Hank is regularly in the wrong, or at least partially in the wrong. What makes KotH great is everyone has a chance to be a jackass, and most conflicts are resolved by finding common ground and mutual respect, with the occasional seasoning of dabbing on complete buttholes.
thats a little too reasonable + nuanced a take for the 'jackass stereotype is being mean to hank, please apologize *at once* other countries for the crimes of your countryman' thread
>right for the wrong reasons
Holy frick what. This is a phrase that can only come from brainlets. Reminds me of school when kids would find the answers to math problems the ~~*wrong*~~ way.
You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
The joke is that Hank gave a self centered response.
>but isn't it self centered to ask someone from a different country who your leader currently is
He knows American leadership better than Americans know British leadership because Americans are more insular and less inclined to know about anything outside their country. Responding with "why" shows an elevated sense of self and a disregard for others.
> deliver the propane to people on time. > do not smoke near flamable gasses. > carry the propane tank by the HANDLE.
you (and others) get to continue living.
> be wrong, just once, at the worst possible time and place.
you die. they die. everyone dies.
Dude wasn't perfect but he was objectively an honest, good-natured guy who cared about his family, friends, and community. He did the right things as well as he could and took people seriously, except when they tried to pull bullshit social cards on him.
Honestly why don't we have more characters like Hank on TV right now?
You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
Don't let this run-on sentence distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off of Hell In A Cell, sending him plummeting 16 feet through an announcer's table.
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
Why should Hank, a man 1500+ miles south of Canada, give a shit about their politics enough to know the names of everyone involved in the Parliament of Canada?
Nah, Canadian politics barely matter. But Americans would be a lot better off if they really understood the politics of Mexico and other countries that are major sources of immigrants.
>Americans would be a lot better off if they really understood the politics of Mexico and other countries that are major sources of immigrants.
Why? Americans couldn't do anything at all to affect them.
The real ignorance is that the rest of the world seems to think the US Government asks for permission or opinions from the US citizens before they royally frick someone's shit up. Our elections are fake, all the choices are rigged, the game completely excludes the input of the common man.
Underrated post and very much the truth. I don't think Europeans really realize that Americans lost control of America before the current generation of Anons was even born. Its a little funny and a little sad that everyone thinks we export globohomosexual on purpose, as if American voted for this, or something.
You guys didn't vote for it in your countries and it was implemented anyway. Why the hell would you think we needed to vote for it in ours?
This, it's why Obama spent $50m building a border wall and anti-migrant training in the south of Mexico to stop illegals, drug traffickers and coyotes from Guatemala
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
He is implying, correctly, that Canada's prime minister is so insignificant, why would anyone need to know about it beyond their own citizenry? The only reason the PM of Canada has been known at all is because the globalists and progressives like to fawn over them when they will play their game of attention whoring. (Which is, amusingly, even further proof of their non-relevance.)
thats not really a question anybody can answer except you, anon, because it depends how curious you are.
the joke in the picture works on multiple levels, but i'm sure you'd agree the backbone of the show was 'ignorant man is peturbed by figments of the world outside his immediate neighborhood that drift into his orbit, bwaaahhhh!!'.
>i'm sure you'd agree the backbone of the show was 'ignorant man is peturbed by figments of the world outside his immediate neighborhood that drift into his orbit, bwaaahhhh!!'.
The best part here is the joke actually works both ways. Either Hank looks ignorant, or the Canadian does. At that time America was arguably the most influential country on the planet, in almost every measurable metric. Canada, on the other hand, had about 9% of the amount of America's population and not even 10% of it's influence. Yet it acted like it was somehow on the same level of America.
Again, I like the joke, because it really cuts both ways depending on what you want to see.
This episode made me realize that people asking foreigners for intricate details of their country's politics, regardless of their own country or the target of their question, are just self-centered pricks. Like genuinely why SHOULD anyone name your country's head of state, political system, parties, etc? The frick does that prove? Oh no, a Hungarian failed to name the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, what a scandal! Frick off with that shit.
This was especially common in the 00s for non-Americans to smugly ask Americans to tell them all about their country's political system. The truth is that none of them could just kick back and spout of the political systems of whatever countries they weren't personally vested in either. Just smug masturbatory self-righteousness, like a chef demanding a non-chef to tell him various cooking techniques and acting like the non-chef is an idiot for not known specialized information.
Agreed. Further, what I love is that nearly the people foreigners who ask this of Americans probably could not quote their own constitution, whereas many conservatives in the US can. You can bet your ass that Hank could. Why should anyone in xyz-country care about abc-country if they don't know their own government well enough to begin with?
That dude is mad because the US political system offers a choice between the world's stupidest man, Donald Trump, pretending to be a populist while he robs the nation and cuts taxes for the rich, who tried to overthrow the democracy.
And Joe Biden, who is soft serve ice cream given life, and who believes if we just wait patiently enough, everything will sort itself out because there are experts out there being paid by the status quo to maintain the status quo, and what can we do about gas prices anyway? Nothing, right? Same for medicine, and education.
The people who Hank used to argue with in KotH kinda won, honestly. They run the place.
>and what can we do about gas prices anyway? Nothing, right?
yeah actually. high gas prices right now is basically just price fixing from the oil companies. If Biden discovered 50 million barrels of oil in a swamp tomorrow prices wouldn't go down, as because lack of supply is not the issue.
Lets not pretend that Russia deserves to live, Anon. The Cold War was going to end sooner or later with a US Victory - these things don't just go away - and Russia provided the perfect context for dismantling them.
>Inb4 hurrdurr just let Russia do what it wants
It doesn't make any sense not to turn them all into debt slaves. They've done it with most of the first world already, what exactly makes you think that the one country that deserves it isn't going to get picked?
No they don't. I do. I run everything and if I really wanted to frick the world over, I'd behave like a normal person and stop watching the news for just 2 weeks.
>The people who Hank used to argue with in KotH kinda won
They did, completely and utterly. If KotH was on now Hank would be getting it from both ends and would inevitably become a hard core Trumper if he wanted to keep doing business in Texas.
The social worker from the pilot would now be in charge and making the rules at the department of social services. Everything slightly offensive at Tom Landry middle school would be removed.
Dale would be completely normal by current standards. Everyone in Arlen would be talking about how the election was stolen and Biden eats babies after he rapes them.
Even Hank's stoic principles couldn't stand up to the entire town gone mad. He'd never leave Texas either, so he'd have to adapt or be driven out like a pariah.
I don't see what's so bad about hardcore Trumpers.
How can you still belong to the school of "nothing interesting ever really happens outside of individual fallibility and there are no grand conspiracies" after 2020? Where there was a bonafide laptop filled with evidence of corruption that broad swaths of the media ignored? Trump never colluded with Russia. How can you believe our institutions are impartial after all that?
>How can you still belong to the school of "nothing interesting ever really happens outside of individual fallibility and there are no grand conspiracies" after 2020?
I'm not awash in nonsense from schizoids on a hentai forum.
You do realize Dale Gribble was portrayed as a gullible nitwit for a reason, right? Him not knowing Redcorn was plowing his wife tied directly into believing that JFK wasn't dead and UFOs abducted him. He can't think critically.
No magic switch flipped that made that garbage acceptable except for the new abundance of it on social media. Alex Jones and David Icke are still hucksters that just want your money. None of what they say is the least bit true.
>How can you believe our institutions are impartial after all that?
I don't have strong biases that are further strengthened by everyone around me having the same biases. YOU are what I'm talking about. YOU are why Hank would have to start loving Trump or get fired.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Kek
Lmao even
2 years ago
Anonymous
Way to avoid actually answering the question
2 years ago
Anonymous
I answered the questions I could. I don't even remember the laptop thing and I'd have to go look it up.
You make your point through fiction, I see.
You realize just because he was portrayed as gullible doesn’t immediately invalidate literally every conspiracy known to man, right? Just because you don’t take it seriously doesn’t mean the United States government isn’t completely out of control and doing its own think without any input from its citizens, shit you’d call me crazy for shit like mk ultra or the multitude of times the CIA has pulled shady shit
Listen, I refuse to get into conspiracy arguments, not out of fear, but because there's nothing to gain. If all of your evidence is anecdotal then it's worthless. We may as well talk about dragons on Mars. Yes, I know that MK Ultra happened, and the Gulf of Tonkin, and Tuskeegee. Several things turning out to be true do not suddenly give credence to every conspiracy theory in the same way gorillas turning out to be real doesn't mean that the Loch Ness monster is out there.
Dale's character flaw is delusion and gullibility. Confident gullibility. He has explanations as for why everything happens except for the most obvious one. He's a 150 lb stick of a man that thinks he's a solider of fortune. He kills pests to fulfill his power fantasies of being a deadly warrior. He lives in his own world apart from reality to help him cope with how much he sucks. He's an uneducated schizoid and if he was real he'd be posting on /misc/ today.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I dunno, if I wanted to, I could write a comic about an Antifa anarchist who is actually a conformist sheep who's slowly being pulled into the cult secretly inhabiting her shared, co-op house. What do either of these type of joke characters prove or disprove about the impartial veracity of US institutions?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Coward
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yes and you seem confident in your willingness to ignore the idea that the American government isn’t a runaway organization. You are the other end of the spectrum, and frankly worse given you know it can happen but willingly ignore the problem as if that solves it because your scared to be labeled as something the mainstream dislikes
2 years ago
Anonymous
Cuck
2 years ago
Anonymous
Bitch
2 years ago
Anonymous
prostitute
2 years ago
Anonymous
bawd
2 years ago
Anonymous
Puta
2 years ago
Anonymous
You make your point through fiction, I see.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You realize just because he was portrayed as gullible doesn’t immediately invalidate literally every conspiracy known to man, right? Just because you don’t take it seriously doesn’t mean the United States government isn’t completely out of control and doing its own think without any input from its citizens, shit you’d call me crazy for shit like mk ultra or the multitude of times the CIA has pulled shady shit
Hardcore Trumpers are like housewives who keep saying their spouse hit them for a good reason. Republicans have been thinking since Raegan that any day now, their party is going to actually stick it to the elites and not just protect the rich. But it never happens, and Trump was the worst of them so far, because they are laughing at you and think you're a dumb hillbilly frick who's just going to forgive them and vote in the next two-faced psychopath.
"This time I'll really bring back the jobs. I care about the people," they all say, never once, ever demonstrating they mean a word of it.
You deserve dignity, man. Trump is worthless to you, and we can all do better. What matters and what's at stake is the people. Trump, McConnel and everyone else in that rat-faced echelon can go frick themselves.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Trump is truly going to be the next hitler for you morons. Realize you are just as obsessed as you imagine others are.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So that's what the pitch sounds like.
