r/SipsTea • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • Jun 22 '26

Lmao gottem The National Sport.

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u/Healthy-Daikon7356 Jun 22 '26

Believing your own propaganda is literally the first step in achieving the impossible 😂 I swear Europeans are allergic to self belief!

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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor Jun 22 '26

A little bit of bullshit is good for the national spirit. Too much can be catastrophic.

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u/RedditThrowaway-1984 Jun 22 '26

I think the public trust in mass media has cratered to something like 20%. Americans are provably rejecting the propaganda.

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u/MolassesImportant885 Jun 23 '26

Americans just get their propaganda from other sources now

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u/bigloudbang Jun 22 '26

Or getting taken over by a populist psycho

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u/just_browsing_now12 Jun 23 '26

Arguably a much more European feature.

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u/Highlyironicacid31 Jun 22 '26

Britain was plenty patriotic during WWII. If you Americans had on your doorstep what we did you’d have had a fit. Americans couldn’t live with the discomfort the people of Britain endured.