almost like he's intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".

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[-] eutampieri@feddit.it 18 points 3 months ago

I thought this was a joke until I read Lutnick's name

[-] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

Keep your poison

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 16 points 3 months ago

"they hate it because its beautiful" makes absolutely no fucking sense. these people need to be laughed at to their face. (among other things)

[-] ComfortablyDumb@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

American is the worst food in the whole world. Its better to go hungry than partaking in the excesses of highly processed american diet. Go to any supermarket and check the ingredients of american food and you will find stuff like malto dextrose, inverse sugar, dyglycerides, corn starch and high fructose syrup. All of these are rubbish ingredients which pollutes your body and makes you addicted. Stay away from american food for your own health. Buy EU/Canada/India/China/SEA etc but do not touch american products.

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've eaten beef all over the world. US beef is nothing special.

[-] snuggledick@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

It's special in that it's full with antibiotics and growth hormones.

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

Even as a Canadian I avoid American meat as much as possible when buying groceries.

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[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

I worked at a slaughterhouse for about 6 months, in Canada so obviously different. But the only time I saw a cow not unconscious while being drained was when the Orthodox Jews or Muslims stopped by. I didn't watch those twice.

My father insisted I work at one, like he worked at one when he was young. He used a .22, I used a captive bolt gun. Done correctly, the cow should be unconscious. But that industry attracts a certain type of people, so without the government keeping a close eye on the industry I believe the events of that article will happen more.

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