2 years ago
Anonymous
this is a pretty good post, you could swap republicans with democrats and it would be equally valid
king of the hill has two episodes
'hank is mildly annoyed by the insane shrieking bush-era stereotype he runs into'
'hank feels uncomfortable about bobby's newest hobby'
thats it. those are the episodes
>THAT'S MY PURSE I DON'T KNOW YOU episode >Hank meeting his Japanese brother episode >The episode where Bobby gets addicted to cigarettes, then the whole family does and has to kick it together >Hank gets raped by a dolphin episode >The episode where Hank becomes a pimp >The murder mystery episode >The episode where Bobby gets put on drugs >Boggle episode >Hank uses crack to go fishing episode >Bobby gets gout episode >The tornado episode
>that's my purse
Bobby's hobby >hank meeting his japanese brother
Bush era stereotype >Cigarettes
Bobby's hobby >Raped by Dolphin
Bush era stereotype >Pimp
Bush era stereotype >Murder mystery
Bush era stereotype >boggle
Legit don't remember that one >Crack fishing
Bush era stereotype >Bobby gets gout
Bobby's hobby >Tornado
Bill is a c**t. (If I'm thinking of the right episode)
Canadian can go frick himself that's for sure. There are probably close to eight hundred different political names that can all personally affect me just here in the states, how much more of my own time should I invest learning of the politics of other nations outside of how it affects my own nation?
thats not really a question anybody can answer except you, anon, because it depends how curious you are.
the joke in the picture works on multiple levels, but i'm sure you'd agree the backbone of the show was 'ignorant man is peturbed by figments of the world outside his immediate neighborhood that drift into his orbit, bwaaahhhh!!'.
the only thing that matters is how are canadas terfs effecting prices, it doesnt matter if canada is trowing a gay parade or just sent its army to kill all of it population, the only thing we need to know about mexico is it has cartel problems, and that shits probably going to spread to us and make us an other shit hole
Hank is right roughly 85-90% of the time and most of the times hes wrong hes not really wrong hes just pushing his perspective too hard on others. This episode was especially great because the Canadian was the one outright in the wrong/rude/egotistic etc. He thinks people should care when he country was never great and now its in economic collapse with a Soros puppet as its head.
This episode made me realize that people asking foreigners for intricate details of their country's politics, regardless of their own country or the target of their question, are just self-centered pricks. Like genuinely why SHOULD anyone name your country's head of state, political system, parties, etc? The frick does that prove? Oh no, a Hungarian failed to name the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, what a scandal! Frick off with that shit.
This was especially common in the 00s for non-Americans to smugly ask Americans to tell them all about their country's political system. The truth is that none of them could just kick back and spout of the political systems of whatever countries they weren't personally vested in either. Just smug masturbatory self-righteousness, like a chef demanding a non-chef to tell him various cooking techniques and acting like the non-chef is an idiot for not known specialized information.
>why SHOULD anyone name your country's head of state, political system, parties, etc? The frick does that prove?
it proves that you have a basic sense of curiosity, and an awareness that there exists a world outside, further away than what you can see immediately outside your window. meanwhile, all this aggravation and you're just seething mad at being owned, online, multiple decades ago lol
>it proves that you have a basic sense of curiosity, and an awareness that there exists a world outside, further away than what you can see immediately outside your window.
Then name literally any given country's head of state and political system, otherwise you're holding other people to a double standard. Nobody knows everything anon, I doubt you could name the heads of state of certain countries better than any American could. >meanwhile, all this aggravation and you're just seething mad at being owned, online, multiple decades ago lol
I'm a Britbong, I just found it irritating how many people would target specifically Americans and then often couldn't even say that Jacques Chirac was the president of France right next door.
>I doubt you could name the heads of state of certain countries better than any American could.
i mean i'm obviously not holding your feet to the fire, i'm just answering your question. settle down
>I just found it irritating how many people would target specifically Americans and then often couldn't even say that Jacques Chirac was the president of France right next door
so then call them arseholes. not difficult
America is instrumental to global affairs and many Euros don't understand how our system of government works beyond the fact that we have an election every four years.
I thought Americans were hopelessly stupid about their own country's inner workings, but then I realized I had to factor in European and Asian opinions that are largely ignorant and skew liberal.
>America is instrumental to global affairs and many Euros don't understand how our system of government works
i mean, you could argue the exact same but swapping the names of the countries and demonyms around and itd still work. america, china, russia, the european union...
Yes, it seems like we all have a roughly similar natural limit to how much an average person will know about the world's governments (pretty much their own and not much else.) The difference is we don't drag you over coals for it, even though you're so stupid sometimes. So fricking stupid that we should point out how stupid you are for the good of all involved. Europe: you are stupid and uninformed on this matter. STFU for once.
for clarity, are you expecting me to represent literally all of non-america
2 years ago
Anonymous
I imagine you will whine if you're forced to represent anything beyond your own immediate interests.
I don't care what you do. It just needed to be said.
2 years ago
Anonymous
i dont get why you are doing the Sir Sir Debate Me Sir thing at me
2 years ago
Anonymous
Does Euroland have any major predators? You think that might impact gun ownership?
2 years ago
Anonymous
i dont understand the question, or frankly why you are asking it. its weird that you are doing this
2 years ago
Anonymous
Do you...have...any major predators?
2 years ago
Anonymous
probably. why do you ask?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Cows aren't predators. Neither are badgers.
I don't think you do. Russia does. And oh gee whiz! They also have guns! Well golly whizzers, I wonder what it means.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I don't think you do.
why did you insist i answer the question if you were just going to dismiss my answer?
2 years ago
Anonymous
The scariest thing nature throws at you is a badger. Perhaps a particularly aggressive frog. But please lecture us more about gun ownership.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>bears >wolverines >wolves
mostly the same that you get in the US
2 years ago
Anonymous
You don't have bears, I just checked the map. I bet only Finland has wolves, too.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Black person, I've work as a woodsman and a lumberjack - I've seen plenty of bear and wolves
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yes, Muslims
2 years ago
Anonymous
He's not. He literally just said that he doesn't care what you do and just felt like saying something.
Back when Britain ruled the world, most people knew who was wearing the crown. Back when the Romans owned a large part of the world, most people knew the name of the Emperor. That didn't mean the average British person knew who was in charge of Hungary, or that the average Roman knew who was in charge of China.
The alpha dog doesn't have to learn the protocols of the beta. But the beta's life is effected by every move of the alpha. That's why most people around the world know the name of the current US president, even if half the people in this country are too doped up to know it themselves.
>Back when the Romans owned a large part of the world, most people knew the name of the Emperor
no they didnt. you made that up. you're full of horseshit only spoken with complete confidence
>Oh no, a Hungarian failed to name the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, what a scandal!
the irony being that I've heard more of that from americans than anyone else >WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW WHO WOODROW WILSON IS?
I perfectly understand not giving a shit about another country's political situations and not inquiring about it.
People who criticize Americans for not knowing everything about every country don't understand each state and providence is the size of a country and you know damn well those people couldn't name 5 states off the top of their head.
>muh states the size of a country
Can you name 5 canadian states ? 5 russian states ? 5 chinese provinces ? Cause all of them are «the size of a country», and I picked powerful countries, not Brazil or South Africa
>5 Canadian States
No such thing, but if you meant provinces than Quebec, Manitoba, British Colombia, Alberta, and Ontario >Russian states
Again no such thing, oblast better translates to province or region, but Tver, Moscow, Samara, Rostov, and Vologda. If you consider Moscow cheating then I'll throw in Pskov. >Chinese provinces
Ironically the easiest for me because I fricking love traditional Chinese food, Guangdong, Anhui, Sichuan, Henan, Hubei
>God it feels good being a geography autist
what do you call a mountain, but in reverse. like instead of being really tall it'd be like going into the ground
Kinda impressed ngl, I made myself a complete homosexual. Still I don't think that sheer size is the more important thing in geography and that only a handful of US states can be put on the same standing as real countries. It's only a question of relevancy.
Also why most people could easily name 5 US states and know jack shit about Lesotho or Brunei. Europeans get arrogant with this but it's generally true that they are better at international geography than americans. It's all butthurt of course
>Also why most people could easily name 5 US states and know jack shit about Lesotho or Brunei. Europeans get arrogant with this but it's generally true that they are better at international geography than americans. It's all butthurt of course
The truth than makes both Eurostanis and Amerisharts seethe
>Also why most people could easily name 5 US states and know jack shit about Lesotho or Brunei.
Usually those 5 states people can name are New York, California, Texas, Florida, and depending on the day Virginia/Pennsylvania
New York and Califonia have extreme amount of economic significance not only for America but for the entire world.
Texas is frick huge and is basically a meme
Florida is definitely a meme in this age
and Virginia because of its government significance or Pennsylvania if you're a history buff.
Texas actually has a larger GDP than New York now. It's weird to think about because NYC is undeniably the largest city and financial capital of the US, but overall upstate New York has been stagnating for decades now while the whole of Texas is booming. I don't think NYC will be surpassed in our lifetimes, if ever, as the most important singular city in the US, but as a state Texas is now more relevant than New York.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Texas is now more relevant than New York.
Until the infrastructure completely breaks down again
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nah, they're gonna be the next California. In more ways than one too, it's kind of an impending existential crisis for Texans.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not unless they fix their shit, if they don't do that then they are going to end up like Australia, vast tracts of wasteland with only a few pockets of civilization around Austin and the Dallas Fort Worth area
Ontario, Northwest Territories, Quebec, Yukon
To be fair I only know those cause I have a Canadian friend. Russia and China aren't fair comparisons because of the language barrier.
Bongistani and geography homosexual here, i'll give it a shot:
Canada:
Newfoundland, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nunavut (the one up north where nobody lives)
5 russian states:
israeli autonomous Oblast, Karelia, Crimea, Moscow, Vladivostok(?, Might just be a city inside a bigger oblast)
5 chinese provinces:
Guangdong, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Hong Kong (although hong kong is in a unique political situation due to the terms of the British hand over)
Ignorance IS power. You'll understand once you live in a multi-ethnic state how overwhelmingly powerful ignorance is. Children of immigrants raised to only think about their "culture" and not the country their parents came from soon detach from that country and share the culture with their birth country. Start teaching Americans too much foreign history and you get moronic "I'm a viking" and "BLACK KANG" losers.
Ignorance is Strength
Unity Unity Unity
USA USA USA
>Euros in this thread seriously trying to claim that they have omniscient political knowledge of the world to try and own Americans
Lol. Lmao even. Roflmao if I may.
i'm also detecting 'americans getting increasingly confused and angry that not-america exists' and, as we know, both strains of autism cancel each other out
True, I believe we are rapidly reaching the point of pic related in this thread. Everyone in this thread is huffing their own farts, including me, but at least I'm aware of it, so I'll inhale DEEPLY and PROUDLY.
Literally who cares who the Canadian PM is? That has literally no bearing on anybody in any country except Canada, Canada doesn't do anything that affects the rest of the world.
not unless you choose to invade or raise export costs. In general, none of your presidents has had a bearing on anything in my country or the countries around it save maybe the price of gas, at best. America is important to Americans, just as Kazakstan is important to those living there, and China is important to those living there, and so on and so on.
Black person we police your water trade routes, we run NATO, we’re always going to be spying on you, if your South American your country is probably a target of the cia, we’re everywhere, to say American doesn’t effect you is so utterly ignorant it’s shocking.
Non-American countries get so much American media and American news and so on pushed on them because America just dominates this planet. It's just impossible to ignore America. Meanwhile, if you're not a Canadian, you're basically almost never going to hear about Canada.
If you walked up to random strangers in a non-Canadian country and asked them who the prime minister of Canada is, 9 out of 10 won't know. I've met people abroad who thought Canada was a part of the US, like it was the 51st state or something.
People seem to not understand that when the united states does something it has an affect on the whole world.
If say Belgium does something 99% of the time it will have no consequences.
>It's so obvious! She's never comin' back. She doesn't want this stupid shit....or this. >F*ck this! >*crushes the aptly labelled Valve box that contains a hat*
I just realized I only know the name of one governor of the states bordering mine, and they are much more important to my life than the prime minister of Mali or Estonia or wherever the guy in OP is from
I bet you don't know the name of your sheriff and how he is the highest elected official in most places.
