Time to bash Americans again
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Is it arrogance when you're just correct?
When its all made up? Yes. Yes it is
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Everyone in Switzerland has a gun and they don't shoot eachother up. American society is fucked up on multiple different levels
Whenever i mention the Swiss having as many guns as the US, if not more, and yet the former has practically zero mass shooting incidents, and pointed out the problem of America is cultural, Americans tend to turn a blind eye to it.
We "tend to turn a blind eye to it" because "cultural problem" is primarily used as a racist dog whistle.
If your intention was to point at the underlying cause, you need to be talking about systematic impoverization, lack of generational wealth, devaluation of labor, etc.
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A lot of this is overblown really. A few things:
- The vast majority of school kids in the US will never deal with an active shooter situation.
- 43% of school shooters in the US are themselves active students
- Only 20% of school shooting perpetrators had no affiliation to the school, meaning that ~37% of shooters were former students, teachers, or parents.
- From 1999 - 2023 there were a total of 131 school shootings, but in 2024 alone there were a reported 332 school shootings.
- These are some terrible numbers, but statistically it's a rare thing. There are approximately 130,000 K-12 schools in the US and ~75 million students per year. If we assume all schools have the same chance of having a school shooting (they don't) they would have a 0.2% chance that your school will have a shooting that year or 4% chance that in your k-12 years that you would be at a school shooting.
When people talk about school security in the US they often don't consider how litigious and risk adverse the US is. You don't lock doors, build fences, and hire security guards to protect from such a small risk chance, if they actually cared there would be a greater emphasis on mental health. No, they do these things to minimize risk, lower insurance rates, and ward off lawsuits.
The defense writes itself,
"Hey, you can't sue us for your child's trauma, we did everything we reasonably could to ensure that a shooter couldn't get into the school. We built a fence, we locked the doors, we made the kids wear clear plastic book bags, we used a metal detector, we hired a guard, we expelled kids who made threats, and we called the police on people who aren't allowed to be here. If a kid then sneaks a 3D printed plastic gun on site and traumatizes the students it's not the school systems fault."
The US is crazy litigious, especially if a government entity is involved and someone might get a pay day. In my area a high school girl and some similarly aged boys ran away from school while at recess to a forest a mile or two off site. The girl then said she was sexually assaulted by the two boys, called her mom and was picked up and taken to the hospital directly (never came back to the school). The school had reported the girl missing, but only found out about the sexual assault after the mother filed a police report and the police reached out. The school cooperated with the police and reached out to the girl and her mother asking if she was ok or there was anything they could do, but the mother refused to answer their (the schools) phone calls or cooperate with the police. A year later the mother sued the school, the school system, the municipal government, and the police each for several million dollars for allowing her daughter to run away from school and for not protecting her from sexual assault in an offsite location. This lawsuit went on for over a year before the judge dismissed the case.
Oh cool.
Can you give us the statistics for school shootings in Europe so I can compare?
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I hate the word for the reasons you've said, but I know a lot of black Americans in Portugal that refer to themselves as expats.
Feels to me that the line is drawn along economic privilege lines rather than simply race.
"No war but the class war" strikes again
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We "tend to turn a blind eye to it" because "cultural problem" is primarily used as a racist dog whistle.
If your intention was to point at the underlying cause, you need to be talking about systematic impoverization, lack of generational wealth, devaluation of labor, etc.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Being American is not exclusive to black people and thus American culture has a country-wide problem in relation to guns.
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I would have said the two words are different by perspective. An "expat" is talking about where you're from. An "immigrant" is talking about where you are. Also, if you start talking about 2nd generation immigrants, then "expat" can't be used at all, which means it is narrower in scope, too.
I know there's some opinions on this, but I would consider this to be the case. Many people don't have so much pride in their origins to consider using a term like expat, then there's Americans, who's entire identity is based on where they were born.
So it makes sense that someone from America living in another country would identify as an American expat, while everyone else is just, immigrated to where they are. Not enough focus on what country they came from to bother with an expat definition.
Makes me think that American expats are looking backwards, while other immigrants are looking forwards.