To the point he can tell the feds to frick off.
But no, people like to talk about some guy in Montana doesn't give a shit about who is running Greece.
It doesn't matter.
as a side note, int is quite possibly the very worst board on this website. weenies with absolutely nothing going on other than having 'is a stereotype online' as their personality, and acting in judgement of people doing the same for other countries. its just cringe all the way down
I hate this shit. Why should I give two fricks about the prime minister of a country I have no connection to and don't live in. Why should YOU, as the foreigner in the USA, care about US politics or US culture. People complain that Americans think the world revolves around them but they contribute to this culture by paying attention to the US so much. Worry about your own country and its problems and I will worry about the US.
>But you have lectured people about gun ownership before, haven't you?
i don't know why you're making up these crimes and then demanding i admit to + answer for these crimes. what's going on. why are you being like this
>natural
Yes, it is natural to be curious >good
I disagree. If you're a c**t like the guy in OP's pic, why should I care? It makes me not want to learn about other places if the people are like that. I should not care about the politics of another nation unless it directly affects my own, which in this case doesn't because knowing who the prime minister is does not make me anymore knowledgable about how Canadian politics actually work.
>If you're a c**t like the guy in OP's pic, why should I care?
well, i guess you have to remember that the literal boomer in charge of the show is making up an insane stereotype for king of the hill to own, and therefore please the audience. it's relatable enough for people to be all 'haha yeah frick that guy', and with good reason.
People on Twitter and Reddit absolutely sound like this guy, anon. I don't know why you think this stereotype is so outlandish or insane. People complain about Americans all the time. Hank owned that guy because people like that guy really do exist.
so then those guys are buttholes. i dont know what you want me to say: that all canadians are indeed like that guy in the picture?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not that anon, but Canada is indeed like that. Every single one. I'm stereotyping and generalizing, but frick Canada. Just frick Canada. It is the one country on Earth that does not deserve to exist. I support full national sovereignty of every individual state and the right to self-determination for every separatist movement founded without external influence, however I cannot support the existence of Canada. If there is any country in history that deserves to be destroyed it is Canada. My hatred is completely irrational, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Ceterum autem censeo Canadinem esse delendam
2 years ago
Anonymous
i'm choosing to respond to this as a joke. lol
2 years ago
Anonymous
Canada gives us constant shit and we can always dance over Canada's raw nerves, but they do feel like a brother-country to us and it's a nice relationship to have.
2 years ago
Anonymous
War Plan Crimson now!
2 years ago
Anonymous
Mostly I find Canadians to be very passive-aggressive. The 'polite Canadian' stereotype is total horseshit.
t. Michigander
some people really do forget Americans dont have to give a shit about your country, some kid in elementary school came from australia, and acted smug that he know places around australia and know else did, people are smug about tabloid facts about other peoples countrys as they are with speaking an other language, which once again why would an american care most countrys worth giving a shit about cater to american and english speaking tourist,
>Why should YOU, as the foreigner in the USA, care about US politics or US culture
Because the US impacts our own politics ? The US turned half of Europe into vassal states, world hegemony comes with a price. It's not really bad in my country because they can't speak english for shit, but you can be sure that the youth in irrelevant countries knows more about american politics than their own
I thought Europe was great. Much better than the uncivilized and uncultured US. What happened? >but you can be sure that the youth in irrelevant countries knows more about american politics than their own
And this is Americans' fault how? You should be crying to your country's politicians about this.
so then those guys are buttholes. i dont know what you want me to say: that all canadians are indeed like that guy in the picture?
No, I just want you to stop using stereotypes to excuse the guy.
>And this is Americans' fault how? You should be crying to your country's politicians about this
Not the fault of Americans, but it's the fault of the american governement that decided to turn Europe into it's playground >I thought Europe was great. Much better than the uncivilized and uncultured US. What happened?
That's mostly cope. Kinda true in some parts, but europeans as a whole are quite happy to follow America like dogs
>the american governement that decided to turn Europe into it's playground
I agree America can try to micromanage and run every country it is even remotely connected to. > but europeans as a whole are quite happy to follow America like dogs
Really? I was under the impression Europeans hated Americans because we left.
>I agree America can try to micromanage and run every country it is even remotely connected to.
More lazy European generalizing. Every American citizen is deeply invested in scoring an energy deal with Ukraine, eh?
Being top dog in this hyper-connected world is a completely new type of hell. You don't get to be completely self-governing and neither do we. ...great.
>Ukraine funds Bidens >Bidens block investigation into Ukrainian corruption
WHY DO YOU DO THIS, AMERICA??!!!!
2 years ago
Anonymous
Classic political corruption.
>I agree America can try to micromanage and run every country it is even remotely connected to.
More lazy European generalizing. Every American citizen is deeply invested in scoring an energy deal with Ukraine, eh?
Being top dog in this hyper-connected world is a completely new type of hell. You don't get to be completely self-governing and neither do we. ...great.
I was just agreeing with the European, dude. He said the American government, not the citizens, which is true.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>THIS CORRUPT AMERICAN POLITICIAN I'VE FUNDED FOR YEARS IS RUINING MY COUNTRY!!!! >AMEEEERRRRICCAAAAAA!!!! WHHYYYYHH???!!
That's my exact point, jackass, a random Libyan in 2010 completely ignorant of US politics first encounter with it would've been their intervention and the subsequent collapse of Libyan society, America is a world hegemon, it regularly intervenes and fricks with the rest of the world, demanding other people ignore or not care about the actions of the US despite your government repeatedly fricking with people is annoying, people don't keep up with US politics because it's fun or i really give a shit, it's because i want to know if low quality far less regulated meat is going to flood supermarkets here, i need to know if America is willing to drag my country into a war over Ukraine through NATO, i wish i could care about American politics as much as i care about like, Rwandan politics, i don't have anything against random americans inherently, it is fricking annoying to see the people of a world hegemon acting they're both world hegemonic colossally dicked ubermensch and also just another country at the table, it's a farce.
American citizens cannot control their government. How many times do we have to reiterate this? Are you slow of mind? >world hegemonic
Not every American thinks he's the greatest shit since sliced bread. Stop generalizing, seething Canadian.
>America is a world hegemon, it regularly intervenes and fricks with the rest of the world, demanding other people ignore or not care about the actions of the US despite your government repeatedly fricking with people is annoying, people don't keep up with US politics because it's fun or i really give a shit,
The U.S government isn't actually who decides to do this. The entire western world uses the U.S in name and forces the U.S army over there to serve as their own personal army, because when the entire western world decides to invade some shit-hole country or sanction one they make the U.S do it. It's the U.N/various fricking alliances in Asia/Israel alliance (huge) that puts the U.S at war. Also this
American citizens cannot control their government. How many times do we have to reiterate this? Are you slow of mind? >world hegemonic
Not every American thinks he's the greatest shit since sliced bread. Stop generalizing, seething Canadian.
but even worse American politicians are bought and paid for by other countries with less people to shove in an army.
also one of the last things any one wants to learn about a country is how their government works, people are more interested in the people culture and food, I dont give a frick about the canadian government the only merit to staying up to date with that shit is predicting notable price changes, no one fricking does that, canada is just snowy hillbillys, one of the least interesting countrys for an american to have interest in.
The OP image is >Person is being a c**t >People don't engage in his c**tery
That's it. That's OP's image. Don't be a c**t, regardless of the context. The fact that it involves international politics in incidental to the point.
>The fact that it involves international politics in incidental to the point.
(scrolling through the thread) a few people seem to disagree... unfortunately, some people will *make* anything about international politics
Cry more. The image shows a clear example of some butthole shitting on every American because he's upset Hank and co. don't know the prime minister of Canada. Really, who gives a frick though?
some people really do forget Americans dont have to give a shit about your country, some kid in elementary school came from australia, and acted smug that he know places around australia and know else did, people are smug about tabloid facts about other peoples countrys as they are with speaking an other language, which once again why would an american care most countrys worth giving a shit about cater to american and english speaking tourist,
>some kid in elementary school came from australia, and acted smug that he know places around australia and know else did
It's the only thing he can be smug about. Back in Australia, everyone knows where everything is. It's not cool or smart to know. But someone Americans are dumb for knowing their states but not the locations of other countries?
>The image shows a clear example of some butthole shitting on every American because he's upset Hank and co. don't know the prime minister of Canada
that's correct. and?
You're acting as though people are saying that learning about other countries is a bad thing. No, the argument is that why should the average American know about the entire world?
>why should the average American know about the entire world?
canada. and, knowing a simple fact about one of the countries that is next to yours is basic curiosity about the world outside what you are immediately looking at. the comedy in the scene (and in other episodes, of course) came from hank's ignorance of this.
>a simple fact about one of the countries that is next to yours is basic curiosity
But what if you're not curious because you don't care?
This. It's not that learning about the outside world is bad, it's not and people are free to do that in their own time. Expecting people to just inherently know things about any given country is fricking moronic though. Be polite if they don't know and inform them, don't be a standoffish c**t. That's a huge point that the King of the Hill episode expounds upon; the boys WERE totally willing to learn more, it's that the guy approached it from such a c**tish standpoint that it turned them off entirely. And this is a real thing that does happen.
Right. That c**t made them not want to learn more. Also, just because Canada is above us does not mean we have to learn about them. That's dumb. I don't really care about Canada unless they're doing something with the US. Of course, we do have a good relationship with them because of our proximity, but as long as nothing is wrong, why should I focus on learning about Canada?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>But what if you're not curious because you don't care?
then you just proved the canadian right, i guess.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's ignorant to not care about Canada. OK, anon. tell me why I should care about Canada? I care about Canadian people because I generally don't want anyone to be hurt, but why should I care for the country?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>OK, anon. tell me why I should care about Canada?
i already said. knowing a simple fact about a country that is next to yours is just about having simple curiosity. if you don't and you're fine with that, then whatever.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I have curiosity - just not about you.
2 years ago
Anonymous
But you're not telling me what is in it for me to know how the prime minister is? Curiosity isn't enough. People are only curious about things they care for. I don't care about Canadian politics. I only know about Trudeau because he's such a frickup. You should be grateful when people don't know, that means your president/prime minister isn't doing anything insane.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Why does having curiosity necessitate me knowing the leader of another country? I can be curious about dinosaurs or engines or architecture, none of which involve canada's government structure in any way.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Most people only have curiosity towards things that are interesting. Canada is a boring country full of passive aggressive weirdos who think maple syrup is a substitute for a personality.
I literally wouldn't even know Trudeau's name if he didn't become a laughing stock worldwide for doing tons of blackface, which his citizens oddly still defend despite supposedly being a progressive and tolerant nation.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Trudeau's been acting like a dictator lately. Canada's caravan has scared him into mowing over democratic processes. He used our (the US) latest shooting as an excuse to limit Canada's gun freedoms.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Look, I feel bad for Canadians but what can us Americans do about Trudeau when we have Biden? Also, his limitation on guns proves how rent-free America lives in the minds of others. What does American crime have to do with Canadians? Are Canadians dumb enough to follow Americans who commit crimes? Does he think this will stop criminals in either country?
2 years ago
Anonymous
He's just using any premise he can to strip Canadians of their guns. Of course it's bullshit. Everyone knows this. They can't yet touch him the same way we can't touch Biden. Both current Canadian and American leadership puts all it's ingenuity into infiltrating and corrupting its chosen system of government.
2 years ago
Anonymous
And the funny thing is that they think they're being righteous in their actions. I want an honest dictator president for once.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What a snarky c**t you are. You just want your guy on top and you don't care how. Quite frankly I'm tired of sharing a planet with you.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What are you talking about? OK, anon, let's play this game. Give me one good thing that either the current US president or Canadian prime minister has done?
Also, stop seething, Canadian, we don't have to care nor do we want to about Canada.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm American, jackass. I just happen to be aware of Canada? I've got to deal with geopolitical shit flinging every day, and yes, there's Canada, our comfy brother-neughbor to the North that we shit talk every once in a while. Then there's Mexico...they were doing well until the CIA continued existing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I'm American, jackass.
That's even worse. You should understand why the average American would not care to know who Canada's prime minister is besides the fact that he's infamous for being kind of shit. >here's Canada, our comfy brother-neughbor to the North that we shit talk every once in a while. Then there's Mexico...they were doing well until the CIA continued existing.
Yes, most Americans are aware there is a country above and below us. It's sad to see another American consider his own countrymen this dumb. We know Canada and Mexico exist, but why should we know more than that?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Canada is mostly wilderness. Most of it's population lives beside its US border. It has a huge bear population. Yes, Canadians need their guns.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Look, I feel bad for Canadians but what can us Americans do about Trudeau when we have Biden? Also, his limitation on guns proves how rent-free America lives in the minds of others. What does American crime have to do with Canadians? Are Canadians dumb enough to follow Americans who commit crimes? Does he think this will stop criminals in either country?
He's just using any premise he can to strip Canadians of their guns. Of course it's bullshit. Everyone knows this. They can't yet touch him the same way we can't touch Biden. Both current Canadian and American leadership puts all it's ingenuity into infiltrating and corrupting its chosen system of government.
On second thought maybe you guys shouldn't be talking about our politics
2 years ago
Anonymous
Mince home, you precious, mincing homosexual. More people in Canada than your fey ass.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Why? Because we don't have the opinions you have?
2 years ago
Anonymous
No, because you don't really know what you are talking about and with a bunch of half-truths.
This. It's not that learning about the outside world is bad, it's not and people are free to do that in their own time. Expecting people to just inherently know things about any given country is fricking moronic though. Be polite if they don't know and inform them, don't be a standoffish c**t. That's a huge point that the King of the Hill episode expounds upon; the boys WERE totally willing to learn more, it's that the guy approached it from such a c**tish standpoint that it turned them off entirely. And this is a real thing that does happen.
To add, when Khan has told them about his own culture they've actually been very open to it, if initially confused. They only shut down when Khan acts like a c**t. It's one of the most underlying messages of the series: don't be a c**t.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Kahn is pointedly included as an American in the Canada episode, too. Because he is.
To add, when Khan has told them about his own culture they've actually been very open to it, if initially confused. They only shut down when Khan acts like a c**t. It's one of the most underlying messages of the series: don't be a c**t.
see, you're being like one of those people who gets mad that people in zombie films make stupid decisions. on some level, in entertainment, stuff has to happen in order for the plot to happen, and here you are getting mad because you don't like that. why is cartman such a jackass all the time? surely he should have learned his lesson by now!, etc.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I have no idea what you're talking about, that has nothing to do with my posts. Khan himself gradually improves as the series goes on and isn't a constant c**t. In this very episode he sides with Hank and the gang.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yes, but King of the Hill is a completely different show than South Park. It's more realistic, so these are interactions that could happen in our world. South Park has episodes with Jesus and talking animals. KoTH doesn't have things like that, so the comparison makes no sense. Cartman's an butthole because he just is and lives in a universe where being an butthole doesn't mean you can't succeed. That Canadian being an butthole has a realistic result in KoTH
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Comparing King of the Hill characters to South Park characters
Anon, have you ever watching King of the Hill before? Characters actually do learn their lessons and change. There's gradual actual character progression throughout the series with every single major character. They're not even remotely comparable.
As an American with an intense interest in France, I've delved pretty deep into that country. I do know their politics, their language, their history, their culture. They have so much to offer the world; plays, books, pieces of art, programs, philosophical developments, contributions to science, architectural movements, even comics and cartoons, and more. It's a country I have a personal love for.
I don't give a rat's ass about Canada. At all. It's nothing to me, despite it being right next door. Frankly the nation of France has contributed far more to our country than Canada ever has, especially in its early days. I also don't expect Americans to have an interest in France themselves, it's just a personal pull of mine. If you honestly think that I lack curiosity because I don't like our most boring neighbor (Mexico is cooler and has an dramatically more interesting history, emphasis on the word "dramatically"), then ta gueule pédé, va te faire foutre
Thank you for showing that Americans can and do show interest in countries, but only countries they actually give two fricks about like most people who learn about other countries do.
Hank is usually completely correct around 70% of the time and only partially correct like 34% of the time, the amount of episodes where he's straight up wrong probably now enough to fill up a hands worth of counting
If America goes down the entire world would go down with it. In reality the rest of the world will be fricked and America will go back to being isolationist.
That's my exact point, jackass, a random Libyan in 2010 completely ignorant of US politics first encounter with it would've been their intervention and the subsequent collapse of Libyan society, America is a world hegemon, it regularly intervenes and fricks with the rest of the world, demanding other people ignore or not care about the actions of the US despite your government repeatedly fricking with people is annoying, people don't keep up with US politics because it's fun or i really give a shit, it's because i want to know if low quality far less regulated meat is going to flood supermarkets here, i need to know if America is willing to drag my country into a war over Ukraine through NATO, i wish i could care about American politics as much as i care about like, Rwandan politics, i don't have anything against random americans inherently, it is fricking annoying to see the people of a world hegemon acting they're both world hegemonic colossally dicked ubermensch and also just another country at the table, it's a farce.
England dragged us into this war. I'm guessing some of our English-descended self-appointed royals needed a little help.
You paid some grifter in our government to represent your interests. So now a league of grifters have incredible staying power in DC because they have no loyalty to anyone or anything.
>Where are the vampires and monsters and ghosts? >You'rearegularhalloweenhellraiser >IT'S JUST SHIT, IT'S NOT GONNA KILL YOU. >Hahaha >Hahahaha. >HAHAHAHA
I actually learned why the meme about Americans not knowing history or geography exists. Most American schools don't employ specialised teachers for those classes. A lot of first world countries normally get a person with a degree in the subject and teaching degree. Americans are normally taught by a random teacher given a lesson plan. So half the time you'll be getting taught history by the school coach who's just reading a lesson plan. So a lot of Americans get a really subpar education for stuff like geography, history, and other stuff.
Non-Americans don't learn geography either. If I gave a non-American a blank map of the US, they'd fail to accurately fill out the states. Probably wouldn't even be able to name 20 of the states. It'd be "New York, California, uh, is LA a state?"
Honestly, they probably could if their education rephrased USA as a "supercountry with 50 countries within it"
Something I've seen from a lot of europeans is they have absolutely no grasp of the fact that shit changes a lot state to state like it does country to country. They basically figure ohio is all the same shit as new york is all the same shit as florida is all the same shit everywhere just like it is "here".
Burgers get talked about in such a general sense, I think it would blow their fricking minds to just straightly be told all our states hate every other state and the pricks that live there just like all the EU countries hate every other EU country and the pricks that live there. We just mostly speak the same language.
Thats kinda the case in most federal unions. Bavarians hate Prussians so much they even refuse to have the same party name, Scots hate the english so much they regularly try to leave the country, Indian States cant even compromise on a shared language etc. Its just US exceptionalism again thinking your country is so big and unique that youre basically worth 50 other countries
>Its just US exceptionalism again thinking your country is so big and unique that youre basically worth 50 other countries
No that's just the Truth. The continental US is almost as big as Europe.
10.2 million sq km vs 9.8 million sq km
so i assume you can name all Australian states? They are much larger than most us states. Or all Indonesian States? They are much more populous
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not that anon, but not all Indonesian provinces are more populous than US states, as clearly would be the case since Indinesia has 34 provinces but a smaller overall population. In fact only West Java has larger population than any US state. Nor is every Australian state larger than any given US state.
The same applies inversely to America, as in there are more populous subnational entities and larger ones than even the largest and most populous US states but those are some gross generalizations you're making in and of themselves.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>They are much more populous
Lmao no they aren't, Indonesia has less people dude. The most populous province has 10 million more people than California, the next biggest is about equal, and after that they're pretty comparable to states.
2 years ago
Anonymous
the average indonesian state has almost 20% more people than the average us state
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's a shame that individual states don't have their populations perfectly averaged out then, otherwise you might have had a point.
>they have absolutely no grasp of the fact that shit changes a lot state to state like it does country to country
It really doesn't. Quintessential american post, you guys aren't even the most diverse federalized state
I'm not saying Texas shouldn't enjoy a break sometime soon. I'm sorry you're on the front line of such massive, rapid change and I hope you can stick it out.
As a Canadian, I don't give a shit if Americans don't know anything about here. It's actually more funny to see them discover the minute cultural difference and have their perceptions shattered.
It literally is. They're mad because they're projecting their expectations of knowing everything about America onto Americans and expecting them to know about their country.
America doesn't know anything about other countries because they don't have to know. You know about our country because you have to know. My country effects yours, not the other way around. Just like you don't know who rules a random middle African country, Americans don't give a shit about whatever europoor country you come from. You are to us what some no name African country is to you.
You're missing the point. Hank may be ignorant here, but he's not being self centered. The annoying leaf is the self centered one trying to make everything about his gay country that no one asked or cares about.
Ignorance isn't necessarily a bad thing. It literally just means not knowing something, and not knowing useless information isn't bad. Do you know every political leader of every country in the world? Of course not, because you don't need to.
Non-Americans, we know only you know everything about America because we basically control your country. You didn't learn about every aspect of America because you like us and genuinely want to know our country better. We're literally just your masters, our government is anyways. You were forced to learn about us by consuming our media (hint: you're on Cinemaphile) and news.
Maybe one day if Canada controls us like we do them, I'll know who their homosexual prime minister is because then it'll actually matter to me. Didn't he do black face? kek, still don't know his name.
Ok but what the frick does the prime minister have to do with anything?
Like, I don't go to canada and ask somebody "who's our president?" it's irrelevant.
Isn’t that all the time?
No, there is an episode where Hank finds out he has been scanned by salesmen pretty much all his life
Later seasons had some really dumb moments from him.
Hank is regularly in the wrong, or at least partially in the wrong. What makes KotH great is everyone has a chance to be a jackass, and most conflicts are resolved by finding common ground and mutual respect, with the occasional seasoning of dabbing on complete buttholes.
thats a little too reasonable + nuanced a take for the 'jackass stereotype is being mean to hank, please apologize *at once* other countries for the crimes of your countryman' thread
why what? what's he supposed to be "right" about?
no. that was never the point of the show. anyone who thinks KotH was a diehard conservative mouthpiece got the wrong idea from it.
He is wrong a lot of times. Even the many time he was right, he wasn't smart enough to explain why. Sometimes, he was right for the wrong reasons.
>right for the wrong reasons
Holy frick what. This is a phrase that can only come from brainlets. Reminds me of school when kids would find the answers to math problems the ~~*wrong*~~ way.
pretty much, it's literally strawman: the show
The joke is that Hank gave a self centered response.
>but isn't it self centered to ask someone from a different country who your leader currently is
He knows American leadership better than Americans know British leadership because Americans are more insular and less inclined to know about anything outside their country. Responding with "why" shows an elevated sense of self and a disregard for others.
why would a man who works at a gas station would ever be right?