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When its all made up? Yes. Yes it is
Im not sure which bits would be getting made up in response to this. Americans need hella security because school shootings are real. Europeans need minimal security because they simply aren't. Its a risk assessment thing. I dont think any of our schools, either side of the pond, are secure against ICBM attacks, because theyre unlikely to actually happen.
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I like how Lily tells us she's not worth bothering with in her username.
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A MAGA IMMIGRANT in Amsterdam? ewww, I wish we could close our borders to the likes of them.
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From my own experience as an immigrant in The Netherlands and Britain, "expat" is generally used by Americans and Brits when living abroad and pretty much nobody else no matter what their skin tone. I mean, I've seen on or two Ozzies using it but it's way rarer with them and I suspect they were just copying the Brits and Americans. The New Zeelanders I crossed paths with weren't "expats" and neither were the Canadians. Similarly I never heard any of the other Europeans immigrants there refering to themselves as "expats".
I think "expat" is more a thing of people who thing they come from a "great country", as if somehow it's a priviledge for the other country to have them there.
I think “expat” is more a thing of people who thing they come from a “great country”, as if somehow it’s a priviledge for the other country to have them there.
This is it. If you move from a "better country" to a "worse country" you are an expat (because you think you are something better than the lower people you live among). If you move from a "worse country" to a "better country" you are labelled as a migrant (by the "better" people you live among).
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an option that a lot of immigrants don’t have.
Especially when a lot of the same type of people will throw a fit if an 'immigrant' doesn't do everything they can to assimilate.
Because these people think they are "better". So when a wild barbaric immigrant shows up, they want that person to assimilate, but when they move among the unwashed lower folks, they don't want to assimilate themselves, because it would be a step down in their eyes.
(I am talking about their view, which I very much despise, just as a clarification)
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When its all made up? Yes. Yes it is
What's made up? That the US has school cops and Europe doesn't?
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I've seen security in European schools. Usually in the morning, due to congestion traffic concerns.
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Im not sure which bits would be getting made up in response to this. Americans need hella security because school shootings are real. Europeans need minimal security because they simply aren't. Its a risk assessment thing. I dont think any of our schools, either side of the pond, are secure against ICBM attacks, because theyre unlikely to actually happen.
I meant the entire post history of the troll. I followed their page early on and anyone complaining like this wouldn't go to Europe in the first place. Its false outrage about topics anyone who's left the country would never complain about being in the Netherlands
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I think “expat” is more a thing of people who thing they come from a “great country”, as if somehow it’s a priviledge for the other country to have them there.
This is it. If you move from a "better country" to a "worse country" you are an expat (because you think you are something better than the lower people you live among). If you move from a "worse country" to a "better country" you are labelled as a migrant (by the "better" people you live among).
wrote last edited by [email protected]Well, in my experience it's the immigrants themselves doing it and never the locals.
Further, even in a poorer European country like Portugal I've never heard say, Germans or French calling themselves "expats" even though those are much more wealthy nations - it's pretty much only Brits and Americans living there who speak of themselves as "expats".
I think the use of expat is specifically a thing for people from countries were national delusions of grandeur are widespread (which I know for sure from direct experience is the case in the UK and seems to very much be the case in the US) rather than merelly the coutry of origin of the migrant being "better" than the host country.
Also these experiences of mine I've mentioned are in some cases from way back in the 90s - this shit was already done over 2 decades ago well before the recent anti-immigration sentiment in the West.
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In America you can bypass gun checks in most checks if you buy your gun from a Gun show.
Yes... but what does that have to do with the country allegedly giving every single person the money for a ticket?
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Yes... but what does that have to do with the country allegedly giving every single person the money for a ticket?
I forgot a word: We don't give everyone with the money for a ticket to a gun show...
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I forgot a word: We don't give everyone with the money for a ticket to a gun show...
Ah, that makes more sense.
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A MAGA IMMIGRANT in Amsterdam? ewww, I wish we could close our borders to the likes of them.
Their Insta now says they've moved back to the States permanently. And also that their pronouns are they/them, which is super baffling next to "MAGA."
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Their Insta now says they've moved back to the States permanently. And also that their pronouns are they/them, which is super baffling next to "MAGA."
They haven't figured out that the entire movement that's their entire personality hates people like them?
That's hilariously sad!