Pump jockey, works for tips!
> ever be right?
> deliver the propane to people on time.
> do not smoke near flamable gasses.
> carry the propane tank by the HANDLE.
you (and others) get to continue living.
> be wrong, just once, at the worst possible time and place.
you die. they die. everyone dies.
Dude wasn't perfect but he was objectively an honest, good-natured guy who cared about his family, friends, and community. He did the right things as well as he could and took people seriously, except when they tried to pull bullshit social cards on him.
Honestly why don't we have more characters like Hank on TV right now?
Come on, greasemonkey! Let's tangle!
You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
I think I get what you are saying but did you have a stroke?
Speech-to-text advice and the TV on.
well then stop being a moronic frick
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
yeah
Yo, punctuation exists.
Don't let this run-on sentence distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off of Hell In A Cell, sending him plummeting 16 feet through an announcer's table.
bai gawd!!!
He gave his body for the cause. He bled for us
Learn punctuation NOW.
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
God I fricking love strokeposts
Why should Hank, a man 1500+ miles south of Canada, give a shit about their politics enough to know the names of everyone involved in the Parliament of Canada?
knowing a simple fact about the country that is next door to yours, is a simple way of showing that you have a basic curiosity about the world
Nah, Canadian politics barely matter. But Americans would be a lot better off if they really understood the politics of Mexico and other countries that are major sources of immigrants.
they do understand it. dont you watch the tv? or look at the twitters with the roman statue avatars called stuff like Patriot Newsman of the West?
>Americans would be a lot better off if they really understood the politics of Mexico and other countries that are major sources of immigrants.
Why? Americans couldn't do anything at all to affect them.
The real ignorance is that the rest of the world seems to think the US Government asks for permission or opinions from the US citizens before they royally frick someone's shit up. Our elections are fake, all the choices are rigged, the game completely excludes the input of the common man.
Underrated post and very much the truth. I don't think Europeans really realize that Americans lost control of America before the current generation of Anons was even born. Its a little funny and a little sad that everyone thinks we export globohomosexual on purpose, as if American voted for this, or something.
You guys didn't vote for it in your countries and it was implemented anyway. Why the hell would you think we needed to vote for it in ours?
This, it's why Obama spent $50m building a border wall and anti-migrant training in the south of Mexico to stop illegals, drug traffickers and coyotes from Guatemala
Holy run on sentence, Batman.
>You mean he was right because in thing just because his temporary neighbor who was only staying temporarily and exchange program from another country didn't want to hang out and do alcohol and not knowing who a neighbouring countries highest office is read by when you only have two neighbouring countries doesn't tell you you're not well informed about political issues?
Hwæt?
He is implying, correctly, that Canada's prime minister is so insignificant, why would anyone need to know about it beyond their own citizenry? The only reason the PM of Canada has been known at all is because the globalists and progressives like to fawn over them when they will play their game of attention whoring. (Which is, amusingly, even further proof of their non-relevance.)
>i'm sure you'd agree the backbone of the show was 'ignorant man is peturbed by figments of the world outside his immediate neighborhood that drift into his orbit, bwaaahhhh!!'.
The best part here is the joke actually works both ways. Either Hank looks ignorant, or the Canadian does. At that time America was arguably the most influential country on the planet, in almost every measurable metric. Canada, on the other hand, had about 9% of the amount of America's population and not even 10% of it's influence. Yet it acted like it was somehow on the same level of America.
Again, I like the joke, because it really cuts both ways depending on what you want to see.
Agreed. Further, what I love is that nearly the people foreigners who ask this of Americans probably could not quote their own constitution, whereas many conservatives in the US can. You can bet your ass that Hank could. Why should anyone in xyz-country care about abc-country if they don't know their own government well enough to begin with?
are you mad?
I'm tired of the world you've made, yes.
That dude is mad because the US political system offers a choice between the world's stupidest man, Donald Trump, pretending to be a populist while he robs the nation and cuts taxes for the rich, who tried to overthrow the democracy.
And Joe Biden, who is soft serve ice cream given life, and who believes if we just wait patiently enough, everything will sort itself out because there are experts out there being paid by the status quo to maintain the status quo, and what can we do about gas prices anyway? Nothing, right? Same for medicine, and education.
The people who Hank used to argue with in KotH kinda won, honestly. They run the place.
>and what can we do about gas prices anyway? Nothing, right?
yeah actually. high gas prices right now is basically just price fixing from the oil companies. If Biden discovered 50 million barrels of oil in a swamp tomorrow prices wouldn't go down, as because lack of supply is not the issue.
>high gas prices right now is basically just price fixing from the oil companies
Black person we're embargoing the world's second-biggest oil exporter
Lets not pretend that Russia deserves to live, Anon. The Cold War was going to end sooner or later with a US Victory - these things don't just go away - and Russia provided the perfect context for dismantling them.
>Inb4 hurrdurr just let Russia do what it wants
It doesn't make any sense not to turn them all into debt slaves. They've done it with most of the first world already, what exactly makes you think that the one country that deserves it isn't going to get picked?
Being unable to trust-bust is still an issue without a valid excuse. It's just a way the government chooses, CHOOSES to be helpless.
No they don't. I do. I run everything and if I really wanted to frick the world over, I'd behave like a normal person and stop watching the news for just 2 weeks.
>who is soft serve ice cream given life
The frick did soft serve ever do to you?
>The people who Hank used to argue with in KotH kinda won
They did, completely and utterly. If KotH was on now Hank would be getting it from both ends and would inevitably become a hard core Trumper if he wanted to keep doing business in Texas.
The social worker from the pilot would now be in charge and making the rules at the department of social services. Everything slightly offensive at Tom Landry middle school would be removed.
Dale would be completely normal by current standards. Everyone in Arlen would be talking about how the election was stolen and Biden eats babies after he rapes them.
Even Hank's stoic principles couldn't stand up to the entire town gone mad. He'd never leave Texas either, so he'd have to adapt or be driven out like a pariah.
I don't see what's so bad about hardcore Trumpers.
How can you still belong to the school of "nothing interesting ever really happens outside of individual fallibility and there are no grand conspiracies" after 2020? Where there was a bonafide laptop filled with evidence of corruption that broad swaths of the media ignored? Trump never colluded with Russia. How can you believe our institutions are impartial after all that?
>How can you still belong to the school of "nothing interesting ever really happens outside of individual fallibility and there are no grand conspiracies" after 2020?
I'm not awash in nonsense from schizoids on a hentai forum.
You do realize Dale Gribble was portrayed as a gullible nitwit for a reason, right? Him not knowing Redcorn was plowing his wife tied directly into believing that JFK wasn't dead and UFOs abducted him. He can't think critically.
No magic switch flipped that made that garbage acceptable except for the new abundance of it on social media. Alex Jones and David Icke are still hucksters that just want your money. None of what they say is the least bit true.
>How can you believe our institutions are impartial after all that?
I don't have strong biases that are further strengthened by everyone around me having the same biases. YOU are what I'm talking about. YOU are why Hank would have to start loving Trump or get fired.
Kek
Lmao even
Way to avoid actually answering the question
I answered the questions I could. I don't even remember the laptop thing and I'd have to go look it up.
Listen, I refuse to get into conspiracy arguments, not out of fear, but because there's nothing to gain. If all of your evidence is anecdotal then it's worthless. We may as well talk about dragons on Mars. Yes, I know that MK Ultra happened, and the Gulf of Tonkin, and Tuskeegee. Several things turning out to be true do not suddenly give credence to every conspiracy theory in the same way gorillas turning out to be real doesn't mean that the Loch Ness monster is out there.
Dale's character flaw is delusion and gullibility. Confident gullibility. He has explanations as for why everything happens except for the most obvious one. He's a 150 lb stick of a man that thinks he's a solider of fortune. He kills pests to fulfill his power fantasies of being a deadly warrior. He lives in his own world apart from reality to help him cope with how much he sucks. He's an uneducated schizoid and if he was real he'd be posting on /misc/ today.
I dunno, if I wanted to, I could write a comic about an Antifa anarchist who is actually a conformist sheep who's slowly being pulled into the cult secretly inhabiting her shared, co-op house. What do either of these type of joke characters prove or disprove about the impartial veracity of US institutions?
Coward
Yes and you seem confident in your willingness to ignore the idea that the American government isn’t a runaway organization. You are the other end of the spectrum, and frankly worse given you know it can happen but willingly ignore the problem as if that solves it because your scared to be labeled as something the mainstream dislikes
Cuck
Bitch
prostitute
bawd
Puta
You make your point through fiction, I see.
You realize just because he was portrayed as gullible doesn’t immediately invalidate literally every conspiracy known to man, right? Just because you don’t take it seriously doesn’t mean the United States government isn’t completely out of control and doing its own think without any input from its citizens, shit you’d call me crazy for shit like mk ultra or the multitude of times the CIA has pulled shady shit
Hardcore Trumpers are like housewives who keep saying their spouse hit them for a good reason. Republicans have been thinking since Raegan that any day now, their party is going to actually stick it to the elites and not just protect the rich. But it never happens, and Trump was the worst of them so far, because they are laughing at you and think you're a dumb hillbilly frick who's just going to forgive them and vote in the next two-faced psychopath.
"This time I'll really bring back the jobs. I care about the people," they all say, never once, ever demonstrating they mean a word of it.
You deserve dignity, man. Trump is worthless to you, and we can all do better. What matters and what's at stake is the people. Trump, McConnel and everyone else in that rat-faced echelon can go frick themselves.
Trump is truly going to be the next hitler for you morons. Realize you are just as obsessed as you imagine others are.
So that's what the pitch sounds like.
this is a pretty good post, you could swap republicans with democrats and it would be equally valid
>do alcohol
Caption: DHWHA
The only leaders near the US we have gave a single frick about in a century about is Fidel Castro. Santa Anna before that I guess.
>do alcohol
this is an 18+ site
Seething leaf.
Frick Canada
No, I'm talking about his wrongest wrong instead. Everything tastes better charcoal grilled, EVERYTHING.
Taste the meat, not the heat.
king of the hill has two episodes
'hank is mildly annoyed by the insane shrieking bush-era stereotype he runs into'
'hank feels uncomfortable about bobby's newest hobby'
thats it. those are the episodes
>THAT'S MY PURSE I DON'T KNOW YOU episode
>Hank meeting his Japanese brother episode
>The episode where Bobby gets addicted to cigarettes, then the whole family does and has to kick it together
>Hank gets raped by a dolphin episode
>The episode where Hank becomes a pimp
>The murder mystery episode
>The episode where Bobby gets put on drugs
>Boggle episode
>Hank uses crack to go fishing episode
>Bobby gets gout episode
>The tornado episode
king of the hill episodes are basically interchangeable with south park episodes, yes
>that's my purse
Bobby's hobby
>hank meeting his japanese brother
Bush era stereotype
>Cigarettes
Bobby's hobby
>Raped by Dolphin
Bush era stereotype
>Pimp
Bush era stereotype
>Murder mystery
Bush era stereotype
>boggle
Legit don't remember that one
>Crack fishing
Bush era stereotype
>Bobby gets gout
Bobby's hobby
>Tornado
Bill is a c**t. (If I'm thinking of the right episode)
>'hank feels uncomfortable about bobby's newest hobby'
>It's ok, Dad, lots of guys are into it.
didnt even get the 'bwaahhhh' right. disgusting
And this is what makes the show so good!
Also stereotypes exist for a reason.
Also, it's good to care about what your child is interested in.
There are episodes centered around just Bobby, Peggy, the gang, Cotton, Khan, Mr. Strickland, Redcorn, Nancy etc.
Canadian can go frick himself that's for sure. There are probably close to eight hundred different political names that can all personally affect me just here in the states, how much more of my own time should I invest learning of the politics of other nations outside of how it affects my own nation?
thats not really a question anybody can answer except you, anon, because it depends how curious you are.
the joke in the picture works on multiple levels, but i'm sure you'd agree the backbone of the show was 'ignorant man is peturbed by figments of the world outside his immediate neighborhood that drift into his orbit, bwaaahhhh!!'.
the only thing that matters is how are canadas terfs effecting prices, it doesnt matter if canada is trowing a gay parade or just sent its army to kill all of it population, the only thing we need to know about mexico is it has cartel problems, and that shits probably going to spread to us and make us an other shit hole
Hank's an butthole
How could Hank ever be right? He was gay
Hank is right roughly 85-90% of the time and most of the times hes wrong hes not really wrong hes just pushing his perspective too hard on others. This episode was especially great because the Canadian was the one outright in the wrong/rude/egotistic etc. He thinks people should care when he country was never great and now its in economic collapse with a Soros puppet as its head.
This episode made me realize that people asking foreigners for intricate details of their country's politics, regardless of their own country or the target of their question, are just self-centered pricks. Like genuinely why SHOULD anyone name your country's head of state, political system, parties, etc? The frick does that prove? Oh no, a Hungarian failed to name the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, what a scandal! Frick off with that shit.
This was especially common in the 00s for non-Americans to smugly ask Americans to tell them all about their country's political system. The truth is that none of them could just kick back and spout of the political systems of whatever countries they weren't personally vested in either. Just smug masturbatory self-righteousness, like a chef demanding a non-chef to tell him various cooking techniques and acting like the non-chef is an idiot for not known specialized information.
imagine being this psychically damaged lmao
>why SHOULD anyone name your country's head of state, political system, parties, etc? The frick does that prove?
it proves that you have a basic sense of curiosity, and an awareness that there exists a world outside, further away than what you can see immediately outside your window. meanwhile, all this aggravation and you're just seething mad at being owned, online, multiple decades ago lol
>it proves that you have a basic sense of curiosity, and an awareness that there exists a world outside, further away than what you can see immediately outside your window.
Then name literally any given country's head of state and political system, otherwise you're holding other people to a double standard. Nobody knows everything anon, I doubt you could name the heads of state of certain countries better than any American could.
>meanwhile, all this aggravation and you're just seething mad at being owned, online, multiple decades ago lol
I'm a Britbong, I just found it irritating how many people would target specifically Americans and then often couldn't even say that Jacques Chirac was the president of France right next door.
>I doubt you could name the heads of state of certain countries better than any American could.
i mean i'm obviously not holding your feet to the fire, i'm just answering your question. settle down
>I just found it irritating how many people would target specifically Americans and then often couldn't even say that Jacques Chirac was the president of France right next door
so then call them arseholes. not difficult
America is instrumental to global affairs and many Euros don't understand how our system of government works beyond the fact that we have an election every four years.
I thought Americans were hopelessly stupid about their own country's inner workings, but then I realized I had to factor in European and Asian opinions that are largely ignorant and skew liberal.
>America is instrumental to global affairs and many Euros don't understand how our system of government works
i mean, you could argue the exact same but swapping the names of the countries and demonyms around and itd still work. america, china, russia, the european union...
Yes, it seems like we all have a roughly similar natural limit to how much an average person will know about the world's governments (pretty much their own and not much else.) The difference is we don't drag you over coals for it, even though you're so stupid sometimes. So fricking stupid that we should point out how stupid you are for the good of all involved. Europe: you are stupid and uninformed on this matter. STFU for once.
for clarity, are you expecting me to represent literally all of non-america
I imagine you will whine if you're forced to represent anything beyond your own immediate interests.
I don't care what you do. It just needed to be said.
i dont get why you are doing the Sir Sir Debate Me Sir thing at me
Does Euroland have any major predators? You think that might impact gun ownership?
i dont understand the question, or frankly why you are asking it. its weird that you are doing this
Do you...have...any major predators?
probably. why do you ask?
Cows aren't predators. Neither are badgers.
I don't think you do. Russia does. And oh gee whiz! They also have guns! Well golly whizzers, I wonder what it means.
>I don't think you do.
why did you insist i answer the question if you were just going to dismiss my answer?
The scariest thing nature throws at you is a badger. Perhaps a particularly aggressive frog. But please lecture us more about gun ownership.
>bears
>wolverines
>wolves
mostly the same that you get in the US
You don't have bears, I just checked the map. I bet only Finland has wolves, too.
Black person, I've work as a woodsman and a lumberjack - I've seen plenty of bear and wolves
Yes, Muslims
He's not. He literally just said that he doesn't care what you do and just felt like saying something.
Based.
Frick Eurotrash. If it weren't for double standards, they'd have no standards at all.
Back when Britain ruled the world, most people knew who was wearing the crown. Back when the Romans owned a large part of the world, most people knew the name of the Emperor. That didn't mean the average British person knew who was in charge of Hungary, or that the average Roman knew who was in charge of China.
The alpha dog doesn't have to learn the protocols of the beta. But the beta's life is effected by every move of the alpha. That's why most people around the world know the name of the current US president, even if half the people in this country are too doped up to know it themselves.
>Back when the Romans owned a large part of the world, most people knew the name of the Emperor
no they didnt. you made that up. you're full of horseshit only spoken with complete confidence
>back when there was no fast travelimg information and no photographs, people knew who the big shots were.
Not really, no.
It's extra funny because they only demand this level of knowledge from Americans and nobody else.
>Oh no, a Hungarian failed to name the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, what a scandal!
the irony being that I've heard more of that from americans than anyone else
>WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW WHO WOODROW WILSON IS?
I perfectly understand not giving a shit about another country's political situations and not inquiring about it.
>burger is self-centred
Colour me surprised
Anon admitted to being a Brit later, why do Eurogays always think that anybody not criticizing America is American themselves? Rent free.
I'm not European you mutt, nice projection though
/thread
At the end of the day they're just butthurt that Americans don't give them the attention they want. They're the self centered ones.
People who criticize Americans for not knowing everything about every country don't understand each state and providence is the size of a country and you know damn well those people couldn't name 5 states off the top of their head.
>muh states the size of a country
Can you name 5 canadian states ? 5 russian states ? 5 chinese provinces ? Cause all of them are «the size of a country», and I picked powerful countries, not Brazil or South Africa
>5 Canadian States
No such thing, but if you meant provinces than Quebec, Manitoba, British Colombia, Alberta, and Ontario
>Russian states
Again no such thing, oblast better translates to province or region, but Tver, Moscow, Samara, Rostov, and Vologda. If you consider Moscow cheating then I'll throw in Pskov.
>Chinese provinces
Ironically the easiest for me because I fricking love traditional Chinese food, Guangdong, Anhui, Sichuan, Henan, Hubei
God it feels good being a geography autist
>God it feels good being a geography autist
what do you call a mountain, but in reverse. like instead of being really tall it'd be like going into the ground
your mom's box
i warned you about hornyposting
Like a ravine?
Kinda impressed ngl, I made myself a complete homosexual. Still I don't think that sheer size is the more important thing in geography and that only a handful of US states can be put on the same standing as real countries. It's only a question of relevancy.
Also why most people could easily name 5 US states and know jack shit about Lesotho or Brunei. Europeans get arrogant with this but it's generally true that they are better at international geography than americans. It's all butthurt of course
>Also why most people could easily name 5 US states and know jack shit about Lesotho or Brunei. Europeans get arrogant with this but it's generally true that they are better at international geography than americans. It's all butthurt of course
The truth than makes both Eurostanis and Amerisharts seethe
>Also why most people could easily name 5 US states and know jack shit about Lesotho or Brunei.
Usually those 5 states people can name are New York, California, Texas, Florida, and depending on the day Virginia/Pennsylvania
New York and Califonia have extreme amount of economic significance not only for America but for the entire world.
Texas is frick huge and is basically a meme
Florida is definitely a meme in this age
and Virginia because of its government significance or Pennsylvania if you're a history buff.
Texas actually has a larger GDP than New York now. It's weird to think about because NYC is undeniably the largest city and financial capital of the US, but overall upstate New York has been stagnating for decades now while the whole of Texas is booming. I don't think NYC will be surpassed in our lifetimes, if ever, as the most important singular city in the US, but as a state Texas is now more relevant than New York.
>Texas is now more relevant than New York.
Until the infrastructure completely breaks down again
Nah, they're gonna be the next California. In more ways than one too, it's kind of an impending existential crisis for Texans.
Not unless they fix their shit, if they don't do that then they are going to end up like Australia, vast tracts of wasteland with only a few pockets of civilization around Austin and the Dallas Fort Worth area
Ontario, Northwest Territories, Quebec, Yukon
To be fair I only know those cause I have a Canadian friend. Russia and China aren't fair comparisons because of the language barrier.
Bongistani and geography homosexual here, i'll give it a shot:
Canada:
Newfoundland, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nunavut (the one up north where nobody lives)
5 russian states:
israeli autonomous Oblast, Karelia, Crimea, Moscow, Vladivostok(?, Might just be a city inside a bigger oblast)
5 chinese provinces:
Guangdong, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Hong Kong (although hong kong is in a unique political situation due to the terms of the British hand over)
I don't care about other countries
Hi Hank
>Americans think ignorance = power over someone
Who would have guessed?
Ignorance IS power. You'll understand once you live in a multi-ethnic state how overwhelmingly powerful ignorance is. Children of immigrants raised to only think about their "culture" and not the country their parents came from soon detach from that country and share the culture with their birth country. Start teaching Americans too much foreign history and you get moronic "I'm a viking" and "BLACK KANG" losers.
Ignorance is Strength
Unity Unity Unity
USA USA USA
Its fascinating how the US is the country preaching Individualism the most while being one of the most collectivist Nations ever
>Euros in this thread seriously trying to claim that they have omniscient political knowledge of the world to try and own Americans
Lol. Lmao even. Roflmao if I may.
i'm also detecting 'americans getting increasingly confused and angry that not-america exists' and, as we know, both strains of autism cancel each other out
True, I believe we are rapidly reaching the point of pic related in this thread. Everyone in this thread is huffing their own farts, including me, but at least I'm aware of it, so I'll inhale DEEPLY and PROUDLY.
What is this, autism for ants?
Literally who cares who the Canadian PM is? That has literally no bearing on anybody in any country except Canada, Canada doesn't do anything that affects the rest of the world.
gee anon, you sound so gosh-darn ignorant and self-centered...
Why are non-Americans so obsessed with what Americans say and do? You people are more obsessed with Americans than /misc/ is with israelites.
Thanks for proving his point. Rent free
Because America is unironically the world police, what our country does effects everyone.
china and russia
Right. At least our corruption upsets us.
not unless you choose to invade or raise export costs. In general, none of your presidents has had a bearing on anything in my country or the countries around it save maybe the price of gas, at best. America is important to Americans, just as Kazakstan is important to those living there, and China is important to those living there, and so on and so on.
Black person we police your water trade routes, we run NATO, we’re always going to be spying on you, if your South American your country is probably a target of the cia, we’re everywhere, to say American doesn’t effect you is so utterly ignorant it’s shocking.
*if you are a South American country
*
Non-American countries get so much American media and American news and so on pushed on them because America just dominates this planet. It's just impossible to ignore America. Meanwhile, if you're not a Canadian, you're basically almost never going to hear about Canada.
If you walked up to random strangers in a non-Canadian country and asked them who the prime minister of Canada is, 9 out of 10 won't know. I've met people abroad who thought Canada was a part of the US, like it was the 51st state or something.
People seem to not understand that when the united states does something it has an affect on the whole world.
If say Belgium does something 99% of the time it will have no consequences.
so it's even more of a double stranded
LENORE
LENORE
LENOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
based
>It's so obvious! She's never comin' back. She doesn't want this stupid shit....or this.
>F*ck this!
>*crushes the aptly labelled Valve box that contains a hat*
i don't know what kind of game you're playing, maybe...
tennis
TENNIS
BOGGLE
Zoomed words
We never should have let non-Americans on the internet
America invented the internet.
I don't think most people can name their representative in their state government.
I just realized I only know the name of one governor of the states bordering mine, and they are much more important to my life than the prime minister of Mali or Estonia or wherever the guy in OP is from
I bet you don't know the name of your sheriff and how he is the highest elected official in most places.
To the point he can tell the feds to frick off.
But no, people like to talk about some guy in Montana doesn't give a shit about who is running Greece.
It doesn't matter.
I remember how quiet the feds were on 9/11. I can recall how quiet Barry was too. Perhaps it's best that we stop, hm?
Europe, you need to preserve your genetic heritage.
i think king of the hill should chill out, imo
That time everyone Guilted Hank into letting the old lady die in his house
as a side note, int is quite possibly the very worst board on this website. weenies with absolutely nothing going on other than having 'is a stereotype online' as their personality, and acting in judgement of people doing the same for other countries. its just cringe all the way down
Cinemaphile just reads like a bunch of teenagers that crossover from reddit
I hate this shit. Why should I give two fricks about the prime minister of a country I have no connection to and don't live in. Why should YOU, as the foreigner in the USA, care about US politics or US culture. People complain that Americans think the world revolves around them but they contribute to this culture by paying attention to the US so much. Worry about your own country and its problems and I will worry about the US.
it's natural and, i'd say good, to have a mild curiosity about other places, especially ones which you are next to
i don't recall lecturing anybody itt about gun ownership. are you sure you are responding in the right thread?
But you have lectured people about gun ownership before, haven't you?
Also I can't remember what Canada's little dictator-in-bloom is called atm.
TRUDEAU that little shit
>But you have lectured people about gun ownership before, haven't you?
i don't know why you're making up these crimes and then demanding i admit to + answer for these crimes. what's going on. why are you being like this
>natural
Yes, it is natural to be curious
>good
I disagree. If you're a c**t like the guy in OP's pic, why should I care? It makes me not want to learn about other places if the people are like that. I should not care about the politics of another nation unless it directly affects my own, which in this case doesn't because knowing who the prime minister is does not make me anymore knowledgable about how Canadian politics actually work.
>If you're a c**t like the guy in OP's pic, why should I care?
well, i guess you have to remember that the literal boomer in charge of the show is making up an insane stereotype for king of the hill to own, and therefore please the audience. it's relatable enough for people to be all 'haha yeah frick that guy', and with good reason.
People on Twitter and Reddit absolutely sound like this guy, anon. I don't know why you think this stereotype is so outlandish or insane. People complain about Americans all the time. Hank owned that guy because people like that guy really do exist.
so then those guys are buttholes. i dont know what you want me to say: that all canadians are indeed like that guy in the picture?
Not that anon, but Canada is indeed like that. Every single one. I'm stereotyping and generalizing, but frick Canada. Just frick Canada. It is the one country on Earth that does not deserve to exist. I support full national sovereignty of every individual state and the right to self-determination for every separatist movement founded without external influence, however I cannot support the existence of Canada. If there is any country in history that deserves to be destroyed it is Canada. My hatred is completely irrational, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Ceterum autem censeo Canadinem esse delendam
i'm choosing to respond to this as a joke. lol
Canada gives us constant shit and we can always dance over Canada's raw nerves, but they do feel like a brother-country to us and it's a nice relationship to have.
War Plan Crimson now!
Mostly I find Canadians to be very passive-aggressive. The 'polite Canadian' stereotype is total horseshit.
t. Michigander
some people really do forget Americans dont have to give a shit about your country, some kid in elementary school came from australia, and acted smug that he know places around australia and know else did, people are smug about tabloid facts about other peoples countrys as they are with speaking an other language, which once again why would an american care most countrys worth giving a shit about cater to american and english speaking tourist,
>Why should YOU, as the foreigner in the USA, care about US politics or US culture
Because the US impacts our own politics ? The US turned half of Europe into vassal states, world hegemony comes with a price. It's not really bad in my country because they can't speak english for shit, but you can be sure that the youth in irrelevant countries knows more about american politics than their own
I thought Europe was great. Much better than the uncivilized and uncultured US. What happened?
>but you can be sure that the youth in irrelevant countries knows more about american politics than their own
And this is Americans' fault how? You should be crying to your country's politicians about this.
No, I just want you to stop using stereotypes to excuse the guy.
>And this is Americans' fault how? You should be crying to your country's politicians about this
Not the fault of Americans, but it's the fault of the american governement that decided to turn Europe into it's playground
>I thought Europe was great. Much better than the uncivilized and uncultured US. What happened?
That's mostly cope. Kinda true in some parts, but europeans as a whole are quite happy to follow America like dogs
>the american governement that decided to turn Europe into it's playground
I agree America can try to micromanage and run every country it is even remotely connected to.
> but europeans as a whole are quite happy to follow America like dogs
Really? I was under the impression Europeans hated Americans because we left.
>I agree America can try to micromanage and run every country it is even remotely connected to.
More lazy European generalizing. Every American citizen is deeply invested in scoring an energy deal with Ukraine, eh?
Being top dog in this hyper-connected world is a completely new type of hell. You don't get to be completely self-governing and neither do we. ...great.
>Ukraine funds Bidens
>Bidens block investigation into Ukrainian corruption
WHY DO YOU DO THIS, AMERICA??!!!!
Classic political corruption.
I was just agreeing with the European, dude. He said the American government, not the citizens, which is true.
>THIS CORRUPT AMERICAN POLITICIAN I'VE FUNDED FOR YEARS IS RUINING MY COUNTRY!!!!
>AMEEEERRRRICCAAAAAA!!!! WHHYYYYHH???!!
>Why should YOU, as the foreigner in the USA, care about US politics or US culture
Ask that same question to an Iraqi in 2002 or a Libyan in 2010
Here we go. I meant people who have no connection to the USA or issues, not citizens stuck in war. Try again
That's my exact point, jackass, a random Libyan in 2010 completely ignorant of US politics first encounter with it would've been their intervention and the subsequent collapse of Libyan society, America is a world hegemon, it regularly intervenes and fricks with the rest of the world, demanding other people ignore or not care about the actions of the US despite your government repeatedly fricking with people is annoying, people don't keep up with US politics because it's fun or i really give a shit, it's because i want to know if low quality far less regulated meat is going to flood supermarkets here, i need to know if America is willing to drag my country into a war over Ukraine through NATO, i wish i could care about American politics as much as i care about like, Rwandan politics, i don't have anything against random americans inherently, it is fricking annoying to see the people of a world hegemon acting they're both world hegemonic colossally dicked ubermensch and also just another country at the table, it's a farce.
American citizens cannot control their government. How many times do we have to reiterate this? Are you slow of mind?
>world hegemonic
Not every American thinks he's the greatest shit since sliced bread. Stop generalizing, seething Canadian.
>America is a world hegemon, it regularly intervenes and fricks with the rest of the world, demanding other people ignore or not care about the actions of the US despite your government repeatedly fricking with people is annoying, people don't keep up with US politics because it's fun or i really give a shit,
The U.S government isn't actually who decides to do this. The entire western world uses the U.S in name and forces the U.S army over there to serve as their own personal army, because when the entire western world decides to invade some shit-hole country or sanction one they make the U.S do it. It's the U.N/various fricking alliances in Asia/Israel alliance (huge) that puts the U.S at war. Also this
but even worse American politicians are bought and paid for by other countries with less people to shove in an army.
also one of the last things any one wants to learn about a country is how their government works, people are more interested in the people culture and food, I dont give a frick about the canadian government the only merit to staying up to date with that shit is predicting notable price changes, no one fricking does that, canada is just snowy hillbillys, one of the least interesting countrys for an american to have interest in.
and letting twitter or reddit live inside your head without charge is just a bad idea overall. i mean, come on
so then i guess we're back to the op image
>being curious about other countries is good
>NO
>...
>...
The OP image is
>Person is being a c**t
>People don't engage in his c**tery
That's it. That's OP's image. Don't be a c**t, regardless of the context. The fact that it involves international politics in incidental to the point.
>The fact that it involves international politics in incidental to the point.
(scrolling through the thread) a few people seem to disagree... unfortunately, some people will *make* anything about international politics
Cry more. The image shows a clear example of some butthole shitting on every American because he's upset Hank and co. don't know the prime minister of Canada. Really, who gives a frick though?
>some kid in elementary school came from australia, and acted smug that he know places around australia and know else did
It's the only thing he can be smug about. Back in Australia, everyone knows where everything is. It's not cool or smart to know. But someone Americans are dumb for knowing their states but not the locations of other countries?
>The image shows a clear example of some butthole shitting on every American because he's upset Hank and co. don't know the prime minister of Canada
that's correct. and?
You're acting as though people are saying that learning about other countries is a bad thing. No, the argument is that why should the average American know about the entire world?
>why should the average American know about the entire world?
canada. and, knowing a simple fact about one of the countries that is next to yours is basic curiosity about the world outside what you are immediately looking at. the comedy in the scene (and in other episodes, of course) came from hank's ignorance of this.
>a simple fact about one of the countries that is next to yours is basic curiosity
But what if you're not curious because you don't care?
Right. That c**t made them not want to learn more. Also, just because Canada is above us does not mean we have to learn about them. That's dumb. I don't really care about Canada unless they're doing something with the US. Of course, we do have a good relationship with them because of our proximity, but as long as nothing is wrong, why should I focus on learning about Canada?
>But what if you're not curious because you don't care?
then you just proved the canadian right, i guess.
It's ignorant to not care about Canada. OK, anon. tell me why I should care about Canada? I care about Canadian people because I generally don't want anyone to be hurt, but why should I care for the country?
>OK, anon. tell me why I should care about Canada?
i already said. knowing a simple fact about a country that is next to yours is just about having simple curiosity. if you don't and you're fine with that, then whatever.
I have curiosity - just not about you.
But you're not telling me what is in it for me to know how the prime minister is? Curiosity isn't enough. People are only curious about things they care for. I don't care about Canadian politics. I only know about Trudeau because he's such a frickup. You should be grateful when people don't know, that means your president/prime minister isn't doing anything insane.
Why does having curiosity necessitate me knowing the leader of another country? I can be curious about dinosaurs or engines or architecture, none of which involve canada's government structure in any way.
Most people only have curiosity towards things that are interesting. Canada is a boring country full of passive aggressive weirdos who think maple syrup is a substitute for a personality.
I literally wouldn't even know Trudeau's name if he didn't become a laughing stock worldwide for doing tons of blackface, which his citizens oddly still defend despite supposedly being a progressive and tolerant nation.
Trudeau's been acting like a dictator lately. Canada's caravan has scared him into mowing over democratic processes. He used our (the US) latest shooting as an excuse to limit Canada's gun freedoms.
Look, I feel bad for Canadians but what can us Americans do about Trudeau when we have Biden? Also, his limitation on guns proves how rent-free America lives in the minds of others. What does American crime have to do with Canadians? Are Canadians dumb enough to follow Americans who commit crimes? Does he think this will stop criminals in either country?
He's just using any premise he can to strip Canadians of their guns. Of course it's bullshit. Everyone knows this. They can't yet touch him the same way we can't touch Biden. Both current Canadian and American leadership puts all it's ingenuity into infiltrating and corrupting its chosen system of government.
And the funny thing is that they think they're being righteous in their actions. I want an honest dictator president for once.
What a snarky c**t you are. You just want your guy on top and you don't care how. Quite frankly I'm tired of sharing a planet with you.
What are you talking about? OK, anon, let's play this game. Give me one good thing that either the current US president or Canadian prime minister has done?
Also, stop seething, Canadian, we don't have to care nor do we want to about Canada.
I'm American, jackass. I just happen to be aware of Canada? I've got to deal with geopolitical shit flinging every day, and yes, there's Canada, our comfy brother-neughbor to the North that we shit talk every once in a while. Then there's Mexico...they were doing well until the CIA continued existing.
>I'm American, jackass.
That's even worse. You should understand why the average American would not care to know who Canada's prime minister is besides the fact that he's infamous for being kind of shit.
>here's Canada, our comfy brother-neughbor to the North that we shit talk every once in a while. Then there's Mexico...they were doing well until the CIA continued existing.
Yes, most Americans are aware there is a country above and below us. It's sad to see another American consider his own countrymen this dumb. We know Canada and Mexico exist, but why should we know more than that?
Canada is mostly wilderness. Most of it's population lives beside its US border. It has a huge bear population. Yes, Canadians need their guns.
On second thought maybe you guys shouldn't be talking about our politics
Mince home, you precious, mincing homosexual. More people in Canada than your fey ass.
Why? Because we don't have the opinions you have?
No, because you don't really know what you are talking about and with a bunch of half-truths.
>literally turns into the Canadian in the episode
This. It's not that learning about the outside world is bad, it's not and people are free to do that in their own time. Expecting people to just inherently know things about any given country is fricking moronic though. Be polite if they don't know and inform them, don't be a standoffish c**t. That's a huge point that the King of the Hill episode expounds upon; the boys WERE totally willing to learn more, it's that the guy approached it from such a c**tish standpoint that it turned them off entirely. And this is a real thing that does happen.
To add, when Khan has told them about his own culture they've actually been very open to it, if initially confused. They only shut down when Khan acts like a c**t. It's one of the most underlying messages of the series: don't be a c**t.
Kahn is pointedly included as an American in the Canada episode, too. Because he is.
see, you're being like one of those people who gets mad that people in zombie films make stupid decisions. on some level, in entertainment, stuff has to happen in order for the plot to happen, and here you are getting mad because you don't like that. why is cartman such a jackass all the time? surely he should have learned his lesson by now!, etc.
I have no idea what you're talking about, that has nothing to do with my posts. Khan himself gradually improves as the series goes on and isn't a constant c**t. In this very episode he sides with Hank and the gang.
Yes, but King of the Hill is a completely different show than South Park. It's more realistic, so these are interactions that could happen in our world. South Park has episodes with Jesus and talking animals. KoTH doesn't have things like that, so the comparison makes no sense. Cartman's an butthole because he just is and lives in a universe where being an butthole doesn't mean you can't succeed. That Canadian being an butthole has a realistic result in KoTH
>Comparing King of the Hill characters to South Park characters
Anon, have you ever watching King of the Hill before? Characters actually do learn their lessons and change. There's gradual actual character progression throughout the series with every single major character. They're not even remotely comparable.
i guess i believe, then, that hank was in fact in the wrong.
*squeaka squeaka squeaka squeaka*
>and why did you say all those horrible things online?
>well, there's this episode of king of the hill-
Y'know, fellas...
fictional canadian, i should probably point out. lol
Looks like we've triggered a Canadian, Americabros!! What ever will he do?
Frick you, grandma!
The Canadians had this "everything is better at home" thing that makes me wonder why they even bothered leaving.
also yolsol
As an American with an intense interest in France, I've delved pretty deep into that country. I do know their politics, their language, their history, their culture. They have so much to offer the world; plays, books, pieces of art, programs, philosophical developments, contributions to science, architectural movements, even comics and cartoons, and more. It's a country I have a personal love for.
I don't give a rat's ass about Canada. At all. It's nothing to me, despite it being right next door. Frankly the nation of France has contributed far more to our country than Canada ever has, especially in its early days. I also don't expect Americans to have an interest in France themselves, it's just a personal pull of mine. If you honestly think that I lack curiosity because I don't like our most boring neighbor (Mexico is cooler and has an dramatically more interesting history, emphasis on the word "dramatically"), then ta gueule pédé, va te faire foutre
Thank you for showing that Americans can and do show interest in countries, but only countries they actually give two fricks about like most people who learn about other countries do.
We need to break and eat the CIA's legs before the cartels reach Canada.
Hank is usually completely correct around 70% of the time and only partially correct like 34% of the time, the amount of episodes where he's straight up wrong probably now enough to fill up a hands worth of counting
not really about being "right" or "wrong".
Reminder to americans that when your country finishes burning down, no one will help you
You honestly think we expect that?
We have a wide open border. When has that ever happened in the history of the world? What do you think that means?
>What do you think that means?
It means your owners like cheap scab labour.
It means they want the cartels to move north in the hopes it makes people easier to control.
Gonna live, maybe die. Certainly can't live life the way I have been, which is sorting out your shit every week.
>Any second now I swear
Kek. Europe is a retirement home of a continent
If America goes down the entire world would go down with it. In reality the rest of the world will be fricked and America will go back to being isolationist.
True, it's a great strength of ours.
England dragged us into this war. I'm guessing some of our English-descended self-appointed royals needed a little help.
You know what you've done, world?
You paid some grifter in our government to represent your interests. So now a league of grifters have incredible staying power in DC because they have no loyalty to anyone or anything.
Yeah, what are you gonna do about it?
Maybe I can be a dalmatian
be dalmatian
b e a d a l m a t i a n
>Where are the vampires and monsters and ghosts?
>You'rearegularhalloweenhellraiser
>IT'S JUST SHIT, IT'S NOT GONNA KILL YOU.
>Hahaha
>Hahahaha.
>HAHAHAHA
Oh wow you wanna talk about your country's politics? Lemme guess it's a parlaimentary republic with representative democracy?
I actually learned why the meme about Americans not knowing history or geography exists. Most American schools don't employ specialised teachers for those classes. A lot of first world countries normally get a person with a degree in the subject and teaching degree. Americans are normally taught by a random teacher given a lesson plan. So half the time you'll be getting taught history by the school coach who's just reading a lesson plan. So a lot of Americans get a really subpar education for stuff like geography, history, and other stuff.
Non-Americans don't learn geography either. If I gave a non-American a blank map of the US, they'd fail to accurately fill out the states. Probably wouldn't even be able to name 20 of the states. It'd be "New York, California, uh, is LA a state?"
Honestly, they probably could if their education rephrased USA as a "supercountry with 50 countries within it"
Something I've seen from a lot of europeans is they have absolutely no grasp of the fact that shit changes a lot state to state like it does country to country. They basically figure ohio is all the same shit as new york is all the same shit as florida is all the same shit everywhere just like it is "here".
Burgers get talked about in such a general sense, I think it would blow their fricking minds to just straightly be told all our states hate every other state and the pricks that live there just like all the EU countries hate every other EU country and the pricks that live there. We just mostly speak the same language.
Thats kinda the case in most federal unions. Bavarians hate Prussians so much they even refuse to have the same party name, Scots hate the english so much they regularly try to leave the country, Indian States cant even compromise on a shared language etc. Its just US exceptionalism again thinking your country is so big and unique that youre basically worth 50 other countries
>Its just US exceptionalism again thinking your country is so big and unique that youre basically worth 50 other countries
No that's just the Truth. The continental US is almost as big as Europe.
10.2 million sq km vs 9.8 million sq km
so i assume you can name all Australian states? They are much larger than most us states. Or all Indonesian States? They are much more populous
Not that anon, but not all Indonesian provinces are more populous than US states, as clearly would be the case since Indinesia has 34 provinces but a smaller overall population. In fact only West Java has larger population than any US state. Nor is every Australian state larger than any given US state.
The same applies inversely to America, as in there are more populous subnational entities and larger ones than even the largest and most populous US states but those are some gross generalizations you're making in and of themselves.
>They are much more populous
Lmao no they aren't, Indonesia has less people dude. The most populous province has 10 million more people than California, the next biggest is about equal, and after that they're pretty comparable to states.
the average indonesian state has almost 20% more people than the average us state
It's a shame that individual states don't have their populations perfectly averaged out then, otherwise you might have had a point.
>they have absolutely no grasp of the fact that shit changes a lot state to state like it does country to country
It really doesn't. Quintessential american post, you guys aren't even the most diverse federalized state
Then who is?
Uh.. all of them?
"Basic curiosity" canadanon revealing that his country is only that - a curiosity.
Any time some Eurpoor demands you know the leader of their who cares country, ask them who the leader of Zimbabwe is and see what they say.
I'm not saying Texas shouldn't enjoy a break sometime soon. I'm sorry you're on the front line of such massive, rapid change and I hope you can stick it out.
>thread once again proves that Americans live rent free in every other countries heads why Americans don’t even think about them
It’s like poetry
gay
As a Canadian, I don't give a shit if Americans don't know anything about here. It's actually more funny to see them discover the minute cultural difference and have their perceptions shattered.
The problem is foreigners wish Americans were as obsessed with them as they are with us. It's just projection.
That's not what projection means.
It literally is. They're mad because they're projecting their expectations of knowing everything about America onto Americans and expecting them to know about their country.
moron.
These. We didn't ask you to be obsessed with us, foreigners. Don't expect the same obsession back from me.
America doesn't know anything about other countries because they don't have to know. You know about our country because you have to know. My country effects yours, not the other way around. Just like you don't know who rules a random middle African country, Americans don't give a shit about whatever europoor country you come from. You are to us what some no name African country is to you.
Cotton did nothing wrong.
Being ignorant and self centered is right?
>TELL ME ABOUT MY PRIME MINISTER REEEEEE
>not self centered
You're missing the point. Hank may be ignorant here, but he's not being self centered. The annoying leaf is the self centered one trying to make everything about his gay country that no one asked or cares about.
Ignorance isn't necessarily a bad thing. It literally just means not knowing something, and not knowing useless information isn't bad. Do you know every political leader of every country in the world? Of course not, because you don't need to.
Non-Americans, we know only you know everything about America because we basically control your country. You didn't learn about every aspect of America because you like us and genuinely want to know our country better. We're literally just your masters, our government is anyways. You were forced to learn about us by consuming our media (hint: you're on Cinemaphile) and news.
Maybe one day if Canada controls us like we do them, I'll know who their homosexual prime minister is because then it'll actually matter to me. Didn't he do black face? kek, still don't know his name.
This. It's like when ESLs brag about knowing 2 languages because they were forced to learn English.
Ok but what the frick does the prime minister have to do with anything?
Like, I don't go to canada and ask somebody "who's our president?" it's irrelevant.